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The other thread about the UFOs reminded me of something strange that happened when I was living in Phoenix. Tell me what you guys think.
One afternoon I was in the car with my roommate Luis, we had to drive to this bank in Tempe to cash a check - we lived in South Phoenix so it was less than a mile away. Tempe is where AZ state university is, and the area where the bank was is right in the middle of a very busy area of town.
So we're about 2 blocks away from the bank, traffic's pretty heavy, Luis is driving and he glances over through the passenger side and says, "I didn't know planes could do that..." I said, "Do what?" and I looked over to my right to see what he was looking at. There were a bunch of buildings on the side of the street, different businesses and stuff, but as we're passing you could see between them - right behind the buildings there was an airplane about 20 feet off the ground! I don't know much about planes but it was a big one, like a 727 - you could see it had flashing blue and red lights on the wing on our side. Bear with me, I know this is gonna sound nuts but we both saw it.
At first I though it was crashing - there's no way it couldn't, it was way too low and it was in the middle of the frigging city! But then we noticed that it wasn't even moving - it was like the thing was just hovering there, we couldn't hear it either. We couldn't pull over cause there was too much traffic but we watched it between the buildings til we'd gone past it.
I said "It can't be a real plane, it's gotta be a life sized (plane-sized) balloon or something..." and we decided to go cash the check before the bank closed and then drive back and go over behind the buildings and take a closer look.
Pretty bizarre right? But wait, it gets weirder.
We're talking about it right up to the time we get to the bank, we cash the check, we get in the car, and we drive HOME. We're at home for a couple of hours, a bunch of people come over and we're out in the backyard later that evening having a BBQ, and all of a sudden I said "Holy crap....remember that plane?" and he was like "oh my God, I forgot all about it! We were going to go look at it!" So we're telling people and they're all going "How could you FORGET something like that?"
It was like both of us had our memory wiped as soon as we walked out of the bank and we completely forgot about it til hours later. Believe me, a full sized airplane hovering silently 20 feet off the ground in the middle of the afternoon in a busy city isn't something that should just slip your mind! But it did, I don't know what happened there.
Anyhow I still thought it must have been a balloon or some prank or something, so I read all the newpapers and watched the news for the next week or so but there was nothing about a plane or a balloon or anything that looked like a plane...
If it was just me, I'd think it was an acid flashback or a brain tumor or something, but there were two of us that saw it and then 'forgot' that we saw it til it was too late to go look at it.
So what the hell was it?????
One afternoon I was in the car with my roommate Luis, we had to drive to this bank in Tempe to cash a check - we lived in South Phoenix so it was less than a mile away. Tempe is where AZ state university is, and the area where the bank was is right in the middle of a very busy area of town.
So we're about 2 blocks away from the bank, traffic's pretty heavy, Luis is driving and he glances over through the passenger side and says, "I didn't know planes could do that..." I said, "Do what?" and I looked over to my right to see what he was looking at. There were a bunch of buildings on the side of the street, different businesses and stuff, but as we're passing you could see between them - right behind the buildings there was an airplane about 20 feet off the ground! I don't know much about planes but it was a big one, like a 727 - you could see it had flashing blue and red lights on the wing on our side. Bear with me, I know this is gonna sound nuts but we both saw it.
At first I though it was crashing - there's no way it couldn't, it was way too low and it was in the middle of the frigging city! But then we noticed that it wasn't even moving - it was like the thing was just hovering there, we couldn't hear it either. We couldn't pull over cause there was too much traffic but we watched it between the buildings til we'd gone past it.
I said "It can't be a real plane, it's gotta be a life sized (plane-sized) balloon or something..." and we decided to go cash the check before the bank closed and then drive back and go over behind the buildings and take a closer look.
Pretty bizarre right? But wait, it gets weirder.
We're talking about it right up to the time we get to the bank, we cash the check, we get in the car, and we drive HOME. We're at home for a couple of hours, a bunch of people come over and we're out in the backyard later that evening having a BBQ, and all of a sudden I said "Holy crap....remember that plane?" and he was like "oh my God, I forgot all about it! We were going to go look at it!" So we're telling people and they're all going "How could you FORGET something like that?"
It was like both of us had our memory wiped as soon as we walked out of the bank and we completely forgot about it til hours later. Believe me, a full sized airplane hovering silently 20 feet off the ground in the middle of the afternoon in a busy city isn't something that should just slip your mind! But it did, I don't know what happened there.
Anyhow I still thought it must have been a balloon or some prank or something, so I read all the newpapers and watched the news for the next week or so but there was nothing about a plane or a balloon or anything that looked like a plane...
If it was just me, I'd think it was an acid flashback or a brain tumor or something, but there were two of us that saw it and then 'forgot' that we saw it til it was too late to go look at it.
So what the hell was it?????
Sorry, I forgot.
