UFOs and other flying objects.
Since I’m too dang sick and brain dead to think of a creative post, I’ll relate my close encounter of the..
which is it? Apparently, according to The UFO Experience, A Scientific Inquiry, I experienced a sub-type of encounter - otherwise known as A Close Encounter of the First Kind. I saw an unidentified flying object. And it saw me. Ooooh…shivers…
I lived in Israel for a year, on a kibbutz at the foot of Mount Gilboa, the mountain where King Saul and and three of his sons were killed in battle. But I digress, what is pertinent is that it’s from the foot of Mount Gilboa that I had my sub-type encounter.
So, picture this…It’s midnight. With my roommate, Ruth, in tow, I hike up to the very foot of Mount Gilboa. We’ve been doing this lately because it’s dang hot in our stuffy little room. We like to hang out in the dark at the old swimming pool - way up there on the edge of the kibbutz - because the only light comes from the moon and the stars. We can skinny dip to our hearts’ content and cool off.
On this particular night, there’s no moon. The sky is a velvet black and we can see the entire Milky Way…I swear - one of the most spectacular sights I’ve ever seen. After our swim, Ruth and I wrap ourselves in towels and climb up the super high diving platform so we can lie under the stars, relax and dream.
From out of nowhere, we both see this round white light dart across the sky. And I mean dart. At first I think, that’s gotta be a satellite, except it’s traveling awful fast for a satellite. Then I know it’s not a satellite because it comes to a dead stop and retraces it’s journey back across the sky, but this time, it zigs and zags like some weird interstellar Frisbee. In the silence of the night, Ruth and I grab for each other. I look at her, she looks at me and we both look up. The round white disc stops directly above our heads, and after only a single second of hesitation, it dives straight for us at an unbelievable, inexplicable rate of speed.
“Move,” I hiss, and Ruth and I throw ourselves down the ladder, half falling, nearly killing ourselves getting down. Screw the towels, we race down the mountainside, naked. I look over my shoulder and the thing is getting bigger and closer. The very air around us begins to vibrate. It feels like my eardrums are about to burst. Ruth begins to slow, she’s not in the same shape I’m in. I grab her hand and pull her along, running as hard as I can. The ground is rocky and uneven. There are snakes and scorpions, but who worries about stepping on poisonous snakes when you’re about to have an encounter of the potential alien abduction kind?
We reach the edge of the kibbutz and squeeze between two storage buildings. We crouch there, staring into the sky. The white, round disk hovers maybe a hundred, two hundred yards above us and then, with an abruptness that leaves both of us stunned, it withdraws, moving directly back up into the sky until it’s no bigger than a marble. It turns and speeds off, vanishing behind the mountain.
Hearts pounding, panting from our run, Ruth and I sneak back to our room and we swear to each other that we will never talk about it and that we’ll never, ever go back up to the pool at night. Ever. Ever. Ever.
It was several months later that I had the weird experience while working in the chicken farm, the experience I think was the inspiration for my book, Captured. Of course, remember…I can’t remember…my memory was wiped.
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September 29th, 2010 at 3:28 am
Crazy! I hope you feel better soon.
September 29th, 2010 at 9:44 am
I only wish I had an experience to share. As open-minded and willing as I am to be beamed up … it’s never happened. I know it scared the beejeebers out of you, but it’s a cool story none the less. I know it’s weird, but I’m a little envious.
September 29th, 2010 at 10:10 am
Did you ever think about playing that cute little song to the light? Hey, I’m just saying… it worked in one movie and well, not so well in Monsters versus Aliens, but still…
Just kidding… I totally believe in UFO’s and life elsewhere… though I just want to throw one thing out there… did you ever stop to think that maybe they just wanted to hand you ladies back your towels?
September 29th, 2010 at 10:33 am
Nina - I don’t know…it was a little worrisome!
You kind of think you wouldn’t mind an encounter, but then you wonder, what if…
Kris - No song! LOL! I don’t think they wanted to give us the towels. We did have to retrieve our clothes the next day and we got in trouble for being up there so late!
September 29th, 2010 at 10:41 am
I loved this blog, you did great for a sick woman!
I saw a UFO in April of 2001 which I reported to MUFON.
My husband and I were walking our dogs and pushing a sleeping baby in a stroller down a dark suburban street. We were a block from a crowded city park where a night baseball game was in progress. I looked up and saw a huge graphite gray triangle slowly moving over our street. It blocked my view of the stars as it came toward us. It moved so slowly it appeared to be hovering above our heads. It had faint blueish-green lights on it that had the odd property of being softly glowing almost bio-luminous spheres. We looked straight up and felt as if it was no more than forty feet above our heads. The object was wider than our street and completely silent. It appeared to hover. That was my first moment of real reservation, I almost grabbed a sleeping baby out of the stroller and ran! The triangle very slowly passed over us and I almost felt as if it might scrape the treetops. It silently moved toward the bright lights of the ball field. At the ball field it shoot off at amazing speed. It simply disappeared once the bright lights hit it.
I don’t know what I saw but I suspect I saw our tax dollars at work. This air craft/UFO had some weird properties to it. I was left with the distinct impression I was shown an illusion and had not seen the actual craft at all. It’s silence, scale of size, perceived altitude and lighting were just too strange. It should have been fully visible above the brightly lit baseball field but it simply disappeared, which led me to believe its altitude and speed were far different from what my senses perceived. Aircraft from Edwards AF Base fly over us all the time and turn around over the ocean so I do suspect an earthy explanation but it’s been nearly 10 years and I’ll still waiting to hear more about this technology whatever it is.
