Post by Graveyardbride on May 29, 2015 7:05:20 GMT -5
Tennessee Man Recalls 1958 Sighting of Giant UFO
A man who saw a “large, metallic, circular craft” in the unincorporated community of Hampton, Tenn. (above), in 1958 recalls the encounter. Although the witness isn’t certain of the date, he says the incident (MUFON Case No. 65719) occurred when he was a freshman or sophomore in high school.
“It was late afternoon, with plenty of light and a few clouds,” he recalls. “My cousin and I were sitting in the yard watching traffic on the small, narrow country road at the corner of what is now Railroad Street and Rittertown Road.” The two were looking east when the cousin asked, “What is that?”
“I looked up and saw a very large, circular craft maybe 1,000 feet or maybe a little more off the ground descending in a slant from right to left. It disappeared behind a large mountain to the left ... It was so large it was probably one third as large as the mountain. It was grey or silver in color and had a shape similar to a round aspirin tablet with a side. We could see a little of the bottom side as well as the top. It did not make any sound, nor do I remember any lights in the daylight. There was no smoke trail behind it. It was below the clouds, so our vision was not impeded by any means. It was obviously a metal flying craft of a kind that doesn’t even exist today, let alone in the 1950s.”
Others also saw the huge UFO “When I went to high school the next day, several people from our little town talked about seeing it also,” the witness says. “A story circulated that the newspaper in Bristol, Tenn., had published a story the next day about a craft crashing in the mountains near there. The rumor was that several people went into the woods to investigate and smelled something like sulfur in the air and someone reported seeing a little man in a tree. This last part is only rumor, but maybe there was a report in the paper. Bristol is in the exact direction the craft was headed when we last saw it.”
The witness is hoping that perhaps there was newspaper coverage that could be researched today, or other witnesses who might come forward. “I have never forgotten the incident and wondered if anyone else who saw it has reported it to UFO investigators and if any investigation was ever completed. Would sure like to hear of anything that was or is found.”
Source: Roger Marsh, OpenMinds, May 28, 2015.