EXCLUSIVE 1980 CLOSE ENCOUNTER
NEAR FORT SILL ARMY BASE IN OKLAHOMA

The following story I believe to be true. Knowing the alleged witness rather well and all of the circumstances involved, I cannot help but come to this conclusion. IF true, it means one of two things: 1) either some branch of our government has possessed very exotic technology since AT LEAST 1980 or 2) "someone else" does and can go wherever they please with complete impunity. Hopefully, this case will comprise a chapter of the book I've been periodically working on for some time...

Kelly K. was, at the time of this writing, 35 years old, had (has) a B.S. in math and was the manager of a large, local hospital.

It was at a Super bowl party in January of 1995 that I was made aware of the fact that she had told a few friends about a UFO she said she had seen some years ago near the Texas- Oklahoma border. My brother, Bill, gave me the scantiest of details and suggested that I ask her about it. The next time she walked into the room, I took her aside and did just that.

"Well, yes, I saw a UFO but it wasn't around here and it was a long time ago," she responded.

I had known Kelly for several years and knew her well enough to know that she was not a "ufo groupie" simply because the subject had never even come up. As it was to turn out, she had never seen a UFO before the incident in question, nor since. This, along with the fact that she was honest, level-headed and had never lied to me makes her an excellent witness, in my opinion. At my suggestion, she accompanied me to the kitchen where there were fewer distractions. Then, while the television blared in the other room amid shouts, jeers and beers, she let her story unfold.

It had happened on a Friday in mid-late October of 1980 and involved driving directly under a craft shaped like a rounded disk with a curved indentation in the front which apparently scanned her boyfriend (at the time) and her with an orange-red beam of light which Kelly said "went through my files." (Her mind). She told me that she got a good look at the bottom of the craft and that it featured a "grid-work of grey or black metal fins going in all directions." Additionally, it was divided into four quadrants by a cross of even darker material, solid and smooth in appearance. Here, then, are her exact words as written in a report form which she so graciously took about an hour filling out in
great detail:

"Myself and a friend (boyfriend) were moving from Lawton, Okl. to Austin, Tex. -- he drove a U-Haul, I drove our car behind him. As we left Lawton (10p.m.), we traveled south on HE Bailey Turnpike. (Rt.44). About 6 miles out of town we saw two bright lights above the road. I thought they were street lights -- although it seemed weird that there would be such lights THERE. I knew it was not an airplane; the lights were perfectly still and very bright. I thought it might be a helicopter but as we got closer I knew that it was another kind of aircraft. It was 70 feet above the highway, about 50 feet wide directly over the southbound lane of the highway. I could very clearly see the craft. As we drove under it, an orange/red light came on, filling the air with an orange color. I did not seem to be still driving --- I felt as if the car were slowing down but the speedometer was steady---this seemed to be something that I 'observed' but had little control over. We pulled over one-half mile after passing under the craft and discussed going back for a closer look or getting out of there. We were excited and scared. We could still see the craft 'parked' over the road. We got back in our respective cars and drove on. When we stopped about another 6 miles down the road, immediately after driving through a tollbooth, my friend told me that our dog had been looking up and howling as we passed under the craft. The red/orange light seemed to have 'read our minds' or something very unusual and very hard to describe. We then drove on, stopping again about 25 miles down the road in Witchita Falls. We drew pictures for each other of what we had seen. We stopped several times during the drive but arrived in Austin, Tx. the next day about 9AM.

Note:

* Kelly said she seemed to possess some type of psychic ability for several hours after the event; knowing what people were going to say just before they said it.* The encounter occurred just a few miles south of Fort Sill Army Base and about 30 miles north of Sheppard AFB.

* Two "classic" cases were to occur shortly thereafter in December of 1980 : Cash-Landrum in S-E Texas and Bentwaters in England.

* Her ex-boyfriend's name is David Hardzog. Thus far I have been unable to locate him...

* Kelly emphasized the fact that the UFO remained perfectly still and did not wobble the slightest bit. In addition, she heard no sound.cgs

Source: SKYWATCH INTERNATIONAL INC.

From: Stig_Agermose@online.pol.dk   [mailto:Stig_Agermose@online.pol.dk ]

Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 1998 1:35 AM

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Subject: 1980: Close Encounter Near Fort Sill Army Base, Oklahoma

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Subject: EXCLUSIVE! 1980 Close Encounter Near Military Base!

Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 20:35:22 -0400 (EDT)

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