The UFO was a round like a globe, had a metal railing walkway around the very center of the silver metal ball/globe, and three round windows above the railing.

  This was in 1953.  I was 13 yrs. old.  I simply sat down on a rocky hillside in the warm Spring sunshine and watched without concern because I simply figured that it was something that our OWN government had designed and was testing it out in this open ranch land (we often had small airplanes to land on our ranch because it was very open prairie and virtually no houses but ours).

At that period of time we had a number of large research and military Army and Air Force bases not too far from our ranch. I just thought it was probably simply something like blimps that we occasionally saw flying into our local military bases during that period of time. Huge, low flying airplanes were common everyday in our area of Texas.

The object/UFO just seemed to float leisurely….and then as suddenly as it appeared…it disappeared into the evening sun and into the west almost instantly in total silence.

Excited about WHAT I had watched, I quickly rushed home and told my older brother who was a high school senior, when he drove his car home from his after school activities.  I was shocked at his reaction because he roared in laughter.  He mocked me, made fun of me and called me a liar.

Totally intimidated by his rejection and hidiously ugly put down… when I knew I was simply telling the truth—I never told anyone about my story except my Mother that night, who agreed with me that it was probably something being ‘TESTED’ by the army or air force.

Then to my greatest JOY…in 1958…after tons of OTHER news reports throughout those years of OTHER people seeing flying saucers, other objects and stories…the wonderful LIFE MAGAZINE printed a series on the all the space ship stories. Wow! How awewsome! They HAD a photo and drawing of EXACTLY what I had watched cross our open prairie sky that afternoon when I was 13 years old and yet out of fear, I had refused to ever say a word to others.

I was now FINALLY able to tell my story without condemnation or rejection (well, some ha ha)…my senior year as class salutatorian, with confidence and comfirmation. People KNEW that I was telling the truth—even my brother.

Sure there were those that gave me ‘the look’…ha ha but that was okay with me, because now I had other people and Life Magazine to back me. I kept that magazine for years and today at the age of 68 I wish with all my heart I still knew WHERE that it ended up…but I don’t. I have no doubt that there are folks that CREATE stories for attention but there are also many, many thousands who KNOW TRUTH.

We as a people are arrogant and totally dense IF we think there is NOTHING beyond this beautiful ball called earth!  God created the Universe, the awesome human body, every ebb of science and nature. So, if we can look in the mirror and SEE our own wonderous human bodies, so intricately made…what is so hard…to believe that OTHER beings are NOT  beyond our knowledge, vision and planet.  Pleez!

Like you—I KNOW…what I KNOW…that, I know. Be safe, be blest & keep enjoying every joy that this wonderful universe offers! It’s far beyond the imagination of mankind. How neat is that? It’s always better to REACH for the stars and miss… than reaching for the dirt and hit!!!  Onward & upward!

Submitted by: Gloria