Victoria's Wisdom
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UFO's.
What can I really say about them? Are they real? Why don't I leave the answer
up to you? Let me list some of the strange events I've had in my life and you
decide for yourself. It is hard to know where to start because of so many
unexplained events in my life.
MISSING TIME
While
living in the country, my brother and I would often hear stories of UFO
sightings in the area near us and so on lazy nights when we were both bored we
would go searching for them. We were not successful - we were often in the
wrong spot while they were sighted somewhere else. My brother often claimed to
know when they were around and he did seem to know because every time he said
so, there was a report the next day of sightings and the local paper often
printed stories on their sightings in the area. My brother often claimed that
when he knew they were coming, he could lay on the house roof at night and see
them in the sky. I thought this was really neat and told him the next time I
was around, and he had the feeling, we would go look for them and maybe we
might finally see one. Be careful what you wish...
One
June night in 1974 I was at my mom's house to pick up garbage to go to the dump
[my sons were already bathed and ready for bed] and watching for bears at the
dump was our entertainment. While at my parents, my brother said 'the visitors'
were around so we decided he would join me to go to the dump and then look for
UFO's.
My
mother told us we had to be back by 10 p.m. because my brother had school the
next day. When I asked her why so early [he was nearly 18] she got really
annoyed and said he was too hard to wake up in the morning. He had to be home
by 10 p.m. or he wasn't going. My brother and I were a little annoyed with the
curfew but said we would be home by ten. We decided we wouldn't stay at the
dump [unless we saw bears when we got there] and just UFO hunt instead.
Now,
you have to understand, my brother can be very particular about some things and
because my mom had raised a fuss he made a big point out of going to the
kitchen and setting his watch at the exact same time as the clock there. He
told me to set mine too but I declined - my watch was five minutes slow and I
could easily compensate for the time difference. We loaded the trunk with
garbage, put my two young children in the back seat of the car and off we went
to the dump - it was just a little after 6:30 p.m.
When
we got to the dump we found several vehicles [more people looking for
entertainment and hoping to see bears] but no bears. We stuck around for a
short while and spoke to some of our neighbours before deciding to go off on
our own to look for 'flying stuff'. It was now after 7 p.m.
Each
time we went looking for UFO's we would find a new location to sit at - partly
in hopes that change would bring us a view and partly because the same spots
became boring if we sat at them too often. We chose a different spot very close
to home reasoning it would give us more time sitting [rather than driving
around looking for a more out-of-the-way spot] so we could relax and watch.
This was also our time of talking, planning and general gab session.
We
would often sit there in the dark with the radio playing softly, talking in
whispers while the kids would play with their toys in the back seat until they
fell asleep. I would bring snacks and juice and fill the space up on the floor
with pillows and other soft objects so they'd have plenty of room to play and
sleep - this was after all our entertainment. We compared this to going to the drive
in - we could sit and watch the wide screen view before us and take in all the
sounds while discussing lots of things in the dark. This was affordable and
handy [the closest drive in was actually over an hours drive away].
We
found a spot on top of a flat knoll in a field surrounded by long grasses - a
growth of trees spanned the horizon in all directions except for the way we
came in. I shut the car off and turned on the radio [on low volume] as was our
custom. Much to our surprise my 'never- fail-radio' was all static. There were
no hydro lines near by and my radio had worked fine earlier in the day. We
tried every possible channel but the radio just wouldn't work on any channel.
In disgust we finally gave up and decided to just sit in the dark and watch. As
we sat there we noticed massive balls of light that seem to explode behind the
thick forest of trees in front of us. We thought we now knew the reason for the
static - there was a storm in the area - but it was rather strange in that it
seemed to be very localized and not really moving. We rolled the windows down
but could hear no thunder and we both thought it must be very far off and that
was why it looked like round balls of light flashing behind the many trees in
front of us. We rolled our windows back up to keep out the bugs and continued
to sit and talk quietly in the dark.
After
perhaps a half-hour had passed, my two sons began to fight in the back seat
[the soft music would usually put them to sleep and it was now past their
bedtime]. They seemed to be getting crankier by the minute with no sign of
settling down. At this time, my brother and I suddenly began to get uneasy with
our surroundings and decided we would leave as we were not having a good time
and too many things seemed to be going wrong - this was not how we spent our
'happy' time. We were disappointed as our relaxing evening began to become very
annoying.
We
decided to call it quits and head for home [and try again another day]. I was
trying to make my boys settle down in the back so we could leave, I switched on
the overhead interior light so I could better see what was going on but my
light wasn't working and before I could give it any further thought my brother
suddenly called out, "Look!" Because of the sharpness of his tone and
the urgency in his voice I quickly turned to see what he was indicating. As
both [or possibly all four of us] watched we saw several grey figures clearing
the top of the knoll and coming across the field towards us in the dark. As
they got nearer we could see maybe five 'people' approaching, odd they were
strung out, short, tall, short, tall. My brother suddenly panicked and began to
yell to get out of here quick, the kids started to cry and scream and I lunged
forward over the steering wheel and made a mad grab for my ignition switch
[with my keys in it] and my right hand began to turn the ignition on...
____________
I
suddenly snapped 'alert' [I cannot describe it as awake because I was not
asleep]. I was totally aware on all levels and wondered why I was slumped over
on my left side against the drivers door window? I didn't remember falling
asleep. As I looked over at my brother I saw he had his head thrown back over
the seat headrest with his mouth wide open and his eyes closed - his face
pointing to the roof of the car. As I mentally thought his name he suddenly
snapped 'alert' and looked at me, then as if of one mind, we both turned to
look in the back seat at my two sons.
