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SUBJECT: THE DAY A UFO VISITED THE UVAS VALLEY FILE: UFO2847
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The Wallaces in Uvas Valley have seen UFO's -- One hovered over their driveway
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near Dam.
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Editor's not: Diane Wallace is an accomplished artist and teaches art to more
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than 100 young people. Donna Cowan, a Live Oak High School teacher and Realtor
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with her husband Don Cowan, calls Wallace "a very grounded person."
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I have had two experiences that appear to be related to UFO's --although, at
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the time, I didn't know that's what they were. Interestingly enough, my
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parents have also seen a UFO in England.
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One winter night in 1960 when I was 16-yers-old, I went for a long ride on my
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bay mare in the Uvas Valley. I went way back into Eastman Canyon, which joins
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Uvas Road near the peninsula of the reservoir. Dad had told me to be back by
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dark, since it began getting dark as early as 5:30 p.m. in the winter months.
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But dusk seemed to linger and I took my time getting back. When the sun
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dropped quickly behind the hills, I was still about one and one-half miles
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from home. So I pushed the mare into a full gallop and got to the barn in less
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than 10 minutes. I scooped grain and filled the water bucket and threw her a
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flake of alfalfa hay--about a 4" wide section of a large bale, then ran up the
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short hill towards our house which overlooked the valley below and Uvas Dam.
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Just as I reached the crest of the hill, I noticed a bright white light to the
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right, behind the tree tops. At first I thought it was the moon. But instantly
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I realized it was moving towards me, gliding just above the tree tops until it
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arrived right above me, and there it stopped.
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I looked up to see what kind of a strange craft the military was flying
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overhead this time, as we are in a military flight path between Moffet Field
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and Fort Ord. There had been rocket tests at Ames Research Lab in Milpitas the
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previous week and the noise had been so loud we heard it. But as I looked up
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at it, I realized this craft was not moving and it didn't even vibrate. It
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was absolutely silent, and there was no wind or air current either. Back then,
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there were no near neighbors and the entire area was secluded. The entire flat
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ground around me was illuminated as bright as a sunny day in an area more than
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400 feet in diameter. The edge of the light was crisp on the ground, because
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the object was so close above me. When I looked up to see it better, I
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couldn't see any features. The entire base was a disk of very brilliant white
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light with no hot spots, no shadows. I wished the football field at Gilroy
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High School could be lighted this bright for our night games!
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I knew NASA was working on fast rockets, but I'd never heard about slow
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rockets. This was about as slow as they could get--at this rate, it would
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never get anywhere, I thought. It continued to stay absolutely still. After a
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few minutes, I got tired of waiting for it to move, so I started to walk
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towards the house. I knew I was also late for dinner and didn't want trouble,
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but as I moved, so did this white disk. When I stopped, it stopped. I took two
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steps forward, and it moved a little bit sideways and began moving towards the
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valley. So I started walking slowly and it then floated out over the valley,
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close to the dam, and glided up gracefully to a low pass between the hills.
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Then it hugged the tree tops as it passed over the mountain near Sycamore Road.
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From the time I left the barn until I arrived at our house it should have been
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no more than 10 minutes--including the time I took to stop and watch the
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craft. But when I got inside our house, my parents were worried and Dad was
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fuming because I was so late. I was surprised to see that not only was dinner
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finished, but the dishes were done, the rest of the kids were in bed, and it
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was 9:30 p.m.! The entire episode from Eastman Canyon to the front door should
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have taken no more than one-half hours I can't account for. I don't want to
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say I was abducted; I'm just stating a fact. I do have a 1" visible scar on the
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side of my knee that I don't remember getting, and I wonder if it might be
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associated with the UFO sighting.
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To avoid being grounded that night, I told Dad I was at the barn, but spent
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time with my mare. We went down to the barn to verify my story. Dad said, if
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she wasn't still warm, I'd be in trouble. After galloping home so fast, I knew
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she'd have to be warm, yet she was completely cool. Also she'd eaten all of
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the hay and grain and was going to sleep--all of which takes a good deal more
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than 10 minutes!
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I did not know about UFO's at the time. Keep in mind this was 1960 and I
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thought of the weird object only as a slow rocket. I didn't think about it for
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many years.
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Then in 1963, we were traveling in Mexico. On a steep mountain road in the
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Sierra Madre Mountains, going towards the West Coast, on a road like a narrow
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ribbon wrapping around the sheer face of the cliff in a series of endless
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curves and hairpin turns. Glimpses of the road ahead revealed only more of the
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same. Top speed possible for us was only about 30-33 miles per hour. It was
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just too dangerous to drive any faster and we were terrified of the road.
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There were no safety rails and the only view was down, which revealed tops of
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high mountains rising above the clouds way below us. Above that were hundreds
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of miles of clear blue sky and bright sunshine.
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After three hours of traveling on this treacherous road, we saw a silvery
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white, blimp-like object at eye level. Although we had been looking out the
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window the whole time, we had not noticed it before. Suddenly, it was suddenly
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just there!
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I studied the object with great interest as it presented a perfect example of
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modeled light on a cylindrical form--something I had studied intensely in my
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college art class only a few months before. There were no visible seams of
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irregularities. There was nothing uneven to break the perfect gradations from
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the lighting. It was also absolutely smooth. There were no openings of any
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kind or even windows. It was a pure silvery, white color and very clean--like
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it was brand new, with no discoloration's. Again, this one was absolutely
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silent, It kept pace with us for about 15-20 minutes at our maximum 33 m.p.h.
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I asked my father where our camera was, because I wanted a photo to illustrate
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modeling on a cylinder, but he said it was in the trunk, and there was no way
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he was going to stop on that treacherous road.
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Then we passed behind a rare rock outcropping on our right and emerged less
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than 10 seconds later, only to find this blimp-like, silver-white craft had
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vanished.
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We thought it was just some kind of a new, sleek blimp at the time, because in
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1963, people just didn't hear much about UFO's. To this day, I have made it a
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point not to do any research on them or watch TV shows about them, because I'd
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like to find a respectable hypnotist who could hypnotize me and see what it
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would reveal about my two experiences. By not absorbing anything else about
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UFO's I'm trying to keep my experience as pure as possible for the day when I
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might have a hypnotist write the next chapter for this story.
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