“I’m 58 years old, and in my lifetime I’ve experienced many things involving ghosts and UFOs. In addition, friends and family members have shared their own stories with me over the years.
This first story was shared with me by a very close friend who has been a police officer with the City of Pharr for 28 years. He is a very sincere, honest, and straightforward person. Because of that, when he told me this story, I had no doubt that he was not making it up. In fact, since the first time he shared it with me, I’ve asked him to tell it three more times—because I love hearing it. Each time he tells it, the story is exactly the same. There are no changes or differences.
I will share it just as he told it to me. Here it goes. 🙂
At the time this happened, my friend had been a police officer with the City of Pharr for three years. He was assigned to patrol the south Pharr area, commonly referred to as Las Milpas. This took place in 1999, when the Pharr Police Department only assigned one officer to that area, whether it was day or night.
He was on patrol at around 2:30 a.m. He had been driving south on Jackson Road, then turned left (east) onto Military Road, and began heading north on U.S. 281 (Cage Boulevard). Before reaching Hi-Line Street—the first street north of Military Road—a bright light suddenly illuminated his moving patrol unit.
The light was so bright that he could clearly see his feet on the floor and the paperwork on his dashboard.
He was traveling at about 30 mph, and the light stayed directly above him, keeping pace the entire time. At first, he thought it might be someone shining high beams on him, but then he wondered who would be stupid enough to do that to a police officer. He began to increase his speed—45 mph, then 55, then 60—and the light stayed right above him the whole time.
There was absolutely no sound—nothing like a helicopter or aircraft.
Just before reaching Thomas Road, which is about a mile and a half from where the light first appeared, poof—the light shut off. He described it as being exactly like flipping a light switch in a room. Just like that… gone.
He pulled over immediately, looked up and around, and saw nothing. Nothing at all. He was terrified.
He got back into his patrol unit and continued working until 6:00 a.m., but he never told anyone at the police department about what had happened. I asked him why he wouldn’t report something like that. His response was that experiences like this could make people think you’re crazy or making things up, and as a police officer, you have to be careful about how you’re perceived and how you operate.” -Santiago
