Case Directory Silver Oval UFO With "Four Legs" McGuire Nuclear Station, Lake Norman, NC October 18, 1982 #13296: 1982/10/18 7:30 18 80:52:20W
35:29:40N 3333 NAM USA NCR 8 8 One of the more intriguing UFO sightings was reported at 7:30 a.m. on October 18,1982. Gary Fortenberry and Jimmy Bumgarner, two employees at the McGuire Nuclear Station on Lake Norman were driving to work on Highway 73 at the Catawba River (Lincoln County) when they encountered an unknown. They watched a dull silver oval UFO with "four legs" above a nearby fogbank. During the daylight encounter, they first mistook it for a water tank, but later in the day when they returned home from work, the fog had lifted and no water tank was to be seen anywhere in the area. They did noticethat high voltage lines from the power plants were in the general area of the earlier sightings. When first seen the UFO was about 250 feet above the ground The eyewitnesses had worked at McGuire for six years without experiencing anything unusual. Several months before, when UFOs again visited the same location, the power fluctuated, before the UFOs left the area. Security guards, when questioned by me on the phone, told me that such UFO incidents were to be made directly to AEC headquarters. Source: Unknown , |
