{"id":2872,"date":"2025-03-10T10:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T10:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/i-saw-something-on-the-grapevine-in-1984-on-the-way-to-san-francisco\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T10:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T10:57:13","slug":"i-saw-something-on-the-grapevine-in-1984-on-the-way-to-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/i-saw-something-on-the-grapevine-in-1984-on-the-way-to-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"I saw something on the grapevine in 1984 on the way to San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1984, on my way to San Francisco, I witnessed something remarkable. As we were driving, I noticed another car headed toward Los Angeles, but what really caught my attention was a massive, spinning ball of lights\u2014about the size of a house\u2014moving along like it was on an axle, just passing Magic Mountain around 2 AM. I was completely sober when I discussed it with a friend; it flew directly over our car and cast a green light on us. Suddenly, it transformed into a star. After that, I became disoriented, accidentally dropped my wallet into a few inches of water in the mountains, and decided it wasn&#8217;t worth retrieving. To top it off, I locked both sets of keys in the car and ended up feeling really sick. I lost track of time during all of this. Did anyone else witness that event? It was Halloween night in 1984.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nBack in 1984, on my way to San Francisco, I witnessed something remarkable. As we were driving, I noticed another car headed toward Los Angeles, but what really caught my attention was a massive, spinning ball of lights\u2014about the size of a house\u2014moving along like it was on an axle, just passing Magic Mountain around&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/i-saw-something-on-the-grapevine-in-1984-on-the-way-to-san-francisco\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;I saw something on the grapevine in 1984 on the way to San Francisco&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}