My wife just reminded me that tonight is the 44th anniversary of our first date. I don't know why she remembers that but she does it every year. I thought wedding anniversaries are what you're supposed to remember.
She also reminded me it was the night I met the Boa Constrictor I bought a couple days later. Somehow, in her twisted female mind, I took the snake into my home before I took her into my home and that means I liked it more, or something. She didn't come to live in my apartment until January 8th.
Then she always brings up the fact that we stopped to "watch for UFOs" on the hill where the now famous Incident At Exeter sighting took place a few days earlier. Hey, it was a good excuse to go parking. "Let's sit here for a while and look for flying saucers." :-S That hill really was a popular parking spot.
Yes, I know most of the people mentioned in the UFO story as written up in Wikipedia under Incident At Exeter. I worked with Gene Bertrand's father at the local TV shop. Gene worked there for a few months before he got the job on the police force. The other cop, Dave Hunt, was in my class in High School and Muscarello, "Muskie" spent the night at my apartment the night before he saw the UFO. I always figured if he drank that whole fifth of VO he stole from my kitchen cabinet that morning, he probably saw more than one UFO that day. I didn't particularly like him, he was the baggage that came with a cute little girl I did like.
My apartment was on the 2nd and 3rd floor of a house with the bedrooms being on the 3rd floor. Nobody locked their doors back then and she woke me up by hollering up to me from the bottom of the stairs. She wanted to watch my color TV with this guy she had with her when they visited me earlier in the evening. I told her to shut it and the lights off when she left. Apparently they didn't leave, but instead spent the night in the other bedroom.
When I got home that night, my apartment was a mess and I called the police. Dave Hunt was the cop who came to investigate.
Later, I figured out what most likely happened but I didn't tell the police because they would certainly have gone to see her, and her father would have found out she spent the night with that bum. That would have killed him and he probably would have killed Muskie and maybe her too.
She also reminded me it was the night I met the Boa Constrictor I bought a couple days later. Somehow, in her twisted female mind, I took the snake into my home before I took her into my home and that means I liked it more, or something. She didn't come to live in my apartment until January 8th.
Then she always brings up the fact that we stopped to "watch for UFOs" on the hill where the now famous Incident At Exeter sighting took place a few days earlier. Hey, it was a good excuse to go parking. "Let's sit here for a while and look for flying saucers." :-S That hill really was a popular parking spot.
Yes, I know most of the people mentioned in the UFO story as written up in Wikipedia under Incident At Exeter. I worked with Gene Bertrand's father at the local TV shop. Gene worked there for a few months before he got the job on the police force. The other cop, Dave Hunt, was in my class in High School and Muscarello, "Muskie" spent the night at my apartment the night before he saw the UFO. I always figured if he drank that whole fifth of VO he stole from my kitchen cabinet that morning, he probably saw more than one UFO that day. I didn't particularly like him, he was the baggage that came with a cute little girl I did like.
My apartment was on the 2nd and 3rd floor of a house with the bedrooms being on the 3rd floor. Nobody locked their doors back then and she woke me up by hollering up to me from the bottom of the stairs. She wanted to watch my color TV with this guy she had with her when they visited me earlier in the evening. I told her to shut it and the lights off when she left. Apparently they didn't leave, but instead spent the night in the other bedroom.
When I got home that night, my apartment was a mess and I called the police. Dave Hunt was the cop who came to investigate.
Later, I figured out what most likely happened but I didn't tell the police because they would certainly have gone to see her, and her father would have found out she spent the night with that bum. That would have killed him and he probably would have killed Muskie and maybe her too.
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Hi njoynlife,
Happy anniversary of your first date. :-)
I read something about Incident At Exeter. Nothing much, some things from wikipedia.
I'm wondering have you or anybody else saw anything after that?
Happy anniversary of your first date. :-)
I read something about Incident At Exeter. Nothing much, some things from wikipedia.
