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Post by auntym on Apr 12, 2011 22:13:10 GMT -6
www.examiner.com/ufo-in-national/witness-sinks-boat-after-ufo-emerges-from-texas-riverWitness sinks boat after UFO emerges from Texas river 1976 * April 12th, 2011 8:09 pm ET Roger Marsh * UFO Examiner A witness recalls how his father sunk their small boat after a strange object lit up the water underneath them and then moved up into the sky. Photo: Wikipedia. A Texas witness recalls events from February 1, 1976, when a UFO moved under the small boat he and his father were in along the Sabine River, lit up the water around them, and then moved out of the water and into the sky at tremendous speed, according to April 1, 2011, testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database. The father and son first noticed a light in the water about 4 to 6 inches across. The father thought that the son had dropped a flashlight on board the boat into the water. But then the water around them lit up and the chilly morning temperature rose. "I am not sure how it happened but the water around the boat lit up so bright it was like daylight," the witness stated. "The light was about 15 to 20 feet around the boat. It came close to the boat and stayed still for a few moments. I remember it was cold that morning but at that moment it felt like it was around 80 or so degrees." Then the object moved quickly out of the water. TO CONTINUE READING CLICK ON ABOVE LINK
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Post by paulette on Apr 13, 2011 8:50:08 GMT -6
OK - I'm confused. The adults sank their own boat in the river? Someone else sunk a boat in the river? That's a, hmmm, weird thing to do.
Most Texas rivers aren't very deep. I'd be surprised if there was one that was 25 or more feet deep.
As usual here, mighty strange...
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Post by rmgtesla on Aug 22, 2013 21:18:45 GMT -6
You are correct the rivers are not very deep but 25 feet will cover a boat, car, house etc... I am the one who wrote this to Mufon not realizing that is would be posted all over the net. The first correct I will make is this, there never was a UFO that left the water, whatever it was traveled under the water at a great rate of speed thus creating the large waves that looked like barge waves. An yes my Dad was superstitious by nature (Cajun) and thought the boat was cursed, I do not thinks so at all. There had to be a massive electrical wave created that even heated the air around us. My whole goal in this was to find out if there were others that have seen this thing. I have no delusions that this may have been some sort of experimental craft made by our or some other government. I have never said this was alien or anything of the sort. My dad did sink the boat which was just as much a shock to me as you but I never opened my mouth about it because if I did he would shut it with a fist. It was a different time back then.
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Post by skywalker on Aug 22, 2013 21:33:57 GMT -6
Welcome, rmgtesla. It's nice to get the details from the original source. Once stories get plastered all over the internet they take on a life of their own and all sorts of weird incorrect stuff gets added into them. I just went back and read the story and I see where the mistake was made by people thinking a UFO rose up out of the water. You were actually talking about a wave. I'll have to go back and refresh myself on the details of this case. I do have a few questions since you are here though. About what time did this incident take place? And where on the Sabine river was it? Were you very close to the open ocean? How close to the boat was the light when you first noticed it? It sounds like it whatever it was rose up from just underneath the boat.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2013 7:51:59 GMT -6
Hi rmgtesla and welcome. Thanks for sharing and I'm glad you reported it. There have been many other unidentified submerged object (USO) events reported throughout time. I'll see if I can find any other case(s) that might perhaps be similar to yours' when I have some spare time if you'd like (or maybe others here know of any). Many of us here at TEOR have had interesting things happen in our lifetimes which has left us searching for answers also. It sounds like you and your Dad experienced quite an ordeal. From the way you described your Dads reaction, It seems he was most likely in a state of shock which is understandable. I've been there myself.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2013 16:05:56 GMT -6
You are correct the rivers are not very deep but 25 feet will cover a boat, car, house etc... I am the one who wrote this to Mufon not realizing that is would be posted all over the net. The first correct I will make is this, there never was a UFO that left the water, whatever it was traveled under the water at a great rate of speed thus creating the large waves that looked like barge waves. An yes my Dad was superstitious by nature (Cajun) and thought the boat was cursed, I do not thinks so at all. There had to be a massive electrical wave created that even heated the air around us. My whole goal in this was to find out if there were others that have seen this thing. I have no delusions that this may have been some sort of experimental craft made by our or some other government. I have never said this was alien or anything of the sort. My dad did sink the boat which was just as much a shock to me as you but I never opened my mouth about it because if I did he would shut it with a fist. It was a different time back then. Welcome rmgtesla . Please note that whoever you reported this to, did not include any other information. I hope you come back to us here on TEOR and possibly feel comfortable enough to express other things that happened to you. I have found that it does help to talk about such things. I'm sorry if saying "ufo" bothered you (even though it wasn't me that said it ). Yes, a lot of people will immediately go to the idea of "ALIENS" just from "Unidentified Flying Object". I think its safe to say that this was a paranormal event. I'm also sorry it bothered your Dad so much, but as you said, it was a different time back then, and maybe he had grown up over-hearing stories, that could sound disturbing. I think it is cool that you weren't bothered by seeing this "thing", and you still sound like you are doing "OK". Take care, and again, I hope we see more of You! Thanks!
