1973: Disc-shaped object hovers over radio tower

THINK ABOUTIT SIGHTING REPORT

Date: July 7, 1973

Sighting Time: 6:00 pm

Day/Night: Daytime

Location: Odessa, Texas

Urban or Rural: RURAL VERY FEW HOUSES , DESERT AND THORN BUSHES. NO SPECIAL SITES, [except that] 15 miles from the UFO there is one of the largest meteor crater sites in the world.

Hynek Classification: NL (Nocturnal Light) Point or extended luminous source observed at night.

Duration: 1-hour

No. of Object(s):  1

Size of Object(s): 100 foot diameter, 35 feet high

Distance to Object(s): one half mile away

Shape of Object(s): Disc

Color of Object(s): Shining stainless steel color, Hieroglyphics on bottom

Number of Witnesses: 5

Source: UFOEvidence.org

Summary/Description: Smooth stainless steel disk, right above radio tower one hundred fifty feet up in air. No windows seen, 5 witnesses, 6 counting electrician for radio company. Also had dome top. 100 foot diameter. Causing static on radio transmission 

Full Report

“This is the drawing you requested of the UFO I saw in 1973.” — Stanley A. Wilson

The Odessa Event

100 ft diameter disk shaped, dome top. The color was stainless steel. It made no sound.

I had worked real hard that day for the state highway dept. and I was tired, so I took a nap when I got home. This was a clear summer day, and all the events occurred in the daylight. My grandmother lived in the southwest part of the city of Odessa. As I was taking a nap, she called my wife. She said, have Stanley go out and look, because there is a ufo heading your way. I lived west of town out in the country. There weren’t many houses out there at that time. When I awoke, I sat and thought about it a minute, and thought my grandmother is very serious. She doesn’t tease. I decided to get up and go outside and look for the ufo. First I looked toward town and saw nothing, which would have been back toward the east. Then I turned and looked toward the north and south and saw nothing. When I turned and looked toward the west, there it was. Above the radio tower, about 1 mile from my house. My wife and I got very excited, because we knew it was probably an alien ship. It made no sound. [And, as the witness added later, there was no rotation of the UFO.]

About this time, my brother in law and big sister who lived about 2 streets over came flying around the corner in their car. They were hollering out of their window as they approached, saying “do you see it, do you see it?”. When they got out of their car, of course all four of us were excited, and I don’t remember what we said at the moment. We had no camera and they had no camera, and I ran to the neighbors house to borrow a camera and they weren’t home. Then as we watched it, we were all amazed and I said, wait a minute, I think that’s a radio tower!

So I went to my car, I turned the radio on and started scanning all of the channels. Then in our amazement, we came across a station, and my wife said it was KBZB, to the best of her memory. But of course you have to realize this was about 32 years ago. We were really shocked when we heard the disc jockey saying that they had a ufo above their radio tower causing static. So we kept listening to his reports and watching the ufo, and I decided to go inside and look up the phone number of that radio station. I did get the disc jockey, and I don’t remember his name.

I did ask him if his radio tower was out on west university and he said, yes that’s our radio tower. I said, we’re looking at the ufo that you’re talking about. I don’t remember what else I said at the moment, but in a little while I hung up and went back outside with everybody else. Already the ufo had been over the tower about 20 to 25 minutes. My brother and law and I started having the discussion of driving to the ufo, which was about 1 mile from my house. So we tried getting to the tower by going down different dirt roads and couldn’t reach it from that direction. So we drove to the main highway, which is west University and found a road which led to a little road which goes to the radio tower.

Whether or not the ufo would have interfered with the electric system of the car, I do not know because we killed the car and stopped at the beginning of the little road that led to the ufo. We were probably about a half mile, maybe a little farther, from the ufo. The color of the ufo was a stainless steel. My brother in law and I sat there and started having the discussion of whether or not to drive up to the ufo, which we could have done. We actually decided not to drive under the ufo, because we thought we might get a flight we did not want.

I don’t recall what we said during the time we sat there but gradually the ufo moved from the radio tower to the north, it made a 90 degree turn and drifted off toward the west, out of sight. We drove back to my house and they were no longer reporting the ufo on the radio station. I called the radio station again and got the same disc jockey and said, why did you stop reporting about the ufo, and he said that the government told them to shut it down or lose their license. He said, I will tell you something else though. Our electrician went out there to check on why we were having static, and when he got back he was so excited and disturbed that we had to take him to the hospital to get him a hypo to calm him down. He said there were hieroglyphics on the bottom of the ufo. So I hung up after that discussion and later on I called him back one more time and he said one of the t.v. stations had pictures of a ufo above the street lights on west university at night and the government confiscated their pictures and told them to be quite or lose their license. He said that he didn’t want to talk about it anymore, because he was afraid he would get in trouble.

