Thunder_Bull45
Native Injunuity
So I usually start my stories with a “no crap there I was” but due to the seriousness of this event in so far as changing my perception of the ufo phenomenon. I think my typical way is undermining the story in a way.
In order to get the context of my background I think a brief history is in order. I’m a second generating fireman in a small east Texas community that typically considers a major disaster as Mr Smith’s cow got hit by a car last night , or Mr Bells barn burned down. In other words we’re a small town and don’t have that exposure to “bigger” events per say. Having said that, I would like to think that we still take our local problems seriously enough to receive adequate training in our field. For example myself as well as most of the guys and gals are trained at a state level in fire suppression and a few of us are state level trained EMT’s. It’s a small community but we as volunteers also take that job seriously.
Rewind back to February of 2003 and all that changed. The space shuttle Columbia exploded over north east teaxas and my little town of 300 people had about 27 different pieces of the shuttle recovered in our back yard. (Mostly just pieces of radioactive insulation) but nonetheless We experienced a disaster on a national scale. And we’re promplty briefed by military (coast guard) officials on what the s.o.p in this unforeseen scenario would be.Find it, hit it with the Geiger counter, if it’s abnormally high in radiation levels, flag it with gps and call the coast guard.
I only mention this disaster because for this little town, It gave us the framework for how to operate at a National level , also gave us a perspective of what a high speed “craft” re entering the atmosphere and exploding sounds like. It shook the ground and windows and almost simultaneously calls started in for a possible aircraft crash. We’re on a county wide dispatch so our neighbor was called, then us, then another, and another, and so on. It was obviously a huge event but at that time the shuttle wasn’t even considered.
It was an interesting moment in life, the first time I shook a NASA representatives hand, and also something that I’m sure I’ll tell the grandkids about!
There’s some background now fast foreword about two years and on July the third 2015 we were doing a briefing on the up coming firework show for the 4th of July when a all familiar rumbling sound was heard. A few of us looked out of the bay of the firehouse to see a large green ball with a contrail streaming off very similar to a meteor! But the resounding crash and the rumble off the earth was not like any other meteor shower I have experienced. And like with the shuttle disaster the calls started rolling in! “Possibly a aircraft crash” the adjacent department responds “that’s not a aircraft” as I was thinking the same thing! Everyone is mobilizing trying to at least ascertain where “it” crashed and then we notice two f16’s blasting by following the path that we witnessed the unidentifiable object going.
It’s not normal for military aircraft to fly this region were kinda in the middle of nowhere! They did do some flir work with Columbia disaster but other than that I can’t think of any other time that jets have flown tree top level in this area.
Wasn’t long after seeing the jets that the dispatcher announced sort of bluntly . “Stand down, the military has this under control” and to this day I’ve never personally heard anything like that! Or what they had “under control”.
We found out later that the “crash site” was only a few miles from our neighboring dept, there was a huge military presence there for a few days and then all gone ! No explanation, no weather balloons, swamp gas nothing.Have no idea what transpired . We know what we saw and heard but that’s it!
To me it was definitely a UFO whether that be a unknown to me, A natural phenomena or E.T. I’ll probably never know. There was no news coverage , only a handful of eye witnesses that I’m aware of, and a few hundred people that felt the ground shake that day.
It opened my mind to the possibility that something else is out there, also proved to me how the military works these encounters, and started me on a quest for truth that I continue to this day!
Anyway that’s my personal ufo story.
In order to get the context of my background I think a brief history is in order. I’m a second generating fireman in a small east Texas community that typically considers a major disaster as Mr Smith’s cow got hit by a car last night , or Mr Bells barn burned down. In other words we’re a small town and don’t have that exposure to “bigger” events per say. Having said that, I would like to think that we still take our local problems seriously enough to receive adequate training in our field. For example myself as well as most of the guys and gals are trained at a state level in fire suppression and a few of us are state level trained EMT’s. It’s a small community but we as volunteers also take that job seriously.
Rewind back to February of 2003 and all that changed. The space shuttle Columbia exploded over north east teaxas and my little town of 300 people had about 27 different pieces of the shuttle recovered in our back yard. (Mostly just pieces of radioactive insulation) but nonetheless We experienced a disaster on a national scale. And we’re promplty briefed by military (coast guard) officials on what the s.o.p in this unforeseen scenario would be.Find it, hit it with the Geiger counter, if it’s abnormally high in radiation levels, flag it with gps and call the coast guard.
I only mention this disaster because for this little town, It gave us the framework for how to operate at a National level , also gave us a perspective of what a high speed “craft” re entering the atmosphere and exploding sounds like. It shook the ground and windows and almost simultaneously calls started in for a possible aircraft crash. We’re on a county wide dispatch so our neighbor was called, then us, then another, and another, and so on. It was obviously a huge event but at that time the shuttle wasn’t even considered.
It was an interesting moment in life, the first time I shook a NASA representatives hand, and also something that I’m sure I’ll tell the grandkids about!
There’s some background now fast foreword about two years and on July the third 2015 we were doing a briefing on the up coming firework show for the 4th of July when a all familiar rumbling sound was heard. A few of us looked out of the bay of the firehouse to see a large green ball with a contrail streaming off very similar to a meteor! But the resounding crash and the rumble off the earth was not like any other meteor shower I have experienced. And like with the shuttle disaster the calls started rolling in! “Possibly a aircraft crash” the adjacent department responds “that’s not a aircraft” as I was thinking the same thing! Everyone is mobilizing trying to at least ascertain where “it” crashed and then we notice two f16’s blasting by following the path that we witnessed the unidentifiable object going.
It’s not normal for military aircraft to fly this region were kinda in the middle of nowhere! They did do some flir work with Columbia disaster but other than that I can’t think of any other time that jets have flown tree top level in this area.
Wasn’t long after seeing the jets that the dispatcher announced sort of bluntly . “Stand down, the military has this under control” and to this day I’ve never personally heard anything like that! Or what they had “under control”.
We found out later that the “crash site” was only a few miles from our neighboring dept, there was a huge military presence there for a few days and then all gone ! No explanation, no weather balloons, swamp gas nothing.Have no idea what transpired . We know what we saw and heard but that’s it!
To me it was definitely a UFO whether that be a unknown to me, A natural phenomena or E.T. I’ll probably never know. There was no news coverage , only a handful of eye witnesses that I’m aware of, and a few hundred people that felt the ground shake that day.
It opened my mind to the possibility that something else is out there, also proved to me how the military works these encounters, and started me on a quest for truth that I continue to this day!
Anyway that’s my personal ufo story.
