At the Risk of Sounding Crazy #1

Yesterday I posted that I had seen the SpaceX satellites move through the sky and mentioned that they were not the first unusual things I had seen in the sky. I also said that I was considering sharing those things here.

I got some interesting comments and emails after I posted that. One experience shared with me was eerily like my own second sighting. Since I have never shared what I have seen with anyone except with my family and in my journal, that gave me goosebumps.

Photo from ABC News

Before I begin, there are a couple of things I'd like ya'll to know:

~ I am no liar - I really did see what I say I saw. 

~ I have always believed that it is logical and highly probable that we are not alone in this universe. 

~ Please do not cut and paste the journal entries I will be sharing and post them elsewhere. If you want someone to read about these incidents, give them the link to the blog. Thank you for respecting that.

~ Teachinmama was my first blog and is where I posted what you will read below. At the time, Teachinmama functioned solely as my journal and was only shared with my family. Years later I changed that, but these journal entries were buried so far back in years of blog posts that I highly doubted anyone would go way back into my journal entries and find them.

~ The entries were shared on Teachinmama in 2013, many years after any of them happened. I wrote them as I remembered them.

Ready? Here is the first one. (And the least frightening.) I was ten or eleven at the time. As time passed and I had two more sightings of unexplained phenomena, this first one proved to be the "mildest" and least terrifying of the three.

Teachinmama Blog, August 18, 2013

This afternoon I was looking at news headlines and trends, and one caught my eye. In India, the military recently reported that a UFO had been sighted while their troops were doing practice exercises.

I tend to stay away from stories about UFOs and rarely read them thoroughly (including this particular report.)

Why?

Because I find them terrifying. Not scary. Not frightening. Panic-driven terrifying.

You see, I, too, have had three experiences where I saw unexplained phenomena in the sky. Three separate incidents, years apart, and in two different states. The first was more puzzling and a bit unsettling than anything else; the other two absolutely terrified me. I don't think I have ever written down what I saw and, aside from a few close family members, I have never spoken of them. It is time to at least write them down in my journal. 

What happened is true. I am not a liar nor do I make up stories for attention. I think the fact that I have kept quiet all these years proves that.

#1, West Lafayette, Indiana, late 1960s

There used to be a gravel path between Soldiers Home Road and Cumberland School directly across from the intersection of Overlook Drive and Soldiers Home Road. The parents of school children on Prophet Drive, including my own, built it so we could walk to school safely. (You can still see a remnant of the path if you know where to look. Makes me smile when I drive past that spot.)

One summer afternoon I had walked over to Barberry Heights to play with friends, and about 4:00 in the afternoon was walking back home heading east on the path. I remember the sky was that brilliant summer blue and completely cloudless. That's what made the white disk in the sky all the more noticeable. I remember stopping in my tracks when I spied it and a sense of unease coming over me. The disk was stationary in the sky over the woods and fairly large, about the size of a pencil eraser.

I observed it for what seemed a long time. It did not move; it simply was there. I ran through ideas in my mind as to what it could be, but nothing came to mind that would fit the description of a motionless white disk in the sky. I remember turning my back on it, facing west, and thinking that surely when I turned around, it would be gone. But it wasn't. When I turned back and checked, it continued to hang in the sky.

The more I watched it, the more uneasy I felt. I was alone on the gravel path, and so there was no one to turn to and ask, "Do you see what I see?" or to at least step closer to for comfort. I started walking home again, moving quickly because I was scared, and glancing up at the sky occasionally in the hopes that the object would disappear. 

The disk never moved from its spot in the sky until suddenly it vanished. It was there one moment, and gone the next.

I told my mother about it when I reached our home. She took me seriously, but could not explain what I had seen. "Maybe the sun was shining in your eyes and you were seeing a reflection of a white blood cell," she offered. (We both knew that was a stretch.)

So what did I see?  Forty plus years later, I still have no idea.

But I DID see something, and watched it for an extended period of time.

Of that, there is no doubt.

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Looking back more than fifty years later, I am still puzzled. And, I actually laughed as I remembered my mother's explanation. Having said that, I will always be grateful to her for not even questioning me or doubting my story. She knew I did not lie or make stories up, and I think she was a little unsettled by my story and probably grasping at straws to explain the  white disk.

Tomorrow I will share my second bump with unexplained phenomena in the sky. It happened at night and I had my children with me.

Stay 'tooned.