After noon.
You did your thirty plus minutes exercises this morning, this means you have
done three days in a row and you hope it continues as you are physically
feeling somewhat better than in the last three months. - Amorella
1230 hours. I would hope the
exercises continue because I am feeling better. This is usually a two-way
street. We have been working on the basement. Yesterday I did two boxes worth,
some, papers to be tossed in recycle and old material from our days in Brazil
and our summer December trip to Argentina and Uruguay. I have stored the
material better but there are emotions attached to such adventures and they can
be found on unlikely sources such as boat tickets, hotel and restaurant receipts.
One day we took a trip to a friend of a friend's farm outside Montevideo in a
beautifully restored 1936 black Mercedes. What an 'aside' and personal memory. I
had forgotten the names of the hotels. Such old world-like charm. I also found
two folders with original data on family DNA, misplaced and somewhat forgotten.
We aren't throwing out everything. I also found my parents' marriage
certificate. I didn't even know I had it. When we go Kim and Paul will have it
easier throwing out what was once important in our lives but will mean little
to nothing in their own. Old receipts, give me a break, that's what they'll
think. Yet, in their own lives I'll bet some of those same sorts of things will
be found in boxes left for Owen and Brennan to go over after their parents' are
gone. Such is life. Living in this world is such that you find little treasures about along the way, you pick them up and don't want to let them go. And, we
won't get to the photographs until after we move.
1634 hours. Here are three pages written in my Dad's handwriting about his UFO experience. (I found them going through the box of old stuff.) Dad was a scientist and his friend Wimp was an official at Cleveland Hopkin's Airport. Both knew their planes and were objective observers. His friend had sudden health problems two or three months after their hunting trip and died. Dad was never sure if there wasn't a connection. Anyway, he told very few people. I haven't seen this original letter since just after Dad died about a decade later. I assume the height of the craft was ten feet because that is what Dad verbally told me but I notice here it is said to be ten inches. I believe that was Dad's error.
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Your father
could be objective and detached when he needed to be. As a hunter he understood
'targets' moving or not and had an excellent ability to focus on them. Wimp had
worked in air traffic control and he knew air traffic. Both men were hunters,
that's what they had in common. Both witnessed the UFO and drew similar
observations. Your father was no longer skeptical about the subject though he
always kept an open mind on the possibility. Post. - Amorella
1705 hours. In my youth I was
a believer but by my thirties I grew more skeptical. And, then more skeptical,
but I kept an open mind. He and Wimp saw something no question in my mind about
that. It is still difficult that Dad was so sure of himself on this. He didn't
believe about much of anything that could not be scientifically verified. Wimp
accepting the same conclusion was enough for Dad because Wimp was indeed the
professional expert when it came to air craft or any known air machine.
Dad's letter typed:
January
10, 1995
In late 1960's or early
1970's on George Volk's ranch on rugged mountains in Colorado. This ranch is
about 32 miles north of Paonia, east of the road that goes from Paonia to
Glenwood Springs.
Wimp S. and I were
there to hunt elk and deer. The day before elk season we were fishing for trout
in a small lake about 14 miles their hunting lodge. About noon that day a
silent vehicle appeared over us. It was about 150 to 200 yards above us and
appeared to be watching us. It then went away and came back. I asked Wimp if he
saw what I saw. He replied that he wished he had his rifle. The vehicle then
left again. Wimp asked me to not say anything about it as he worked for
American Airlines.
R.
B. Orndorff
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This experience was very
disconcerting as the vehicle made no noise at all and we could see figures
watching us from the windows or port holes. This vehicle did not appear to be
the same as UFO pictures.Wimp died from an unknown cause [2/3] months later with
a very highfever which killed him [in] about five days. Below is a sketch.
Richard
B. Orndorff
1/10/95
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Post. - Amorella
You
feel like you have vindicated your father by showing his handwriting as witness.
- Amorella
1822 hours. At
least I have put it out there. I find it interesting that he called it a
'vehicle' not a plane or UFO.
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vehicle - noun - 1. a thing
used for transporting people or goods, especially on land, such as a car, truck, or cart.
Selected and edited from the Oxford/American software
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Post. - Amorella
You
don't really believe your father saw figures in the windows of the vehicle and
you feel it out of character for Wimp (his real nickname) to say he wished he
had his rifle. What does that statement imply, that he wanted the weapon for
protection or that he wanted to take a pot shot at the vehicle? Were they both
in a sort of shock? Was it a shared hallucination? Those are questions running
through the back of your mind so to speak. - Amorella
2129 hours.
If I thought about it those are questions I might say to myself. The real
problem is Dad saying he saw a figure in each port (the way he drew it). The
must have resembled human beings, at least they each had a head. Somehow, I
can't help but think that it was a plane of sorts, some experimental glider. I
wish he had drawn how it looked from below rather than a side view. As it
didn't look saucer-like then it could have been a tubular glider with two
pilots one behind the other. I still can't figure why Wimp would want a gun?
Neither one hid for cover. Now that I've put that letter or signed note in
there I find it a bit embarrassing. I can't imagine Dad having a drink before
noon; it wouldn't be completely implausible. Why would he sign each page though
and put the date? It is not like him to make up such a story, never was.
That's
your other side of the story. Why do you write and share all these thoughts,
orndorff. If it is to keep your mind free, don't you think you have done this
blog long enough? What do you gain by carrying on with it. Why can't you give
your fingers a rest? Don't you get tired of seeing your own words over and
over? - Amorella
2143 hours.
Good point, Amorella. I need to think about it. Good questions.
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