HBCC UFO Research Note: California has had a major UFO event on January 26, 2008 with multiple eyewitnesses to the unusual event. Some of the reports are in the following list below.
NASA's Pilot John B. McKay - Objects That Appeared To Be UFOs Over Edwards AFB
HBCC UFO Research Note: I received an email from Mr. John B. McKay's daughter, who related "just" what was told to her by her Father. No more, no less as she mentioned. I also asked Mr. McKay's daughter about what to do about her name, should I remove it, or leave it in the report. She told me it was fine to leave her name in this report. I thank Sheri very much for her kindness in writing to me and for the information she provided in her report.
I would like to request if anyone else from the Edwards AFB was witness to anything while on duty, or heard of anything unusual would they please contact Brian Vike at HBCC UFO Research. Thank you.
HBCC UFO Note: I would like to add that yet another hero, Mr. John B. McKay served his country with "honor".
Also I would like to mention that the reason why I received her nice letter today, January 28, 2008 was due to the recent article I posted which was entitled Lt. Col. Roy Jack Edwards Tells His Son Of His UFO Encounter As A Test Pilot and the story on this can be found at:
http://www.hbccufo.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3608 [or http://farshores.org/ufo8v38.htm ]
John Barron McKay American Pilot Test Pilot. Born 8 December 1922. Died 15 April 1975.
Personal: Male, Married, Eight children. Born in Portsmouth, Virginia, USA. Liver failure stemming from X-15 crash injuries.
Astronaut Career
Astronaut Group: Man-In-Space-Soonest - 1958, Test Pilot (NASA). Deceased Entered space service: 1960. Left space service: 1962. Number of Flights: 1.00. Total Time: 0.0083 days.
Born in Portsmouth, Virginia; married with eight children. US Navy pilot in World War II. Received a BS from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1950. He joined NACA in 1951 as a D-558 and X-1 test pilot. Project pilot on F-100, F-102, F-104, F-107 NACA test programs before being assigned as third NASA X-15 pilot on October 25, 1961. Made 29 X-15 flights, reaching an altitude of 90 km and obtaining astronaut wings, before being seriously injured in the 1962 X-15 crash near Lancaster, California. Died of liver damage stemming from his crash injuries at the age of 52.
NASA Official Biography
John B. McKay was one of the first pilots assigned to the X-15 flight research program at NASA's Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif. As a civilian research pilot and aeronautical engineer, he made 30 flights in X-15s from October 28, 1960, until September 8, 1966. His peak altitude was 295,600 feet, and his highest speed was 3863 mph (Mach 5.64).
McKay was with the NACA and NASA from February 8,1951 until October 5, 1971 and specialized in high-speed flight research programs. He began as an NACA intern, but assumed pilot status on July 11, 1952. In addition to the X-l5, he flew such experimental aircraft as the D-558-1, D-558-2, X-lB, and the X-lE. He has also served as a research pilot on flight programs involving the F-100, F-102, F-104, and the F-107.
Born on December 8, 1922, in Portsmouth, Va., McKay graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 195O with a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering. During World War II he served as a Navy pilot in the Pacific Theater, earning the Air Medal and Two Clusters, and a Presidential Unit Citation.
McKay wrote several technical papers, and was a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, as well as the Society of Experimental Test Pilots.
He died on April 27, 1975. (Credit: NASA) http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/Biographies/Pilots/bd-dfrc-p010.html
Sheri's Email To Me.
