Introduction

UFOs.  Everyone has heard of them. Most people (at least in the US) believe that they exist,  Some people (like myself) have personally experienced aerial phenomenon that they cannot easily explain.  An even smaller number of people (unlike myself) have claimed personal contact with the occupants.  Finally, an even smaller number of people (hopefully one day myself) have dedicated enormous amounts of their time and money to research this and other Fortean subjects.
What really disturbs me and what will be one the main focuses of this blog is to figure out why world governments, but especially the US government, have devoted an even greater amount of time and money to try and manipulating this rather small community.
Before I get further into the intro, I would like to say that this blog's title is very similar to a certain podcast that I am rather fond of.  That, plus the fact that to me it seems that quality UFO cases seem to be dwindling, is why I chose the title.  If Seriah over at Where did the road go? has a problem with the title, I will change it.
So a little background.  My name is Will DeVito, I am 32 years old, I reside in the greatest city in America, that being Milwaukee, WI.  I have a BS in Biochemistry from (at the time) the 92nd ranked Chemistry program in the world, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and for the last 5 years I have been either a bench chemist or an applications expert (basically testing products in the field) for a fortune 500 hygiene company.  Unfortunately, last October, I left that position for a better paying one at a different and much smaller company in Dayton, OH which promptly laid me off right before Christmas.  Fear not, the great thing about having an advanced science degree is that you are always in demand and I have an interview with the Milwaukee division of a large, international analytical lab.
Why am I interested in UFO's?  Well, like many people who get into the field, I have always had an interest from a young age,  In fact, my mother tells me that when I was about 5 years old, I used to run into my room screaming and crying when my parents would watch an episode of Unsolved Mysteries that featured UFO's.  For some reason I was, and frankly still am, deathly afraid of being abducted by aliens.  The thought of little large head, large eyed beings entering your most holy of holies, your room, and performing bizarre and painful medical tests on you scares me at a level beyond rational thought.  With that being said, I am very skeptical of most reports of abductions and attribute them to either fabrications or more commonly, sleep paralysis which I have personal experience with and will be devoting a post or two soon.  Fast forward to the summer of 2007 and I am living back at my parents house after failing out of UW Madison.  Feeling dejected, I started spending more and more time with the tenants of my parents house, the house being a two family side by side.  The tenant, Paul, is a podiatric surgeon and is probably more interested in the UFO subject than I was at the time.  We used to sit outside in his makeshift patio set smoking cigarettes, listening to Coast to Coast and discussing our views on UFOs.  One hot June night, he got the brilliant idea to use a high powered LED flashlight to flash up at the sky in random patterns.  Lo and behold, we started seeing brilliant flashes of light that would then dim to a bright white ball and travel slowly in either a northerly or southerly directions.  We would also see the converse where we would see a dim white ball moving north or south that would then explode in a flash of brilliant white light before disappearing.  This went on for a couple of weeks and we would actually keep a notebook to log how many of these we would see.  A normal night would be about 7-8 but we would have highs of up to 23 in one night!  This evolved into my neighbor, by himself, seeing a 6ft diameter, pastel green orb travelling at ~200ft in the air at a slow speed, I, by myself seeing what at first I thought was a plane (we lived right over the flight path of General Mitchell International Airport) and quickly realizing that it had no wings and was completely silent!  The most unusual thing we saw that summer was when I came home late one evening after bar close and was in the front of the house (normally our sightings were in the back patio).  I guess I made a little too much noise as I was trying to come in and woke my mom up and also had Paul and his wife outside.  After his wife and my mom reprimanded me for my auditory disorder, they left and it was just me and Paul smoking a cigarette, shooting the, well you know, when all of the sudden, probably at an altitude of 10 feet above the house, two dark brownish-red lobed spheres (think of the batman symbol but more compressed) flew directly over the house, over our heads traveling to the north.  We both saw them at the same time but Paul was the first to point up and shout "OH!".  As soon as he uttered that, the object on the right performed a zig zag maneuver as if it knew it was being viewed.  The case that left the biggest impression on me did not happen that summer but rather during the frigid month of February in 2008.  My mom was throwing her annual Luau party where everyone was wearing leis, grass skirts and funky colored shirts.  I got bored with the party around 10pm and went over to see what Paul was up to.  He was standing staring at the sky which was full of fast moving clouds with clear sky in between.  He quickly summonsed me to look up and what I saw I at first could not believe.  Up in the sky, it looked like a normal starry night except that all of the "stars" were moving south at a constant speed.  At first I suspected that the speeding clouds were imparting an artificial motion to the normal stars, but I quickly checked by keeping the top of the 10ft high privacy fence in the same spot and sure enough, it was these balls of light that were moving and plus one could clearly see normal, stationery stars.  We would see about 20 of these objects moving south at one time.  This lasted for about an hour and we estimated that there must have been hundreds of these moving objects.  It was truly an amazing experience.  After that event, the sightings became fewer and fewer until about 2 summers later where we would be lucky to see a single boring ball of light moving per month.
That summer and the experience the following winter was truly a life changing experience that had a profound effect on two people who both have advanced degrees and truly high education.
Ever since those events, I have been constantly looking at the sky both here in Milwaukee and wherever I travel (I went to Las Vegas last summer and took a road trip up to the Rachel/Area 51 area) but have never come close to seeing anything like I did in 2007/2008.  It has left me wondering, Where did the UFOs go?