At age 9 or 10 I would sit on my house roof with a lawn chair and pencils and paper and my 250 powered telescope I got from Santa. I would stare into the clusters an imagine they could see me , hoping that they would give me a airshow just for me. As I grew older I got busy and sitting on the roof was no more in my plans.I still stare into the night and wouldn't you know ,someone made a movie of s
pace ships, oh boy ! Close Encounters of the Third Kind was my all time favorite movie. Still today, every once in a while I ask Ron Howard to make a part 2, I believe he could do it.1997 my moms friend had a close encounter on Bear Island Minnesota early in the morning. Kathy never told a soul until she told my mom and of course ,me. She had given my mom a VSH tape.Top secret stuff so I had a glimpse of my first UFO,5 and half minutes worth,it was awesome as it hovered over the lake behind her house, just shy of the sand bank and the dock about thirty feet high, it looked like a glass ball with a black round object inside with a afterburner from a jet..There was no sound, it was so quiet you could hear the gentle waves rush on the beach. Kathy said this happened for two weeks every morning, dipping into the water under the island and out the other side. Kathy gave the evidence to me as a wedding gift a year later. I asked her if she called the police, she said she called the local airport and the Sherriff and they all witnessed it with her in her back yard, just before they came over she took the original tape out and hid it and stuck a new one in and that was the tape they took and never to this day returned it. I still have that awesome tape in a safety deposit box.
