It happened about 4:30 AM one morning in 1991 my baby sister Janet, her husband Lamount, and their two sons Jerry and Peter where getting ready for their trip back to Washington State.
We had had the actual first family reunion since the passing of my younger brother Ralph in 1988, and it had been a very pleasant visit full of joy and some tears.
Janet and her family was flying out and had an early flight so I got more time with them before they left.
The boys were getting washed up and ready to go so I went out on the front porch to look up into the sky as I always do when in the country for you never can see the real beauty of the sky in the lights of New York off in the distance a full moon was rising in the east and I was wishing I had a camera for the view of the sky from the porch back then was breath taking.
As I was looking at the moon I started noticing what looked like contrails of jet that would suddenly appear and travel great distances across the sky and vanish but in a matter of seconds, almost instantly.
The reason I knew they could not be jets or man made aircraft is because they would accelerate and decelerate so fast in the time of making a streak and in fact it was as if they were drag racing or at times playing tag with each other at one point two actually crossed paths in the sky as if it was a game of chicken I knew then no way were these any of our guys.
However because they were so far off and appeared at random I could not see were the objects were until they streaked and caused a vapor trail, in fact the only reason I could see the very thin vapor trails behind them at all was because the were back lighted by the moon. it was as I was squinting against the light of the moon trying to see if I could see what was making these trail that Jerry came through the screen door and asked me what I was looking at.
"UFOs." I said not missing a beat and as if on cue a shimmering star like orb of light just popped on above our heads and started to move northward.
As it moved I could see these little streaks seeming to hit it and enter it the greenish golden orb would quiver a bit when they hit it but otherwise stayed its course.
I looked to Jerry whom I called Junior back then and asked,
" Do you see that?"
" Yes " he said with out looking away from the object.
"What do you see?" I asked.
"There's this little ball of light and it looks like their are things shooting into it."
he answered.
I looked back up to see what it was doing but I could no longer see it.
"I lost it." I said "Where did it go?"
" It's still there " Jerry answered still looking up into the sky
" But it stopped and it's pretending to be a star. "
That was when his brother Peter came to the door and said that my sister , their mother was calling Jerry and Jerry went inside.
"We're watching UFOs." he said to Peter as he passed him and Peter the ever pragmatic stepped out and stood next to me and asked "Really?"
"Yes" I said hoping the object would display itself for Peter also but as we looked up there was a golden burst of light and I asked Peter if he saw it and he said "Yes."
"What did you see?" I asked.
"A flash of yellow light." he answered.
It was at that point Janet then sent Jerry to get Peter for they were reading to leave.
It would be a short time later that I was to see some of the footage of the Shuttle Sighting and one scene in particular bought me instantly back to the front porch in Virginia looking up into the sky with Junior.
It is were you see on of these moving objects struck by what the announcer is saying a particle beam but this is what I am Jerry saw as we were looking up that morning.
Being that I was seeing these things zip around in front of the moon before I saw them zipping into the object I do not believe that what was taken from the space shuttle that day was a test of any kind of Starwars Device but these Entities at play.
