Next, the object rose up above the water and they could see that it was a silver saucer shaped craft with white lights on the exterior and one red light on the bottom. It hovered just above the water for approximately 10 seconds then slowly rose higher to approximately 200 feet and stopped for about three seconds, then suddenly shot up to a higher altitude at an estimated 5,000 feet and instantly shot off at an extremely high rate of speed to the east and out of sight. The men stood there, silently watching in awe and could not believe what they just saw.
The witness said, "I was around planes every day when I served in the military in Vietnam and I can tell you for certain that it was not one of ours. Nothing we had then and nothing we have now could possibly do what we saw on that night." The witness stated that he heard about pilots seeing strange things while he served in Vietnam but he never saw anything himself until this incident. "That convinced me that we are not alone on this planet, and something is going on at the Lake of the Ozarks," he said.
There have been many reports of unidentified flying objects and USOs (unidentified submerged objects) at lakes in Missouri including Blue Springs Lake, Truman Lake (which is now the largest lake in Missouri) Lake Jacomo, Clearwater Lake, Lake St. Louis, and the Lake of the Ozarks. Investigators speculate that there may be underwater UFO bases in Missouri and elsewhere.
The Lake of the Ozarks was formed in 1931 when Bagnell Dam was built. At the time, it was the largest man-made lake in the world. At its greatest depth, the Lake of the Ozarks is 130 feet deep, and it spans 92 miles from one end to the other, with plenty of room for an underwater UFO base.
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Margie Kay is a writer and filmmaker living in Kansas City, Missouri. www.margiekay.com
