Thinking he just wanted to stop us I ordered him out of the room and went back to trying to explain my point to Sandy.

Twice more Steve was to return to the room and the last time said

"Butch, if you miss this you will hate yourself for the rest of your life!"

At this point I gave up and walked to the kitchen window and gasped at what I saw.

It was a disc - the perfect flying saucer - flipping, rolling and zig-zagging in the darkening western skies.

I raced onto the patio to get a better look at the object.

It was ringed by blue-white strobe lights and had what looked like a red light on its top or at the tip of an antenna-like thing that was sticking out at an angle.

When it flipped on to its edge we could see it had three blue-white lights arranged in a triangle on the bottom.

When all the lights flashed in this position it made a triangle within a circle. I did not know it then but almost twenty years later I would look upon this pattern again, it would be left in the lawn at the site of my abduction.

As Steve, Sandy, and I watched Sandy grew frightened and said,

"This is spooky, I am going inside. "

To my surprise she turned and went inside.

I did not dare to leave though I wanted to go to a higher floor. We were on the tenth and if we would have gone to any of the upper floors - or roof - we would have been looking down on the object.

That's how low it was.....

But I was afraid if I moved away it would go and I would miss what it did. So I stayed put.

When the object flipped up into the darker area of the sky it was dull grey and metallic looking but when it flipped down low on the zenith where the sky was lighter, it was jet black in color.

Then Steve suddenly said, "Look they sent a jet after it."

Out of the north an un-marked jet fighter, silver in color, was coming toward the object which was stopped motionless in mid-air as if waiting for the jet.

Then it became a brilliant blue-white light, seemed to stretch like a rubber band and shot off leaving the jet as if it was standing still.

Years later I learned from a woman - who at the time of my sighting, had lived in the building across from mine - that she had a better view of the object. She said that to her it had just vanished and then re-appeared over Yankee Stadium - in the blink of an eye.

Yankee Stadium was about a half mile away from were we were.

It was to be many years later that I was to find out that, the same day, that same craft was seen by John Lennon and inspired his song Strange Days Indeed.

It was on Strange Universe that John Lennon's girl friend, from that time, first showed the pictures he had drawn of the craft he had seen and they match the craft I saw and drew.