Former Navy Tech Has Dramatic UFO Close Encounter

A 1972 drive from New York to Florida turned into a harrowing cat-and-mouse chase with an intelligently controlled craft and he never forgot it

He had always been rather reserved. Nine years in the Navy could do that to a man. If it didn’t need to be said, it wasn’t. But as I sat down with Chris Bilecki in Syracuse, New York recently, Bilecki, for the very first time ever, shared a story of a close encounter that ultimately changed his life in ways he’s still trying to fully understand. And it …