It is hard for me to believe that it has been almost 50 years since I had a strange experience that still haunts me even today when I think about it.

The two strange events occurred in the summer and the winter of 1957.

In the late summer of 1957, a group of high school friends had a camp out in Ohio during which we spent the whole night under the stars. After watching the stars for a couple of hours, we all slept outside in our sleeping bags. The friends who were there were Jim and Tom Atelote, Dick Keney, Jesse McKendrie, and several others.

When I awoke, they confronted me as to where I had been. They had all checked my sleeping bag during the night and had found it empty. As far as I knew I had been asleep in my sleeping bag but I did have a strange dream of a large object (about a hundred feet in diameter) hovering directly above me. My dream was too scary for me to tell; to this day I'm not sure why the dream still is scary.

Was it a "Dream"?
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After Tom got out of the U.S. Air Force in 1962, he questioned me about the campout experience, five years earlier. Apparently it still bothered him too.

Tom told me that hebelieved that I simply disappeared while he was looking directly at me.

I "blew it off," not telling him anything about the dream. But something still bothered me about the strange event (even to this day).

To get a better idea of these strange occurrences, one needs to know what I was doing during that time. I was a newspaper boy who had two newspaper routes, morning and evening. Before Sputnik, I was a member of my high school science class. In order to get into the science club one had to present a science project before the group in order to become a member. My topic was Bats. The club members had a strong interest in Chemistry and Physics. After joining the club, my next project was building a short-wave receiver. After having it tuned at a TV repair shop I would listen to the short-wave radio every night. I became interested in getting QSL cards from all around the world from Hams that were using a transmitter. I became interested in receiving QSL cards from all over the world. Many were from Russia. This started me listening to Radio Moscow on my hand-built receiver. At that time, the Russians where telling the English language speaking audience about the distance their rockets were traveling, along with the weigh of their payload. This was just before their first successful launch of the ICBM's that would later launch Sputnik.

In 1956 I bought a handmade stovepipe 4" f-10 telescope. I bought it with my newspaper money. Charles F. Kettering lived down the street and let me use my small telescope outside his observatory that was built for Col. Deed's son many years ago. It contained an 8" refractor made and designed by Kettering and Col Deeds. The lenses were ground by Carl Zeiss. After Sputnik was launched Kettering sponsored me in "Moon Watch." When Wright-Patterson AFB set up a tracking station nearby the base, I would go there with a friend and help track the early Russian spacecrafts.

This was done by taking sectors of the sky and have several scopes that resembled a microscope, however they used a prism that would enable the scope to see 15* degrees of the sky. After someone at the Air Force base (Wright-Patterson AFB) saw a satellite pass overhead using the telescope, looking through scopes, they would yell out. Then, a 6" refractor with a print screen on the objective of the lens, which was aligned with the various microscope-type (dual eyepiece) telescopes were used.

The satellite would then pass into about a hundred-degree sector square on the objective lens. When the satellite passed a sector on the telescope, one would push a button. This would replay the information of where the satellite appeared on the screen. By using this system the Air Force could determine the speed and direction of the spacecraft. Using this system, the Air Force officers could determine the apogee and perigee of the satellite and by knowing the weight of the satellite they could determine when the satellite would burn up in our atmosphere. (I especially remember tracking the last orbit of the spacecraft carrying a dog, named Laika).

Little "Laika" - The First Dog in Outer Space

The only reason I mentioned this information is because it will become key in understanding the strange event that was to take place in December of 1957.

Where I lived at the time, many neighbors would come out in their backyards and watch Sputnik pass overhead and listen to it on short-wave radios. Sputnik passed overhead about every 90 minutes, and changed its orbit 15* degrees because of the earth's rotation.

On the night in question, Dr. Springer, an electronics engineer, in change of the radio telescope at the base, Wright-Patterson AFB, and I watched the overhead passing of a couple satellites that evening.

After going to sleep around midnight, I had a horrible dream about being killed by a meteorite that night. Awakening, I told my father about the scary dream before going on my newspaper route at about 4:30 Sunday morning. When I arrived at the delivery branch, I told everyone that a meteor was going to kill me. I was terrified.

Mike Stickway laughed along with most of the others at the garage waiting for the truck to deliver the Sunday newspapers. After I got dressed to deliver newspapers, I looked up at the sky and saw an object that appeared to be in a geosynchronous orbit. That's 25,000 mph (a rocket carrying the satellite needs to reach the speed of 18,000 miles to obtain orbit).

To get into a geosynchronous orbit, it takes a speed of at least 25,000 miles to achieve the geosynchronous orbit). This is important in understanding the UFO in the sky almost directly overhead. The object I saw using a triangulation was between Cassiopeia, Perseus and Andromeda. I watched this strange object for about a half hour as it remained almost static. I pointed out the object to other newspaper boys. They looked at it and went on their way. After the newspaper truck unloaded the newspapers I went on my newspaper route. It was still dark.

Hearing a strange hiss I looked directly over my head. The object passed directly over my head and I saw it strike the ground causing sparks to go fly up in the air about 20 feet. After finishing my route I quickly rode my bicycle to the site and then home. I told my parents about my experience. (Several newspaper boys also saw the meteor fall).

I had to go to church because I had to light the candles for the early 7:00 o'clock church service. My parents then drove me to the site of where the object fell. I picked up two of the meteorites; one weighed 7 pounds, and another weighing 5 pounds. One portion of the meteorite went into the frozen ground. When I touched it was still warm and it had melted the ground around the object. For some reason the object scared me, and I never dug it up. (The area is untouched, it is the same as it was fifty years ago next to a cemetery and the object is still buried).

The two meteorites were stolen from the garage where I lived, along with hand made eyepieces that Col. Deeds and Kettering made when we were children, later that summer.

Did I have a UFO encounter? I don't know. But one thing I do know is that it still bothers me when I think about the weird experience that happened that night 50 years ago.

Roy Schaeffer

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