Don Simpson died January 19, 1996

It was a Friday. The same day an Indonesian ferry sinks off the northern tip of Sumatra, drowning more than 100 people.

On January 7 one of the worst blizzards in American history hits the eastern states, killing more than 100.

On December 20, 1995 American Airlines Flight 965 Boeing 757 crashes into a mountain 50 km north of Cali, Colombia, killing 160.

On October 3, 1995, O.J. Simpson is acquitted of double murder.

On May 25, 1995, a west bound America West B-757 airliner encounters a UFO over the panhandle of Texas.

9:21pm…

AW-564: “Cactus 564 going direct crow, crow 6 arrival Las Vegas.”
ABQ: “Cactus 564… Albuquerque Center… good evening”
AW-564: “564 at 39,000′”

9:29pm…

AW-564: “Cactus 564… off to our 3:00, got some strobes out there. Could you tell us what it is?”
ABQ: “Uh, Uh… I’ll tell you what, that’s some, uh… right now… I don’t know what it is right now. That is a restricted area that is used by the military out there.”
AW-564: “Yeah… it’s pretty odd.”
ABQ: “Hold on… let me see if anybody else knows around here.”

9:30pm…

AW-564: “Cactus 564..can you paint that object at all on your radar
ABQ: “Cactus 564… No I don’t, and in talkin’ to 3 or 4 guys around here no one knows what that is, never heard about that.”
AW-564: “Cactus 564… nobody’s painting it at all?”
ABQ: “Cactus 564 say again?”
AW-564: “I said there’s nothing on their radars on the other centers at all on that (garbled) that object that’s up in the air?
ABQ: “Uh?… it’s up in the air?”
AW-564: “A-FFIRMATIVE!!”
ABQ: “No… no one knows anything about it. What’s the altitude about?”
AW-564: “Probably right around 30,000 or so. And it’s uh… there’s a strobe that starts.. um, going on counter-clockwise, and uh… the length is unbelievable.”