[RKDinOKC]

I was 3 1/2 when I saw the big bird.
We had a dairy 2 blocks from our house.
When i saw it I wasn't frighted, I just thought that was a big bird.
It looked like an eagle but was a dark grey.
Right after it went by I ran inside to tell my mom about it.
It was flying about 10-15 feet above the utility lines at the other end of the block.
It was farther from the lines to the ground than from the lines to the bird.
Flew directly over a parked car on the cross street. Our street did not go thru.
Was almost as long nose to tail as that parked car it flew over.
Went by fairly slow making one slow downward stroke of flapping its wings all the way across the end of the block headed towards the dairy.
Never looked anywhere but straight ahead.
Could not see legs or feet.

You might be like everyone else and dismiss it because I was only 3 1/2.
I have flashes of memory from as far back as being just over 1 years old.
Can describe the train layout my brother and his friend next door put in the next door neighbors attic.
They took me up to let me watch. It was the toy train with 3 rails.
Had to stay in the one place they put me to watch.
Can also describe my brother's go cart they built from wood and used the lawn mower engine to power.
You steered by pulling on a rope on each side. I was sat in it and grabbed the ropes. Got mad when they wouldn't make it go for me.
We moved from that rent house when I was 2 years old.
Told me the memories are very accurate when I describe them to those that were there.
When I saw the bird my Mom was inside with in my brother's bed room painting my brother's desk.
The desk was on newspapers in the middle of the room.
He was getting a new bed so there was nothing in the room but the desk and she had already re-painted the walls.
I have that desk as my home office desk today.

The across the street neighbor, a Marine recruiter tried to make it look like his son had shot and killed the big bird. They showed me some fresh dug dirt with a trash can lid and a brick on it. They told me the lid and brick was so it couldn't get out. Asked them to dig it up and show it to me. They said they couldn't or it would get away. Told them the grave wasn't big enough. The lid and brick were silly if it was really dead. And a BB gun was not big enough to kill it.

It was a couple of weeks before I started playing outside by myself again.