Rick's UFO Pick - Featured on the 11-09-06 UFO-Files Report Show

Occurred : 1/1/1981 01:00
Reported: 1/10/2002
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: El Reno, OK
Shape: Disk
Duration: 30 minutes

New Years 1981 Crashing Disc

I was walking across the band practice field on South Bickford, across the street for Ette Dale Junior High, New Years Morning at approximately 1:00 AM from my girlfriend's house. I noticed to the far northwest an object that looked like a rocket launching. I was completely surprised and taken back by this. As I continued to watch, this "event" as I walked. As the object came closer to my position, I changed my mind on what it was to an airplane on fire. As it came yet closer to the High School, I changed my mind again to a USSR Missile. I could see bits and pieces were falling off of it! I was stuck not knowing either to run home and warn my mother, or run back to warn my girlfriend. I just stood there watching the object come closer. Two huge beams of light from the object lit up the town. It was looking to me like it was possibly searching for a place to land. (Again I had changed my mind as to what it was, to a crashing plane) It came to my mind that no plane that I know of has search lights on it. As the object was continuing to scan the area, the search light beams were reflecting off the silver roof of the high school.

At this point I still didn't know what it was until both light beams merged on me in the middle of the field. I was temporarily blinded by the bright bluish-white light. Cars stopped on the street behind me South Rock Island street, and people got out yelling "what is that!". I looked up and saw a craft with the back end blown off of it. It looked like a cookie with a bite taken out of it, with bits of white flakes falling off of it and disappearing before they reach the ground. I saw windows running the length of the ship and red emergency lights in the background. People or beings, inside it, were running from the the back to the front of the craft. One being stopped and saw me looking up at them. I wanted so badly to communicate with them, so I waved at him. The being waved back in response. Another being ran by, then stopped and looked at me. Then, that being pulled the being I was waving at away from the window.

As the craft continued to the southeast, seven alternating discs of multiple colors, shot off to the south west. (RICK'S NOTE: Out of the craft?) The discs changed colors: white, red, blue, green, yellow, then back to white again. I continued to watch the now crewless ship go the southeast and it split into three segments and was gone. I rushed home and told my mother what had happened, then rushed to a friends house. He was watching TV, and the announcer came on saying "If you seen a strange sight in the sky..." She was cut off the NBC World News and Tom Brokaw said it was a Russian Rocket booster. It didn't look like a rocket booster to me!

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