By Steve Flowers

Related: My Encounter with A UFO

To my critics,

Basically there are two kinds of UFO sightings; the most common being a white disc or other shape either traveling at supersonic speeds, hovering, or moving in an unexplainable pattern, almost always at high altitudes. The second and very rare is where the person(s) sees the actual craft. Usually these are the guys my critics would call "the real nut cases."

In our case, I and the Burkies saw a craft that was so close you could see into the sides. (Lights) Having flown on over 1,000 airplane flights and talked about this sighting to scientists, radio wave researchers, air traffic controllers and pilots, I thought I would share my theories with you.

First of all the craft was not a "flying saucer" but an oval aircraft with outside bands rotating at a high rate of speed. The center section did not spin. Airplanes have flaps – flaps down to go up, flaps up to go down. The Brooklawn UFO had what I have named V flaps. (side view) Open > to hover and move slowly and closed < to move at Mach plus thousands speed. Open flaps as we witnessed would simultaneously push air up and down at the same time, therefore it was able to move in a straight line, then change its independent V flaps to hover and move back towards us.

The questions that always come up are "what kind of fuel do they use and how would they refuel?" The lights we saw (green, red and white) inside the V flaps probably were not lights at all. More than likely we were witnessing some type of refueling process giving off these colors, perhaps absorbing some of the Earth's magnetic field, radio waves, or producing its own antimatter.

Who knows but one thing for sure they have to "eat on the run." One problem I always have with this is you would think this would make the craft susceptible to radar.

Whatever they use for a propulsion system is unimaginable. But one thing distinguishes it from any of our aircraft and that is its noise level – there isn't any! To this day it would be unique to the aviation industry which rules out any movie inspired hallucination. With that said I have attached an aerial of the flight path in 1966. Things haven't changed that much but I have to ask, "If 3 young kids saw this object, half the size of a 737, what was the whole town smoking?" Or maybe they pushed the "pause" button on the rest of you.

Wouldn't it be interesting to talk to a Philadelphia International air traffic controller from that era?

Don't be naïve folks there's information in their archives and there are former pilots that want them opened. It's time and it doesn't matter that time has passed – then again maybe the Brooklawn UFO is parked at Maguire Air Force Base!

Note: Steve is a former resident of Brooklawn and a graduate of Gloucester City High School. He now lives in Texas.