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Post by paulette on Aug 24, 2013 23:41:01 GMT -6
RMGTESLA - So glad you are here talking about this. Whatever it was, it flew and it was unidentified. That is what UFO means. None one here can say what any of them are, some of us have gotten closer looks than others. Please feel free to be here and talk about things.
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Post by rmgtesla on Jul 28, 2014 15:59:12 GMT -6
Welcome, rmgtesla. It's nice to get the details from the original source. Once stories get plastered all over the internet they take on a life of their own and all sorts of weird incorrect stuff gets added into them. I just went back and read the story and I see where the mistake was made by people thinking a UFO rose up out of the water. You were actually talking about a wave. I'll have to go back and refresh myself on the details of this case. I do have a few questions since you are here though. About what time did this incident take place? And where on the Sabine river was it? Were you very close to the open ocean? How close to the boat was the light when you first noticed it? It sounds like it whatever it was rose up from just underneath the boat. Sorry I have not been on here in a long time. The time was around 5:30 or 6, right before the sun comes up. It was about an hour from the Gulf. I first noticed the light when it was what I assume was on the bottom maybe 20 or 25 feet but the light grew to the size of our boat or maybe I little bigger. It was actually about 3 to four feet from the right side of the boat but it came right up under the boat for a few secs.
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Post by auntym on Jul 28, 2014 16:12:50 GMT -6
i'm confused...since it was an object with a light on it and not just a wave... what do you think it was...?
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Post by skywalker on Jul 28, 2014 19:48:49 GMT -6
Ok, from what I can see there are several strange details about this incident. There was a bright light in the water under the boat. The air temperature seemed to increase around the boat. Something under the water then proceeded to speed away from the boat at a very high rate of speed generating a large wake. Later on the aluminum boat seemed to develop magnetic properties causing bolts to stick to it. Some of these things by themselves could be explainable as naturally occurring phenomena. For instance, the light and the wave could have been caused by some type of underwater submarine or possibly a whale or shark swimming through bioluminescent plankton which glows in the dark when disturbed. There actually is quite a bit of glowing plankton down along the gulf and it could have been in the river. A whale or shark would not cause any temperature increase however. It's possible that an underwater submarine could cause a temperature increase but subs don't normally travel at the speed that you suggested in your report. They are actually pretty slow to get moving and even slower if attempting to navigate through a shallow river with limited visibility. The magnetic properties of the aluminum boat are an entirely different story altogether. Aluminum obviously is not magnetic. I've been doing some research to see if there is any way that aluminum can become magnetized and the answer pretty much is no. It is possible that aluminum could be slightly magnetic while exposed to an extremely strong electromagnetic field but whales and sharks do not produce any noticeable electromagnetism, and even if they did the magnetic properties of the aluminum would cease as soon as the magnetic field was removed. There definitely wouldn't be any residual traces of it left over after the boat was driven away from the scene and up onto the bank. Having said that, there have been some anomalous reports of non-magnetic things becoming magnetic. This is sometimes reported during UFO encounters although it has never been verified scientifically and I wouldn't even be able to begin to explain the process by which it would occur...if it even did. Human skin in certain people has also been reported to become magnetic and while cases of it has been documented it still wouldn't be the same as an aluminum boat. The only other thing I could suggest to explain what happened that day is maybe some weird type of electro-magnetic phenomenon took place. There is a very rare phenomena called ball lightning which can produce light, heat, movement and an electromagnetic charge, but I don't know how ball lightning would form under water. Even though it is an extremely unusual form of lightning, it is in effect still lightning and therefor it should not be able to form underwater. I suppose anything is possible though. That still would not explain the magnetic properties of the aluminum boat. Those are about the only explanations I can come up with and they don't explain everything that took place in that incident. If it really did happen exactly the way you remember it I don't have any conventional scientific explanations for you. So either it is an extremely unusual natural phenomena that nobody knows about, or it really is a UFO sighting...or rather a USO (unidentified submerged object) since it was under the water the entire time. There have been quite a few reports of such things but like their flying counterparts none of them have ever been conclusively proven to exist.
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