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Rick's Latest Pick - Updated 6-22-07

Rick Again Appears on the UFO Files Report show - Again this past week I did appear to co-host with Larry Dicken on my favorite UFO Show, the UFO Files Report show. Jerry Pippin is going to be super busy for a time with countless interviews, so I may appear on the show a few more times yet. The following, are the sightings I read or recounted. Be sure to check often at JerryPippin.com for the latest shows that will be coming up.

This first sighting is one I had myself as a child with one of my childhood friends:

Youth Spot V-Formation

Occurred : 08/15/1963 20:00 (date and Time Approx)
Reported: 6/10/2007
Posted: 08/10/2007
Location: Wenatchee, WA
Shape: Formation
Duration: 3 Seconds

I was in the backyard of one of my childhood neighbor friends, with my friend. So this sighting was witnessed by my friend and myself. I am not positive of the exact date, this sighting occurred either in the summer of 1962 or more likely 1963. We were both standing there looking towards the East and talking at the time.

We were both shocked to see a V-formation of lights composed of 7 or 9 points or globs of light pass completely across the sky, from horizon to horizon. They came from behind the southern horizon and continued moving on a straight trajectory, all the way to the northern horizon in approximately 3 or 4 seconds.

I had never then or now seen aircraft fly at this rate of speed. An airplane would take at least a couple minutes or longer to cross from horizon to horizon depending on altitude and distance from the observer. I had the impression that their altitude was very high because there was absolutely no engine sound whatsoever, although I have no way of knowing this for sure.

They did not have the appearance of stars or meteorites. Neither were they just distinct points of light. They rather had a sort of oval or round shape, but it was hard to tell because they had the appearance of diffused white light.

At the time, we, as kids would, knew they were "space ships". There was no other explanation in my mind then or even now.

And for my second Rick's Pick:

Disk One Mile in Diameter or Larger Hovers Over Witnesses

Occurred : 6/15/1983 23:30

Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Garden City, MI
Shape: Disk
Duration: 4 Minutes

I was about 8 years old. I was living in Garden City Michigan with my parents. I don't remember a date: I can tell you that it was warm outside, at approx 11:30 pm or so. My father was a truck driver and was out of the state. I was staying with my Mother. I had a friend spending the night who went to get us some Taco Bell on his bike.

I remember that Helter Skelter was playing on TV and there was a bunch of Regan and Bush election commercials on. My friend was taking a long time to come back and my mother and I went outside to see if he was coming down the road yet.

We spotted my friend riding his bike down the road holding a Taco Bell bag. He looked up into the sky with his mouth hanging wide open. He then dropped the whole bag of tacos and fell off his bike. We looked in the sky and saw (Your going to think I'm crazy) A HUGE round craft, with lights all around it and a bright light coming out of a big hole in the center. It was kind of like a doughnut...there was a hole in the center but the light was blurred or hazy, so we couldn't see beyond the hole.

The craft was made from some metallic material and was spinning at a medium pace while hovering right above us. It looked like grey metal. The craft was so big and there was no sound at all coming from the object that I could hear. It looked like it was a lid to a cookie jar. I started running in circles crying...my mother was grabbing me trying to get me in the house. As soon as she got me into the house, she called my grandmother up on the phone.

My Grandpa and Grandma looked outside their house and saw the same craft. They said it looked like it was right above them. My mother left the phone to go see if it was still there. My mother and I went outside and it was still there. A second later it took off slowly in a diagonal direction upwards, then came to a complete stop. It then zoomed off with a flash in the opposite direction leaving our area.

My grandpa saw another small craft leaving with the main one. But I only saw the one craft myself. Concerned, my mother called The Garden City Police dept. She said "Please listen. This is not a prank. There was something over our house about 5 minutes ago" The police said "Mam, we haven't had any reports of any objects in the sky today. It was probably just a plane." My mom got really mad and hung up.

The next day I saw something on TV about sightings of a Bush election plane flying around our area. It sounded to me like they were trying to justify something. I would like to see this object again. My memory is slightly clouded due to the time passed. I can say that this was indeed a flying saucer, without a doubt. It was not little flying lights or a falling star. It was a huge grey metal disk that must have been over a mile in diameter. It was absolutely huge.

I forgot to mention, my grandma lived one mile away from us. I saw what appeared to be windows with light coming out of them. The funny thing was this thing had a lot of light coming from it, but the ground was not lit up, nor was the houses in the general area. I find it hard to believe nobody else saw the same thing, even thought it was 11:30 or later.
 

So that’s the way it was, in Garden City Michigan that evening. A circular craft a mile in diameter overhead, tacos and hot sauce spread all over the street below. What a mess!

A big thanks goes out to NUFORC for this sighting report.