Dear Brian, I just received the UFO article from my cousin.. I am writing to say that my father, John B. McKay, who had a twenty year career as a test-pilot at Edwards Air Force Base starting in 1951, told me that he had also seen, while flying, objects that appeared to be UFO's. My father did not work for the military, he worked for NASA, and has an astronaut rating for going into space in the X-15 rocket plane. These are the details of his conversation with me, nothing more or less to it:
What Sheri McKay was told by her Father
One night while I was home for a visit, in the early 1970's, after my father was retired from NASA, he and I were having a conversation in the evening hours after dinner. I don't recall how the subject came up, but he told me that during his flying career, and on more than one occasion, he had seen objects in the sky, while flying, that appeared to be UFO's, that some other pilot's had also seen what appeared to be UFO's, and that they were not allowed to talk about it. He did not go into any further detail, and I don't remember asking any questions, but I did get the feeling that he wanted to tell someone, and I think the fact that he was already retired, and had just had a couple of gin martinis that evening made it easier to do so. And after reading about the experience of Mr. Edwards, and how he was treated in such an unkind manner by the military, I don't mind telling someone myself. As for my personal views, I am neither for or against the idea of UFO's. But I do think that the subject should be stripped of all sensationalism and cover-ups, and be approached on the highest level of scientific inquiry. Sincerely, Sheri McKay Lowe.
I would like to extend my many thanks to Sheri McKay Lowe for writing to me, and as I mentioned to her in a letter. I have always been a fan of her Father and sure respect his bravery and courage for all he done.
Another Report Of A Huge Column Of Light
NE Ohio In Geauga County
1959 or 1960
I received the Filer files from the ufomig group. After clicking Filers #4 I scrolled down and came to the article I believe you supplied. It was the Large cylinder of light seen in Maryland. I had an experience in 1959 or 60. I lived in a suburb of Cleveland Ohio and was on a double date going to a rock and roll party at an amusement park called Geauga Lake Park. This is located in North East Ohio in Geauga County. The place was packed and they waved us by. We went to the end of the road and came back going in a North West direction. When we reach about a quarter of a mile from the entrance, a bright column of light appeared on the South side of the road in an open area of scrub brush and grass.
There was a narrow creek running through the center of the circle of light. The diameter was about 100 to 150ft and the height about 400 to 500 ft. You could see the clouds going by where the light shined on them.There was some static sparks coming off the sides of the column. The night was pitch black and there were no street lights. The edge of the light was 100 to 150ft away from me.The two girls that were in the car went crazy with fear, thinking the world was coming to an end. My date wouldn't let me walk over to get under the light. After 20 or so minutes, the light just blinked off. The Cleveland Press, (local paper) said"hundreds of people seen the Aurora Borealis last night at Geauge Lake Park". I was there and it certainly was no Aurora sitting a hundred feet from me. I did report this to mufon, but only 48 or 49 years late. Is this the first time any one has seen something like this? I've been looking for more sightings as this one but no one seems to know anything about them.
A Huge Oval Craft Materialized Directly Above
Scarborough, Ontario
1963 or 1964
HBCC UFO Research Note: If anyone may have information over this amazing UFO event would they please contact me, Brian Vike at hbccufo@telus.net or through my website which is HBCC UFO Research http://www.hbccufo.org with your details on what took place. I also will pass along any details to the witness who wrote the below report up.
I am writing a book, which includes some of my life's experiences. One of the experiences I had was a close encounter when I was eight or nine years old. I have decided that I will share an excerpt from my unfinished book of this incident, with the hope that maybe someone reading it, may come forward to collaborate my story.
From The Beginning
I had a habit of looking down at my feet while walking as a child; it was a game I used to play when I was around eight or nine years old. One early evening, I am working my way down the road, heading home after leaving a friends place. I had my head down, looking at my feet as I walked, while keeping the curb insight out of the corner of my eye. The challenge to this game however, was to try and guess how far I had walked, and how close I was getting to my house without cheating by looking up. When I finally stopped and lifted my head, I realized with a smile of triumph that I was standing right in front of my house. We lived in a one story, back split house with an open carport, were the front of the house faced east, and the back faced west. The house was also perched on a rise that over looked the rest of the neighborhood to the west.
I remember feeling the low Suns warmth on the right side of my face as I stood there in the street as it began to set. I was drawn by its warmth, I remember closing my eyes as I turned and faced west into the Suns direction so I could bask in its comforting orange glow for the moment. Turning my head and looking east, I noticed the night's zenith approaching; I loved this time of the evening, I loved the way you could track the night's zenith moving across the sky back then. I remember wondering at that moment, if I looked strait up, maybe I would be able to see the first star of the night; I use to like wishing on the first star at that age.
