Charlie Foltz

And the surface of the water was like a mirror.

It was like glass.

It was still spherical.

And it was still like maybe two and a half story house.

You have a sense of the diameter.

Yeah.

Triple decker.

Like 80 feet in diameter.

Yeah.

The best example I could give you to envision what we saw would be go into a dark room with a 25-watt light bulb.

Look at the light or turn the light bulb on, look at it, turn it off, and then close your eyes.

The after image that you have would be about as close to what we saw as I can think of, for example.

Yeah.

Goes across the lake and begins to ascend up and away from us.

Well, this is while we're in camp watching this thing going up.

For some reason.

I felt that this thing was about to take off at a high rate of speed.

So I took the flashlight, which I was still holding in my hand once I had signaled it the second time.

And I looked at the sweep hand on my watch, noting to where the sweep hand was for the second hand.

And then I looked back up at this thing and then it shot off into the night sky.