Back in 1976, there had been some sightings of strange lights in the night skies around Montgomery, Alabama. On one occasion, my room mate and I went to Prattville for the weekend to visit his parents.
We decided to take the dog for a walk after dark in some nearby corn fields. As we were walking down the dirt road, I noticed something out of the corner of my eye to the right. It looked like a lit match falling to the ground among the corn stalks about 30 feet away. I didn't give it much thought, as there were two of us, and we had a large dog along. Though I was thinking I'd keep an eye out for a fire, just in case the field caught on fire.
About half an hour went by. Then we both saw it, a blue colored "star" like something moving lazily along and hovering, I'd guess, about 100 feet off the ground. It started coming our direction, and we were both scared enough to hit the deck and hold the dog down as well, trying to become part of the ground. We looked at each other and said, what the heck, let's go for a ride...as the "star" was quite close, and we figured it would find us anyway if it was looking.
We both jumped up and started yelling at the "object", waved our arms and shined the flashlight up at it.
The blue "star" immediately stopped, hovered for a second, and then went straight up into space at a fairly rapid rate of speed. We watched it for a good 20 minutes, as it's color became red and finally disappeared, blending in amongst the stars.
And yes, Maxwell Field is located not far from where this event took place. No telling what it was, but it made no sound at all. The light was constant, and didn't change in intensity or put out a beam of light, like a searchlight might do.
All I could think of after that, was the Steve Martin record where he does the "What the hell is that thing?" routine:
What the hell is that?
Oh, I know what that is.
Yes, I know what that is.
Wait a minute...what the hell is that thing?
That's a...no...what is that thing?
Les
