UFO Sighting 1983

This is an old event that I have remembered and dug up the info.

Date: 13th July 1983
Time: 2.15 am
Place: 15minutes outside Chambery on Sorrento Sleeper Train: Route Nationale 6

On a school trip we had been playing around in the 6 person sleeper. Everyone had gone to bed and I had stayed up looking out of the window not wanting to sleep. I think I remember wishing that something would happen.

A dot of light like a plane appeared above the horizon. As it came closer I saw that it was disk shaped. I was stunned. It then dipped down out of sight. I turned around and yelled that i had seen a flying saucer. Everyone told me to shut up, but I insisted. Eventually someone got out of bed and looked while it was still down. I was wishing that it came back to prove what I had seen. Then it popped up again closer. When Mike saw it then he yelled and everyone came down to look.

It was a typical flying saucer composed from two white glowing plates together with a black strip between them and tiny glowing holes in the strip, like a ring of port holes. I could not tell if the saucer was spinning. A photo was taken after 5 minutes as it came toward the train and within a few minutes it went over the train - which was travelling around a valley wall - and over the mountains.

I missed the close approach because I was looking for my camera. As I got down I asked where it was and people said it had gone over the train and so I wondered why they had not gone to look out of the other windows.

I have written this event from my current perspective which is that it was a group hallucination. I had wanted something to exciting to happen and made others believe it.

I have just recovered the information from a school diary and this is the first time I am looking at this properly.

Route National 6 runs out of Chambery. This is the area i would later return to to go caving.