I was just talking to my dad last night about UFOs, and he has a couple interesting anecdotes. I’ve heard these stories before but got him to go a little more in depth this time since I have been researching the topic more heavily lately.
He an experiencer who never got obsessed with the topic (unlike myself) but is quite sure of the fact that he saw something anomalous. In short he saw some orbs while driving at night in the desert with his GF at the time who happened to be a flight attendant. The orbs were in the sky doing wierd movements but the approached their car so quickly and closely that they went off the road and the flight attendant thought that it was an airplane that was going to crash into them. This is an interesting story, but his next one I found even more interesting because it was related to job he had.
My dad has done a lot of random jobs throughout his life, ultimately ending up with the most random one yet. For the last 40 years (he’s almost 80) he has collected, traded and sold antique telephones and is a bit of a figure in that super niche community. But in his younger years around the very late 60s and early 70s he did some work around Air Force bases and nasa as a civilian. He was offered the opportunity to obtain a top secret clearance and went through that whole process only to use it for a couple menial printing related jobs. He was a printing press operator on a base for a while, not sure what exactly he was printing. He didn’t even graduate high school and sort of fell into these jobs randomly. He escaped the draft because he was disabled from a previous motorcycle accident, so I’m guessing the employee pool was limited at that time.
His other job was an “electric eraser operator” for a company called “Space Technologies Laboratories” which did orbital debris tracking that helped facilitate satellites/launches. Apparently this tracking system would print out a countinuous ream of paper (the kind with the holes on the perforated edges) and it would show satellites and debris over a given area and would update every few seconds with a new printout. The satellites and other objects should show up as dots with a timestamp next to it. Any dot that appeared without a timestamp was not a real object but rather an ink dot/artifact from the printing process. His job (along with 2 others on the same line) was to use his electric eraser to remove these artifacts from the printout before it was fed into whatever scanner on the other end.
One time while doing his job he noticed an object that at first moved just like a satellite (and had a timestamp, meaning it was an actual object) but suddenly stopped and shot off in another direction at an incredible speed and then disappeared. This was noticed by the other operators and whoever else was in the room as well and everyone was talking about it. Ultimately a couple of high level looking Air Force guys came in and rolled up that section of printout, stuck it in a special transport tube and left without saying a word. That’s the extent of the story, but I find it very interesting.
Does anybody out there have any more insight on this company “space technologies laboratories” in relation to the ufo topic?
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