UFO over Lamesa, Texas cotton ginThe fact that you all have not posted this story makes it clear to me that you all think this is a hoax. Let me state that I know this man personally and I can vouch for him that what he saw that night was an experience he will always remember. I really do think this story should be noted online because there where witnesses and just maybe they might see the story and come forward. I really hope you all reconsider your evaluation of this report and post it. Here is the story again: I have a step father who is almost 70 years old. He has a UFO story that I think needs to be told just incase someone else out there might have been a witness can come forward with more info. He tells this story over and over without any discrepancies in his story. At times he gets excided when he tells it because he relives the experience. He has forgotten the exact time the encounter happened and to the best of his knowledge he thinks it was about Nov. 1978 but is possible could be a few years off. He happened to be working in a cotton gin in a town called Arvana, Texas just NE of Lamesa, Texas. He remembers being out one evening in the field driving a truck when off to the horizon coming to him drifting over the trees was a spinning disk object with lights around. He got really spooked and took off fast across the field bouncing around until he got to the cotton gin. He jump out of the truck with the truck still rolling and went in and told his boss and others and they all came out and saw the spinning craft drift to the side of the gin across Hwy 87. People where really spooked at this site and some went back inside. Also people in their cars on the hwy stopped and people got out of their cars and where looking at this low spinning disk. It was about 500 Ft high with spinning lights all around...yellow, red, and blue. Then it slowly began to pull up and then a bright beam of light shot down from the center as it moved up. My step father then said the cotton gin's power and the machinery inside then just died off and shut down. Then the craft pulled up higher and the white beam of light turned off and then it shot upward like a bullet till it was out of sight. The power at the cotton gin then came back on. He tells me of another story that happened around Odessa and Andrews, Texas. He had heard of a farmer who would see this craft on a regular bases follow the power lines toward the mountains from west Texas toward the New Mexico but his memory of the story and the details are almost gone. He had heard one farmer saw this craft and reported it and the police came out. They did not believe this farmer. He said even some military folks where there but they really doubted the farmers story. Just then a rancher driving to his ranch stopped by to see what all the commotion was about. After they told him he said oh yea...he would see the the craft ride above the power lines toward the mountains ( in New Mexico??) all the time. I talked to some other people I personally know and they also claim to have seen a spinning craft follow low and close behind them one evening as they where between Sweetwater and Abilene, Texas on Interstate 20 back in the 80's so maybe there is or was a craft that hung around west Texas in the 70's and 80's.((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. One of two reports from same source. We post both. PD))