Both
of my sons were lying there as if asleep - spread on the seat and cushions. My
eldest son suddenly snapped 'alert' as we looked at him, sitting up and turning
to look at both of us. Then, as if of one mind [and still not saying a word],
the three of us turned to look at my youngest son. He didn't respond. We
continued to stare at him and mentally I called his name but there was no
reaction. Finally I spoke out loud and called his name - he still didn't
respond. My brother became concerned and also began to call his name, then my
other son joined in. I couldn't reach him from the front seat so I asked me
other son to gently nudge him as we called to him. My youngest son came to as
of out of a very deep sleep - he was not alert but very groggy. It was at this
point that my brother said, 'that was weird' and I agreed. We began to discuss
what had happened up until this point as we were very puzzled and during the
discussion of facts leading up to this we both suddenly remembered 'the
visitors' and then I had a flash back and remembered the panic and reaching for
the ignition switch... and then suddenly everything was blank. My last
conscious thought was turning on the car ignition - my next is 'waking' up
slumped against the car door. How the heck did I get from A to Z?
We
both became very excited as we remembered the events of a few moments ago but
could not explain any of it. It just didn't make any sense to either one of us.
I deduced that my youngest son had actually fallen asleep after the incident
but still we could not explain the weird circumstances we found ourselves in.
Not wanting to alarm my children I ended the discussion and decided to call it
a night [I told my brother we would talk later and he agreed].
I
turned my car around in the field and headed for the road. Just before I got to
it my brother yelled again "Look!" I followed the direction of his
pointing arm and there in the sky almost directly overhead we saw a speeding,
blinking red light that sped swiftly across the sky way above us and then
suddenly veered at right angles and went off is a whole new direction that was not
physically possible - then it just disappeared. We now began to discuss what it
might have been and ruled out all normal methods of transportation known to us.
Because of its speed and the sharp right angled turn at the high speed we knew
it was not anything man made. Helicopters couldn't travel that fast, that high
up or maneuver that sharply. There had been no reduction in speed before the
right-angled turn. Wondering what time it might be I automatically turned on
the radio before remembering that it wasn't working. Much to my surprise it was
working again and without the earlier static. My brother decided to try the
overhead light to see if it worked now and it did. He glanced at his watch and
it said 8:15 p.m. Well, this should make mom happy we joked, he was going to be
home long before ten and we were only five minutes away. We drove home in high
spirits after the sighting - we were both pleased and surprised to have our
evening end like this so that it was not a total loss [we had already shrugged
off the earlier 'stuff'].
We
pulled into my parents' yard in a happy state and entered the house. I figured
I would say good night and then take my boys home to bed. We were shocked as
our mother greeted us with yelling and 'motherly type insults' as she demanded
to know why we coming in so late especially after her telling us to come home
early. My brother and I began to ask her what was going on as he was home
early. My mother was furious as she berated us for our attitude and continued
to tell us off. My brother pointed to his watch and said, 'look mom - it's
early'. At this my mother became more enraged and asked him what he was trying
to pull that it was not 8:20 but twenty minutes to eleven. We both thought she
had 'flipped her tree' and my brother went up to the kitchen clock that he had
set his watch by and told our mother to look at it. My mom replied for him to
look at it and it said 10:40 p.m.
Now
I was getting miffed - bad enough she yells at us for coming in early [not
late] but did she actually think we would believe it just because she changed
the time? Was something wrong with her? Why was she doing this? I went off into
the living room to check the clock there. It said 10:43 p.m. Bull, I thought
and headed down the hall into my parents bedroom to look at their clock [my dad
would have a fit if she touched it] - it said 10:41 p.m. Now, all the clocks in
the house were within a couple of minutes of each other [perfectly normal] yet
my brothers and my watch was two hours and twenty minutes earlier than them and
we were still five minutes apart in time - his watch now read 8:27 p.m. and
mine was 8:22 p.m. This didn't make any sense.
'Light
suddenly dawned' and at this point my brother and I began to tell my mom of our
strange occurrence in the car and about seeing the UFO fly overhead after. At
first my mom thought it was more lies but then she realized we were both
telling the truth. Neither my brother nor I were ever any good at lying. The
more we told her the more upset she became, not with us but at the strange
incidents [only later in life did I hear a bit about my mother's own strange
happenings]. Finally she just said it was enough and that we all just needed to
go to bed and get some sleep or it would be morning before we knew it. She said
we would discuss it later - we never really did.
The
next day we heard about sightings in the area again but the stories we heard
were about somewhere else in the area. We didn't tell anyone about our strange
time but we did mention the overhead zigzag light that took off at a fast speed
and then disappeared.
Even
knowing this to have happened we did not give it much thought. With so many
ongoing and strange events in our lives we knew there was no point dwelling on
it - we knew from past experience there were too many unexplained happenings
that had no rational explanation [yet]. So we both filed it away in the backs
of our minds and didn't really concern ourselves though we always remembered
it.
We
never went looking for UFO's again. [That was a little too much excitement for
us.]
Can
I explain what happened that night? Only with what I have told you. I have no
rational explanation for the events or the missing time.
Have
I ever tried to find out what happened - only once with regressive
hypno-therapy with a certified M.D. I didn't really want to know [on a
subconscious level I already knew and didn't want it confirmed]. The doctor
confirmed that something traumatic had indeed occurred during the missing time.
I had the session taped - the experience was quite traumatic and to this day I
still cannot listen to the tape nor do I ever wish to.
Neither
my brother nor I smoked cigarettes [or anything else]. We didn't do drugs or
drink alcohol. You figure it out…
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out my web links page to see where I got my neat new
backgrounds.