As I saluted the sky to block the sunlight while stretching my head back to look strait up, I noticed the first bright star in the sky directly above me. I remember thinking how lucky I was, as I took a moment to search the rest of the sky above me for more stars, but found none. Now I am sure, I had only taken my eyes off the star above me for only a brief moment when I scanned the rest of the sky. Nevertheless, before I could finish assembling my thoughts that were beginning to materialize in my mind about what wish I was going to make, a bright object about the size of a quarter held at arms length was there above me instead.
Before I had time to express my amazement, a huge oval object over twice the size of a house, materialized directly above me, it was floating silently just above the height of the TV aerials, which most of the homes had, back then. It had gone from the size of a quarter to the size of the monster that hovered over me now, in the blink of an eye, without making a sound.
I could not stop my legs from shaking as I stood there paralyzed with fear, I was scared shitless and amazed at the same time, and I could not move as I studied the mirror like surface of the object that had stopped to look me over. It was the first and the last time that I ever remembered experiencing, involuntary body movement. I also remember hearing in my peripheral, the lawn mower that had been going across the street, stop. It was then; that I realized I was not as alone as I felt.
My eyes were glued to the object, and it felt as if time stood still. I could see the whole neighborhood reflected off the curvature of the crafts mirrored surface. The roof of my house was inverted in the objects reflective surface, with the reflected TV aerial, looking like it was close to touching the real thing. What made the whole experience even more surreal was the memory of seeing the sun setting, and the sun setting off the westward rim of the object; it was as if I was watching two sunsets, which is an image that has been burned into my mind, to this day.
It was a huge egg shaped mirror. Those where my last thoughts as I watched it slowly begin to float away from me, silently moving north up the street, while finally gaining altitude as it flew over my school before disappearing from sight.
As soon as I was able to move, I went running screaming my head off into my house, freaking my mother out, she thought at the time I had hurt myself. At first, she refused to believe the incident as I told her. We had a running joke going on in the family back then, where she would tell my brother and me that she was from outer space. My mother thought at first that I might have been influenced by her stories, until she heard the incident reported on the radio. I do not think she was ever able to bring herself to believe the personal nature of the experience that had happened to me, as I had described it to her back then. What adult truly listens to a kid with the same level of belief that they would have with another adult.
Over one hundred people saw this object, including my teacher Mrs. Davis from the school I attended, and it also made the news on the radio as well. It happened in Scarborough, Ont., Canada, about a mile south of the CTV Television Station. I was eight or nine at the time so this incident took place in 1963 or 1964, I cannot remember which.
Pilot Comes Out Of A Cloud To See A Huge UFO
Dansville, New York
1970s
I and fellow sailplane pilots, we were getting ready for a day of flying at the Dansvile airport, we were have just general conversation about and with one of our instructors that myself and a fellow pilot that we admired. The instructor was known to not to drink or smoke, and we make a comment about this and other things that he didn't partake in. He didn't have any religious practices and he with out any question was one of the best that would never say anything wrong about anybody. Just a good person.
Seeing we had him in a talking mood, as we walked across the airport, me and my fellow pilot figure we'd ask him if he ever seen a UFO. So we asked the biggy. "Hey (name removed), have ya ever seen a UFO", his reply was just ya, he was bout 15 feet ahead of us as we walked. We reminded him that we were having a conversation. Jokingly, what was it.
As the story goes, he was up in a sailplane in side of a cloud (this is a no, no per the FAA) and was getting some good altitude,15K and was starting to get a bit cold, so he figured he would come out the sunny side to get some heat in the cockpit. He came out of the cloud expecting to get some sun, but was now in the shadow of a huge object. We asked him what did he do. His comment was he went back in the cloud, hoping he wasn't seen by them. He was noted for always carrying a camera, so we asked if he got a picture. His comment was, "I didn't have a camera, and now ya know why I always fly with one now. He described the object of being to big to fly, and we don't have anything like this that we could get off the ground. This was back in the 70s. (Name removed) was a glider pilot in the 2nd World War and as for trying to keep his health so he could keep flying until he was in his 60s, was interesting. He's in his late 90s now, and in the Spring you'll find him at the air port still doing the thing he loves the most. I personally think he got zapped, 95 years old and still flying. He fly's the tow plane when it's his turn, and still gives instructions.
