--- by Lynn Taylor
Last year I reported that on Thursday July 31, 1997, at approximately 1 PM, Russian
aircraft over-flew the Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center, west of Bloomington, Indiana.
Personnel were made aware of the event before hand, and told not to use the phone, e-mail,
etc. during the event. They were further informed that the fly-over was part of an
agreement signed by the US, Russia, and other countries. Personnel were also told that,
Crane was one of several US military installations they would be flying over. Recently, I
learned that Russian over-flights are slated to continue at the rate of roughly, one per
month. On December 19th, 1997 at approximately 1:30 PM, a
day in which another Russian over-flight was scheduled to occur, "Karen" was
traveling east out of Bloomfield, Indiana on Highway 45. She had just crossed the new
bridge at the edge of town, when three jets flew across the road in front of her, heading
in the direction of Crane. They were flying a modified "V" formation, with one
plane further out, more like a check mark than a "V". Then she noticed it.
Tucked in between the two closer flying aircraft was a large, reflective, ball shaped
object, flying in perfect formation. As if this site wasn't amazing enough, before her
eyes, the silvery orb began shrinking in size, collapsing in on itself, until it vanished
into thin air as the jets maintained their relative size and distance to one another.
As she struggled to take in what had just
occurred, Karen experienced a
sudden deja vu. She suddenly recalled an event that happened in this very same spot, one
afternoon in the spring of her sixteenth year. She, along with a friend, watched in awe as
a double convex metallic disc flew across the roadway at extremely high speed, performed
two seemingly impossible ninety degree turns, then quickly disappeared from sight. (a side
note: Her companion is now a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force.) Could the two sightings
simply be an extraordinary coincidence? Maybe. Maybe not. Consider this: Only one mile
away from Karen's sighting position, the paths of the jets and both objects would have to
pass directly over the area where my nephew's friends had a close encounter while camping
out, one summer night in 1994. [See "Campfire Encounters"]
There does exist, considerable UFO activity in and around Crane.
Whether or not it is directly connected to the military installation, no one can be
certain.
What is the UFO interest in this area? Why are
Russian
interests directed toward our Crane Naval Surface Warfare Division as
opposed to, what would
seem to be, more likely places of military interest? At the moment, answers
to these questions remain elusive, but you can
be sure, I will keep watching. ♦
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