{"id":4707,"date":"2025-03-11T17:27:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T17:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/i-saw-something-on-the-grapevine-in-1984-on-the-way-to-san-francisco-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T17:27:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T17:27:59","slug":"i-saw-something-on-the-grapevine-in-1984-on-the-way-to-san-francisco-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/i-saw-something-on-the-grapevine-in-1984-on-the-way-to-san-francisco-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I saw something on the grapevine in 1984 on the way to San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1984, while heading to San Francisco, I encountered something truly strange. At around 2 a.m., I spotted a massive ball of spinning lights\u2014about the size of a house\u2014whirling on an axle and heading towards Los Angeles to the left of me. It passed right by Magic Mountain and lit up our car with a brilliant green glow. After that, it transformed into a star as I looked up at it. Feeling a bit delirious, I mistakenly dropped my wallet into about three inches of water in the mountains and was too uneasy to retrieve it. To make matters worse, I ended up locking two sets of keys inside the car and felt increasingly unwell. I lost track of time during the whole episode. Did anyone else witness this bizarre event? It was Halloween 1984.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nBack in 1984, while heading to San Francisco, I encountered something truly strange. At around 2 a.m., I spotted a massive ball of spinning lights\u2014about the size of a house\u2014whirling on an axle and heading towards Los Angeles to the left of me. It passed right by Magic Mountain and lit up our car with&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/i-saw-something-on-the-grapevine-in-1984-on-the-way-to-san-francisco-2\/\" 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":5145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4707","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\/4707","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=4707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}