Appearance / Description of Object(s)

There was no sound from them at all, and no projected light, no "beams" or "rays". Just the very sharp coloration of each of them. The lights on the (craft?) seemed to be able to change color, though they were not constantly shifting color. They didn't seem to wink on & off, just changed color every now & then, sometimes all the same color but not very often. Red, green, yellow, blue & every now & then just white.

Size of Object(s)

I'd say their size, seen from my fingertips of my outstretched hand, ranged from the size of a lentil to the size of a large pea; they never came all that close to us. (I have 36" arms shoulder to fingertip.)

Description of Area / Surroundings

The guard shack was at the edge of a large parking lot; on the other side of the gate was a concrete aricraft parking pad about the size of a football field. The field of view was unobstructed in both areas. This was about 3/4 of the way down the main traffic road for the entire air base. Zweibrucken Air Base is built on a low mesa, one of many in that area of Germany. The landscape is made of flat-topped mesas and the varying divides between them, like a ruffled up blanket upon which someone had placed and then removed a large flat plank; most of the high points are at the same altitude, but the valleys below vary in size and depth. Outside of our flight line there were some pretty dense forests, but just in patches between farmers fields; dense but not extremely tall trees. None of them obscured the horizon, since they were all downhill from the base. At the time (but no longer), there were several military instalallations in the local area. There was an army post on the hilltop on the other side ot the town of Zweibrucken (about seven miles away), and to the north there were both a Canadian and a German air base. Under Zweibrucken Air Base (we had been told) was seven layers of reinforced concrete construction; the Germans had used it during WWII, and there was even a small-scale rail line running from our air base undeground to the army post on the oither side of town. All over the local countryside there were remaining German pillboxes and old caves used as storage facilities. About 40 miles away was Landstuhl Army Hospital, and about 20 miles north(west?) of there was the city of Kaiserslautern and Ramstein AFB.

Full Description & Details

I was working graveyard shift as an airman in the USAF, headed along a long two-lane road that goes right through Zweibrucken AFB in Germany. I came to the gate for our photo processing and interpretation facility, and recognized the gate guard as a friend I knew. Since there was no one else there to open the facility and let me in, the guard let me stand in his shack to keep warm while i waited. He stepped outside to smoke a cigarrette, and I after a minute or so saw his gaze stop & remain focused straght up in the air.

He said, "Look! Check this out! They're up there again!" I stepped out in the frosty night air and looked up, my friend guiding my gaze with his outstretched hand. There were no clouds in the sky at all, and the stars were very clear; the area we were in was not very well lit. What I saw was five very sharp, very bright lights, moving smoothly in varying patterns around each other.

Then they started to speed up, and began doing movements I knew no piloted aircraft of ours could handle; sudden jogs straight left & right, and up and down, if their growing bigger and smaller was any indications, as well as some particularly dizzying circular movements. There was no sign of the skidding or drifting you would expect from a jet airplane trying to do such radical maneuvers.

Their acrobatics got broader in scope, until they were making wide sweeps very quickly across a section of the sky, just about as far as my hands would be if I held my arms straight out from my shoulders, about 1/3 of the visible sky. Sometimes one or more would come to a sudden stop whiile the others carried on in their original direction, or suddenly began a whole new pattern around the ones that had stopped. I mean, a very sudden "right on the dime" absolute, stop.

Finally, they all came together, in one long line, which was coming down towards us. Then the line suddenly did a vertical "u-turn" straight up, and kept going extremely fast until it disappeared from view. I slowly brought my face down and looked at my friend open-mouthed and asked, "Did you see that shit too?" He replied, trying to look serious but grinning, "Nope, I didn't see a thing. Didn't see anything last night at three in the morning, and didn't see anything before that either. You just remember that, 'cause that's all I'm sayin' ."

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

No way. I still haven't seen anything that could maneuver like those objects did, and I keep up on the latest in aerospace technology.

Witness Background

I'm workied in the Purchasing profession for most of the time since I left the military in 1984. When I saw what I saw I was a young 2-striper just "going along to get along", very much enjoying my 3-year "working vacation" in Europe.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

Before & after I have laways been a firm believer that long before we gain access to an "alien" spacecraft, organizations here on earth will have created our own craft that can demonstrate many if not all of the flight characteristics usually only known from "UFOs". That's just my confidence in our own technological expertise; there are too many young scientists hot on the trail of applicable technologies to say that we could and will never see such things built. But, I believe that long before "they" become widely known as a physical fact here, we might well have already engineered the same kinds of technology, perhaps someday even becoming some other planets "UFO's"...

Other Comments

I believe that sheer statistics are against anyone claiming that there never could be another race on another world that might be as advanced as us or even more; there are just too many trillions of chances "out there" that they are wrong.

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