I'm wondering have you or anybody else saw anything after that?
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Hi dark_red,
I have not seen any myself, but I recently heard they are calling Exeter the Roswell of the East and they say we have had a lot of sightings here over the years and they are still happening. They had a UFO ball last Saturday evening here in town while I was up in Conway for our railcar ride through the notch the next day. I missed all the festivities, but it's in the local paper at seacoastonline.
We had a SAC base in Portsmouth where the 509th Bomb Wing was stationed for many years. They moved here from Roswell in the mid 50s. The 509th was the one that dropped the A-bombs on Japan and was in Roswell for the UFO stuff there. Back in the 60s they were flying B-47s which were in the air 24/7. People who were not familiar with the operations would mistake them for UFOs. The landing lights approaching the runway for several miles in a straight line would appear as bright white lights standing still in the air or moving slowly. They were supersonic and newcomers to the area complained so much about the sonic booms as they slowed down to land that they finally made them come down through the sound barrier way out over the ocean. When they made a straight in approach from over the ocean they were coming straight toward the runway for a long time, so that landing light was a great UFO. They also had a bright white light on the side I believe, near the cargo door. In the summer they used to fly with the bomb bay doors open and the side doors open too when they were doing practice approaches. With the interior lights on, that made some strange lights in the sky if you weren't familiar with them.
I had a drinking buddy who flew B-17s in the war and later B-36s. When I knew him he was towing banners and doing air taxi to Logan in Boston. He also flew night light banners out of Beverly Mass. He notified every police department in the area where he was going to be flying because the lighted banner was a super UFO sighting generator.
I had a TV repair customer in East Kingston who was Betty Hill's niece, I think. I met Betty when I was there on a service call once. She told me about a place nearby where she went to watch them. She wouldn't tell me exactly where it was but there was a hill in that area that was known locally for strange lights and things. After Barney died, Betty used to be a regular customer at the local Friendly's restaurant where my wife and I were also regulars. We used to see her there often.
According to some of the UFO shows on TV, there has been a lot of UFO activity around here that I was not aware of.
I have not seen any myself, but I recently heard they are calling Exeter the Roswell of the East and they say we have had a lot of sightings here over the years and they are still happening. They had a UFO ball last Saturday evening here in town while I was up in Conway for our railcar ride through the notch the next day. I missed all the festivities, but it's in the local paper at seacoastonline.
We had a SAC base in Portsmouth where the 509th Bomb Wing was stationed for many years. They moved here from Roswell in the mid 50s. The 509th was the one that dropped the A-bombs on Japan and was in Roswell for the UFO stuff there. Back in the 60s they were flying B-47s which were in the air 24/7. People who were not familiar with the operations would mistake them for UFOs. The landing lights approaching the runway for several miles in a straight line would appear as bright white lights standing still in the air or moving slowly. They were supersonic and newcomers to the area complained so much about the sonic booms as they slowed down to land that they finally made them come down through the sound barrier way out over the ocean. When they made a straight in approach from over the ocean they were coming straight toward the runway for a long time, so that landing light was a great UFO. They also had a bright white light on the side I believe, near the cargo door. In the summer they used to fly with the bomb bay doors open and the side doors open too when they were doing practice approaches. With the interior lights on, that made some strange lights in the sky if you weren't familiar with them.
I had a drinking buddy who flew B-17s in the war and later B-36s. When I knew him he was towing banners and doing air taxi to Logan in Boston. He also flew night light banners out of Beverly Mass. He notified every police department in the area where he was going to be flying because the lighted banner was a super UFO sighting generator.
I had a TV repair customer in East Kingston who was Betty Hill's niece, I think. I met Betty when I was there on a service call once. She told me about a place nearby where she went to watch them. She wouldn't tell me exactly where it was but there was a hill in that area that was known locally for strange lights and things. After Barney died, Betty used to be a regular customer at the local Friendly's restaurant where my wife and I were also regulars. We used to see her there often.
