UFO Spotted Over Overland Park in 2004
It started out as a tiny star, barely a speck in the sky, at
10:37 p.m. approximately. A reddish colored dot, hardly
noticeable until it began to change color as it get bigger, or
closer, changing from red to blue to a bright red and finally to
a true gold, not yellow, not orange, but a true gold as it
became incredibly bright and huge. It was bright enough to cast
a shadow, not like a ray or beam of light, but rather from an
overall gold glow. Hovering... Quietly... Not making a sound,
not rustling the leaves or making any breeze. It just got
bigger, closer, brighter, "golder". Much bigger than an
airplane. Then, suddenly, it began to dart across the sky,
rapidly, like on a straight line. Then, just as rapidly, without
stopping, it changed direction and darted back towards its once
previous position. Closer. Then it would begin rising and moving
further away, only to suddenly become bigger again as it would
quickly begin coming closer once again. Two witnesses noticed
the red light from their windows and followed it, getting
interested enough to go downstairs and outside to gain a better
look. Two witnesses, one a woman, one a man, told matching tales
of the object, agreeing on every last detail. Twice I tried to
trick them by mentioning yellow or green lights but instead they
would correct me saying it was red, then blue, then bright red,
then an extremely bright glowing gold color, NOT yellow they
would insist. No matter how hard I tried to sway them from their
statements, they remained consistent and adamant.
This writer knows both witnesses well, and knows they are not
the type or types to fashion some hairbrained scheme or story.
The woman is a teacher of children, dedicated to bettering the
life of young children. The man is a responsible businessperson,
the manager of a successful business. Neither take drugs.
Neither were drinking, not even so much as a thimbleful of cough
medicine between them. No, it was not in their heads - it was
real. Actual visions of something mysterious, frightening, and,
perhaps, menacing. Both got spooked and sought shelter. Both
continued to watch it behind locked doors. For over twenty
minutes it would come, go, dart one direction for several
seconds then dart back. Changing colors as it got closer or
farther away. Finally, it moved "mostly North, slightly West",
perhaps NNW as it became only a reddish spark in the sky, until
finally it had moved so far that it could no longer be seen,
hidden by trees and the many miles with which it was traveling
away.
Zach F. saw it first. He frequently watches planes come and go
at the nearby municipal airport. He knows an airplane or a
helicopter when he sees one. He knows where planes land and take
off from and the basic locations of all the small airports, and
major ones, in the area. Zach knows planes and helicopters. He
does not know of objects that can change speed and direction so
abruptly and change colors so totally. Certainly not an object
as large as this. Trisha M. knows what she saw, the whole
experience indelibly imprinted into her memory banks by the
importance and significance she felt as she witnessed it. "This
is not right", was an everpresent thought, so she watched
carefully and noted each and every detail, not knowing what
might be important.
An eerie thirty minute experience that will require some answers
for two quite shaken witnesses and this inquisitive writer, who
fully believes their identical, corroborated stories, but
neither authorities, nor the media are interested in hearing
their story. One can only wonder "Why?" Surely there cannot be
some vast comspiracy could exist regarding UFOs, can there? More
likely is that they saw some new hush-hush experimental military
vehicle. Perhaps in ten or twenty years, classified documents
can be declassified and made public about a highly maneuverable,
extremely fast military vehicle that can change color and
direction at will. Only then might we learn the truth.