I think we called it AOT, Advanced Officer Training, that I was doing at Ft Carson, CO in the summer of 1970. I was a Cadet staying at the BOQ and made a couple new friends of the other guys doing the same. One of the guys lived in CO Springs and had a car… an older TR3 with no side curtains. I remember cruising through the CO Springs Strip one night, when we stopped at a redlight and I heard him say: “You’re the Boss”... to the guy pulled up next to us at the light. When I asked him what that was all about he said that the guy was hassling him and showed him a gun… That’s when I realized we weren't in Kansas any more, Toto…

I’m not sure if it was him I was out with chasing girls with one night in the Springs, but we hooked a couple cuties and we went with them… Another guy was driving and we were going to pick up his GF who lived just off the Exit, so he let the four of us out along the side of the Interstate to wait for his return. When I first heard the plan, a red flag went up; but since the girls were with us, I didn’t think we’d be stranded. 

So you might wonder how a couple of Cadets with short hair could score some girls out West, post-haste in 1970… We wore wigs. Oh yea, my buddy said that he did it all the time when on leave and gave me a wig. I put on a headband and aviators and I was Greg Allman…

So there we sat on the upside bank of the Interstate, Boy-Girl-Boy-Girl checking out the night sky… Things were looking up… And then from the left, here comes this… maybe disc shaped, maybe cylindrical spaceship with colored lights slowly rotating about its middle (the CO Springs Paper later called it the Goodyear Blimp) silently passing at about 300’-500’ on the opposite side of the Interstate. The two girls immediately stand up and start signaling the ship, jumping, waving their arms and yelling… “Here we are ... Come get us!” My friend and I just looked at each other. 

All of a sudden a Co State Cop pulls up, going in the direction of the UFO, to check out these four people sitting on the side of the Interstate, and he asks for our IDs. Apparently our military IDs and the girls’ story of what we were doing there held up and he was getting ready to leave when I asked him if he saw what we just saw… He says: “Yea, I saw it.” Then, like a good Cadet, I say: Well, what are you going to do about it? And like a good GOV’T Official he says “Nothing”... and off he went in the direction of the UFO…  

So I’m sitting here this morning watching Ancient Aliens and they covered how Cheyanne Mountain is/was home to NORAD. They’ve been here all along and the GOV’T has covered it all up. Makes you feel good, doesn’t it?     

LIKE THIS WITH SLOWLY ROTATING COLORED LIGHTS…