Hello,

My name is Tom, I live in Florida near the Ocala forest, and I would like to report a sighting I experienced around 81-83, not sure of exact year.

This is only way I could see to report a sighting, so sorry if this is the wrong way. I and two friends were sitting up on the hill at the nearby country store, it was at night, when we heard a deep rumbling sound. We moved down the hill to the highway, the sound was coming from the south. We saw a rectangular object with lights moving around its middle, every other section of the lights being lighted at a time, in a clockwise direction, kind of like you see on the sci-fi saucers. It was completely rectangular like a door, except the corners were kind of rounded slightly.

The lighted area or strip ran around the entire object, even the corners.

The underneath of the object was dark and kind of swooped into the center, like it was hollow. There was no sign of propulsion, no flames or obvious form of propulsion.

The object stopped above the trees by the highway and rotated as on an axis at its center, it rotated in a clockwise manner, it did this several times.

It was very low, just above the trees. It stayed above us for several minutes, almost as if it were checking us out, we saw no lights or beam or anything like that shining in our direction tho. It made this very deep rumbling sound the entire time.

After these few minutes it stopped rotating and started moving off, with one of the short sides forward, like it had come in. It moved slowly north across the highway, still just above the trees untill we could no longer see it and the rumbling trailed off.

A few minutes later three jets came thru from the south in same northerly direction the object had went.

A few minutes later we saw the object that we had thought had left rise up from the trees north of us. This startled us, for we had thought it had left. It then moved off to the south, slowly gaining speed, then the rumbling grew deafening and it shot off with streaks of light and was gone in an instant.

A few minutes later three jets came streaking from the north in the same southerly direction the object had shot off to.

I asked one of the two people who had been with me about this years later and he had no memory of this incident, his memory was not very reliable tho, heh. The other friend had moved away so I dont know if he would have recalled this incident.

I will never forget it, it was so unusual it is still fresh in my mind after all these years. Just thought I would throw that your way, I watch your show on the history channel all the time. This is the first time I have ever reported this, tho it is a favorite true story to tell my friends and family.

Keep up the good work,

Tom