On September 10,1998 the sky above the greater Los Angeles area lit up. Thousands of people saw a blue-white fireball arch from west to east, appearing to crash near Calabasas area in the valley. Two women, Judy in Simi Valley, and Carolyn, in the mountains between Santa Monica and Calabasas, were witness to the event. Both reported what they experienced on Art Bell’s Coast To Coast radio show November 5, 1998.

"It was dusk," June said. "It wasn’t that dark. I could still see the mountains. I was on the phone talking to a friend, looking out the window. 'My God!' I said to my friend, 'There’s something on fire in the sky passing over my house!' There was no sound. It looked like something dropped off of it as it disappeared behind a near-by hill." Evidence was gathered from local vegetation by the Ventura/Santa Barbara MUFON group, and analyzed at a lab, with radiation readings of a site near June’s home. Analyses showed whatever passed over the area had sucked the liquids from the vegetation causing a tree to explode, bark to fall off branches, and an ash-like substance to form on top of leaves. All evidence was photographed, and documented.

Simi Valley resident Carolyn, further East, was about to enter her home. "It was getting dark enough to see the early stars,” Carolyn reported "I just looked up as I was going back in the house, and there was a real bright light that came overhead from west to east. It looked like a comet with a tail. Sort of like a gas flame; blue and white in color. Once it passed my head it changed into a Vee shape; like a Stealth Bomber, only more Vee shaped. The object traveled faster than a plane, about the same height as aircraft going into LAX and Burbank airports. As it continued eastward, all of a sudden there was a big blast of light, and poof, it was gone! It reminded me of a Star Trek movie when they’re going into warp drive," Carolyn said.

Dr. Roger Leir heard the event reported on the late night news at 11pm that September tenth. CBS reported the light over L.A. to be a meteorite. Two years earlier on October 3, 1996, Leir and his partner Derrel Sims, known for removing the first alleged alien implants, were on their way to Burbank Airport, driving south on the 101, when they saw the sky light up, and a fireball come arching down into the hills near Calabasas. Again, the late night news described the object as a meteorite. But that night a long-time friend of Leir saw the object come down in the Santa Susanna Mountains near the Rocketdyne Test Facility, atop a high ridge, overlooking the town of Simi Valley.

Leir’s friend, known to Art Bell fans as "General A" is a General Officer in the Reserves. In 1966, he made several trips to the Rocketdyne facility, gaining access to the area which had been cordoned off by elite troops the night of the October third fireball sighting. On October 5,1998 the General viewed an area at Rocketdyne, blackened, as if there’d been a fire. Asking what had happened, a military spokesman told him, "A damaged vehicle made an emergency landing here. It was repaired, and left this morning." He never saw the vehicle, as it had already gone.

Roger Leir called the General the day after this year’s September incident. The General said he would drive up to Rocketdyne. Roger Leir didn’t hear from him for four days. When he did, his friend said he couldn't talk about anything. "He sounded scared," Leir said, "and told me he might be in trouble," Leir told me on the phone. Several weeks later, on Bell’s show on November 5, 1998, the General revealed what happened at Rocketdyne on September 11, 1998.

"When I got up there on the eleventh, there was a vehicle there this time," the General reported. "I’m a very scientific individual. I have to see to believe. I had the most tremendous experience of my life! You have to call the vehicle alive - alive in the sense that if it is perforated, or injured, it would be self healing; the materiel is considered alive. It's hard to say what the vehicle looks like. Let me say it changes form; changed every time I looked at it. When I entered it, it changed its form. Everything that was there was not of one form and staying one form. Everything was flexible," he said. "I could see out of the craft, but not into it." It is important to note that witness June saw the vehicle morphing in the air.

The General added that the only reason people saw the fireball was because the vehicle was in trouble, and that normally it traveled faster than the speed of light. He then mentioned he had been taken for a ride that day. He said that prominent people all over the world have been briefed on what the vehicles are, and who controls them, including our own people in Washington, D.C.
"Certain people have been briefed," he reported, "and they know what’s going on."

Later in the report the General said he’d attended a social function and had spoken of his experience to some Armenian engineers, who were here, working for Boeing, who now owns Rocketdyne. Hearing his story, they admitted to being responsible for repairing the engines on the damaged vehicle.

Art Bell asked General "A" if there was an on-going relationship between our military, our government, and the aliens? "There has been for years," the General replied.

I have met and talked with the General on several occasions. He is a very serious, scientifically grounded person, who has several times put his neck on the line to prove what’s going on, not only at the Rocketdyne facility in Southern California, but obviously, with the entire UFO controversy. By his own admission, on the Bell show, it should be noted that those who control the UFO cover-up may well be using him as part of a well planned operation to slowly release information on the phenomena to the public. "There are so many things I’ve found out: why they are doing it, how they are doing it" said the General. He hoped that sometime they would let him tell more.

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