Guest - "Little Hawk did anyone other than yourself and your mother see these flying objects, I mean were there reported sightings of them from other people in the area, or even not in the area that night. Did they make the newspapers or tv news channels? Did you hear any sound when you saw them? Were there any military bases within 100 kilometres of the sightings? If you tried to draw them now could you? "

It was in upstate New York. There are some military bases around there, but I'm not sure exactly where. I think there was a military airfield near Syracuse, about 20 miles from where we were living. One time they did an air exercise of some kind, and a B-36 flew over the house at low level! What a sight that was. It's a tremendous airplane.

There were a great many sightings reported that summer of UFOs similar to the one that I saw over the lake. People described them as "jumping stars" or "blinking stars". It was in the Syracuse newspapers a few times. I mean, there were just hundreds of reports. The vehicles I saw were completely soundless at all times, and left no vapour trail or any sign of an exhaust. The vehicle I saw over the lake could hover, stand still, move slowly, and move at an absolutely tremendous speed. It could accelerate and decelerate to enormous speeds instantaneously...that is...it could "stop on a dime" in one spot. Instant deceleration. We can't do that. The inertial effects would cause damage or destruction of the vehicle, given the laws of physics as we know them. Evidently, the vehicle I saw was able to operate independently of that...I don't know how.

I, my mother, and my best friend saw one vehicle. I called him on the phone after I saw it. He lived about a half mile away, down the lakeshore. I think it was me, my mother, and my friend who saw the second vehicle at night as it passed over. I was in the backyard. I'm not quite sure anymore, but I think Bob (my friend) was there at the time. I remember yelling in excitement, because it was a pretty amazing sight to see...a totally silent vehicle, shaped kind of like a submarine or cucumber, you might say, silvery metallic, with a line of round windows down the side. No wings, no sound, no exhaust, no propellors, definitely not an airplane. I had the feeling it was a very large vehicle.

Now, you understand these are things I saw just once...about 35 years ago. My memories have become about as vague as the memory of anything else one might have seen that long ago, so when I tell and retell the story I may not be able to do it every time entirely to Wolfgang's satisfaction, in that I may word things a little differently one time than another. Big deal. I still saw them.

And could I draw them? Yes, I could draw a reasonably simple and accurate picture of either vehicle.

I simply do not believe that the US government, in the late 60's, had vehicles that could be like those and do what they did. I don't think they have stuff like that now. And if they did, they would certainly not go flying it around all over upstate New York where the ordinary public could see it! (unless they WANTED people to believe in space aliens...and I doubt that)