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In approx 1989 or so, i was doing marching exercises at the truckee california airport for my civil air patrol group...

My command leader was a former SR-71 flight mechanic...

We were marching about, and it was just after dusk, but a full moon.

At the horizon, we saw a craft come up over the mountains at incredible speed - and we watched it as it was flying at a vertical as opposed to an arc which a winged aircraft woulld require...

Within seconds the thing was hovering about 100 feet above us. Silently. A huge triangle with the white lights on corners and one in the middle.

Our commander yelled and said “everyone inside now!” And hustled us back into our hangar office...

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About three weeks ago, in santa rosa ca, i saw a sphere glowing in the sky and moving at a rate which was impossible for conventional craft..

And as i watched it, it literally just disappeared.

I fully believe bob lazar.

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Why would anyone controlling such an aircraft deliberately take it to a hovering position above 100 feet of people who have never seen it before? Aren't these flight tests supposed to happen away from public's view? It looks as if on one hand, the government wants to keep a tight lid on these things, on the other hand, they want to give it all away so easily (based on stories such as yours), which makes no sense. I will be a skeptic until the day I can get to lick the surface of such a craft.

It seems like tech so incredible as this would make eyewitness testimony quite literally “unbelievable” and “incredible”. If you had tech like that, you could pretty much show yourself to any group of people less than the population of an entire city, and nobody would believe them.

But what is the motivation? What do they get by showing it a small group, other than to just make the group question their sanity?

It doesn’t necessarily need to be intentional. Perhaps they had some other business to fly to that airport, and simply don’t care if there are people there or not due to the “unbelievability effect” which they’d be well aware of.

(Obviously I’m just speculating, and I’m not assigning belief either way to any of this; I just enjoy thinking about the possibilities here.)

Or why do they keep putting lights on aircraft that are secret/not to be seen...

Are the lights an emergent phenom from whatever that device is?

I'm as skeptical as everyone else to believe your story even though I've seen two of these. Can you describe the color, markings, or material of the craft? With my experience all I could make out were the 5 points of dim light and nothing else.

I dont care ifany believes me. I know what i experienced.

I have no idea why the thing did what it did, but i will never forget that experience in my life.

The color and materials were flat matt black, the lights were white and diffuse... not beams or anything.

It was completely silent.

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