A Journey of Missing Time on Highway 350

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Both J and I had been attending The University of New Mexico taking classes in computer programming. At the end of 2.5 years of computer languages, and debugging a program in C++ at 6 in the morning, I decided I was going to go back to something I knew, medicine. 

We both applied to UNM’s College of Pharmacy, but to hedge our bets we also applied to University of Colorado Boulder’s CoP and University of the Pacific’s CoP.

It was in October of 1993 and we had interviews in Boulder. Since I was born and raised in Colorado we decided we would stay with a long time friend of mine and his family. 

We got a late start out of Albuquerque, and the drive to La Junta is approximately 5 hours. We left Albuquerque at 3:12 in the afternoon. We arrived at my friend’s home around midnight.

As we were making our way from Trinidad, Colorado down Hiway 350 towards La Junta, it was extremely dark. There are very few lights along that portion of the highway as most of the area is farmland and ranchland. As we were driving the discussion once again turned towards UFOs. We were discussing many of the sightings that had taken place over the years, when I noticed two repetitive sets of lights. They consisted of two lights that were a set distance apart. They were a brilliant white and moved quite slowly. As I watched these two sets of lights the hairs on the back of my neck stood straight up. I got J to look at the lights just as the trailing set of two lights began a marvelous display.

The lights began to flash, much like a strobe light. The flashing started as regular intervals, first the leading light, then the trailing light. They also appeared to have slowed down in their traversing the terrain. All of a sudden these two lights began flashing in a wild and disrythmic fashion. In such a way as it appeared that the lights had multiplied and no longer flashed in a linear fashion. They literally flew around the area defined by the original two lights, but in no predictable sense. The display was breath taking.

After arriving at my friend’s M, he asked why we were so late. I had no explanation. I told him about the lights, but J claimed she never saw them. He said perhaps they were military as the army had put in an installation along Hwy 350 since I had moved away.

Perhaps.