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Aircraft Carrier Meets God
A True Story
This encounter occurred in1970 while aboard the aircraft
carrier, USS John F. Kennedy in the Bermuda Triangle.
I was assigned to the communications department of the
Kennedy and had been in this section about a year. The ship
was returning to Norfolk, VA after completing a two week
operational readiness exercise (ORE) in the Caribbean. We
were to stand down for 30 days, after arriving in Norfolk, to
allow the crew to take leave and visit family before deploying
to the Mediterranean for six months.
I was on duty in the communications center. My task was to
monitor eight teletypes printing the"Fleet Broadcasts." On the
top row were four teletypes each printing messages from four
different channels. On the bottom row were four more doing
the exact same thing except the signal was carried on different
frequencies. If one of the primary receivers started taking "hits"
I would be able to retrieve the message from the bottom one.
I also notified Facilities Control of any hits so they could tune
the receivers. On the other side of the compartment (room)
was the NAVCOMMOPNET (Naval Communications
Operations Network). This was the Ship to Shore circuit with
the top teletype being the receive and the bottom as the send.
It was in the evening, about 20:30 (8:30 PM) and the ship had
just completed an eighteen hour "Flight Ops." I had just taken
a message off one of the broadcasts and turned around to file
it on a clip board. When I turned back to the teletypes the
primaries were typing garbage. I looked down to the alternates
which were doing the same. I walked a few feet to the intercom
between us and the Facilities Control. I called them and
informed them of the broadcasts being out. A voice replied that
all communications were out. I then turned and looked in the
direction of the NAVCOMMOPNET and saw that the
operator was having a problem. I then heard the Task Group
operator tell the watch officer that his circuit was out also. In
the far corner of the compartment were the pneumatic tubes
going to the Signal bridge (where the flashing light and signal
flag messages are sent and received). There is an intercom there
to communicate with the Signal Bridge and over this intercom
we heard someone yelling "There is something hovering over
the ship!" A moment later we heard another voice yelling "It's
God! It's the end of the world!"
We all looked at each other. There were six of us in the Comm
Center, and someone said, "Lets go have a look!" The Comm
Center is amidships, just under the flight deck, almost in the
center of the ship. We went out the door, through Facilities
Control and out that door, down the passageway (corridor)
about 55 feet to the hatch that goes out to the catwalk on the
edge of the flight deck. If you have ever been to sea, there is
a time called the time of no horizon. This happens in the
morning and evening just as the sun comes up or goes down
over the horizon. During this time you cannot tell where the
sea and sky meet. This is the time of evening it was. As we
looked up, we saw a large, glowing sphere, three feet wide at
arm's length. If the sphere were, say, 100 feet above the ship,
then it would have been about two to three hundred feet in
diameter. It made no sound that I could hear. The light
coming from it wasn't too bright, about half of what the sun
would be. It sort of pulsated a little and was yellow to orange.
We didn't get to looked at for more than about 20 seconds
because General Quarters (Battle stations) was sounding and
the Communication Officer was in the passageway telling us
to get back into the Comm Center. We returned and stayed
there (that was our battle station). We didn't have much to do
because all the communication was still out. After about 20
minutes, the teletypes started printing correctly again. We
stayed at General Quarters for about another hour, then
secured. I didn't see or hear of any messages going out about
the incident.
Over the next few hours, I talked to a good friend who was a
radar operator in the CIC (combat information center). He told
me that al the radar screens were just glowing during the time
of the incident. I also talked to a guy I knew that worked on the
Navigational Bridge. He told me that none of the compasses
were working and that the medics had to sedate a boatswains
mate that was a lookout on the signal bridge. I figured this was
the one yelling it was God.
It was ironic that of the 5,000 men on a carrier, that only a
handful actually saw this phenomenon. This was due to the
fact that flight Ops had just be completed a short time before
this all started and all the flight deck personnel were below
resting. It should be noted that there are very few places
where you can go to be out in the open air aboard a carrier.
From what I could learn, virtually all electronic components
stopped functioning during the 20 minutes or so that what
ever it was hovered over the ship. The two Ready CAPs
(Combat Air Patrols), which were F-4 Phantom jets that
are always ready to be launched, would not start during the
incident.
A few days latter, as we were approaching Norfolk, the
Commanding and Executive Office came on the closed
circuit TV system that we had. They did this regularly to
address the crew and pass on information. During this
particular session the Captain told us how well we did on
the ORE and about our upcoming deployment to the
Mediterranean. At the very end of his spiel, he said "I
would like to remind the crew, that certain events that take
place aboard a Naval Combatant Ship are classified and
are not to be discussed with anyone without a need to
know." This was the only official word I ever received or
heard of on the incident. I heard that some of the crew had
been "interviewed" about the incident, though.
Being young and excited about my visit home and going to
the Mediterranean, I completely forgot about it until years
later when my wife and I went to see Close Encounters of
the Third Kind at the movies when it first came out. In fact
the friend that had been the radar operator was with his wife
and went with us. As we walked across the parking lot to
my car after the show, I ask him if he remembered what we
had experienced years earlier on the ship. He looked at me
and said he never wanted to talk about it again. As he said
this, he turned a little pale. I never talked about the incident
again, myself. When I discovered the "Aliens and UFO's
Forum," I started thinking about it again.
James Kopf Sr.
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