It was 1978, and Mark, a UCLA physics major, was driving through the Nevada desert with his friend to switch driving shifts. At 21 years old, Mark believed in what he could measure, analyze, and prove. That night, however, the laws of physics he was studying seemed to vanish in the cold mountain air.
"It wasn't making any noise," Mark recalled. "No propeller, no exhaust, no sound of any kind." It was 1978, and Mark, a UCLA physics
As his friend got out to switch, he froze, looking upward. "Do you see that?" he asked, his voice barely a whisper. "It wasn't making any noise," Mark recalled
Then, the craft moved, but it didn't travel like a plane. "It started flying away," Mark said, "but it changed direction like a pool ball bouncing off a cushion—a sharp, 90∘90 raised to the composed with power angle at high speed." Then, the craft moved, but it didn't travel like a plane
The silent, metallic disc seen by a former physics major in the late 1970s while driving near Reno, Nevada, is a quintessential example of unexplained encounters with UFOs.