General Discussion

looks like something I saw back in the late 1970s when I lived in a Cleveland suburb.

King Charles of the UK was a young prince in his 20s at the time. He was on a tour of the US. During his brief stop in Cleveland, he stayed at the home of a family in a very exclusive east side suburb, far from the west side where I lived.

As I drove out of the parking lot of my apt. building, heading for work in the morning, I saw a blimp that appeared to be hovering low over the area. My view was partially obscured by trees. I remember thinking that it resembled reports of cigar shaped UFOs that I'd heard about. Since I've never believed that alien invasions are anything other than science fiction, I was not alarmed. Yes, it was strange since I had never seen a blimp in the sky before and have not seen any since then. But since there are such things as blimps, it was a curiosity to me, not something scary. I shrugged it off as some sort of security measure due to the prince's visit.

I asked a few people at work if they had seen a blimp that morning. Nobody had. There are a lot of people in Cleveland and its suburbs so I expected to hear something about it in the news. Somebody else must have noticed it. But I don't remember any reports about it.

Now I wonder if it was an Army surveillance blimp for security during Prince Charles' visit.