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The following interview took place on Wednesday, 4 November, in
Wytheville, VA. Dan Gordon is the news director of radio station WYVE in
Wyethville. Since October 1st, his station has been besieged with calls
from residents who have witnessed something strange in the night skies.
When the calls wouldn't stop, he decided to take a look for himself.
Gordon was interviewed by ParaNet member Ronald Jennings of Newport News.
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Gordon: ...I call it an aircraft because that's the only term I can
think of for it. But on October the 13th, on a Wednesday, I was
with a friend of mine who's a former pilot. And we had spent
about two and a half hours in the cold with our heads out the
window looking for the UFO that people had seen. Because I had
been reporting UFO sightings [as a newsman] up to my neck, and I
decided that the only way I could actually solve the puzzle was
go out and see the UFO for myself...
My friend and I rode through all the areas where the sightings
had occurred, especially multiple sightings. As we were coming
home, we had about given up the search, I looked to the left on
Route 21 South, which is about four and a half miles due south
of Wytheville, between Wytheville and [Speedwell?], I noticed a
very unusual aircraft coming to my left. So I stopped the car
and got out. As it approached, it looked like it had...the front
shape was kinda like a funny-looking, round front to a craft,
with a long, split cockpit, and I say "split" because as it
approached, one side of the cockpit went dark. It had a strobe
that was putting out five different colors of lights on the
right side of the craft. I told my friend to get out, because he
was on the other side of the car, and he got out, and we both
were pretty astounded just from what we saw as it was coming
toward us.
I had a 35 mm camera on the dash, he had an [?] in the trunk of
the car. From there on in, we were so astounded and appalled we
were froze to our spot. We did not use either camera. I've been
in the news business nine years, I've never missed a shot, to my
knowledge. In sports...I've covered murders, fires, guy hung
himself from a tree...everything. So nothing appalls me. This
appalled me. I probably was standing with my mouth agape.
As it came by me, a side view...it seemed like it went on
forever. We're talking a couple thousand feet [altitude]. The
altitude was estimated by my partner, who's a former pilot and a
former airplane mechanic in Florida...we estimated 2000 feet
based on the treetop level. As it came past, like I say, it was
a very large craft, some 8-900 feet in length, probably bigger
than any 747 I've ever seen at an airport. As it came by, it
continued very slowly, just like it would skim through the
air...no sound, no jetstream [contrails], no smell, no nothing.
Totally quiet, and now we're on a road where there's radio
going, there's no noise whatsoever. No other cars coming. As the
craft gets past me, the rear of it - and I say the rear, that's
the area that we are looking at as it was going away from us -
had three panels of what appeared to be windows. The top one was
parallel with the ground, and appeared to be like in a circular,
dome shape at the top...looked like a window pane you would see
in a house. To each side of this window was two, they were going
vertically, same size windows, looked like three windows on the
end of a house. It was emitting no light, yet it shone a very
soft white light from the inside like a 75-watt bulb would show
in a house with very thin shades.
We were both, like I say, appalled. We watched it continue...it
went behind a cloud. At the same time it went behind a cloud, I
noticed a spherical dull-red object come from the left, parallel
with the ground, not from up or down, at a high rate of speed.
It was not a hologram or a laser or anything because it blotted
out the stars as it traversed across the sky. It went behind the
cloud directly with the aircraft. The aircraft momentarily
(maybe a minute elapsed) came out of the cloud, the spherical
object didn't, at least not by itself. The craft continued on
south and we lost sight of it. Because it was the first sighting
I had ever had, being a skeptic I automatically asked my friend,
"what did you see? Describe it back to me," to make sure I had
seen the same thing he did. Because during this whole time we
were almost quiet. He described virtually the same craft, and
told me it was unlike any conventional aircraft he had ever
seen, in magazines or in his dealings with aircraft. And
naturally we couldn't explain the spherical object. So, because
we didn't get a picture, we cursed ourselves all around.
So the next night, with a photographer, John Stember, a fashion
photographer, and his girlfriend and the pilot and myself went
back in the general area, stopped in the same area, didn't see
anything. About two miles up the road, the same route, on
Thursday night of this week, the day after I'd seen the first
sighting, we saw a craft hovering over a dirt road, to the left.
I pulled over, slammed on the brakes, we jumped out. The craft,
like it sensed us, turned and proceeded along the mountain top.
We grabbed cameras and started shooting with videotape and two
35 mm, at a pretty good distance. I had a 135mm lens, 1000 speed
film, shot [1/50th?]. He was shooting with, I believe, a Nikon,
500mm lens, and a multiplier, which made it 1500mm. My camera
quit after three shots. Don't know why. Got back in the car, it
worked fine. Next day the camera was checked by a local camera
shop. Wasn't anything wrong with the battery. I put a new one
in, just in case, but for some reason it stopped after three
frames.
What I got was a light shape of a spherical object, a dome
shape, and another craft coming down, preparing to dock in
behind. We witnessed this craft docking behind us, large domed
craft, and proceed with it some 15 miles before it went out of
sight. The videotape showed nothing but just some very dim
lights. The 500mm lens with the multiplier came out blank. Mine
just had a few dots, it was blank. Not enough light let in,
undoubtedly.
So we decided from there to go public with it that Friday in a
press conference here at the radio station. And we had a
gentleman who's a computer analyst, Andrew Convery, in from
Virginia Beach. He had seen it at a motel, the same night, in
[?], some 15 miles away. We went public, we did not have the
film developed yet. We tried to see if we could get any response
from the military,