It was about 30 years ago, back around the year 1980 when we, me and my two brothers, had our UFO Experience. I was about 21 - 23 years old at the time. I have two Brothers, One older and one younger.

My older brother was working on a ranch near Portola, California. He was subcontracted to cut down scrub pine trees left over from logging so they could replant the area in exchange for selling the wood for firewood. My other brother and I was at that time living where we all grew up in New York.

My older brother had invited the two of us to come out and visit. We traveled there 3 days by bus (That's a story by itself - NEVER AGAIN! - SMILE) My Younger brother and I worked with my older brother for a month, logging and cutting and hauling wood out in an old international pickup truck. During that time was when we had our UFO experience.

It was a dry, 0 humidity,115 degrees or so Day, absolutely no clouds whatsoever, no moisture in the air (Which can cause a lot of mistaken anomalies due to the atmosphere and the sun) at about 2:20 p.m. in the afternoon. This day was about the middle of our stay in California. We had just finished cutting wood and were loading it onto the truck. I don't remember which one of saw it first, but we spotted an object in the sky.

It was miles away but what had caught our attention was the way it was behaving and moving. Totally unlike the capabilities of ANY aircraft we had ever seen. It was entirely round like a ball in the sky, but was and glinted with a metalic finish.

It would hover miles away to the east, then move way up in the air in the blink of an eye. Then it would move what had to be miles to the south in the blink of an eye and back again. Then it moved miles back to the north and did the same thing over and over again.

We watched it for quite a while, stunned by what we were seeing, but then practicality set in and we went back to working. With the truck loaded up, we set back for camp where we would split the wood. The area was hilly, not quite mountainous. I was on the back, riding on the tailgate to steady the load and holler if anything fell off. Once we had started moving my attention went back to the UFO and I was keeping my brothers informed about what it was doing, for none of us could take our minds off from it.

We meandered slowly out of the woods, zig zagging while driving through the tree stumps. On one portion of our way back to camp we have to go down a steep hillside and up another with a small old wooden bridge at the bottom over a small creekbed between the hills. The UFO, still miles away, appeared to be following us for it remained in sight staying about the same distance away and I was telling my brothers just what it was doing for it had appeared to have taken an interest in us.

My younger brother was hanging half out the window, trying to watch with me, for we were all becoming alarmed at the apparent interest the UFO was taking in us. It was still moving up and down, then back and forth miles from the north to the south. All the while it was keeping us in sight.

We had crossed the bridge, and were about half the way up a 1/2 mile tall hill on a dirt road that had been bulldozed straight up the hillside, when, all of a sudden, the UFO zipped, in the blink of an eye, hundreds of feet straight above us. At the SAME INSTANT, as I yelled "it's right over us!" the truck engine went dead. The truck stopped moving forwards, and started moving backwards, brakes screeching as my older brother yelled "I can't hold it!, can't start it!, the battery's dead!,The brakes won't hold!, Hang On!"

We started flying backwards down the hill and My older brother yelled again saying "I've GOT to ditch it into the roadbank to stop us!, We can't hit the bridge at the bottom, It'll collapse!, - Get ready!"

Now remember we were hauling wood - 4 to 5 foot in diameter stump sections piled taller than the cab of the truck with me riding, standing up on the tailgate. I put my back to the wood just as he turned the truck into the roadbank and BAM!, the truck dug in and stopped dead.

Got an idea what happened next? Right!, I went flying off the back of the truck, barely managing to land on my feet and taking off downhill running as fast as I could. At the same time, ALL the tree stump segments came flying off and were right behind me - trying to crush me.

Scared to death and running for my life, I finally managed to jump behind an only tree, just as the load of lumber hit the tree behind me with sickening crunching sounds, saving my life. Slowly collapsing down to a sitting position, exhausted and shaking with adrenaline, I watched the rest of the load of lumber cascade down the hill into the creekbed below. At this point I was about 50 yards downhill from the truck.

Minutes passed, then I heard my older brother yell "We made it! .......Hey!, Where's Kevin?!!!! ........He was on the back!" Laughing like crazy from the adrenaline overload, I yelled back "I'm okay! ....I'm down here!" They got out of the truck relieved that I was okay.

