From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac.nul>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:34:42 -0400
Fwd Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 06:44:52 -0400
Subject: Re: Classic UFO Encounter - Maccabee


>From: Bill Weber <wweber1.nul>
>To: <ufoupdates.nul>
>Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:55:59 -0400
>Subject: Classic UFO Encounter


>Hi All,

>Nothing important - more of the same. A friend's car broke down
>today so I gave him a ride to work. We listened to CNN's
>coverage of the Symington admission on the way. It was 5:00 a.m.,
>and I've worked with the guy for twenty years - and never, ever
>talked about UFOs. He's been a good friend and he's the
>quintessence of the mild-mannered accountant. You can hear the
>click-clack of the account's gears in his head before he answers
>a question. He says, "I don't how to tell you this, so I'll just
>tell you."

>The guy then relates a story of a classic UFO encounter and an
>ensuing cat and mouse chase along a two-lane country road in the
>Carolinas.

<snip>

>He begins his story as Symington is saying, "It was otherworldly
>- you just knew it in your gut that it wasn't ours." Maybe
>Symington's statement inspired him.

>My friend said he was tired and heading home after a long day of
>clicking and clacking. He rounded a curve and saw an object
>hovering over the pines lining the road. (He then points out a
>semi on the road in front of us and says it was about three
>times the size of the truck, and glowing with a brilliant -
>almost blinding - white light. It was round - like a ball.)

>In his early life he trained as a pilot. He assures me it was
>not a helicopter or plane. It shocked him, and then made him
>increasingly nervous as it seems to notice him.

>After safely rounding the turn, he sped up and the object speeds
>up too - matching his pace and not going any faster. He then
>hits the gas and the object again keeps pace.

I wonder if Venus was in the sky at the time of this sighting.
(A classic case of bright very distant light that appears to
move along with  a traveling car?)



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