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SUBJECT: I REMEMBER WAY BACK IN MID 1971 FILE: UFO3129
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by Bob Dawson
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dated 3 Mar 1993, 15:32
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I am new to this echo, and reading some of the messages here has caused me
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to remember an incident that took place way back in mid 1971. I have no
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explanation, and thought someone else may have experienced something
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similar...
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It was a dark and starry night, but with no moon. I was
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on the navy destroyer Dennis J. Buckley DD-808, and we were
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heading west at about 27 knots somewhere between Hawaii
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and Guam. We were eventually to be on a six-month tour
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of duty that included floating off the coast of Viet Nam.
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I was 22 and excited about getting the opportunity to see
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the Orient, a part of the world that has always
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fascintated me.
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It was just after midnight and I was sitting on the fan-
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tail of the ship, smoking a cigaret (I did strange things
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in those years, when I thought I was immortal), and
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talking with a couple of buddies. Although there was no
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moon, it was pretty bright out from the light of the
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zillions of stars that were sprayed across the dark sky.
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It's AMAZING how many more stars you see when at sea,
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with no city lights, smog, etc., etc., to block them out.
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Anyway, at 27 knots, which is a little over 30 mph, a
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destroyer makes a pretty good sized rooster tail from the
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backwash of the props. We were watching that rooster
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tail and talking about things in general, when one of the
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guys shouted, "Hey! Look over there!" and pointed way
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back behind us and to the port side.
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There was a noticable glow underneath the ocean. It was
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relatively bright, but looked like it was preety deep,
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from our vantage point. Now we knew it wasn't the moon
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reflecting on the water, because there wasn't any moon
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out. And it had a definite oblong shape. As we watched,
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the light got closer to the surface. It seemed to be
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following us.
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We continued to watch, and as we did, the glow got even
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closer to the surface, and came closer to the ship, until
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it was just about 15 yards off the stern, and about 30
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yards to port. The object was half as long as the ship,
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or about 50 yds., and was going just as fast as we were.
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Although it varied its depth, it never broke surface.
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There was never any sound from it; we heard nothing but
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the slosh of the rooster tail, which isn't really that loud.
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It paralleled our course for about two miles, then
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quickly dove to the depths until the glow disappeared.
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I've never seen, or heard, of anything like it before,
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or since. I don't know what it was. We never reported it to
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anybody, for fear we'd be rediculed.
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By the way, one of the guys out there smoking with us was
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a "lifer" who had been in for over 20 years at the time, and
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he said he had seen some strange things at sea, but never
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anything like that.
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