Time to Speak Up

by Chester A. Powell

Today on the history channel I saw a program discussing ufo's and cattle mutilation by Linda m. howe. And for the umpteeth time I'm reminded of the strange things that I have seen in my life time and have never told anybody,I feel like it is way past time. So hear goes, my first encounter was when I was 14 years old I was living in Amarillo, Texas our neighbors and my brothers were playing basketball in our back yard at night and I was taking care of my pigeons when out of nowhere at telephone height A circular ball of about 3 foot in diameter appeared it appeared to be spinning and emitting sparks and a gasous smell that to this day I have never smelt any thing close to it. My brother yelled that the gas was posion and for everboby to get in the house, which they all did except for myself,my eyes were tranfixed on the Ball, it stayed at telephone height and headed for some grain elevators in a feild ajacent to our house I ran into the alley and follwed it for it was traveling very slowly, I wanted to catch up with it as I thought it was going to hit the elevators,which were 110 ft tall But as it neared them It started to go straight up till it reached a height high enough to clear them and proceeded over the top to the other side which to me showed intelligence I ran as fast as I could to the other side But by the time I got their It was nowhere to be found,"what's up with that".

My second sighting happened outside of Denver Colorado, I was on wheat harvest, We were cutting a feild that been hailed out and was using pick up reels on the combines to try and salvage the feild. so needless to say it was going real slow and to past the time I laid down in my truck and happened to catch sight of some clouds two clouds that is and was just gazing at them when I saw what appeared to be a highly polished siver surface in the shape simiular to that of a football needless to say It caught my attention as it went from one cloud to the other and did not come out, I jumped up and got out of my truck and really paid attention but did not see it again. so I got back in my truck and laid down again and kept my eyes on the clouds and to my amazment another object left the same cloud and went into the other one,so I watched somemore and one of the two objects left the cloud they had gone into,and went back into the cloud they had came from about that time I had to catch a load of wheat,and by the time I got back to them the clouds and the objects were gone. no plane can do that. And now for the Reason that got me started on this It was 34 years ago in the summer of 1970 my wife and I had visited some freinds that lived just south of the oklahoma border between altus and Vernon Texas, to the west of the highway about four miles in the country well as we were leaving we came upon a right hand turn in the road,well out of natural habit I looked left and very much to my suprise I saw a light about fifty foot in the air and about a hundred feet from the car but you must understand I have an intense curiosty as you must know by now about these things and I got out of the car and tried to determine what was going on ,so here is what I saw It was a circular disk around forty five to fifty foot wide and had a circular indention in the center of the bottom of about five foot with it narelling to about four foot about two feet into the craft with a snake like tube coming from the center with a light on the end and was covered on the sides I suppose to inhibit the light from spreading or to direct it,I could see scars on the bottom of the craft just like I saw on our space capsles on the heat sheilds from rentry into our atmosphere,as I watched the light was slowly moving around as if they were searcing for somthing it was not a light as you or I would use it was like a forty watt bulb after a few minites it shined toward us and all of a sudden the light went straight down below the ship and stayed their but did not go off I continued to stare at it and what I thought was fifteen minites it started moving off at a very slow pace and when it got about a half mile off the light went off and being a moon less night I lost sight of it with out ever seeing the top of the craft, and from their strange things happened, like it should of been twelve thirty when we got home, for it was only thrty minites from the house instead we got home at three thirty, and when we did nothing was ever said about what had happened,and to this day my wife does not remember It ever happening and I never brought myself to tell anybody,till now and one more strange thing about two years later I had what appeared to be a mole on my right arm and it got infected and I mashed on it and a three sided glass object about one half of a inch long came out with the so called mole on top and under inspection it appeared to have what looked like wires inside of it and the three sides were just a little wider than the brown top as when it was pushed in the skin would close around it, so as to appear as a mole the only concusion I could come to I was taged for later observation, to bad I lost it for I have never seen them again I would of love to of rode in their ship again and in conculion I think that they were looking for cattle cause the light appeared to be a sensor beam not a light to see by, If you can please get a copy of this to Linda M. howe for I think she should know cause she doesn't have a first hand account of a ufo searching for what appeared to be cattle and found me THANKS FOR YOUR TIME and now you know the rest of the story YOUR TRULY CHESTER A> POWELL