By Jim Kopf
(NICAP.org)
Quote from the article:
“This encounter occurred in 1971, while aboard the aircraft carrier, USS
John F. Kennedy CVA-67 (now CV-67) in the Bermuda Triangle. I was assigned to
the communications department of the Kennedy and had been in this section about
a year. The ship was returning to Norfolk, VA after completing a two week operational readiness
exercise (ORE) in the Caribbean.
We were to stand down for 30 days, after arriving in Norfolk,
Virginia, to allow the crew to take leave and
visit family before deploying to the Mediterranean
for six months.
I was on duty in the communications center. My task was to monitor eight
teletypes printing the ‘Fleet Broadcasts’.
It was in the evening, about 20:30 (8:30 PM) and the ship had just
completed an eighteen hour ‘Flight Ops’. I had just taken a message off one of
the broadcasts and turned around to file it on a clip board. When I turned back
to the teletypes the primaries were typing garbage. I looked down to the
alternates which were doing the same. I walked a few feet to the intercom
between us and the Facilities Control. I called them and informed them of the
broadcasts being out. A voice replied that all communications were out. I then
turned and looked in the direction of the NAVCOMMOPNET and saw that the
operator was having a problem. I then heard the Task Group operator tell the
watch officer that his circuit was out also. In the far corner of the
compartment was the pneumatic tubes going to the Signal bridge (where the
flashing light and signal flag messages are sent/receive). There is an intercom
there to communicate with the Signal
Bridge and over this intercom
we heard someone yelling ‘There is something hovering over the ship!’ A moment
later we heard another voice yelling. ‘IT IS GOD! IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD!’.
As we looked up, we saw a large, glowing sphere. Well
it seemed large, however, there was no point of reference. That is to say, if
the sphere were low; say 100
feet above the ship, then it would have been about two
to three hundred feet in diameter. If it were say 500 feet about the ship
then it would have been larger. It made no sound that I could hear. The light
coming from it wasn’t too bright, about half of what the sun would be. It sort
of pulsated a little and was yellow to orange.
We didn’t get to looked at it for more than about 20
seconds because General Quarters (Battle
stations) was sounding and the Communication Officer was in the passageway
telling us to get back into the Comm
Center. We returned and
stayed there (that was out battle station).
Over the next few hours, I talked to a good friend that was in CIC
(combat information center) who was a radar operator. He told me that all the
radar screens were just glowing during the time of the incident. I also talked
to a guy I knew that worked on the Navigational
Bridge. He told me that
none of the compasses were working and that the medics had to sedate a
boatswains mate that was a lookout on the signal bridge. I figured this was the
one yelling it was God.
I heard from the scuttlebut (slang - rumor mill) that three or four ‘men
in trench coats’ had landed, and were interviewing the personnel that had seen
this phenomena. I was never interviewed, maybe because no one knew that I had
seen it.”
My comment:
The UFO case report was originally submitted to UFO Casebook (https://ufocasebook.com/).
Wikipedia article: “USS John F. Kennedy
(CV-67)”:
Quote from the Wikipedia article:
“USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) (formerly CVA-67) is the only
ship of her class (a variant of the Kitty Hawk
class of aircraft carrier) and the last conventionally powered carrier built
for the United States Navy.[5]
After nearly 40 years of service in the United States Navy, John F.
Kennedy was officially decommissioned on 1 August 2007. She is berthed at the
NAVSEA Inactive Ships On-site Maintenance facility in Philadelphia and, until
late 2017, was available for donation as a museum and memorial to a qualified
organization.[1][7] In late 2017, the Navy revoked her ‘donation hold’ status
and designated her for dismantling.[4] The name has been adopted by the future
Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy (CVN-79).”
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[USS] John F. Kennedy [CVA-67] on her initial shakedown cruise
in December 1968 (Text: Wikipedia) (wikimedia.org)
(Photo: wikimedia.org)
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