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    • Driving DISTRACTION on 99
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  • Sent: 07/25/2012, 7:08 PM

Motorists along California's State Highways are being dangerously "DISTRACTED" while driving, especially at night and mostly near the FRESNO area!  Drivers and their passengers are reporting low flying maneuvers from an unidentified type craft.   The craft seems to suddenly appear dangerously and directly above the vehicles, criss-crossing in front of them, taunting motorists as if to say, "Hey, look up at me, and look at the incredible maneuvers I am capable of."
Drivers and their passengers are reporting very low flying air craft, performing extreme jaw dropping maneuvers at close range even blowing dust clouds and other debris along the freeway at times visually impairing their sight of the road ahead.  Witnesses can't seem to recognize the type of aircraft they are seeing nor visually notice any type of identification markings or numbers.  The only consistent description seems to be a dark, almost pewter type color with possibly a slight texture to it, triangle in shape with 3 lights, one in each corner.
Who ever is responsible for this low flying aircraft, seems to want the attention of the folks driving along the freeway and obviously doesn't care if it creates “distractions” that would end in a collision or worse!
Why is this danger not being reported by the news media?   How do we know this isn't the cause of past traffic fatalities that happened due to "distractions" outside the vehicles?   I say this because my own son witnessed this "distraction" Sunday night at about 10 pm Northbound on 99 between Visalia and Fresno.  He and his girlfriend couldn’t take their eyes off of this "distraction" due to its closeness to their vehicle and its jaw dropping or seemingly impossible maneuvers being executed right above them!   He felt as if it was trying to land on top of them...  At one point his girlfriend reminded him to concentrate back on the freeway because they started to drift dangerously off the fast lane shoulder!

Soon after regaining control and refocusing his attention on “driving” my son said to his girlfriend, "Did you see that? What the hell was that!?”   He then remembered his I-Phone, had his girlfriend reconnect it to a power source (I-Phone had gotten low on battery and had been rather discarded away) and quickly had her send me a text briefly describing what they had just experienced!!!

Soon after the encounter, they both see an airport off the side of the 99 freeway and take careful notice of the aircrafts taking off and also the ones already in the air.  They realize how totally and extremely different their “aircraft” had been from these and any other they have ever seen!

After a long and rather awkward silence on their drive home, they arrived back home and my son described the whole ordeal to me in detail.

At first I was bewildered, thinking, "What in the world are they talking about?"  But after hours and hours of research I realized many others have been describing the exact "DISTRACTION!"
As a Father, a citizen and as a tax payer, I am pissed!  I have come to find out through my own research that many others have gone thru the same ordeal for quite some time now in that area and NOBODY, not the NEWS NETWORKS, nor the HIGHWAY PATROL that we, as tax payers, pay to "SERVE" and "PROTECT" its CITIZENS, have investigated these dangerous “DISTRACTIONS” and not just the other more typical distractions like cell phones, stereos, etc…   But if they are, what has been done?  Better yet, WHY is this still an ongoing situation being dangerously played out on our roads!?
(The HIGHWAY PATROL agency has specific jurisdiction over all California state routes (including all freeways and expressways, U.S. Highways, Interstate Highways.)

 

Anyone reading this, that has had such an encounter or knows of someone who has, PLEASE, PLEASE report these dangerous distractions to our local authorities and to your local NEWS media, making note of the date and time of your communication to them.  This cannot and should not be just brushed under the carpet, misleading citizens to believe that the officials we vote in, hire and pay are doing their JOB and performing their DUTY!
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  • Sent: 07/25/2012, 7:27 PM

 Thank You so much topgun for bringing this to our attention. At least to mine! I have some young Relatives that drive thru Fresno at night coming home from work and I am posting immediately on F/B of your son's experience. Too bad the News Stations haven't reported anything. I know a Highway Patrolman, I will ask him of this the next time I see him.

 Just maybe the Stations haven't heard of this is why it hasn't been brought to attention. IF it is remote,The new hand-control flying machines are amazing. But the one flying over the freeway needs to have a new owner!!

 

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  • Sent: 07/25/2012, 9:56 PM
Thanks Sammersss, I appreciate your efforts.  I've been alerting those in charge in the Fresno County area about this bizarre distraction, as we all should be, and so there's no doubt in the near future that "they weren't aware!"

In regards to it being a remote, they may be, as in perhaps a military type remote "drone," because of the size being described as way too big...   Also, these sightings have been reported to the Sheriff, CHP, Fresno PD and many others in that area, only to be ignored and then denied later when asked about such reports, even when those authorities have themselves been seen chasing this craft at high speeds throughout the Fresno County.
I hope you have a good solid relationship with your patrolmen friend, perhaps he may confide in you, but then, what will you do?...
For now, I can only hope and pray that more people take personal responsibility over this issue and not just let it be ignored as it has been for quite some time.  I pray we don't loose innocent lives over such a conspiracy...

Topgun450
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  • Sent: 07/26/2012, 6:59 AM

could it of been crop dusters?

i had a couple of those scare the pudding out of me of the westside of the valley years ago, came down close to us on dickerson like they was trying to dust the road about 4 am

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  • Sent: 07/26/2012, 7:21 AM
topgun450 said...

only to be ignored and then denied later when asked about such reports, even when those authorities have themselves been seen chasing this craft at high speeds throughout the Fresno County.
 Hmmm, can you give me an approximate Location? is it  on the 99? or the 41? etc
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  • Sent: 07/26/2012, 3:09 PM
topgun450 -- You can e-mail your above post to the News assignment editor at kfsndesk@abc.com


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  • Sent: 07/26/2012, 6:10 PM

sure hope you folks can get to the bottom of this.

is this Gabby's department?

Edited 7/26/12   by  poundingnails
Edited 7/26/12   by  poundingnails
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  • Sent: 08/01/2012, 4:21 PM
No, it should just go to the news desk and if they decide to cover it, it will be assigned to a reporter.




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