Three GI's watched light in sky. One saw craft land with entities.
Grafenw1hr (Grafenwoehr) West Germany Summer of 1966
Grafenw1hr was a major training area for N.A.T.O. forces and
located close to the Czechoslovakian border.
I was in the weapons platoon of a rifle company in the
(U.S.) ARMY. The weapons platoon was made up of 4 armored
personnel carriers, which were 13 ton, lightly armored, tracked
vehicles [M113]. Three of the APC's were 81mm mortar gun crews,
and the one I was in was the fire directions center. I was a
driver at the time.
We, approximately 14 men, were on a training mission out in
the field by ourselves. The gun crews had set up their mortars
and the fire directions center had laid in the guns, which is
sighting them using aiming stakes for the gun crews to put their
sights on.
I was tired at dusk and rolled out my sleeping bag in a
nice grassy area under a tree and beside my APC. Another
sargeant did also. I went to sleep quickly.
Three men, one on guard duty, were watching a star or light
in the sky apparently pulsing with different colors. Two of the
men went on to their sleeping bags and the guard stayed up.
My squad leader was on radio watch because we had been
warned we might have aggressors trying to sneak up on us that
night.
The next morning, I awoke to find several men talking in a
group about not being woke up for guard duty. Just then my squad
leader emerged from the APC and said he had fallen asleep at the
radios for some strange reason. This had never happened to him
before.
My platoon sargeant, one of the three watching the light
the previous night, told of being in a dream state and hearing
the guard yelling frantically for help. The sargeant said he
couldn't move but could hear.
About 09:00 [AM] we heard and saw the guard that was on
first watch coming down a hill about 200 yards away. When he
reached us he was hysterical and crying. He said, "I thought all
of you were dead." He then recounted his story.
When two of the three men watching the star the previous
night went to bed, the guard went toward the woodline, where we
had set up camp.The guard then turned toward a clearing to the
west of camp and said a craft had landed there in front of him.
It had numerous lights of changing colors all down it's side.
The guard saw three figures emerge from the craft. The figures
didn't walk on the ground, they seemed to be floating just above
the ground and bobbed side to side. The guard yelled for them to
halt. When they didn't stop, he thought about turning on his
flashlight, but something in his head said 'no'. The guard
grabbed an aiming stake and tossed it at them. [the guard was
carrying a rifle but no live rounds were issued because they
were not on a range at the time] He kept hearing a voice in his
mind that said, "Don't be afraid, we won't hurt you."
The guard heard one of the beings in the woods behind him
and felt he was being trapped so he ran away. He came upon
another group of GI's some distance away and told them his
story. He pleaded with them to come to our position and they
wouldn't. They assumed he was intoxicated on something.
He stayed with them until morning then came back toward our
position. Looking down a hill he saw a silvery, cigar shaped
craft still where it landed the night before. He ran back to the
other GI's and again begged them to come with him. They again
refused to come. He waited a few more hours and then came back
to our camp when all of us saw him. He told us the story, and
someone found the aiming stake he had thrown.
The sargeant that slept a few yards from me said he had the
strangest dream of being examined in a brightly lit operating
room. He also said he had an awful headache in the top of his
head. Along with this, the grassy area where we slept appeared
to have had a core sample taken from it. A round spot of grass
and dirt a few inches deep were missing.
The platoon sargeant recalled hearing the guard yelling
desperately for help but he could not move.
My APC had the infrared lenses cracked and everything
electrical was burned out. I remember the maintenance crew in
our company asking what happened. They had never seen this kind
of damage to a vehicle before. My APC had to be towed in to base
that night, later to be sent back to Ordinance.
The Colonel, our battalion commander, wanted some
explanation for all of the damages. When he was told, he said he
could not file an official report, because only one person was a
witness to the event.
My personal experience of that night involved a watch I was
given for graduation. It was anti-magnetic and glowed in the
dark, but that night it stopped working and glowing.
I knew the guard who was on duty that night, and after the
incident he was very emotionally disturbed. He was sent away and
I never saw him again.
I don't have any recollections myself of that night but I
really would like to know what that was.
I am leaving the other mens' names out for their privacy.
In 1966, I was in US Army-A Company-2nd Battalion-21st
Infantry-24th Division