From:  Bill Skiles                Submitted:  16 Jan 92 23:26:00  

Every single message that I have received since my post a few
days ago has been a message to welcome me aboard! Perhaps I was
hasty in assuming that I would be attacked on this echo. I am
never afraid to admit it when I am wrong. So with that in mind I
want to share this "safe" story.
I have a friend who is about 67 years old that is currently dying
of cancer. He is not expected to live even a few months. I went
to visit this guy and he was up and about that day, so during my
visit I asked him, "have you ever seen any UFO's"? This was his
reply. (sorry I may have the exact base wrong folks, but I
remember the sighting!)
He said, "In 1948 I was stationed at Ft. Worth, Texas and we were
training fighter pilots after the war. One day while we were in
our barracks the siren went off and we were scrambled. "We were
not even given directions until we got into the air." He said,
"we flew in formation and were told to head towards a possible
UFO that had been sighted." He said, "When we reached the UFO
there were two aircraft on my left and two aircraft on my right
and all I saw was a bright light up ahead." "All at once there
was a blinding flash of light and when I could see again, I
looked out to my left and the two aircraft were GONE!" He said,
"I mean they vanished!" He said, "There was no explosion, no
flames, no crash, no smoke and not a trace of either aircraft and
the bright light had disappeared." He said that they were told to
return to base and that when they landed, "Before we could even
get all our gear off we were ordered to report for de-briefing.
He said, "We were met in the mess hall by the head of the whole
Air force at that time." "We were made to sign a piece of paper
stating that we would never divulge what we had seen. He said,
"The guy told us all, THIS NEVER HAPPENED!" I said to him, what
did you do? He said, "We got drunk, and never even talked about
it between ourselves, to this day to my knowledge." I have given
this much thought folks, and I can only say that my friend was
not lying, or making this up. The man is dying, and I can tell
you that I would trust him with my life. He said, "One day I had
two buddies in the barracks with me and the next day they were GONE!"
You can think what you like folks, I know the Government KNOWS!
Bill Skiles