FAMILY SPOTS ENORMOUS ALIEN CRAFT NEAR NORFOLK NAVAL BASE
DECEMBER 15, 1988 ………. NORFOLK VIRGINIA
I was coming home from Christmas shopping. Stopped at red lite. Saw bright lite in front. Thought was nightingale at accident. Turned left. Light came parallel. Took another left light hovered in front. Light was so bright had to put visor down. Told wife “wouldn’t it be cool if it was UFO?” Turned left again light followed turned right ,light followed. Turned into driveway. When got out of car expecting to hear helo rotors. Looked up as craft described above flew over. Looked at wife and said **** that thing is longer than our street. She said, doesn’t make a sound either. Then my daughter, who was about 7 or 8 said dad it doesn’t have any tail wings. It was a bright moon lit night. We could see the shape very well. It appeared to be a gunmetal grey. Had red lights front and rear of all 3 fuselages that stayed on steady. I guess the altitude to be about 1200 ft. It was traveling east at maybe 25 MPH. Told wife, let’s follow it. We all got back in car. As I was backing out of driveway, told wife, I’ll drive you tell me which way to go. As I backed out , had just put car in gear when wife said Never Mind it’s gone. I asked where did it go? She said I don’t know. When I blinked my eyes it was not there anymore. I did have a set of Christmas lights in a tree that were setup to look like a flying saucer that was spinning. Neighbors said it made them dizzy. Can’t win them all. That’s my story. I’m divorced now, but ex will still agree with what we saw. Daughter still remembers also. Remember telling wife (was working in Naval Shipyard at time) the center fuselage was larger then aircraft carrier that was working on. The center fuselage was about 1/3 larger and longer than the outer two. Center fuselage was approx. 75-100 ft. Dia. And close to 1/4 Mile long. Street I lived on was close to 1/4 mile long. That’s what I gauged it by. I remember telling wife, we could put every house on our street inside that center fuselage. I kept asking, how can something that big fly 25 mph and stay in the sky, much less making no sound at all. Norfolk airport landing pattern is just west of my house. We could hear a plane landing in the background. As far as feelings we were all left in aaw. Had no other witnesses. All were inside or in bed.
Naval Station Norfolk is a United States Navy base in Norfolk, Virginia. It supports naval forces in the United States Fleet Forces Command,[2] those operating in the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and Indian Ocean. NS Norfolk, also known as the Norfolk Naval Base, occupies about four miles (6 km) of waterfront space and seven miles (11 km) of pier and wharf space of the Hampton Roads peninsula known as Sewell’s Point. It is the world’s largest naval station, supporting 75 ships and 134 aircraft alongside 14 piers and 11 aircraft hangars, and houses the largest concentration of U.S. Navy forces.[3] Port Services controls more than 3,100 ships’ movements annually as they arrive and depart their berths. Air Operations conducts over 100,000 flight operations each year, an average of 275 flights per day or one every six minutes. Over 150,000 passengers and 264,000 tons of mail and cargo depart annually on Air Mobility Command (AMC) aircraft and other AMC-chartered flights from the airfield’s AMC Terminal.[4]