Five Lights - Orange/Amber In Color
Kokomo, Indiana
Last Fall 2007
Approx: 9:00 p.m.
Looking west at about 45 degrees I watched a light grow brighter (I first thought it might be an iridium flare). But then another light appeared in a straight line (west to east) from the first and then a third appeared. A few seconds later another set of 5 lights appeared one at a time from north to south in the wnw sky just to the North of the firsts lights. They grew bright and then dimmed and disappeared within about 30 seconds. The lights were a yellow-orange color. I am reporting this now because I read about a sightings in Kokomo in the past few years that appeared similar to mine last fall. I think it might be flares from planes. They would have to have been two planes. Why would then be ejecting flares at right angles to each other over a populated area?
A Bright And Sparkly Golden/Yellow Light
Pointe du Chene, New Brunswick
Date: October 17, 2007
Time: 7:45 p.m.
My husband and I were walking in a wooded trail with our dog. It was a star lit night with a crescent moon. As we neared the end of the trail, I had a flashlight and I was flashing it at the top of the trees to see if we could spot some bats. It was very dark in the woods and when I would turn the flashlight off, you could not see your hand in front of your face. The trail is adjacent to a field, and as we approached the end of the trail, and coming around a bend, suddenly we both saw a very bright and sparkly golden or yellow light coming towards where we were standing. It seemed to be just above the tree line. I said to my husband, "What's that?", he said, "It's a star", and I said, "But it's moving and it's much too low to be a star". We watched it for about 2 minutes and as it got further away, but not far away, it looked like it shrunk into itself and just disappeared or that it just took off so fast that it looked like it disappeared! Oh yeah, just before it blinked out I flashed my flashlight towards it. Then my husband said, "It must be a plane" and I said, "did you hear any sound"and he said, "No". So we ran into the field and looked for any sign of a plane and there were lots of stars, but no planes. It moved very, very slowly. We were stunned as to what we had just observed. It's the fourth time since 1991 that I saw lights that I would consider to be unidentifiable.
5 Round Orange Balls Of Light
Clydebank Towards Gourock, Scotland
January 2, 2008
1:00 a.m.
I was looking out of my window, it was dark with low cloud cover when I saw a large orange ball flying towards my house about 1000 yards away. It slowed down and went into the clouds. As I watched another two came side by side and flew into the same part of cloud cover. Then another two flew towards my house one behind the other and flew into the clouds. At this point all the shore and land birds started going mad for some reason. It all lasted for about two minutes. I just wish I had a camera to prove it to other people. Even to my own wife who was asleep in bed at the time. I am also glad that I have just found this website. Now I know I am not the only one who has seen things.
2 Bright Orange Objects
Woodridge, Gin Gin, Western Australia
January 2, 2008
5:20 a.m.
I awoke to see two bright orange, round orbs in the sky. I watched them for approx 10 mins to observe any movement (I obviously thought at first they were stars) and I could see they were moving up and down and side to side in very rapid manner. I went down stairs to get a drink and when I returned to the room and looked out of the window again they had moved closer. I now saw a very large very white bright object and next to it was a smaller object which was orange/red in appearance. I became quite frightened and went downstairs to wait for the sun to start coming up. As the sun started to rise I went back upstairs for another look and the objects were still there but appeared to be moving away as the sun was rising.
I had a similar experience (with my husband) back in late November 2007.
UFO Over Montreal's Pierre Elliot Trudeau Airport
January 3, 2008
5:00 p.m.
I was gone from Montreal during the holidays, and when I phoned home on Jan. 3, 2008, my mother informed me that she was staring at a strange light over Pierre Eliot Trudeau Airport. She said it resembled a metallic stick, and that it hovered over the Airport for a few minutes, and flew off at a faster speed, westbound. We were wondering if anyone else had seen the phenomena.
