Political UFOs

By Si Dunn


Like Dennis Kucinich and Jimmy Carter, I, too, have seen a UFO.

However, unlike their not-so-close encounters, I had a very clear look at what I saw. And I knew exactly what I was seeing.

Of course, my sighting was long ago, in a universe far away: Little Rock, Arkansas, circa 1958, well before the invention of YouTube videos and cell phone cameras.

Thus, you’ll have to trust the memories of a 63-year-old observer with a reasonably good mind, a long-running reputation for honesty, and absolutely no desire to run for public office.

Anyway...

I was 14 years old, standing in my front yard on a warm summer afternoon. I liked to watch the changing cloud shapes and the silver gleam of the then-fearsome B-47 jet bombers as they arced over Little Rock and turned toward runways at the nearby Jacksonville Air Force Base.

As I looked almost straight up at one B-47 starting its northeastward landing approach from about 3,000 feet, I suddenly saw a light-grey disk perhaps 30 feet in diameter appear just 50 yards or so behind the B-47’s stabilizer. The grey disk seemed to have a smaller, lighter disk perhaps 10 or 15 feet in diameter underneath at its center.

My immediate impression was that someone had just popped open a parachute. But no one had ejected from the B-47. The bomber simply continued its normal descent, passing a short distance north of the Arkansas State Capitol building.

The grey disk, meanwhile, lingered behind, hanging eerily in the sky, showing no apparent movement at all.

Then, after about 10 seconds, it began to drift due north, accelerating faster and faster. Finally, it zipped into a cloud and disappeared.

What did I see? I saw an unidentified flying object, one that displayed a classic shape reported by many UFO observers.

Do I believe it came from outer space, from a civilization far advanced to ours? Perhaps.

It is also possible, as some theorists contend, that it came here from a world which shares our world, from dimensions we cannot sense.

All I know is this: I saw a UFO. And, maybe someday, Bill Richardson will help me sort out what it was.



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