UFO sighting
I would like to establish a report of a UFO sighting back in 1969.
I am 62 years old now, in frail health and think I should make some type of a report before I go. I have remained silent about my UFO sighting for over 40 years now.
In 1968 I was drafted into the Army and after basic training & advanced training at Fort Dix, New Jersey, I was assigned to the 32nd Army Air Defence Command in Spangdahlem, Germany.
Spangdahlem Air Base is a Air Force Base and the 32nd AADCOM was an Army missile support group stationed at this air base. The 32nd AADCOM had missile batteries in the surrounding area in this south west area of Germany. The Headquarters Battery was located directly on the Spangdahlem Air Base. I was stationed at and performed my duty for the Battalion Maintenance Section on the main Air Base.
In June of 1969 while in my barrack's room, I noticed a series of lights, not of a known colour to me, moving slowly outside my barrack's room window. I got up to look at the lights moving and I thought to my self, what are the "wing nuts" doing out there at this time of night. It was after one o'clock in the morning.
These strange lights were like nothing I had seen before on this Air Force Base. The strange lights moved slowly from west to east, and then north to south. These lights were approximately 2000 feet above ground and just outside the air base perimiter.
My room in that barrack was on the second floor and I just stayed at that window watching these lights move about at a very low speed, too low of a speed for them to be anything the Air Force flew. It was not a helicopter for it made no sound at all.
I went down stairs to the outdoor parking area to try to see if I could get a better view of this "thing". I did not see it at first, but as I walked to the far end of my building, I suddenly saw these strange lights again and they started to almost hover near the base radio station antenna.
There is a sports field near that radio station and I walked to the field when these lights moved at a mind boggling speed and they were gone in a flash. After seeing this I thought to myself..... "WTF is going on here ????".
I kept looking up at the sky and scanning the area trying to notice anything going on at the Air Base. The base was silent, as it should have been and usually is at one o'clock in the morning. Strange, I thought, for the Air Force doing exercises at that time, so early in the morning.
I then realized that I was not hearing any sounds coming from what ever that was in the sky. It could not have been anything the Air Force, or for that matter, that which the Army had on this base.
As I started to walk back to my barracks I could see flashing lights coming from the housing for NCO's and their families. It was the MP's and they were moving fast and cutting through the roads, field and back again towards the main entrance gate. They stopped at the entrance gate and were talking to the guards, as they all were looking up at the sky.
The MP's started to move outside the gate and turned left onto the road leeding into the village of Spangdahlem. Spangdahlem is a farming community with rolling hills and open fields, all surrounding this Air Base.
When I returned back to my room on the second floor I started to stare out of my window looking for any sight (MP's or strange lights), but could not see anything. I went to the "john" and when I came back I saw flashing lights coming from the MP's jeep. I went to the window and off to my left, I saw those strange lights moving very, very slowly ,from north to south. The MP's were trying to follow them on the roadways and pathways. These lights started to slowly move down towards the farmer's fields on the north side and I lost sight of them. I went to the north end of my barracks and looked from the second floor hall window out towards the fields beyond the base's fence. These strange lights were hovering over that field.
The MP's arrived at that place, but on base side of the security fence, when suddenly those strange lights moved up and at almost a right angle moved away at lightning speed.
The MP's started to move again and drove away and out of my sight.
I returned to my room and woke up my sleeping roommate who demanded what the F*** was going on with me making noise and so on.
I told him about what was going on but he refused to accept what I was saying and accused me of being drunk.( I was not drunk and was not drinking on that day at all).
The following day I approached one of the MP's in the mess hall and mentioned about what had took place the night before. He claimed he did not know what I was talking about and asked me to leave the table he was sitting at and eating.
I talked to my roommate later about this and he thought I better keep silent about this, especially since I did not have the MP's to back me up, and also since the nature of our duty was with missiles, I might risk security clearance and could be shipped out for duty in VietNam.
So here I am, 40 years later with congestive heart failure looking me in the face and I don't care if people don't believe me or think I'm a nut job.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to get this off my chest and to make a record of that night in June, 1969.
My biggest hope is that my telling of this will help backup anyone who has come forward in the past, or in the future, about this UFO sighting at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany.
Al Simeone
Caldwell, New Jersey
Lesley
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I like to tell you what happen to me. In 1967 my cousins and I were playing in the front yard about dust when we look up in the sky and saw a round object in the sky it was around 150'foot across traveling right down the middle of the road about two hundred feet in air. As it past over us I could see on four sides there were blinking lights, the front had white, the side had blue, the other side had green, the back had red.In this UFO sighting there was a sound coming from it. It sounded like a air condistioner in your back yard. When it came to the end of the street it was moving about 30 miles an hour when it came to the stop sign. its like if sumbody took joy stick and it turned right the UFO did not turn nor did it stop and there it went right up the road. To me it seemed like it was taking a video of road and houses on it.I also would like to say that the sides of it look like it came from the star war movie.Con cave panels on it.