Close encounter from 1968 finally surfaces

SUMMER OF 1968……. CHERRY HILL NEW JERSEY

 The event took place in late afternoon, in our housing area called Scarborough Farms, a subdivision of 1/4 acre lots/homes in Cherry Hill, NJ.  I had stepped outside to my front yard tending  to our dog.  Between our house and that or our neighbor, which is about 40′ from their front door to our front door, I suddenly saw a large, c. 30′ x 15′ cigar shaped object, light grey metal, silently hovering between our two houses, about 10′ above roof lines.

It had four very large square windows, positioned left to right on the object, each a different pastel color: one each-pink, yellow, green, blue. All were opaque-I could not see inside. It was totally silent, and motionless. I quickly went inside to call my five-year old son, to come and see it. He remembers it to this day. We both had time to watch it together,

I waved to whomever was inside in a foolish attempt to be friendly, as there was clearly no harm intended to us. Within a few seconds of my waving, it made a silent and extraordinarily rapid ascent off to my right, at about a 50 degree angle up into the sky, until it was roughly about a few hundred feet away. Just as quickly, it made an abrupt turn and ascent to its’ left, at about a 90 degree angle and disappeared from view. The entire ascent time, from the position of hovering to being out of sight was less than 2-3 seconds. The entire experience lasted about 10 minutes.

I immediately went into the house and called the Cherry Hill police department to report the sighting. The officer who answered my call was very impatient, and told me to “…get off the phone, lady. We’ve already had over 200 calls reporting it…” I have waited this long to report it, 9/15/2011, as sightings and UFOs are still not an accepted topic of conversation in my circle of friends or relatives.

My son who saw the UFO, is now 48, and a lawyer in Columbus, OH, and still affirms that he saw the UFO and knew it to be just that, a UFO. I report it now because some years later, in 1989, I had another experience while living in Dayton, OH, which I firmly believe was an abduction experience. It troubles me, as I have no way of verifying that it was abduction. I am now 72, college educated and with some graduate education, and feel that I am not easily fooled by sensationalist thinking.