December 22, 1993

THE OBJECT IN THE SKY

Heading west along I-10 in New Mexico isn't really fun but it's the only way to head westward to avoid any possible snow in the higher elevations and this is where the traffic is if there is a need to get a ride. The only thing that I hated about this section of the interstate is that the shoulder was really bad. In some places it was really smooth but in others it was the pits. Also, there are diagonally rumble strips clear across the shoulder to help prevent people, especially truckers, fall asleep at the wheel.

There was one good thing about this section and that is the climb over the Continental Divide between Deming and Lordsburg is pretty gradual. It's hard to believe that this spot is actually a pass through the lower Cedar Mountains. This area is somewhat like a plateau with a width of about four miles.

About three miles from the pass and the Divide, I started to notice this thing flying along the mountains to the north of me. It seemed quite low and it also was traveling quite slow. Also, it seemed to be hugging the terraign of the mountains.

I wasn't able to see it clearly since it seemed to be at least a mile away from me and I didn't have a binoculars with me. I must have watched it for about ten minutes before it went behind a mountain and disappeared from sight.

I wasn't sure what to think of it. It looked like a blimp but I didn't think of any reason why it was doing what it did. I knew that Roswell was two hundred miles away but this would have been a far distance for anybody to do any testing out of Area 51. I'll just have to remember it as just an unusual sight that I had seen.