12:00 midnight (estimated time) 5/19/96 (Sunday): Tonight John Tosti and I drove out to Mount Tabor road to check the area for sky traffic, for this is one of the areas where John recently witnessed numerous sightings of unidentifiable aircraft. Tonight would be no exception. We were training our attention on the northeastern sky, and observing nothing worthy of noting, except for four meteorites who chose almost identical paths to fall from the heavens.

John was becoming frustrated due to the lack of activity he is normally accustomed to experiencing, when he and I decided to take a walk across the front yard, near the road, in order to inspect the sky, over the Union Valley road area. I scanned above the tree line, to find Venus in its proper place. However, there was something else below and just to the right. It was a round, possibly spherical object, white in color, and about two thirds the size of a full moon. No sooner did my eyes focus on it, when it began changing its color from white to yellow, then to yellow-orange. (Why my eyes failed to lock on to an object of this size immediately, is as strange as any other aspect associated with this phenomena.)

As soon as I could get the words out, I said, "There's one, right there!" John looked up quickly, while thinking at first that I had mistaken Venus for something else. Then, he spotted it just as it began dropping, and dimmed down, then finally blinked out. He said, "That's one of them, all right! I'm sure glad you were here to see it with me. Now you know that I'm not crazy!" Then John commented, "They're checking you out. You are not supposed to be here. They would normally give me a 'light show'. Maybe the next time you're here they will, when they accept your presence."