My First UFO Encounter

In autumn of 1987, I found myself south of the border in Queretaro, Mexico as part of a college internship. It was an amazing time in an amazing place. Little did I realize just how amazing it would get.

I spent countless late nights typing away on my Commodore 64 computer in the servants quarters, writing programs that would be lost to history, while gaining skills that would last a lifetime.

Late one evening, in the wee hours of the morning, as I crossed the courtyard to the main house, I looked up at the night sky. It was an incredibly clear night.

Something immediately caught my eye.

Three red lights arranged in a triangle were traveling quickly across the sky. Some things struck me all at once:

1. There was no sound. I remember listening and expecting there to be sound, but there was nothing. Just an eerie silence.
2. They moved in perfect formation. To this day I can’t tell you why that seemed weird; it just did.
3. I’d never seen solid red navigation lights (no strobing) arranged in a triangle pattern on a commercial aircraft. It felt weird. Later I’d learn why this is unusual.
4. I wondered how high they were and how I could tell.

I wondered if I was seeing one craft or a formation of jets, possibly military. “But aren’t military jets usually louder?” I thought to myself.

Then it happened!

Instantly the three light accelerated in different directions! It was jaw-dropping. No sound, they were just gone, streaking off in three different directions!

I knew I’d just witnessed something anomalous. It’s impossible to exaggerate how fast they accelerated. The resulting G forces of such acceleration on a conventional craft would have torn them apart.

They were just instantly gone!

Admittedly if they hadn’t drawn my attention, if I hadn’t been staring right at them, if I’d have seen them in my peripheral vision, I might have come up with a rational explanation. Maybe a shooting star in the vicinity of where I thought they were.

But I was looking RIGHT AT them!

Not only that but conventional or military aircraft traveling that fast would have produced a sonic boom. There was no sound whatsoever.

This was years before the massive increase in popularity of personal drones as well. That technology and miniaturization hadn’t even been invented yet

To this day I cannot come up with a different explanation than the fact that I had witnessed three UFOs.

Today, such instantaneous acceleration has become a “tell” for UFO/UAP phenomena.

There were other famous Mexico sightings a few years later. Was this the beginnings of a flap? Who knows?

But I know I saw something anomalous that night!