My first UFO story:<p>I was ~13 years old in The Civil Ait Patrol, this occurred in Truckee, Ca at the Truckee Airport.<p>We were doing standard marching exercises and our troop leader was a former SR-71 mechanic&#x2F;maint person...<p>It was a full moon - and as our gatherings typically started after 5PM - it got dark fairly quickly.<p>We were marching and then looking to the mountain line in the horizon, we saw a light come up over the mountain line and fly vertically up at a steady clip as it was near the moon which had also just risen over the ridge.<p>We all watched, speculating what type of plane this was (Civil Air Patrol was like the cub scouts for the air force)<p>As we watched and guessed, this craft flew straight up from the mountain - then directly toward us.<p>I came to a complete hover just above us by about 300 feet. The craft was the classic triangular shape with large round whit lights at each corner.<p>As it hovered - the troop leader said &quot;OK KIDS - EVERYONE INSIDE NOW!!!&quot; and he ushered us into the end of the hangar building that had our CAP office.<p>Ever since then.... I&#x27;ve had an interesting relationship with believing UFOs...