The Odessa Event
100 ft diameter disk shape, dome top. The color was stainless steel. It made
no sound.
I had worked real hard that day for the state highway dept. and I was tired,
so I took a nap when I got home. This was a clear summer day, and all the events
occurred in the daylight. My grandmother lived in the southwest part of the
city of Odessa. As I was taking a nap, she called my wife. She said, have Stanley
go out and look, because there is a ufo heading your way. I lived west of town
out in the country. There weren't many houses out there at that time. When
I awoke, I sat and thought about it a minute, and thought my grandmother is
very serious. She doesn't tease. I decided to get up and go outside and look
for the ufo. First I looked toward town and saw nothing, which would have been
back toward the east. Then I turned and looked toward the north and south and
saw nothing. When I turned and looked toward the west, there it was. Above
the radio tower, about 1 mile from my house. My wife and I got very excited,
because we knew it was probably an alien ship. It made no sound. About this
time, my brother in law and big sister who lived about 2 streets over came
flying around the corner in their car. They were hollering out of their window
as they approached, saying "do you see it, do you see it?". When
they got out of their car, of course all four of us were excited, and I don't
remember what we said at the moment. We had no camera and they had no camera,
and I ran to the neighbors house to borrow a camera and they weren't home.
Then as we watched it, we were all amazed and I said, wait a minute, I think
that's a radio tower! So I went to my car, I turned the radio on and started
scanning all of the channels. Then in our amazement, we came across a station,
and my wife said it was KBZB, to the best of her memory. But of course you
have to realize this was about 32 years ago. We were really shocked when we
heard the disc jockey saying that they had a ufo above their radio tower causing
static. So we kept listening to his reports and watching the ufo, and I decided
to go inside and look up the phone number of that radio station. I did get
the disc jockey, and I don't remember his name. I did ask him if his radio
tower was out on west university and he said, yes that's our radio tower. I
said, we're looking at the ufo that you're talking about. I don't remember
what else I said at the momet, but in a little while I hung up and went back
outside with everybody else. Already the ufo had been over the tower about
20 to 25 minutes. My brother and law and I started having the discussion of
driving to the ufo, which was about 1 mile from my house. So we tried getting
to the tower by going down different dirt roads and couldn't reach it from
that direction. So we drove to the main highway, which is west University and
found a road which led to a little road which goes to the radio tower. Whether
or not the ufo would have interefered with the elctric system of the car, I
do not know because we killed the car and stopped at the beginning of the little
road that led to the ufo. We were probably about a half mile, maybe a little
farther, from the ufo. The color of the ufo was a stainless steel. My brother
in law and I sat there and started having the discussion of whether or not
to drive up to the ufo, which we could have done. We actually decided not to
drive under the ufo, because we thought we might get a flight we did not want.
I don't recall what we said during the time we sat there but gradually the
ufo moved from the radio tower to the north, it made a 90 degree turn and drifted
off toward the west, out of sight. We drove back to my house and they were
no longer reporting the ufo on the radio station. I called the radio station
again and got the same disc jockey and said, why did you stop reporting about
the ufo, and he said that the government told them to shut it down or lose
their license. He said, I will tell you something else though. Our electrician
went out there to check on why we were having static, and when he got back
he was so excited and disturbed that we had to take him to the hospital to
get him a hypo to calm him down. He said there were hyroglyphics on the bottom
of the ufo. So I hung up after that discussion and later on I called him back
one more time and he said one of the t.v. stations had pictures of a ufo above
the street lights on west university at night and the government confiscated
their pictures and told them to be quite or lose their license. He said that
he didn't want to talk about it anymore, because he was afraid he would get
in trouble. This completes my version the best I remember of this event, and
it is the truth. There were five witness, and I have thier names and occupations
on the original report.