Your True Tales
June 2004 – Page 9

UFO in Utah
by Peter

A couple of years ago, late on a November day near Park City, Utah, I had an extraordinary experience. I was driving west on Interstate 80 between Coalville and Rockport Reservoir when I spotted a hot air balloon high in the overcast sky. Now, hot air balloons are not an uncommon sight in Park City. But that resort town was still miles ahead of me on the Interstate. And I found myself wondering what a hot air balloon was even doing out there in the November cold, hovering above a couple of obscure mountains.

As I watched, the hot air balloon soon became something else. It now turned on its side, revealing a sleeker, more streamlined shape than what I first thought it was. It then started "falling like a leaf," floating rather slowly from one side to the other. Finally it tipped and accelerated into a steep dive.

It was heading toward one of the mountains on the east side of Rockport Reservoir. I stared, knowing that I'd soon get a sense of its size; if it fell in front of the mountain, it would certainly be a lot smaller than if it fell behind the peak. But it fell behind the peak nonetheless. The thing had to be gigantic.

I remember having a white-knuckle grip on the wheel, expecting any second to hear the stupendous crash of this enormous craft. But seconds passed... and there was nothing. No lights. No sound. No nothing. I turned to Salt Lake's KSL on the car radio for reports of crashing aircraft. There were none. I then watched the local news when I got home. But there were no reports of a crash there, either. I had just seen an astonishing sight right off an American Interstate hightway – I know to the center of my soul that I had – but apparently I was the only one.

The area behind this particular mountain is unpopulated, but I'm told there are a few roads back there. Maybe someday I'll explore them. In retrospect, whatever this enormous thing in the sky was, it seemed to be "driven" almost whimsically, as if some lucky pilot was just out there showing off. Regardless of what it was, it's amazing when you see something that can instantly change your entire perspective on the known and the unknown.

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