UFO News Article (Blog): “Another hat in the ring”

By Billy Cox, 7 July 2020

(De Void, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Florida)

Billy Cox writes about U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Larry “Kimo” Rider’s UFO sighting.

Quote from the article:

“He can’t remember the exact date it happened. It was sometime between the death of his first wife in 1992 and his remarriage in 1996. He suspects 1994, maybe ’95. He was living in Phoenix. He was in the back yard of his condo, well before the March 13, 1997, ‘Phoenix Lights’ incident set switchboards ablaze and made national headlines. It was late summertime, maybe. August? 9 p.m.? Dusk, anyway. He was taking a cigar break.

It wasn’t an airplane, or at least, not like anything Rider had seen before. What he saw were extremely bright lights, 10, 15, maybe 20, arrayed in an absolutely silent, rigid, V-shaped formation; from his angle, they appeared to be lining the underbelly of a flying machine whose other details were indiscernible. The lights reminded him of halogen lamps.

Rider guesses the thing was two to three miles away and, judging from the spread of the lights, maybe twice or three times the size of a Boeing 747. As it began to bank left, to the northeast, it was flying so low – 2,000 feet, maybe – that ‘no pilot in his right mind is going to maneuver a plane that big that far away from an airport,’ Rider recalls. Phoenix’s Sky Harbor airport was a good 10 miles off.”

http://devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/16009/another-hat-in-the-ring/

Lieutenant Colonel Larry Rider, U.S. Air Force
(Photo: Larry Rider/Sarasota Herald-Tribune)