NUFORC Sighting 44664

Occurred: 1978-08-27 03:00 Local
Reported: 2005-06-30 09:45 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: St. Petersburg, FL, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Emitted other objects, Changed Colo

Nightmare of UFO attack preceds actual UFO sightings by 24 hours, coincidence?

I recently obtained my first computer and have spent the last couple of months learning how to use it. I have also recently discoverd coasttocoast on am radio and have been listing to it nearly every night. Some of the stories we hear on it have brought back a flood of memories to my wife and I.

I have two stories which occurred about 24 hours apart. I don't know if they are somehow related or just coincidence. I think it's important to relay that I am a G.I. Brat who was raised on Air Force Bases throughout the US as well as Germany and England.

Shortly after high school I joined the Air Force where I was trained as an Air Traffic Controller. After leaving the service, my girl friend (now my wife of 26 years) and I took a trip from Ohio to Florida. While in route to Florida we stopped to spend the night in my van. During the wee morning hours of Aug 26, 1978, I recall having the scariest most vivid nightmare of my entire life. I woke up screaming at the top of my lungs, scaring my girlfriend of two weeks to death. For years I could recall in vivid detail the majority of the nightmare.

But now, two and a half decades later, I can only remember bits and pieces. I can recall running and hiding in the ruins of city buildings, dodging ray like beams which were fired from numerous disc shaped craft hovering over the city. I don't remember seeing any movies prior to this dream that might have led to it, but since the dream, I've seen many war of the world type movies that always bring back little flashes of my nightmare.

My wife says I screamed for a long time after my dream, and even after I stopped, it took me quite a while to completely wake up and overcome the dream induced fear that took quite a few minutes to shake. I remained shaken all the next day as we drove the rest of the way to Florida.

The first thing we wanted to do was see the beach. So, at about 3 AM on Aug 27, 1978, we were laying on our backs in the sand on St. Pete Beach. It was a beautiful totally clear night and we noted that the stars never looked so bright in Ohio. A bright star caught my attention as it seemed to get brighter and bigger over a couple of minutes period. We were trying to decide rather it was actually an airplane or if our eyes were just tricking us for starring so long. It seemed to be at least five times larger than any other star in the sky, then it started. It seemed like a normal size star had emerged from the larger one, then another. At this point they had our undivided attention. The smaller ones darted back and forth in erratic fashion for several minutes then darted off faster than any aircraft that I have ever seen before or since. We talked about what we had just seen when several more darted out of what we were now calling the mother ship, and in like fashion darted around occasional disappearing as though they had gone back inside, zipping off into the distance etc. As best we can remember there were between 6 to 8 lights that we watched come and go in no particular combinations. Sometimes only one at a time sometimes groups of mixed numbers. We watched in amazement for twenty minutes or more. We can't recall rather or not any or all of the little lights had retuned to the big one, because what happend next kind of made what we had been watching insignificant. The largest light hovering over Tampa Bay was obviously getting bigger and bigger and seemed to be comming in our direction. What once looked like the largest star in the sky soon became the size of a dime at arms length, then a quarter. As it grew larger it turned to a bright reddish orange. By this time we were on our feet and my girlfriend was tugging on my arm trying to get me to leave. It was at about this point that the quarter size light which seemed to be miles out to sea accelerated so quickly that in a matter of a couple of seconds it was directly overhead and appeared larger than the sun in the sky. The beach lit up as though it was high noon as it soared over us. At this point I had no choice but to run as my girlfriend was already heading for the van. We did'nt have far to run, but by the time we got in the van, the light had disappeared inland over St Pete. We argued over rather or not to leave for less than a minute, then we could see the reddish orange ball returning in our direction very rapidly. As one of us was now screaming bloody murder and jumping up and down, I thru it into drive and sped away. There is absoluteley no doubt in our minds that we saw an extremeley large space craft which sent out a half dozen or so scout ships to explore the area over Tampa Bay and the city of St Pete Fl. What we are unsure of is rather or not the nightmare the night before and the actual sightings are somehow connected.

Posted 2005-07-05