Colorado USO?

Colorado USO?

Date: June 10, 1963

Location: Fort Collins, CO

A bright object followed the deputy sheriff's patrol boat for approximately 7 miles.

I was a deputy sheriff and a boat warden at Horsetooth Reservoir which is located approximately 5 miles West of Fort Collins, CO, it lies between 2 small hills, one to the East and one to the West.

The lake itself is probably ¾ of a miles in width and 7 miles long, the length of the lake is North and South.

At approximately 3:00 a.m. I received a call at home from the sheriff's office notifying me that there was some sort of a light flashing in the water at the very North end of the lake.

I notified the individual in charge of the Lalrimer County Recreation District.

He said he would meet me at the docks at the southwest side of Horsetooth where I was going to board the patrol boat.

We got in the boat, headed out at Thompson's Cove and into the main body of the lake.

It was an extremely dark night, I drove the patrol boat North at a reasonable but safe speed, considering the darkness.

When we got to the North end of the lake, we discovered the flashing light in the water that was reported as a possible distress signal, was actually a buoy that had been placed in the water to mark temperature sensing equipment.

A buoy with a flashing light on it had been placed in the water by the State Game and Fish Department.

Realizing there was no real emergency, we were getting ready to head back South when a huge, bright object appeared just to our East and just above the hills on that side of the lake.

I could not make out a structure, it was a very large, oblong shaped, brilliant white light.

We commented on it and couldn't imagine what it was.

I started moving South in the patrol boat when he said, that this thing is moving with us.

I stopped the patrol boat and the object continued just a little farther South along the ridge and then it stopped.

We started South again in the patrol boat, the object continued to parallel us.

When we got near the South end of the reservoir, the object was still with us and directly to our East, it looked like it was a little lower above the top of the ridge.

It made the top of the ridge appear as if it was almost daylight, we could see the entire makeup of the hillside, even shadows.

At this point the object started giving us a bad case of the creeps.

I stopped the patrol boat and we both sat and looked at the object.

I said, this is getting too creepy, so I shut of the patrol boat and turned off the running lights.

We sat in the boat quietly and just observed this extremely brilliant light.

After maybe 30 or 40 seconds the object left the area of the lake and in a split second headed North and became a tiny object someplace over Wyoming.

We watched the entire disappearance of the object, the acceleration of the object was absolutely phenomenal and there was no sound whatsoever from the object.

I started up the patrol boat and turned on the running lights, we just kind of sat there and looked at each other trying to understand what happened.

Then he said, do you need the publicity.?

I replied no.

He looked at me saying let's go home.

I turned the patrol boat into Thompson's Cove, tied it up to the dock and we went home.

This entire situation really shook us up a lot and I honestly don't believe we ever talked about it to each other again.

I think that he is now deceased and since I'm now 68 years old, I think it is a good time to get this incident recorded.

At the time I did not want to talk to newspapers, radio stations or media in general, and be in a position to answer any number of questions and opinions from all kinds of people.

When you are in public service the last thing you want to happen is to be caught in the middle of some kind of a controversy.

That possibility is bad enough when you are able to prove how, what, when, where, why.

It would be a nightmare when, in the case of this bright object, all your proof disappeared in a split second into the night and was somewhere over Wyoming or who knows where?

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