2010-05-05 - Stafford, VA - Other

Route 1UFO around Stafford, VA

I was driving and my mom was the passenger, I don't remember if I was driving my car or her car going 45 mph or so, on Route 1 anywhere between Stafford and north of stafford maybe going into the areas where you could find lots of used cars but beyond that, more near Manassas it feels like, trees close to the sides of the road, no leaves I remember the trees were bare, thinner younger trees, must have been either winter or fall or before spring not sure. The clouds were slightly gray but white, not too low but they were lower clouds. I remember there were electrical power lines above the road, more than the usual. Trees start clumping up on the tops as the trees get bigger so, when I saw this thing it came in and out of sight behind the trees straight ahead sometimes. Edit: Larger trees that had leaves in them were overhead sometimes.

So I was driving on a two lane road, route 1. I swear it was one left and one right, only my lane and the oncoming traffic lane. It was slightly overcast. I remember seeing a dark blur at first, like I had to look a few times thinking what is this. It made no sense because it was traveling at my speed, I could see it behind the clouds moving with just about my speed. It was about maybe, 1/2 of a mile away, maybe closer, could have been 3/4 mile. I'm guessing at about a 25 degree angle viewing angle up, just slightly up. It was visible in and out of the whispy clouds, kind of like I guess it felt like the thing was hiding just above the clouds. I didn't truly see a shape because the clouds were puffy around it, but it may have been semi-rounded underneath, possibly taller on the top, maybe more rugged, I don't remember, but I thought, there weren't any mountains around there, there's no way in hell it was a plane, and no way in hell I was seeing things, it wasn't dark clouds ! on top of white clouds, it was too dark and solid looking to be a natural anomaly. It was going at my speed, and I saw it may have gone forward or back. The trees would come overhead and I'd lose track of it, but the trees cleared and I could see it again after a few moments. At the end of this I saw it accelerate forward away from me with the ground as the level, not straight away like shooting striaght, but along the curvature of the earth. It zipped so fast, it, must have been going away at hundreds of miles per hour, like, we're talking mach 2, 3 maybe, and it was slightly gradual at first. I wanted to say 300, 400 miles per hour, but I've seen cars going 300 mph like on a bughatti test run, like for the distance it was from me at 1/2 - 3/4 miles away in the sky, this thing, it wouldn't make sense for it to be going less than mach 3, maybe even mach 4, I'd say the size of this thing although mostly obscured, feels like about the size of maybe 2 1/2 home depots large in ! width for the distance, maybe wider. If you placed 4 quarters ! lengthwi se left to right at arms length from you, that's the size. It was just very smoothly going in and out of view with the clouds, and I remember feeling very scared, like I was seeing a ufo, imagining, what could it do. my heart was pumping a little bit stronger. I remember going, holy fuck, no way, no fucking way.

There were no lights, nothing. It simply puffed out of the clouds, could have been, 100 feet inside of the clouds, maybe more I don't know. It was a dark/black object, no real shape from what I remember, no angles, no nothing it just felt very very very subtly metallic underneath, some of the cloud white may have reflected off of it very slightly if anything at the center of it, maybe edges, a slight frosty reflection. It didn't move left or right, up or down, simply forward and back slightly, then zipped off. Must have been anywhere from 18 to 40 seconds time I was seeing it. Only people I've told about this was my mom in the car, maybe my father later. No pictures, didn't hear anything. I remember a car behind me was not too close, maybe 4 1/2 seconds behind me, felt like they were seeing it too maybe. I remember when there were now 4 lanes I looked at them passing me, and they didn't look at me.

I don't remember if my mom saw it too or not, just asked her on my text message at 12 am pacific when she's 3 am eastern so. I don't remember where we were driving to but we have driven that road many many times for two hours up and down from Richmond, VA to DC. Yes I live now in Richmond, Ca which is weird