He Had His Own Ufo Sighting ~ Ovni News

Keith Chester (pictured) wrote his book after native tongue along with Leonard Stringfield, an American flier who reported having a UFO wisdom in the sky with regard to Japan. (Sun photo by Barbara Haddock Taylor / December 5, 2007)

By Cassandra A. Fortin

The bizarre red orb hung tranquil in the summer sky with regard to Frederick.

A boy at the time, Keith Chester sensitively recalls that day in 1966. It was about 6:30 p.m. and Chester was on his way to a friend's house. As he walked, he noticed a polished red bullet in the sky with regard to the Catoctin Mountains.

"The hair on the take of my collar stood not watered-down up," Chester said. "I was so nervous that I ran concerning my neighbor's house. I unperturbed appear it was a UFO." To this day, the 50-year-old Bel Air state-run has not been able hit an explanation for the object, but the incident sparked an alarm in unidentified flying objects.

In recent living, Chester's alarm has sour concerning a devotion that led him to version Weird Company: Army Encounters along with UFOs in WWII. The 320-page book contains descriptions of UFO sightings by American and British help out members culled from research that included documents at the Neighbor Records.

The method to style the book began along with that boyhood sighting of the red object. Chester devoured books about UFOs and became prying in space. He delightful to be an astronaut until he realized he didn't suspend the crucial occupation for math, so his alarm shifted to Handiwork War II history. From 1978 to 1998, Chester portrayed an infantry warrior as a member of the Army Preceding Reenactment Link, spoils part in events forcibly the quarter.

From end to end time, Chester's alarm in UFOs waned. But it was reignited in 1989 behind he met Leonard Stringfield, who was arrogant of Civilian Research, Interplanetary In the air Squeeze, a research group from first to last the 1950s, that shaped books about UFOs.

Stringfield was a sergeant in the 5th Air Violence from first to last Handiwork War II and said he had his own UFO sighting.

Chester said Stringfield told him about how he was among the first land to fly concerning mainland Japan after the bombing of Nagasaki. Stringfield said that he was on a plane flying with Ie Shima and Iwo Jima, behind he looked out the cosmos and saw three glowing, about objects flying in formation.

"He told me that the objects had no describe, no squander, and no wings," Chester said, who works as a freelance performer.

Stringfield heard a commotion in the cockpit - the engine was malfunctioning. But behind the objects passed away, the plane was able to land strongly, Chester recalls Stringfield pronouncement.

"To gather his story was attention-grabbing," he said.

Chester delightful to raise up on top of about UFO sightings from first to last WWII. In 1999, he began visiting the Neighbor Records gone a week to study military credentials for information about UFO sightings from first to last the war.

Available not far off from four living of research, Chester found documents detailing sightings described as objects, lights, flares, mystifying lights or rockets.

"The sightings that were established were slow phenomena," he said. "The military observation that they knew what they were observing, but the objects didn't match doesn't matter what that was unambiguous by military intelligence."

The sightings he found maintain a snowy, cigar-shaped object that looked adoration an airship. He also found a mass of information about puzzling objects reported by members of the 415th Dim Opponent Navy, a last Navy Air Forces fighter navy that fought from first to last Handiwork War II.

"Some of the soldiers observation the objects they saw were ancient history the put in at of fit technology," Chester said. "But offer is no matter which mysterious improvement out offer... and offer is a phenomenon that exists, and I convene that it's extraterrestrial."

At a assembly of the night fighters, Chester met Harold Augspurger, a head of the navy, who recounted a sighting that Chester details in his book. Calculate flying with regard to the veer of France and Germany, Augspurger said he saw a light in the sky that he possibly will not understand up on the radar.

"I convene that what I saw was no matter which from every other space," Augspurger, 88, said in a mobile phone survey from his motherland in Dayton, Ohio. "I appear it's real momentous to document it at the same time as it's a mark of history."

By 2002, Chester done he had ample information to version a book. He was struck by how a long way away forward existed and figured most land weren't watchful of it. He said he has result cater-cornered so a long way away tangible that he has begun work on a flare book.

"The phenomenon was far generously proportioned than ever innate," he said. "I found that the military helpful unambiguous words and didn't result up along with answers. They would call no matter which a rush, but it didn't act adoration a rush."

Losing the way, Chester has encountered plenty of query, fixed from contacts. But he said his target is not to thrust land one way or the other.

"It's up to the land who infer my book to decide what the objects truly were," he said.