Black triangular craft over Mumford, Tennessee violates FAA regulations (The Examiner, 02-27-2009)
From The Black Vault Encyclopedia Project
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by Eddie Middleton, Nashville UFO Examiner
[11-10-08, Tipton County, TN---Munford] UFO witness Cheryl Ruiz was sleeping soundly in her home when at about 3 am. she suddenly found herself wide awake. She had an odd feeling and couldn't get back to sleep. So she went outside to her backyard patio to have a smoke. It was a rather warm night for November, so she decided to linger long enough to shake her strange feeling. She was reflecting on her peaceful surroundings and enjoying the bright moonlight. Then just as her sense of apprehensiveness had finally dissipated, it happened----
She heard a low kind of aircraft humming noise. She searched the sky over her head ; at first saw nothing ; then suddenly silhouetted by the moon, the outline of a huge triangular object appeared. This thing was moving so slowly that she got a good look at it. Adding to the general eeriness of this apparition was the fact that it was totally blacked out, no lights showing on it whatsoever. As she observed this thing crawling across the moon, she "steadily got a heavy, threatened feeling run through" her. [A possibly significant reaction----the MUFON Field Investigator Manual tells the researcher to always ask about psychological effects of the UFO encouner on the witness.] She said she had never seen anything like this before. She said "it had no wings and was a solid, smooth-edged triangle." Cheryl said it was certainly as large as a commercial airliner, maybe much larger. It was hard to estimate its elevation and size because there were no other aircraft around to compare it with. Its color was dark gray or black [the same color reported on all unidentified triangular craft sightings that I know of]. What really dumfounded her was its having no lights. She knew that this was strictly not Kosher with FAA regulations, especially as this thinig was so near the Millington Naval Air Station. Then, to put it in her own words, "that's when my left brain kicked in " and "foolishly concluded it WAS indeed from the Millington Navy Base, a secret military test or something ."
This explanation cannot, of course, be ruled out. In completing my report on this case, I listed it in the category of "an unknown." The military insiders may know all about what this was, but for us civilian MUFON investigators, it was an "Unidentified Flying Object."
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