Before the 2009 International UFO Congress, if someone had
told me you could see UFOs with special night vision scopes I would
have said they were dreaming. As the date of the 2009 International
UFO congress was approaching, a friend of mine called me and
mentioned some person named Ed Grimsley who would be doing some UFO
spotting with
night vision goggles each night of the Congress. I questioned him how
much it would cost to go out with Ed and he said he didn’t know.
According to Ed Grimsley, my friend said, “you can see UFOs
anywhere”. I thought in my head… yeah, sure.
This was a special conference for me because one of my
contacts, and now friend, in the science field was coming to his first
UFO conference. We were having an absolute blast at the conference and
we booked our night to go out UFO spotting with Ed. The price was more
than honest: it was free. My friend could only attend the weekend, so
we booked with Ed for the night my friend flew in. I felt, in my own
arrogance, that going in to this spotting adventure, I would be able to
easily clarify what they were seeing (having been an avid amateur
astronomer when I was a young
man). That night we assembled and were escorted outside of the hotel
as cars pulled up and people filed in. This was all volunteer cars, gas
and everything. There were 24 people in the group and they drove us to a
local parking spot on the outskirts of Laughlin, which wasn’t very far
if you know Laughlin.At first Ed was sitting
on a small chair and when we all arrived he lectured us on the proper
use of the scopes and the laser lights. He mentioned how some scopes
had been stolen from him in the past, and, for that reason, when he
shouted, “raise the scopes,” we must raise them above out heads so they
could
be counted. He told us small groups would be formed and each group
would be led by one of his friends with a scope. When something was
spotted the person in the group
who saw the object should use the laser to point the object out so
the other groups could follow the objects with scopes. Remember, you
can’t see these objects with your eyes.
As we formed the
groups what struck me was the utter darkness once we turned all light
sources off. Remember I live in Brooklyn, NY and we don’t get
darkness like that. First thing spotted was a plane. We already knew
not to laser unless sure. For a while there was nothing and people just
passed the scopes around checking them out and looking around. But then
my friend, Gary, an ancient timer to this
conference, shouted, “Look,” as he pointed at something I couldn’t see
with my eyes. As the groups followed his laser you could hear the groups
shouting. Eventually I saw through the scope what everyone was
pointing at… a pencil shaped object standing still. The object had been
moving but then it suddenly stopped. As I watched the object it started
moving really quick again, I could not believe it. Unfortunately,
then I had to pass the scope. About ten minutes later, three oblong
objects appeared. They traveled in unison and much too quick to be a
satellite. Although Ed felt these objects were two hundred miles up, the
truth was, you could not really tell. The objects seemed to be changing
direction, not orbiting in a straight line. Then we witnessed 6 objects
which to me seemed more round in appearance. They also traveled in
complete unison and when they stopped, you could hear the whole group
gasp. It shocked the hell out of me, to tell you the truth. We saw
other objects traveling in groups of two or more and some that were
alone. None of them resembled anything I have ever witnessed in the
sky. None of these objects could be seen with the naked eye. Ed told us
only the new generation three night vision goggles could detect them.
Each one of the goggles cost $3,700.00.
But, the night was not over yet. As we were watching an
object rose from the horizon in the opposite direction from where we had
been spotting these objects. This object was different because you
could see it with your eyes. It was egg shaped and seem to hover in
place. We all flashed it with our lasers and as that happened, it
flashed very brightly at us. Everyone shouted in amazement. I took the
scope to see if I could tell where the lights was coming from. It
seemed as the light diminished it was coming from the top of the object.
As the object rose higher into the sky it disappeared from our eyes,
but I could still see it on my scope. It changed directions for a while,
but then as I watched it the object,t started to turn back toward the
direction it had previously traveled…it then disappeared.
We had to leave then, but not without having to wait for five
minutes so they could find a “missing” scope. It was obvious the person
was trying to walk with it but he eventually gave it up. Not everyone
in the UFO community is honest.
My friend was in shock. Not only did he go to his first UFO
conference, but he had six separate UFO sightings. At the end we had no
proof because no one was videoing these objects. Some in the group had
grasped at straws for explanations and thought they may be birds
migrating. But, checking with a wildlife expert the next day dissolved
any possibility what we saw was birds: “Too late in the season for
migration and they don’t glide at night”, was his answer. I knew they
weren’t birds.
My friends and I started to reckon how we could get our hands
on one of these scopes and maybe a camcorder attachment. All of us
believed the stock market was about to crash. I had been warning my
friends for months. We didn’t want to place that type of money out not
knowing what would be happening. The next day Ed recalled tales of
seeing these objects shoot other objects with a beam of light and
watching them burn up in the atmosphere. After seeing what I saw that
night I could hardly call the man a
liar. In fact one of the groups saw an object direct a beam at another
object which disappeared into the atmosphere. Here we had before us the
whole shebang, different types of craft, suggesting many different
entities and the very real
possibility some species of ETs were at wars (possibly protecting
us?). This
needed to be documented and my friends and I chose we would somehow try.
We all left the conference believing the best ways to investigation the
UFO phenomenon actively was with night vision and we
were going to prove this by videoing what we saw. What happened next is
a lesson in life itself. Next week I will describe the journey we had
buying a scope and the kind scientist who built a one of a kind adapter
for us.
Ed
Grimsley Web Site:
http://edgrimsley.com/
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