The Crate in the Desert: A Chilling Military UFO Encounter (SITS CLASSIC)
6/24/20261 hr 28 min
In this edition of Somewhere in the Skies Classics, we revisit one of the most mysterious military encounters ever featured on the show. Former Air Force Security Forces officer Jeremy McGowan recounts a strange assignment in the Jordanian Desert in 1995, where he and another officer were ordered to guard a massive, unmarked crate with no explanation of its contents or purpose. During a nighttime watch, McGowan witnessed an unidentified object hovering directly above the crate, performing extraordinary maneuvers that defied explanation. As today's UAP conversation continues to unfold, this remarkable account takes on new relevance.
McGowan walks us through the events of that night, the aftermath, and his theories about what was inside the crate, where it came from, and why whatever was in the sky seemed so interested in it.
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[rock music] [mysterious music] Welcome to another episode of Somewhere in the Skies Classics. As governments, scientists, and military officials around the world continue to take UAPs more seriously, stories once dismissed as strange curiosities are being viewed through a very different lens. In the years since