On a dark October night three years ago I saw the UFO.
I was on my lanai looking down at the Kona airport when suddenly a strange cluster of lights was heading up the mountain toward me.
It looked like a giant ferris wheel of flickering lights floating above the ground in total silence. I had chicken skin on top of chicken skin.
As it got closer it veered to my right above the trees. I could see it clearly. It was a gigantic trapezoid of some gossamer material filled with blinking white, green and orange lights. It was about 200 feet long and 80 feet wide. In the middle was a perfect circle of white lights. It looked like some jagged blimp moving along.
The front of it stretched in a spire to a point of one red light, leading it onward.
I watched it for 15 long seconds, then it headed up the mountain toward Waikoloa. I stood there stunned, not moving.
I jumped up and called the Hawaii County Civil Defence and told my tale of the UFO. The civil defence man said his phone was flooded with the same sightings all over Kona and Waikoloa. All with the same story and description.
The next day it was front page news in West Hawaii Today.Thousands had seen it from Kauai down to Kona, and recorded it on their smart phones. Observatories also recorded it as it passed.
Look it up, go to UFO in Hawaii October 2020, you’ll see.
Of course the scientists had their own explanation about a rocket burning up in the atmosphere and exploding debris falling to Earth.
Exploding debris does not cruise by my lanai, or fly upwards to Waikoloa.
Then I realized scientists can’t admit there are flying saucers, they’d lose their credibility. A UFO could land on their front lawn and they couldn’t admit it.
But it’s true, scientists are right most of the time, maybe not this time.
They changed the name from UFOs to UAPs, Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena. Big words sound more official.
UAPs and UFOs have been sighted for centuries. Now they’re popping up all over. Air Force pilots chase them through the sky. Navy men in San Diego see them cruising above their ship.
Now congress is figuring out how we can greet the aliens when they land. What a picnic that will be. I hope they like hot dogs.
Earth is depressing these days with wars and pandemics, and the threat of Donald Trump being president again. I thought I’d look to the Heavens and dream of other worlds.
Then it hit me, these UFOs are traveling a billion light years to visit our little planet. We must be a special place in the universe to have them come so far.
One of their spaceships cruised above Hawaii one night checking it out. They might land at Waikiki or Hapuna Beach, you never know.
Better be ready with the hot dogs.
Dennis Gregory writes a bi-monthly column for West Hawaii Today and welcomes your comments at makewavess@yahoo.com