Mark Harmon promises he’s not crazy, despite what some of his family and friends are telling him. Harmon, a 48-year-old grain elevator operator at Providence Farm Supply, believes he had a close encounter with a UFO on Monday night outside his home in the 600 block of Wayland. “Never in my life have I seen anything like this,” Harmon said. “I really don’t know what I saw.” Harmon was in the middle of watching Monday Night Football when he stepped outside. “I stepped out in the backyard to smoke a cigarette and happened to be looking up because it was such a pretty night,” Harmon recalled. From out of nowhere, Harmon encountered lights like he had never seen before. “From the edge of the house, something came over. It was in a perfect V-shape. There were seven distinctive yellowish-white lights,” he said. “I’ve seen UFO programs where people have drawn this exact same picture.” Harmon said the lights weren’t flashing or changing colors, and “weren’t moving real fast. “Unless it was a mile wide, this thing was pretty close to the ground, maybe 1,000-2,000 feet.” Harmon said he saw the object, which was moving east, for about 4-5 seconds before it disappeared behind a tree. He hurried around the tree but never saw the lights again. “I don’t know if you had to be right under it” to see the lights or what, he said. Harmon found it especially interesting that whatever the object was did not make any noise. “The thing that got me the most was it was dead silent,” he said. “I was dumbfounded.” Harmon immediately called TV stations in Lubbock to see if they had heard of any strange object in the skies over Plainview. None had.
