This story was submitted to the American ufological site National UFO Reporting Center. Time of action May 22, 1973.
The author of the story in those years served on the US Coast Guard Spencer in the Atlantic Ocean. And just a year after this incident, the Spencer was decommissioned and replaced by another ship of the same name.
“It was warm and the weather was fine, the night was also clear. There were 140 people on board the Spencer and many of these officers and privates also witnessed this phenomenon.
One of ours had a good Olympus camera with a telephoto lens and was photographing this object, as I recall. First, this UFO was seen by one of the privates on the deck and then many jumped out.
The subject had bright lights that changed color. The UFO hovered directly over the Spencer, as if watching us, and then began to slowly descend. He sank so low that you could see what looked like portholes. Then the light changed color again and then the ship rushed off so abruptly that it became a small dot in the sky.
Then this point began to fly at high speed across the sky and make sharp turns. He seemed to show us what he can do.
This object was captured by a camera many times, and the images were then sent to Washington, I have never seen them. In total, that night performance lasted about an hour.
Later we arrived at our home port on Governors Island (New York). However, we did not expect such a meeting. As soon as we docked, in line to board the Spencer, a whole group of Men in Black lined up, that is, there were literally many men in strict black suits with white shirts.
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Usually, after docking at the port, if you don't have any special duties, you have 72 hours of free time to walk around the city. But in this case, none of us were allowed to leave the ship.
Then we were all interrogated in turn by the "Men in Black", and then we were obliged to sign a statement, which stated that we had not seen anything. In addition, we received a warning that if we tell someone about this, then “they will come for us,” and even more so it was impossible to talk about this to journalists.
Then I found out that all his photographic equipment and all his pictures were taken from my friend, and all this without compensation."
In his message, the author of this story indicated his phone number (was not published on the site) and asked to call back if his story reaches the site admins. He was apparently afraid that he would be "intercepted".