Readers' Letters: Strange Bird Witnessed Near La Pryor, Texas
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Strange Bird
I’m just writing to share this information hoping that perhaps someone else has experienced this because we’ve never seen anything like it.
On Monday 09 Feb 09 at approximately 2120HRS my parents and I were traveling eastbound on US HWY 57. We were approximately 4 miles west of La Pryor, TX when my father slowed down and crossed over into the oncoming lane to avoid hitting a deer that was feeding right on the edge of the eastbound lane on which we traveled. As my father re-entered our lane we came upon a very large bird, gray in color, with a wingspan we estimate to be about 8-10 feet wide and had no visible feathers. We estimate the wingspan based on the width of the car in which we traveled.
We were driving in a 2003 Mitsubishi Lancer which is slightly wider than 66”. It appeared the bird was either resting on the road as we came up to it and it flew to avoid us, or the bird was flying very low to the ground and quickly gained altitude to avoid being struck by our vehicle. My father stopped the vehicle as soon as he could and we got out to look for the bird, but our search of the sky turned up fruitless. Thank you for taking the time to read our experience.
V/R,
J. Burciaga, SSgt, USAF
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Response to 1973 Olmstead Township UFO Sighting
I just read the story from 1973 in Olmsted Township, Ohio. Around that period of time in the mid seventies, at our hunting camp in northern Pennsylvania, our camp members saw some kind of illuminated objects (in the heavens it seemed) going in all different directions, sharp angle and very fast, we observed these for over an hour. It was a very clear and cold night (deer season) we are like 2,000 square feet above sea level so the viewing was super (no they were not the northern lights). There were 7 of us whom seen them, all are passed on for the exception of myself. Just wished to document this is all. Trust me they were not anything from this world, they were round and all the same size, they were like amongst the stars. Probably at least 20-30 of them. Have NO idea as to size? They were so far away and nothing to judge them against. Thanks for reading. Barry Ortmyer, Aspers, Pennsylvania.
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Strange Bird
I’m just writing to share this information hoping that perhaps someone else has experienced this because we’ve never seen anything like it.
On Monday 09 Feb 09 at approximately 2120HRS my parents and I were traveling eastbound on US HWY 57. We were approximately 4 miles west of La Pryor, TX when my father slowed down and crossed over into the oncoming lane to avoid hitting a deer that was feeding right on the edge of the eastbound lane on which we traveled. As my father re-entered our lane we came upon a very large bird, gray in color, with a wingspan we estimate to be about 8-10 feet wide and had no visible feathers. We estimate the wingspan based on the width of the car in which we traveled.
We were driving in a 2003 Mitsubishi Lancer which is slightly wider than 66”. It appeared the bird was either resting on the road as we came up to it and it flew to avoid us, or the bird was flying very low to the ground and quickly gained altitude to avoid being struck by our vehicle. My father stopped the vehicle as soon as he could and we got out to look for the bird, but our search of the sky turned up fruitless. Thank you for taking the time to read our experience.
V/R,
J. Burciaga, SSgt, USAF
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Response to 1973 Olmstead Township UFO Sighting
I just read the story from 1973 in Olmsted Township, Ohio. Around that period of time in the mid seventies, at our hunting camp in northern Pennsylvania, our camp members saw some kind of illuminated objects (in the heavens it seemed) going in all different directions, sharp angle and very fast, we observed these for over an hour. It was a very clear and cold night (deer season) we are like 2,000 square feet above sea level so the viewing was super (no they were not the northern lights). There were 7 of us whom seen them, all are passed on for the exception of myself. Just wished to document this is all. Trust me they were not anything from this world, they were round and all the same size, they were like amongst the stars. Probably at least 20-30 of them. Have NO idea as to size? They were so far away and nothing to judge them against. Thanks for reading. Barry Ortmyer, Aspers, Pennsylvania.
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