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pier directly in front of us; she had on the big habit, as she gazed at this event. As another guestimate, the clouds might have been in the altitude range of 7000 to 10,000 feet. There were regular clouds in the sky also at this time. After a few moments, the total time might have only been about 1 to 2 minutes; the large cloud tilted on its edge and shot straight up into the sky, with the small clouds following it. To this day my sister does not recall any of this, and my brother appears to have only slight recall of this event. Why I remember it so clearly is somewhat of a curiosity to me. Childhood passed and in July of 1966 I found myself on a US Navy ship, the USS Holder DD819, at anchor pier side in the Philippines at the Subic Bay Naval Station. Having purchased a 35m German made camera and loading it with slide film, I set about to take photos on a nice Sunday afternoon. After taking a bunch of photos there appeared over our heads 2 Marine Corps jets climbing with full afterburners on and headed at a steep angle climb. I could note that this was unusual, not the climb, but flying over were we were anchored. Nobody ever flew over our dock area. It was restricted air space. This Sunday though it was different. I aimed my camera at the jets and snapped one picture. When the film was developed, the planes looked very small in the picture. In 1972 a friend gave me a slide projector, and it was time to look at all of the old slides. Low and behold when I viewed the picture taken way back in 1966 of the marine jets, straight above them were 2 distinctive white clouds, at maybe 40, or 50,000 feet. They were vectored exactly at these 2 small white dots that I had captured on this film. Regrettably, I have since lost these pictures, The fact that jets over a military base where headed full throttle in the direction of these 2 craft high in the sky indicates that many people in the military have had experiences with the visitors. Nearly 30 years later in the summer of 1995 several friends and me went to the beach one evening in New Buffalo Michigan. We noticed a craft descending from about 10,000 feet and leveling out at 4,000 feet. At first it was incredibly bright and when it tured it glowed red the color of a railroad crossing light. It stopped in one location several miles from us and stayed in the same place for about 15 minutes. It then went through a color change 21