Andrew West Griffin wrote in the June 5th edition of
TheTownTalk.com about
Louisiana
crop circles. Now he says his hometown is being visited by
UFOs.
He writes: Controversy continues around the identity of
strange lights appearing over areas in southwest Louisiana on
August 28. The sightings have baffled residents in this corner
of the state since then.
A spokesman at the Oakdale Police Department said several
officers reported seeing unusual lights over that Allen Parish
town. "What we know is that it was special helicopters from
Fort Polk," said Oakdale Police Sgt. Chris Oakes.
What sort of "special helicopters" from Fort Polk was
unknown. Attempts to reach Fort Polk public relations officer
Ron Elliott proved unsuccessful. Witnesses, however, insist it
was unlike anything they had ever seen before.
It appears that the night of Aug. 28 was a busy one for UFO
sightings within a 50-mile radius of Lake Charles. Dwayne
Wilks of Moss Bluff, just north of Lake Charles, said his
daughter Stephanie first noticed the strange lights at about 9
p.m. Thursday, Aug. 28.
"She was pulling out of the driveway when she spotted it,"
Wilks said.
Stephanie called him outside. Wilks said he was startled by
what he saw?a strange display of four amber-colored lights
hovering over a graveyard, just north of his property.
"I would say it was about a quarter of a mile away and about
100 to 150 yards above the ground," Wilks said. "It was
flickering back and forth."
Eventually, he said, there were about 10 people standing
outside looking at it and "our jaws were all hanging open. I'd
never seen anything like it."
Wilks called 911. He said he told the 911 dispatcher that he
wasn't drunk or stoned and that he was seeing strange lights
outside his home.
"She said that they were getting sightings from south Lake
Charles and over to Iowa at the same time. She said some
units are en route," Wilks said.
The sighting lasted about three minutes.
As the witnesses watched where the lights had been, a
bright beam of light, described as a white laser beam by
Wilks, flashed across the sky. Immediately after the beam
came and went, the strange lights reappeared in the same
spot and remained for an additional four minutes before
disappearing altogether.
Wilks videotaped the sighting and family members took print
and digital pictures of the lights. The videotape and digital
pictures turned out. The print photos did not.
Similar sightings have been made in central Louisiana.
In January 2002, residents in the Rapides Parish community of
Sharp reported seeing strange lights in the sky late at night.
After some inquiries, the lights were chalked up to flares
dropped by the military over the Claiborne Bombing Range
between Gardner and Woodworth.
Wilks said such a suggestion in his case is unacceptable.
"These were definitely not flares. They were stationary and
there was no noise," he said. "I'm not saying it was a UFO, it
was just something that kept us in awe."
Wilks said no one found any residual evidence from the
sighting, however.
"You hear about crop circles, this and that, but neighbors
near the graveyard said they didn't see anything there," Wilks
said.
Southwest Louisiana is no stranger to unusual activity.
According to the Seattle-based National UFO Reporting
Center's Web site, UFO sightings in this part of the state are
not uncommon.
An April 2002 report by witnesses in the Beauregard Parish
town of Ragley, said several unusual amber lights moving in
strange directions were seen. The description is similar to
what was seen in Moss Bluff and elsewhere.
On the same Web site, a witness in Eunice reported seeing
lights looking like the ones seen in Moss Bluff during the same
hour that Wilks and his family had their sighting.
"I've never seen anything like that in my life," Wilks
said. "Definitely nothing that we have."
NOTE: Uknowncountry received reports of fighter jets flying
low over Miami and New Orleans on the morning of Sept. 6.
Low-flying fighters have been associated with many UFO
sightings in the past, but in this case, only the planes were
seen. There were no UFO reports from either area.
Read other first-hand experiences of UFO sightings and
abductions?as they really happened?in
The Communion Letters.
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