SIGHTING: MOUNT SHASTA, CA

Witness Testimony

"Metallic cigar shaped object, windowless, soundless, motionless, unlighted, daytime/clear blue sky sighting over old Drive-in movie theater at the junction of Hwy 89 at Interstate 5. Very low in the air, 500? It just hung there, sort of tilted to one side. Many cars and people stopped and watched as this object. All NB/SB traffic on I-5/Hwy 89, people of Dunsmuir and Mt. Shasta MUST HAVE SEEN THIS!I was a 5 or 6 year old child at the time. We were returning to Mccloud from Mt. Shasta via Hwy 89 at the I-5 interchange. My mother pulled over at the entrance to the Drive-In Movie theater and I saw other cars stopped and people outside of them looking up into the sky. I remember my mother being awed, and all the others who were watching. This cigar shaped, metallic, windowless, soundless, unlighted object was hanging, slightly tilted, in the clear blue afternoon sky. I know this was the time frame because I remember the sun was behind us as I looked up at it. I was not overly impressed (at that age) but I could tell the adults were. My dad and I always watched the space shots, I remember him telling me the news said it was some type of satelite or rocket part falling from the sky. But it never fell, or moved at all. I remember even as a small child I knew this was not true and wondered why this explanation was given. I do not know the duration of the event. It was actually rather boring after you got over the shock of this strange thing in the sky. Eventually we quit watching and drove on home. I do not know the duration of the event but estimate it as 30 minutes +, (about that time is all we watched but it was there when we went on, still hanging. I have always wanted to speak to others who witnessed this, especially those older than myself (I'm 39 now) I wrote this because of seeing other, similar descriptions in other locations during 1964/65 ish. I will send a map, by mail. I have not looked for microfished newpaper coverage. Many, many people had to have observed this object as it was in a very visible, high traffic area being over the interchange of Hwy 89 at I-5 on a very clear, sunny day. The sun was not in the same part of the sky, it was in the west, behind anyone looking at the object. It was most directly over the Drive-In Movie theater/Mott Airstrip in the triangle shaped area NE of the Hwy 89 at I-5 junction."