According to some of the UFO shows on TV, there has been a lot of UFO activity around here that I was not aware of.
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Hi njoynlife,
Your stories are very interesting to read. :-)
I don't want to be judging any of these people that saw UFO, but it seams to me that they all just wanted a little publicity.
Have you ever went out there with purpose to just watch the night sky in order to see some UFO?
Your stories are very interesting to read. :-)
I don't want to be judging any of these people that saw UFO, but it seams to me that they all just wanted a little publicity.
Have you ever went out there with purpose to just watch the night sky in order to see some UFO?
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No I never went out looking for them.
I have never seen any myself.
When I was on guard duty one night at Fort Gordon in the summer of 59 they had to bring in one of the guards from a guard post that was out in the boonies. That was about 2 in the morning and he woke all of us in the guard house with his screaming. He was hysterical and a little later the boys in white coats hauled him off to the hospital. The story I got the next day was that he saw one of those cigar shaped UFOs that float slowly across the sky.
I knew both of the cops involved, and I don't believe either of them wanted any publicity. If anything they didn't want to go out there because the kid was a well known alky and they didn't believe him. I still run into Dave several times a year, but I'm not about to ask him about it. I know he wishes it never happened. Gene's been dead for years and Muskie died a few years ago too. Until the last year of his life I never saw Muskie sober and I saw saw him often, hanging around outside the coffee shop in the morning. He always looked at me as a friend and often wanted a ride home. I dreaded meeting him because of that. I quit drinking in 1981 and I don't enjoy being around someone who is drunk and I certainly don't care to have a drunk in my car. But I did give him a ride if he asked.
I stayed up to watch the Perseid meteor showers once around 1964 and I watched the space shuttle go over a few weeks ago. Usually it's cloudy around here whenever they tell us about those things so you can't see them anyway.
I do think it's possible that we may be visited by someone from elsewhere in the universe. When you consider the size of the universe and the number of other solar systems there must be, it's pretty egotistical of us to think we are the only ones.
I have never seen any myself.
When I was on guard duty one night at Fort Gordon in the summer of 59 they had to bring in one of the guards from a guard post that was out in the boonies. That was about 2 in the morning and he woke all of us in the guard house with his screaming. He was hysterical and a little later the boys in white coats hauled him off to the hospital. The story I got the next day was that he saw one of those cigar shaped UFOs that float slowly across the sky.
I knew both of the cops involved, and I don't believe either of them wanted any publicity. If anything they didn't want to go out there because the kid was a well known alky and they didn't believe him. I still run into Dave several times a year, but I'm not about to ask him about it. I know he wishes it never happened. Gene's been dead for years and Muskie died a few years ago too. Until the last year of his life I never saw Muskie sober and I saw saw him often, hanging around outside the coffee shop in the morning. He always looked at me as a friend and often wanted a ride home. I dreaded meeting him because of that. I quit drinking in 1981 and I don't enjoy being around someone who is drunk and I certainly don't care to have a drunk in my car. But I did give him a ride if he asked.
I stayed up to watch the Perseid meteor showers once around 1964 and I watched the space shuttle go over a few weeks ago. Usually it's cloudy around here whenever they tell us about those things so you can't see them anyway.
I do think it's possible that we may be visited by someone from elsewhere in the universe. When you consider the size of the universe and the number of other solar systems there must be, it's pretty egotistical of us to think we are the only ones.
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I'm glad that you are telling us all these things, because I have never had a chance to talk to someone from places where UFOs where seen. No matter how good the news is cowered from the media you just can't look at the bigger picture. You got me interested and I read something on the wikipedia about this. But it is more interesting to read your text. :-)
And yes universe is big. The thing is that there is always a chance, and no matter how small it is the chance is there.
And yes universe is big. The thing is that there is always a chance, and no matter how small it is the chance is there.
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