UFO. United States

Many experts who have dedicated their lives to the study of the UFO phenomenon, became interested in this topic through their own encounters with unidentified objects and their own experiences. Jeff Krause, Director of the California division of MUFON, told about the case that started it all.

For him it was not the first experience of observations of UFOs, but the most precise and long time, moreover with a large number of probable witnesses. He was confident that details of the story hardly ever appeared in the press, as it happened in 1979, when the subject of UFOs was not so open as it is today. Despite the fact that it's been 39 years, according to Jeff, the night at the end of June for a lifetime blended in his memory.

He grew up in southern California, in a valley surrounded by mountain range, the San Gabriel, the highest point of which is mount San Antonio, the height of which is 3068 metres above sea level, and which locals are known as Bald mountain.

It happened in one of the busiest areas of the town of Covina, at the intersection of highway 39 and Arrow-Highway. In the North-East corner was then a recording Studio where Jeff lived at the time, and was located opposite the supermarket "Market Basket", where he made all their purchases mainly in the evening, as could hardly stand the summer heat.

"That evening I with the girlfriend went to the store to choose a nice piece of meat and roast it in the BBQ around 9 PM. I'm sure it was a good steak, but honestly, I don't remember what I ate," the corner of his eye, Jeff caught movement in the sky and when he looked up, then froze in place.

It closed, and then opened his eyes again to make sure that he sees it all in reality. Although it was already dark, but the ambient light was enough to fully illuminate the bottom part of a giant rectangular object that moved much lower than planes or helicopters, often plying between private airfields in the area.

The ship was flying so low that you could see all parts of its surface. After the object passed directly overhead at Jeff, he estimated that its length was fifteen hundred meters, and width - about a third of the length.

"He silently glided over my head, and when I realized that I see my first instinct was to look around to see if he's watching someone else. In the Parking lot was fairly busy, as it was a warm summer evening, and to my delight people, looking up, was a lot. So we began to whistle and shout, drawing their attention," the young people were firmly convinced that witnessed major events and that this event will undoubtedly appear all over the news. But the next day didn't hear a word.

The ship continued to slide slowly over the heads at a speed of about 50 km/hour, and then turned into bright stripes. Flying past the mountains Bald, it shrank to a pinpoint of light, flew up and was lost among the stars.

"All this might have taken no more than a minute - says Jeff Krause, but it was the most incredible thing I have ever seen in my life. This immediately convinced me that I can't agree with the conventional wisdom, which dictated that "UFOs don't exist" From this moment on, I began my career as a ufologist".

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