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by Kenny Young, Norwood, Ohio

 

While traveling near the Jeffersonville, Ohio exit on Interstate 71 on March 28, 1994 at around 10:00 PM, my informant's husband who was driving, first saw "an object in the sky" that was about the size of a helicopter, with a blue light at the bottom. Almost immediately, my informant (who I shall name "Mrs. Casey") also saw a second smaller object at the side of their '93 Nissan pickup truck.

"It was like a ball of light," she said, "about the size of a volleyball. It was solid, kind of like a light bulb, but brighter." She described how she was somewhat alarmed as the small object stayed close to the truck, traveling along side them for many miles. "As it was traveling, it stayed with us. It was like it was looking at me. I didn't like that," she reports. "My husband would speed up and slow down and the ball of light stayed right by the truck. At one point, we went under an overpass and the ball went up in the air as if to miss hitting the overpass and came down on the other side at the same speed we were traveling. It remained with us."

"We had quite a bit of discussion during the time [the smaller object] stayed with us. We were looking for high-tension wires or something to tell us what the [first] thing [in the sky] was. My husband was more involved with the thing in the sky than I was because I was trying to figure out the ball of light," she said.

Mrs. Casey was unable to recall any details such as shadows being cast by the object, but did tell how other motorists were 'pulling off' of the Interstate as they drove past. "Other motorists on the highway were more curious than we were because several of them pulled over, got out of their cars, and were looking up at the thing in the sky. My husband asked if I wanted to pull over, but I said 'no.' I just wanted to get away from that ball of light."

"The blue lights were flashing, but not fast flashes," she said. "Of course, with windows rolled up, we heard no sound."

Mrs. Casey said that traffic was relatively light at the time, and Mr. Casey maintained his position in the right-hand lane of the highway. "As far as I can remember, no other motorists passed us nor did we pass anyone."

She estimates the small object held a 'pursuit' position, pacing their pickup truck at a mere distance of 2 or 3 feet. She said it would occasionally 'waiver,' but doggedly paced them otherwise. The only time it 'went away,' she explained was when the truck would go under an overpass.

Mr. Casey mostly drove 65 M.P.H. for the duration of the incident. At one point he slowed down to 50 M.P.H. to see what would happen.

"The ball was white and very bright," Mrs. Casey reported. "Just like a light. It did not feel like it radiated light or that it was shining on me…I do not remember any sound but we had the windows rolled up in the truck. I did not see any smoke. At one point it went over the hood of the truck and traveled on my husband's side of the truck. When it passed the windshield, you had the feeling it was 'looking' at you."

As Mr. and Mrs. Casey continued traveling south on Interstate 71, they were paced for about 30 minutes by the larger object in the sky (which frequently moved in an erratic 'zigzaggy' fashion) and the smaller volleyball sized object.

When they were approaching Fields-Ertel Road, Mrs. Casey said that another 'ball-of-light' was seen at treetop level. "The second ball of light came from the thing in the sky which was on the left of the highway. It just hovered there for a few seconds and the ball of light by the truck went out and met it. It [the second ball of light] seemed to come out of the object in the sky."

"Then, after the first ball of light 'greeted' the second over this field, they flattened out, like pancakes…They did not touch each other, but then flew very fast back up to the bigger object."

Mrs. Casey did not report the sighting immediately, but after telling some friends, was asked to submit her UFO sighting [report] to researcher Leonard Stringfield. [Mr. Stringfield, now deceased, was a UFO researcher for many years and lived in Cincinnati, Ohio.] After talking with Stringfield, she said he mentioned that her report had been verified by his others in the area, and that his check with Wright-Patterson Air Force Base revealed that they had no experimental activity in progress at the time in question.

Mrs. Casey told of having unusual feelings while the smaller paced their vehicle, as if she were being stared at. "I just wanted it to go away," she said.

Mr. Casey is a courier and Mrs. Casey is a waitress. Both are in their late 50s. "My husband does agree with me about this event and believes it was a UFO sighting much more than I do."

 

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