I’ve lived near a US military base my whole life. I spent most of that time living on my parents farm, and before that, a different farm even closer to the army base. My whole life, I’ve been heard to the deafening sound of artillery and bombs going off on the bombing range, to seeing tracer rounds flying through the sky, illumination flares (oh man, those alone cause a LOT of local UFO stories from out-of-towners! but that’s another story for another day). I could see tanks driving around on the other side of the valley outside my bedroom window as a child. The land I grew up on had undetonated ordnance that accidentally landed there decades prior and my parents didn’t know about it until AFTER they bought the land and a guy came to their house and told them about it. Being a little boy growing up in a rural area ... Read even more