As I slowly made my way up the hill to the truck, I saw them looking up at the UFO overhead. Following where they were looking, I looked up as I walked. There it was, Hundreds of feet up about the size of a baseball if I held one up, in the sky, the UFO, straight overhead. It looked and shined metalic like, looking round, for all appearences looking just like a ball bearing, but looming large in the sky above - but incredibly silent - not a sound.

For a period of about 15 minutes, my younger brother and I stood by the truck looking up at the UFO while my older brother kept going back and forth with the hood up on the truck checking connections on the battery and then getting in the truck and trying the ignition. But it was to no avail. The battery was as dead as a doornail. The whole time we were awed at the UFO in the sky. It was motionless but completely silent in the Sky.

Suddenly, after about 15 minutes of being motionless, in the blink of an eye, it dashed over and up out of sight to the east, covering miles in a split second and gone. At that same instant, the battery on the truck came to life, and the truck started for my older brother had been still trying to start the truck. We were relieved that the UFO was gone and we loaded up the spilt wood and returned to camp.

As we were getting out of the truck we looked at each other and one of us said "we going to tell anybody?" and we all shrugged opur shoulders and agreed "nobody'd EVER believe us!" Hoping to forget about what had made us uncomfortable, we almost never told anybody except family over the years. When I'd ask my brothers, they'd try to change the subject and would never want to discuss the incident. This was all BEFORE it was acceptable to have seen an UFO and not be declared Nuts in the head.

I have pondered the incident over the years and the one remarkable thing I remember is that the UFO seemed to travel at the time on specific North - South, East - West directions. It never went diagonally to the directions, making me wonder if the antigravity it was using was directly related to and using the magnetic fields of the earth to travel. I have since speculated about the specifics of antigravity. If the vehicle had antigravity the occupants inside would be shielded from the forces of acceleration and deceleration, for the surrounding magnetic fields, the affect of which on the molecules of our bodies causes the effects of inertia.

I have pondered about how antigravity would work. If the vehicle were to have antigravity and would move and accelerate by selectively routing magnetic fields thru the craft, it could use the energy of the magnetic fields to accelerate and decelerate. Say if the venting of the magnetic fields were say, east to west thru the craft for the craft to head in those directions it (the UFO), would act like a compass and spin to true (Magnetic) North. To keep going in that direction it would have to keep cycling the fields thru the craft, with the end result being the craft spinning in the air.

When I realized this it hit me like a ton of bricks. For almost in all UFO stories that is almost one of the most consistant claims that the stories have had - That the craft was spinning. To me now, those are the claims because of my revelation that I believe now to be credible. For those claims have always been made before anyone had tried to speculate how antigravity might work.

I have since speculated about the magnetic fields of the earth studying their effects on the formation of tornados. The most notable conclusion I made from this study was that the coriolis effect is caused by one simple thing that no one has EVER mentioned. It is caused by the flow of the earths magnetic fields north to south. but the one thing NO SCIENTISTS have ever realized is that the field if you were to take a "strand" of it from North to South, LAGS WESTWORD RESISTING THE EARTHS ROTATION.

This means that the direction north of the equator of the field would be northeast to southwest. This is the angle of "attack" on all molecules in the air or water. This causes the movement of liquids and air to head in a counter clockwise direction when allowed to flow freely. The same thing is the opposite for below the equator.

The easiest way to visualize the example and understand this would be to draw a circle then draw a line down the middle with a gradual arc to the left back to center on the bottom. This realization made me feel smart. Am I right? Sure fits and no scientist has EVER mentioned this. This simple effect affects everything creating everything from tornadoes to hurricanes. and affecting all storms.

Well, back to UFO's. The seeing of this UFO has had an interesting effect on me, for I know they're real and have spent my life questioning and looking for answers about how it was possible for what we've seen and how the laws of magnetism affects the world around us. I have one other experience which I think belongs in the UFO catagory that I will continue with at a later time. I hope you enjoyed my story but know for one thing - Know that it wasn't just a "Story" - IT REALLY HAPPENED!