XXOO Kat
September 29th, 2010 at 10:45 am
Kat, I actually called Offutt Air Force Base once because my sister and I saw something strikingly similar to what you saw - a totally silent, slate gray triangle with blue-green lights that appeared directly above our house - seemingly enormous, but it made no sound. It just stayed there for a few moments and then disappeared. So weird!
September 29th, 2010 at 1:08 pm
I don’t know what you saw over Mount Gilboa, that sounded pretty exciting too, but I think we may have seen the same flying triangle. That thing is odd! It is not a distant sighting of triangularly placed lights. No, no, no it feels like it’s close and its size and speed can shift in a moment. I was so grateful my husband was standing next to me when it happened and he saw the same thing.
XXOO Kat
September 29th, 2010 at 2:21 pm
Julia, did you experience any missing time?
I’ve seen a few UFO type of things in the sky. Mostly, I’ve seen very weird aircraft that have engines or propulsion systems run by nuclear power. You can tell by the sound.
Anyhoo, the sighting that shook me to my core wasn’t nearly as dramatic as yours. It was around ten at night as I recall… I did send in a report to Peter Davenport about it. I’d gone outside… we live out in the country… to dump some organic garbage. I look up at the sky as I always do. I’ve always been a sky watcher.
I do a damn double take. Hanging at a very low altitude is this smaller triangular craft. Not one of those big ones, at all! My heart rate spikes, I sweat, but I think, hey, why show any fear? I mean this thing DID NOT move, then. It just remained in position so I got real long look at it.
It was dark colored, but what got me were the windows. That is, it was a rectangular strip of bright lights on both sides. So, I’m thinking what kind of space alien craft would have those kind of windows? or lights?
Anyway, I slowly begin walking back toward the door, bucket in hand, and I decide to say ‘hi’. So, I mentally say ‘hi’ and I wave for good measure. I even say it out loud.
Well, the craft starts to move now… slowly, so slowly, it just looks like its floating, only its on a straight trajectory that takes it behind these very tall trees we have… this was early fall and the leaves hadn’t fallen… so when it’s behind the trees you can’t see it, indicating how low it was, maybe a hundred feet off the ground… I watch the craft emerge from behind the trees… I think I might even have waved again…
I stay and watch until it finally disappears… but I don’t know if it just took off, or went dark, invisible.
So, upshot, I think it was a black ops craft.
September 29th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Yeah, Kat, that was the thing about it - two things - totally silent and those green-blue lights. Weird!
Savannah - I would have been too scared to wave! Believe me! Why would the black ops fly over your house? That’s just freaky!
September 29th, 2010 at 3:28 pm
Maybe these weird aircraft run on organic garage, soggy diapers, eggs? Just a thought… lol
September 29th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
There are many places on the earth that seem to attract UFO activity from time to time. I know that in the late summer and early fall of 1975, my whole family experienced several UFO sightings, and we all saw the same things. Our home was on a slope overlooking the south end of Salt Lake Valley, and the kids were sleeping out on the deck of a playhouse we had built midway up the 100-foot slope of our back yard, where they overlooked the rooftops of all the house including ours. My son came racing into the ho9use yelling that there was a flying saucer down near the Interstate, about five miles east of us. When I climbed the slope and took a gander, I was stumped by what I saw. Not a chopper. Not a plane. Hovering, moving erratically back and forth over the Interstate straight across from us. It seemed to have revolving red, white, and yellow lights. I ran into the house to call the planetarium hot line and was told no one had reported any such thing. I was staring out my picture window at it, since my line of sight was higher than the downhill neighbor’s roof. We were poo-pooed.
A week later, we were sitting on our porch looking at the late city lights, and a very fast-moving white ball zipped from the far end of the valley to the south, bee lining all the way to the state capitol building to the north, where it veered off and zipped over the mountains to the east. WAY too fast for a small place or a chopper. It left a tracer streak behind it!
Again, we were told it was “nothing”.
The following weekend, we watched with fascination as the same odd whirling lights slowly climbed up the mountain side across the valley, hovered for about thirty minutes over the transmitter station in the Oquirrh Mountains to the west, then casually made a wide swing down the Interstate again, until it vanished over the southern mountain spur. Nothing in the news. Nothing in the papers. But the TV stations that the transmitter served were out for the rest of the night. After that, I simply figured that we were the only people in thousands of residents who just happened to “see” bogeys.
September 29th, 2010 at 3:57 pm
Kat - LOL! Maybe!
Fran - that is so amazing! I guess you are the only people in SLC to notice anything out of the ordinary! Hey, if your kids see it, you know it’s real!
September 29th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
Amazing sightings, everyone!
I forgot to mention the smaller craft I saw was utterly silent.
I don’t know if it’s my house in particular, but since the houses are all far apart, and it’s a very rural area, well if I saw something who’s going to believe me?
Plus, who’s going to believe that twice jets have screamed directly over our house and I mean screaming-thundered, rattling the entire house, and they were barely above the treetops. We’ve seen amazingly strange aircraft around here. Not all the time, of course. But, gosh, it does happen on a semi-regular basis.
September 29th, 2010 at 6:02 pm
I had a strange sighting as well…This was when I was in high school, living in Dexter, Missouri and traveling home at night. I looked up and saw three lights in a triangle shape, very large and hovering over me. I pulled over to the side of the road and rolled down my window. I heard nothing. But the lights were huge right over me. I looked around and there were a few other cars pulled over with the drivers doing the same as me. I stayed there for a few minutes until my sense of self preservation kicked in and then I got the hell out of there. I’m using the experience in a future book.
September 29th, 2010 at 6:39 pm
Savanna - the silence must have been so eerie!
Beth - another amazing story! I would have freaked too!