LeBombette
Skilled Investigator
When I was a kid, I was at my Stepmom and Dad's house way out in the country in rural Middle Tennessee (near the Alabama state line). Their house sat high on top of a hill and the driveway was super long, dirt and crazy dangerous on a bicycle or ATV. The driveway also extended back beyond the house to a barn that sat back in the woods. The section of the driveway to the barn was quite shady and covered by trees, but as soon as you got to the main drive there were no trees and the area was quite bare. One day me (about age 12 or 13), my little sister (about 5) and our cousin (about 9) were riding bikes. It was a bright sunny day and not wanting to kill ourselves on the driveway we would ride back to the barn and back around behind the house avoiding the steep hill.
It was kind of blinding to come out of the trees into the sun every time we came out from the barn to the main drive. One time me and my cousin had sort of left my little sis behind. We were riding hard and when we came out of the tree-lined area we both screeched to a gravel-flying halt blinded by the sunlight. Once I got my senses and my bike upright I shaded my eyes and squinted toward the sky...I barely caught a glimpse of what I can only describe as the body of an old WWII era plane. In my twelve year old mind it looked like the main body of a WWII cargo plane. I couldn't see wings, tail or nose. I could only see the sun gleaming off one section and the rest seemed somehow blurred. The metal I could see clearly seemed like shiny riveted metal....and then it was gone. My cousin saw the same thing, although I don't know if he remembers it. At the time we just assumed it was a plane. Later, other things would make it a bit more mysterious. My Stepmother's sister lived down the hill in the "holla" and they raised beagles. They had a big outdoor kennel with about 20 or so dogs. All day long and into the next day the dogs were going crazy. So much so that my Dad even went down the hill to check on them to be sure they were okay. By the way, in the country you don't pay much attention to barking Beagles unless they are really causing a stir. Across a field, about 100 yards away from my Step-Aunt's house was a cabin that they rented out. At the time there was this old fella there...kind of the local drunk. He lived alone and drank a lot. Sometime in the middle of the early morning hours (maybe 2 or 3 a.m.) the morning after we saw the "plane" he supposedly witnessed a UFO. He claimed that a UFO had landed in the field by his house. Apparently he called the police and it made it in the papers. Most people just made fun of him...after all he was the local drunk. However, my Dad and my Step-Uncle went down there shortly after and said they saw a burned ring in the field. I didn't witness it...I had already went back to my Mom's house by the time the "sighting" happened. Only later did I start to put together what me and my cousin saw, the dogs and the man's sighting...whether any of it was connected, who knows? I don't know what I saw and I don't know what the neighbor saw...can't say anything definite about it except the whole thing is a bit weird. One day I hope to dig up those old articles and witnesses and figure out if there was anything to what the old man claimed to have witnessed.
It was kind of blinding to come out of the trees into the sun every time we came out from the barn to the main drive. One time me and my cousin had sort of left my little sis behind. We were riding hard and when we came out of the tree-lined area we both screeched to a gravel-flying halt blinded by the sunlight. Once I got my senses and my bike upright I shaded my eyes and squinted toward the sky...I barely caught a glimpse of what I can only describe as the body of an old WWII era plane. In my twelve year old mind it looked like the main body of a WWII cargo plane. I couldn't see wings, tail or nose. I could only see the sun gleaming off one section and the rest seemed somehow blurred. The metal I could see clearly seemed like shiny riveted metal....and then it was gone. My cousin saw the same thing, although I don't know if he remembers it. At the time we just assumed it was a plane. Later, other things would make it a bit more mysterious. My Stepmother's sister lived down the hill in the "holla" and they raised beagles. They had a big outdoor kennel with about 20 or so dogs. All day long and into the next day the dogs were going crazy. So much so that my Dad even went down the hill to check on them to be sure they were okay. By the way, in the country you don't pay much attention to barking Beagles unless they are really causing a stir. Across a field, about 100 yards away from my Step-Aunt's house was a cabin that they rented out. At the time there was this old fella there...kind of the local drunk. He lived alone and drank a lot. Sometime in the middle of the early morning hours (maybe 2 or 3 a.m.) the morning after we saw the "plane" he supposedly witnessed a UFO. He claimed that a UFO had landed in the field by his house. Apparently he called the police and it made it in the papers. Most people just made fun of him...after all he was the local drunk. However, my Dad and my Step-Uncle went down there shortly after and said they saw a burned ring in the field. I didn't witness it...I had already went back to my Mom's house by the time the "sighting" happened. Only later did I start to put together what me and my cousin saw, the dogs and the man's sighting...whether any of it was connected, who knows? I don't know what I saw and I don't know what the neighbor saw...can't say anything definite about it except the whole thing is a bit weird. One day I hope to dig up those old articles and witnesses and figure out if there was anything to what the old man claimed to have witnessed.
Maybe I can try to draw it sometime and post a pic of that, the UFO, not the monk seal. 
