LOL.
Actually, talking of personal UFO stories, I forget if I ever wrote on HP about my own sighting...? I was only 12 at the time but had been a young amateur astronomer since 7, so I certainly knew the night-sky. It was nothing natural nor man-made.
The thing is, I'd spent an hour or more looking at the sky through the eye-piece of my reflector telescope. (You actually are looking downward or horizontal, and only seeing a minute portion of the night-sky much blown-up. It was only when I finally took my eye from the eyepiece and used normal eyesight, looking up, that I saw it. Thing is, it was directly, exactly above me, so I've always figured "they" had been observing me..... 😮
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Sounds interesting! So what did it look like? How large? How far away was it? Did they wave?
A Few Personal Anecdotes
It wasn't near, but hard to judge height. What I saw from underneath was something circular, a lot bigger than any star or planet but visible size smaller than the moon. It had four "aerials" or whatever coming out in the 4 directions of the compass. The same colour and kind of brightness as a star or moon (but as said I knew my astronomy and back then could name every star in the sky).
No movement, no sound. Perfectly still. I was 12 and deeply wanted another witness. I ran inside to get my mother. I still remember the frustration and how slow she was, feeling no urgency, to get up and come out. So I was indoors maybe a minute. We came out -- nothing.
So it wasn't a spectacular sighting at all. I do have friends who've seen extremely spectacular things - like being in a Spielberg thing like Close Encounters. And I've recounted somewhere on HP that a teacher (they dared open up to children in those days) also when I was 12 or 13 opened up and to our whole class described a very complex thing he and a friend saw above them. Low, bright, hexagonal, with smaller spheres whizzing around it.
I realise this is all just anecdotal to a reader.
Interesting how people react. In my late teens or about 19-20, a couple of friends saw a glowing sphere fly right to within yards of a flat balcony. They both told me of it, and theya re not jokers but scientific types. Yet I heard a few years later from one of them that the other would no longer speak of it and would deny it.
Another teacher friend recounted how a school bus full of children in early teens (I think) all turned up in the morning half barmy saying that a disc had followed the bus, just above the road.
And so on. These aren't even people with a real interest. There are others too. So such phenomena are not so uncommon.
(Actually I think I saw another as a child, maybe 11 pm. This was a bright silver disc moving silently over at a good height, with a silver trail coming out the back. It was much too late for this to have been a plane contrail catching the sun. I'd never say it was alien craft with 100% certainty, though - too high to tell.)
Nowadays there are so many satellites up there, though, that if you see something about the size of a small star moving, going straight, that'll be what it is.
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Have a look at this interview with William Pawelec, an ex U.S. Air Force computer operations and programming specialist with numerous credentials in security technologies and access control systems. It lasts for an hour but I have it running in the background while I work and it really is fascinating to listen to. He is interviewed as part of the Disclosure Project and requested it only be released after his death.
He discusses alien technology and the government's use of this over the last 40 years. Some of the technology is quite scary to hear what has been done with it but it's definitely worth listening to, and he sounds very genuine - note he is not being asked questions, he just runs off this information as if he is recalling these events rather than if he was reading from a script!
Will give it a listen, Jas. 😮
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