In mid-August, 1997, Joy Williams (45), her husband Tom Williams, and their friend "Emily," had dinner at their home overlooking Monterey Bay in Aptos, California. From her balcony, Joy noticed a bright yellow-green glow in the water, maybe a quarter mile off-shore, well inside the northern edge of the bay. For the next few minutes, the glow slowly brightened until a gigantic egg-shaped object rose from the water.
“It was huge,” Joy said. “It was really big…And as it was coming out, I could see all the kelp slipping off it. It rose out slowly.”
Joy called for Tom and Emily and all three watched the object in shock through a telescope they had on the deck. The object moved slowly north, skirting the shore.
Joy later told MUFON investigators, “When we looked at it through the spyglass, we could see portholes all around the center of it.” There were about a dozen visible portholes, all elliptically shaped, alternating green and amber in color. The object was still moving slowly north and was a gold amber color.
After an estimated ten minutes, the object stopped, right next to the smokestacks of the nearby coal fire plant at Moss Landing. The object's light illuminated the smokestacks themselves, which were 500 feet in height. The object hovered immediately next to the tops.
Using the smokestacks as a reference, the trio estimated the object had to be at least fifty feet across.
Tom seemed to take the experience in stride. Joy felt slightly nervous, and wondered if the occupants of the object realized that they were being observed. Emily was the most upset of the three. “It was a little scary to be honest,” Joy says. “It disturbed me. It’s a hard emotion to express. It made me feel like I wasn’t in control, a bit intimidated because I almost felt like it knew I was watching it.”
What happened next left them all stunned: A gigantic metallic arm emerged from the side of the craft farthest from the smoke stacks. The arm grew out of the object, extended upward and over the top of the craft, and then continued downward on the other side. The end of the arm contained a gigantic pair of pincers, which began to probe inside the opening of the smokestacks.
“I don’t know what it was doing,” Joy says, “but it had these long pincers on it, and it looked like it was collecting something. It was just hovering right next to the power plant, and it did that for about twenty minutes…We couldn’t stop looking at it because it was so bizarre. We were so stunned. Like, what is this thing?” They remained in a trance-like state while the object hovered, feeling no urgency to get a camera. They commented about how the area was fairly well populated. "Other people would surely be seeing this. The craft was huge and very bright. We couldn’t be the only witnesses."
Fully extended, the "arm" was more than twice the length of the craft. The pincers alone were estimated to be at least twenty feet long.
“My first memory of seeing this thing hovering in the sky was between us and the power plant,” Tom says. “I didn’t see it come out of the water. It had an arm on it, and several lights. There was a telescope [and] once we had a good look at it, we saw this definite arm and a couple of different colored lights. The thing itself was a kind of golden yellow color, and it hovered in the sky for quite some time."
After they watched the object for close to 20 minutes, Tom eventually came to his senses and called the police. The officer listened to both Joy and Tom as they explained what they were seeing. When he realized they were describing an apparent UFO, the officer’s attitude immediately changed. Like a switch being turned off, the officer dismissed their testimonies completely. “It’s probably just a fishing boat,” he told them. “In the middle of the sky?” Tom asked, incredulous. “Fishing boats don’t fly!” Joy pointed out. “This definitely came up out of the water.”
They told the officer that the object was still there. The officer refused to listen. “It didn’t seem to make any difference to them,” Joy says. They hung up the phone and resumed their UFO vigil. After approximately five minutes, all three watched the object instantly wink out. In a split-second, it was gone.
Joy eventually contacted UFO researcher Linda Moulton Howe and shared the sighting with her. Twenty years later, in 2018, she reported the case to MUFON.
See Preston Dennet's "Wondrous: 25 True UFO Encounters, Chapter 16.
Submitted February 18, 2022 at 01:35AM by Spacecowboy78 https://ift.tt/BzKnREv
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