This completes my version the best I remember of this event, and it is the truth. There were five witness, and I have thier names and occupations on the original report

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

No, this was a UFO. I would be willing to take truth serum or a lie detector if it were needed. Besides I am a Christian.

Witness Background: Singer song writer, Worked for State Highway department at time of sighting.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting: Barely new any thing about them.I was not interested at all. Now I realize GOD made more than just us.

Other Comments: Our duty to fellow human beings is to report true UFOs as I have done!

Reported Sighting? Yes
Reported To: Nuforc
Name: Stanley A. Wilson
Location: Austin, TX. Travis county
Age: 53

Report by the second witness

I am filing this report in confirmation of the same sighting reported by my husband, ((name deleted)).

We lived west of Odessa, TX at the time. My husband’s grandmother (now deceased) called and asked to speak to Stanley. She said she wanted him to go outside and look at the UFO she had been watching that looked like it was close to our area. After talking to her we went outside and looked to our west. There was a huge, building size, silver, saucer shaped object with what looked like an upside down cereal bowl on top of it hovering in the sky about a mile from our house. We had been outside just a few minutes when my brother-in-law, Jim (now deceased)and my sister-in-law, Georgia, screeched their car into our driveway to ask us if we had seen “it”. We all looked at it for a few minutes and then Stanley and Jim decided to ride down the road and see if they could get close enough to tell anything about it. Georgia and I just sat there and watched it.

It didn’t move at all. it just appeared to be sitting over a radio tower. When Stanley and Jim came back to the house about 30 minutes later they told us that they stopped at the entrance to the dirt road leading to the radio tower because they were afraid if they went closer they might get picked up and taken on a ride they didn’t want to take. We got the radio and tried to listen to the news and see if anyone else was reporting this or watching it. We finally found an announcer on KBZB radio station that was talking about all the static they were having on their radio transmission and how they were sending a trechnician out to the tower that was having trouble to see what as wrong.

Stanley called the station and was asking where their tower was. The disc jockey was talking to him on the air and we could hear the whole conversation on the air while we were outside still watching the saucer. The disc jockey confirmed it was their tower where the saucer was. Stanley hung up and came back outside to watch. Almost an hour after we started watching it the saucer began to move toward the North. It made a turn that was a 90 degree angle and slowly moved off until it was gone. No flashing speed, just slowly drifting away. The radio station had stopped broadcasting anything about it so Stanley called the disc jockey back and asked him why did they stop telling about it, what happened?

The disc jockey told him that their technician got to the tower and when he saw the size of the saucer over the tower he went into shock and left. He said they had to take him to the emergency room and get him medicated to calm him down. The disc jockey also told Stanley that he had been contacted by someone claiming to be with the federal government who told him if he didn’t want the radio station to lose it’s license and be shut down he better quit talking about what happened. He said he was told “Just be Quiet about it”. But we were all there, and saw it happen before sundown on a bright, summer night. I had never seen anything like it, and don’t know what it was for sure, but I know it was really there.

Name: Judy Wilson
Location: Austin, TX USA
Age: 52

Report by third witness, Georgia Landers

I am writing to add my part in a UFO sighting that my brother informed you of a few days ago. It was in about the summer of 1973. My grandmother called him, Stanley Wilson, to tell him that what she thought was a UFO was just passing her house in town and was heading toward west Odessa where we lived. I lived about a block from him. My husband and I saw this huge thing coming and jumped into our car to make sure Stanley and Judy were seeing it also. They were in there yard looking when we got there. It was a large silver disc looking aircraft. It came to a stop over a radio tower about a mile from our houses. Stanley and Jim drove over to get a closer look.

There was a disc jockey on a local radio station talking about it. After some time had passed the thing slowly moved away from the tower and then zoomed away out of sight. The DJ said in a phone call from my brother, that he was told by an authority to not say anything else about it. And the story was not further reported. I am a level headed, down to earth, person, not given to fantasy. (and I don’t live in a trailer house’ ha!]. At any rate there is a little more detail involved , but I believe Stanley filled you in more fully. Georgia Landers

Reported Sighting? No
Name: Georgia Landers
Location: Odessa,TX. US.
Age: 55