“The spacecraft actually landed in the roadway and blocked traffic,” Rachaels said. “The man who saw that one said it looked like the top of a grain silo.”

Rachaels said he has been documenting sightings for 40 years now.

“I take it very seriously,” he said. “Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan reported seeing UFOs and both Barry Goldwater and Gerald Ford were very interested in the subject.”

Rachaels said his first sighting was a daytime sighting in Thomasville in 1967.

“It was going along in level flight, real close, about 2,000 feet above us,” he said. “One minute it was there and then it was gone in a second.”

“There was no exhaust and no sound,” Rachaels said. “The craft was smooth, with no openings.”

He said it was shaped like a barbell, long in the middle and round on the ends. “It was shiny,” he said, “like polished silver.”

Rachaels said that within minutes the sky filled with U.S. Air Force planes.

“I think they were tracking it on radar,” he said.

Rachaels pointed out that not all UFOs are spacecraft.

“Anything you can’t identify is a UFO,” he said. “Lots of people see things that are UFOs but not all of them are spacecraft.”

Rachaels said MUFON “is the most prestigious (organization) in the UFO field.”

“It has been around since 1969,” he said.

Rachaels said MUFON meets the first Saturday of each month in Boston, Ga., at the Boston hardware store.

“We have been meeting there since April last year,” Rachaels said. “Before that we met in Cairo.”