Prologue: What you are about to read I have had buried in the back of my mind for over 50 years. I have only told a very few people about this over this time. It was a life-changing event, I have kept it a secret due to my career and the security clearances I have held as high as Top-Secret Clearance. It’s just not something you talk about. I never mentioned to my father who held TS/SSBI-Yankee White level and had spent some time at the Pentagon working on USAF Project Blue Book. The following is a true account.
Texarkana, Ark, Tennessee Rd UFO
It was an early fall day, Saturday, 1964 around 10 am. I had asked a friend and neighbor, John Henson to come down to my house and help me change spark plugs on my car. It was a beautiful warm, sunny and clear sky day. As is so often the case the last spark plug broke off when I went to tighten it down. This meant a trip into town and buy a new plug.
We hopped in my truck and headed towards town. The meant about 1-½ miles down Tennessee Rd, hang a right and drive about the same distance over to Hwy 82, then left toward town.
This location is one of the highest in Miller County and it drops off real fast as you head toward Hwy 82 thru Lakewood Estates. We have made the right off Tennessee Rd and are driving into Lakewood Estates and it’s about 200 yards before you start to drop off.
We are talking away and as we approach the downhill, I look to my left and it was an OMG moment. I bring the truck to a stop and we are both fixated and flummoxed on what we saw. Yep, for real a UFO! Its large a good 75 ft across, it’s definitely saucer shaped, very aerodynamic and about 25 feet thick in the center tapering to a rolled edge about 2 feet thick.
The color was that of anodized Titanium, looking similar to anodized cookware only not as dark. There did not appear to be any seams or other openings, no windows or doors were visible. The object appeared (?) to be slowly rotating on its axis, made a low humming sound and seemed to be extremely surface hot as the air below the outer edge was a bit hazy like looking across an asphalt road on a hot day.
Suddenly the awe began to wear off and I said, “what in the hell is that” and hit the accelerator. We drove down the hill, stopped at Wooten Lake in Lakewood Estates, and then decided to go back. It was no longer there.
Where it had sat (hovered) just above ground level everything was laid over flat.
I stopped there a few more times and it had clearly left a large round open area behind. I left in ’67 and never really returned until somewhere around 2004 to visit with John Henson and some other friends I had not seen in years. I drove over there and even with 40 years passing the spot where the UFO had sat was clearly visible, large, round and open. I went there again, when I attended my 50th class reunion and in spite of it having always being a heavily grown and wooded area, there is a large round open spot where the UFO sat to this day. https://www.google.com/maps/place/33°25'01.5"N+93°57'39.7"W/@33.4146986,-93.9602998,847m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m14!1m7!3m6!1s0x86346cf6cbe02715:0x2ae16a17af32cce6!2sTennessee+Rd,+Texarkana,+AR+71854!3b1!8m2!3d33.4134779!4d-93.9615761!3m5!1s0x0:0x0!7e2!8m2!3d33.4170946!4d-93.9610246
Epilogue: Shortly before my Dad passed away I asked him about Project Blue Book, the Governments investigation into UFO’s. I asked him if he thought they were real based upon his knowledge. Never in my life had I ever heard the words that he uttered: “No comment.” He took that and whatever he did in his military career in the OSI to his grave.
I've no doubt you saw what you saw.
Was it an alien spacecraft? Probably not.
The super secret squirrel uber level 87 folks were real real busy with all manner of experimental military aircraft then. Heck, they still are.
Many unique designs were tried. You were able to see one.