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AREA 51 -- Frits Westra -- UFO Netherlands reports from "Kim and Keith."
Yesterday, May 14, 1999, I saw my first UFO. I was flying from Phoenix to
Oakland on an America West 737. We were approaching the Sierra Nevada's
Mountains on a completely clear morning. They are now splendid with a late
snow. I noticed we had flown over several commercial jetliners headed in the
opposite direction. At about 9:15 AM, as I looked up from watching a jet
pass under us, I clearly saw a black-looking angular aircraft. It was rising
slowly from just below our altitude. It had no familiar shapes of wings or
tail protruding, but it was definitely angular. It was maybe 5 miles away
and I watched it for about a minute or two. I thought our pilots must
certainly be aware of it, since it was a potential collision threat, being
level with our jet. It's direction of travel was opposite to ours at first,
but extremely slow. As I watched, it did not get smaller, as it surely would
have at our speeds. Its motion ceased to be counter to ours, and instead, it
stayed even with us. I kept my eyes on it in avid interest. Then, I glanced
down for a blink of an eye, and when I looked up, it was totally absent from
the sky! It could not have disappeared in that time period. After the
flight, I spoke with the pilot. He said we had been over Area 51, when I saw
the craft, but he had not seen it, or even been aware of it! The pilot said
many strange craft are reported there. Guess this is another one. Thanks to
Kim and Keith" kandk@jps.net , and Frits Westra , fwestra@hetnet.nl
UFO-Workgroup Netherlands.