Two Sightings

Two Sightings on US 5

Saturday morning July 28th 2007 4AM:

Two sightings in one night, not bad. I thought. I had finished my ER shift in Los Angeles at 10PM and then started the long 650-mile drive back home to Northern California. The sightings had occurred along US 5, the first at a rest stop about 200 miles south of Sacramento, the second while driving north about an hour later.

For the last year I have steadily been increasing my contact work, doing fieldwork with CSETI trained investigators, networking with an advanced contact worker from Mission Rama, and speaking to regional MUFON groups about the importance of human initiated contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence. But perhaps the most significant recent work was my discovery of a trio of digital videographers in Sacramento who were getting repeat UFO visitations on film.

Apparently I wasn't the only one who had taken notice of their work. One of them, a retired infantryman from the 82nd Airborne had reported to me an attack on his person by an unmarked black helicopter that had temporarily blinded him with what sounded like an advanced non-lethal EM energy weapon. More about that event in future reports.

On July 28th 2007 my first sighting occurred at approximately 2:30 AM while standing in the parking lot of a highway rest area. I was getting really tired and wondered how long I could keep driving before I would have to find a motel and get some sleep. I was standing by my car looking back towards the freeway when I saw a brilliant intensely blue light falling from the sky. It moved downward silently at a steady pace. It was not pinpoint but rather large, perhaps even large enough to be described as a blue orb. I first caught sight of it at about 45 degrees above the horizon. It was so bright that I had no difficulty following it down as it moved behind some trees. It appeared to reach the ground just a few hundred feet away on the west side of the highway. The blue color was significant because it reminded me of the light I had seen over the Sepulveda Pass in September of 92, just a few weeks after Dr. Greer had trained the LA CE-5 Initiative team that I was to coordinate for the next 5 years.

The second sighting was full of initial ambiguity. An hour after the first sighting I was on Highway 5 driving north at 70 miles per hour through the San Joaquin Valley. This enormous expanse of agribusiness territory has few settlements along the freeway. It is a desolate area with dry unpopulated low lying hills la short distance to the west To the east as far as the eye can see stretches desert transformed by irrigation into large industrialized farms.

Moving perpendicular to the highway I saw a faint red light crossing from right to left over the Interstate. It was perhaps half a mile away and from its speed and elevation, about fifty feet above the road, I immediately assumed that the red light was the tail light of a car on a freeway overpass. This impression was reinforced when after crossing the freeway the red light became a faint white one, as if I were now viewing a vehicle that had turned left from the overpass and was heading down towards me on an onramp in order to merge with the southbound traffic.

I immediately noticed that there was something wrong with this car. Instead of the usual headlight configuration of two, there were three discrete white lights. They initially appeared quite faint in the distance. They were moving down towards me on what I assumed was an onramp. Traveling at about 100 feet per second I was rapidly closing with the lights that were arrayed equidistant from one another in a straight line parallel to the ground. The distance between them was fixed. I quickly realized that they were attached to something much larger than an ordinary car or truck. The light array covered a distance of at least 15 to 20 feet. My mind raced for possible explanations. Perhaps the three white lights were attached to some kind of large construction or agricultural vehicle that was lumbering down the onramp to get on the freeway. Or maybe it was on a side road adjacent to the Interstate. Why such an oversized vehicle would be cruising about at nearly 3 AM when driver fatigue and poor visibility would make such driving particularly dangerous was beyond me.

As I moved steadily closer, the light array suddenly became much brighter. They did not look like headlights at all, but rather like landing lights of a small plane. As if to confirm this notion, the three lights titled sideways, lifted off the road and then headed up into the sky at a sharp angle. This was crazy! What would a small aircraft be doing flying so close to the ground along a busy Interstate in the middle of the night? It didn't make any sense at all.

As the object that I assumed was attached to the array headed into the sky, I suddenly could no longer see the three white lights. Instead where they had been last seen was now just a solitary motionless red light. It seemed to be hovering some 50 feet off the ground and was just sort of stuck there in the sky a few dozen yards to the west of the highway. I was able to see this strange unblinking red light for only a few seconds as I speed by headed north.

The thought occurred to me that perhaps I had just seen a crop duster. On rare occasion during the day crop dusters can be seen flying along US 5. They are quite noisy and I believe they move a speed of no less than 80 miles per hour. The object that I had just seen was totally silent. In addition I estimate its speed to have been no more than 30 miles per hour. Its slow approach was one of the reasons why I had assumed it was on some kind of highway onramp. The unknown objects sharp upward turn with its nose pointing practically straight up is not consistent with the flight characteristics of a small plane.

The entire sighting lasted no more twenty or thirty seconds. As I drove off I carefully noted that there was no overpass above the highway. There was no ramp on which the triad of lights might have possibly descended. Whatever I had seen crossing over the freeway at the beginning of the sighting must have been airborne.

Had I just witnessed a UFO maneuvering at low altitude in the San Joaquin Valley? It seems possible, maybe even likely. I eagerly examined that stretch of road on subsequent trips up and down US 5. Both during day and night excursions on that stretch of road I have not seen anything that would indicate a more conventional explanation was likely. Some 50 miles north of where the second sighting occurred on the west side of the road there is a 40-foot metal tower with a red light on top. I assume such a tower is for microwave transmissions. It is possible that the red light I saw at the end of the sighting was on top of a similar tower, but I have been able to locate one on the stretch of road where the sighting took place.

I would like to view both sightings as signs of support from non-human intelligence of a presumed ET nature. It is reassuring for me to imagine that "friends in high places" have noticed my humble networking efforts with contactee groups Is this just wishful thinking? Perhaps, but I don't think so. My hope is that the worldwide networks of contactees that I call, "The Contact Underground" will emerge from the shadows united and strong. The reality of Extraterrestrial visitations is too important to be buried under a curtain of disinformation, ridicule and denial. The contact movement's message of peace and cooperation will be increasingly heard. There is much work to do!

One universe, one people!

Joe Burkes MD

www.contactunderground.com

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