UFOs Over Walldorf-Rhein Main Air Base
Date: 1980-1981 Time: Day/Night
Number of witnesses: 7
Number of objects: 3
Shape of objects: 1 cigar 2 oval white lights.
Full Description of event/sighting: This is a description of 2 incidents
that occurred while I was stationed at Rhein-Main Air Base. I was
there between 1978-1983.
Sometime in the summer of 1980 I was sitting in the backyard with
a Lt. Col in the Air Force, a Danish engineer and 2 German stewardesses
at their apartment on Otto-Hahn Strasse in Walldorf (they had a bottom
floor so they had a small yard). I just happened to glance up and
noticed what I thought was a commercial jet flying several thousand
feet up. I thought it was a jet until I noticed that I could not see
wings or a tail. I mentioned it to the others who also saw the object,
cigar shaped with what may have been windows on the side (that's why
my mind grabbed at a commercial jet).
Since it was headed towards the sun my second thought was that it
just they way the sun reflected on it but the Danish man grabbed binoculars
and saw that there were no wings. The two stews became very upset
and did not even look at the object as they stated they had seen enough
UFOs for a lifetime and did not want to talk about it. I am sorry
that I do not remember their names.
The second sighting the next year was really several weeks of sightings.
Its kind a funny because everyone at Rhein-Main knew about it and
watched them for a while before it became boring. There were two objects
above the airport (since it is shared with the Frankfurt Flughafen)
that were seen every night. They were straight up and looked at first
like a star or planet until they moved. They would dart back and forth
and would do a L shaped maneuver without stopping.
My now ex-wife's brothers came over for a visit from the states and
I told them the story of the UFOs and they laughed. I took them outside
where I worked and without knowing if they were still up there told
them to look up and there they were. It scared both of them pretty
badly that they would not look up.
If it helps with credibility I was stationed with the 1945th Comm
Group. I was involved with the Return of the 52 hostages from Iran
in 1981; one of the aircraft seen in the pictures tail was 10T4 as
I was the radio operator. As I said, for part of my time there I lived
on Otto-Hahn Strasse in Walldorf, a short time in Worfelden and some
years on the base at the housing area.
Anyway, I have held these memories long enough and hopefully someone
will come forward with pictures or verify the story.
If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind
enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net
with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept
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