1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 I'm calling from Medford, Oregon. 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Yes, sir. 3 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:10,000 And I talked to the tower here at the airport and they gave me your number. 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:16,000 And this morning I had a pretty good sighting of the 1 UFO. 5 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,000 Okay, I hear about it. 6 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:25,000 Okay, I would put the time at about 7.20, between 7.20 and 7.30. 7 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:34,000 And it was south of the town of Medford, between two smaller towns of teammates and talent. 8 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:43,000 And this morning there's about a 200 foot cover of fog, I would say, in the valley. 9 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,000 And I live about 300 feet above. 10 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:51,000 So I had a pretty good view of the valley and the fog. 11 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:58,000 And I could see both sides of the valley so I could estimate where this thing was. 12 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:04,000 It emerged kind of like a fish swimming in milk. 13 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:09,000 I mean it never really got out of the fog area completely. 14 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:17,000 But it looked to me like a flattened football flying on its edge. 15 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:25,000 And also seemed to have slight striations on the side, like a sunflower seed. 16 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,000 And it was doing what I would consider, I used to be a pilot. 17 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:41,000 And it was like doing procedure, lazy 8's, just kind of coming out and then rotating and going back into the fog. 18 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:47,000 And pretty much at the top surface of the fog. 19 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:50,000 And the sun had not come up yet. 20 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:54,000 It was up and it was light, but it wasn't shining on the fog. 21 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,000 We live in a valley here. 22 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:05,000 And I called three of my children over and they all saw what I was looking at. 23 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:11,000 At first it looked like a small, like the Grigior Blimp or something. 24 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:15,000 But it seemed to be flatter, you know. 25 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:23,000 And it was flying at what I would consider very leisurely speed, like 80 miles an hour or something like that. 26 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:33,000 And of course it was actually flying just, I'd say, 100 or 150 feet above the ground at that time. 27 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:44,000 And it was coming out of the fog approximately a mile and a half away from me, because it was coming out of the middle of the valley. 28 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:58,000 And it was also then rotating around, you know, clockwise, as I recall, general clockwise kind of a rotation around in the fog. 29 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:03,000 Around the perimeter of the valley, it never got up any closer to us. 30 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:11,000 But it looked like it would be somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 to 60 feet long, I would guess, at that distance. 31 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,000 It wasn't real large. 32 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:18,000 And it wasn't illuminated at all. 33 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:31,000 It was kind of like, kind of grayish in its tonality, mostly because it was still in some of the drifted fog. 34 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:35,000 Right. Did this thing carry any colored lights? 35 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:36,000 None at all. 36 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:37,000 Okay. 37 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:44,000 And it just reminded me of a fish or something swimming in milk. 38 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:56,000 I mean, I could just kind of see it and then that and it would go along and then come out and emerge and be darker as it was more clearly visible. 39 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:01,000 But it was generally gray. It had no bright colors at all. 40 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:06,000 Okay. Has it made the tour of the valley? Did it all come fairly close to the ground? 41 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:16,000 I would say it was darn close to the ground because the top of the fog must have been between 150 and 200 feet above the ground. 42 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:17,000 Very close. 43 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:30,000 So it was moving pretty much in an area of the old 99 highway which goes between Medford and Ashwood. 44 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:41,000 Very, very good. But there's another highway, I-5, which goes through the valley also but is further away from our house. 45 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,000 Okay. Do you have any estimate on the distance from you? 46 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,000 Yeah, I'd say mile and a half. 47 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:49,000 Okay. Did you observe this from out of doors at any time? 48 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:58,000 No. I didn't. I was out of doors afterwards when I was on my way to work and I looked down there and it just wasn't visible at that time. 49 00:04:58,000 --> 00:04:59,000 Okay. 50 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:06,000 But usually the sound carries, I mean if this had an engine on it or anything we wouldn't have heard it. 51 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:13,000 But as far as I know this morning I worked in a fairly large company here and I- 52 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:22,000 Well, just around a little bit and nobody and people who even lived down there didn't hear anything. 53 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,000 Okay. How did this object disappear? 54 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,000 Just in the haze. 55 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,000 It just moved on. 56 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:34,000 It didn't speed up and leave the scene or anything that I know of. 57 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,000 Right. But how long did you watch that? 58 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:41,000 I would say we were in contact with it for a good five minutes anyway. 59 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:45,000 You feel that the object was definitely solid? 60 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,000 Oh yeah. 61 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:47,000 Okay. 62 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:58,000 I looked at first for things like the shadow of something else that would make that shape on the surface of the top of the cloud. 63 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:03,000 But it didn't have that quality of being a shadow. 64 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:13,000 It actually changed in its tonality from being very light to coming out of the fog and being relatively dark. 65 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:14,000 Okay. 66 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:20,000 And there was no sunshine falling directly on the cloud anyway so there couldn't have been a shadow. 67 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:21,000 Right. 68 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,000 And how many witnesses on that? 69 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:28,000 Including myself, four. 70 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,000 Okay. 71 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,000 And you got our number from mid for tower? 72 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:34,000 Yeah, right. 73 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,000 Yeah, I checked here to find out. 74 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:48,000 I know the fellow here who has a flying service and I thought there could have been a possibility of some kind of practicing instruments, but not at that level because that would have been really... 75 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:49,000 Super dangerous. 76 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:50,000 Yeah. 77 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,000 No, he said nothing was in the air. 78 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:59,000 The tower, of course, the radar here is 6,000 feet. 79 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:03,000 I don't think they can pick up anything down in the valley. 80 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:08,000 Okay, we'll get on this and if we come up with any more information while we get back to you, I'll let you know. 81 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:14,000 Yeah, I'd like to know if what I saw is a general description of what is reported as being seen. 82 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Uh-huh. 83 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,000 Is it? 84 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,000 Yes, I would say that it is. 85 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:24,000 Just from your description, I would kind of picture something all wool-shaped. 86 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:25,000 Yeah. 87 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:29,000 Seeing that you would describe something like a football frightened. 88 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:30,000 Right. 89 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:31,000 Right. 90 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:32,000 Yeah. 91 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,000 Not completely, not completely a disc. 92 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:35,000 Right. 93 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,000 Or not on the lips. 94 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,000 No strange. 95 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:43,000 And proceeding rather leisurely, that's what the man means. 96 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:50,000 It was like a, at first it was like a Goodyear blimp coming out of the fog and it was not that fast. 97 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:54,000 But it was moving much more athletically than a blimp, what? 98 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:59,000 A blimp would just, you know, kind of hover there and move very sluggishly. 99 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:00,000 Right. 100 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:06,000 And something moved almost like a fish would move if it were swimming in a pool. 101 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,000 You say that it was definitely under intelligent control? 102 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,000 Well, I don't know, you know. 103 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,000 I mean, yes, I would guess so. 104 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:18,000 Sometimes control is actually staying within the boundary of the fog. 105 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:19,000 Right. 106 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:23,000 You never seem to want to get out of it. 107 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:26,000 All right, sooner or later we'll see what we can do about this. 108 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:27,000 Okay. 109 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:28,000 Thanks a lot. 110 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:29,000 You bet. 111 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:30,000 Thanks.