UFO Sighting

From the Magical Mysteries Collection, published in the Daily Journal and later published on Yahoo Contributor Network, August 11, 2008. Then republished on and removed from Persona Paper. FBI link updated at end.

In the early 1970's I stood on a balcony with several residents of the apartment complex where I lived, all of us transfixed because of what we were witnessing in the sky. We couldn't determine the exact location of the disks that lit the sky, but a few years later, when I met a woman who would become one of my dearest and best friends, I discovered that the disks were hovering above River Oaks Mall in Calumet City, Illinois. She had seen them, too. According to my friend, people actually stepped out of their vehicles to look at them. The local newspaper, she said, wrote about the sighting.

Years later, when I decided to research the event, I contacted the local library, police stations, and newspapers. Nobody found any mention of UFOs anywhere. Had it not been for my friend, I might have thought I had imagined the whole scenario.

Across the globe, police departments receive calls reporting mysterious unexplained lights in the sky. Famous sightings, such as those at Roswell, New Mexico (Area 51), have received a lot of attention over the years, especially due to the coverage television programs give them, including the old popular TV Series, The X-Files. Government denial appears to play a huge role in UFO activities. Plug the words, "UFO" or "unidentified flying object" into the FBI's website and you will net one link, a link to nowhere, or perhaps it is a picture of a black hole. (*See below for update.)

For years, the public has wondered if the government has been covering up UFO-related information. But how valid is that reasoning? If numerous people have seen UFOs and the government denies their existence, one of four things may be happening: Those of us who have seen UFOs are crazy, UFOs don't exist and the public is hallucinating, the government knows what they are - IDENTIFIED flying objects, or the government doesn't know what they are and doesn't want to admit their ignorance to the general public.

From the cover of the book, "Communion."
When I saw this depiction, I stopped dead in my tracks.
It looked eerily familiar.
 If you read any of the two links I posted below,
you'll understand why.

But if the government does know about them, maybe it has a good reason for not divulging information to us about UFO activity. Take the information we received one year about an asteroid hitting the earth sometime between 2014 and 2088. What if we were told it was positively going to obliterate us next month? If the asteroid hit an area the width of the entire United States, would we all make a mass exodus to the other side of the planet? And what if the scientists were off by several hours? Sorry, folks, we were eight hours off - go back.

In comparison to the rest of the infinite Universe, Earth is infinitesimally small. The likelihood that life exists elsewhere is possible. The "beings" are probably not human-like, but they may be technologically more advanced than we are. People report alien abductions, but can prove nothing. Aliens will always be credited with mass extinction and cannibalism. I prefer to believe they are like the good guys depicted in the old movie, "The Day the Earth Stood Still."

*UPDATE: Visit this FBI link – all kinds of UFO-related material now appears on the FBI site, though much of it is blocked out. 

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Aliens Visited Me

In 1972 I was diagnosed with a precancerous cervical condition. Back then, what today takes only one day as an outpatient, took 3 days in the hospital as I recovered from a D&C and a conal biopsy. At home, lying face down on my black and white striped fur couch (1970s, remember), I opened my eyes and peered into the kitchen where I saw what looked like two bug-like humans with skinny bodies and very large eyes. I wasn't frightened by them, though. I was merely curious. I was also mesmerized by them, so I just kept staring at them. 

They kept staring at me, possibly communicating with each other about me through some sort of language I couldn't hear. I had never seen creatures like the ones that stood in my kitchen, and believing that I must be dreaming, I closed my eyes. But every time I opened my eyes, the creatures were still there, leaning against the counter in my kitchen, still staring at me. I must have fallen asleep eventually, though, because one of the times I awoke, they were gone.

As usually happens when one is drugged with pain medication, I forgot about the experience – until years later, when in 1988, I saw, sitting on a shelf at Barnes and Noble, a book entitled, "Communion," written by Whitley Strieber. The instantaneous shock of seeing that picture on the cover of that book brought me back to the apartment where I had lived many years before. Suddenly I remembered what had to have been an alien visitation. How else could I describe something I’d never seen before but which appeared in front of me on the book shelf and instantly brought me back in time to the event that took place in my apartment?

Over the years I’ve read about alien abductions and some of the abductees report having had surgical operations performed on them by aliens. I had just had surgery. Was it possible that they were curious about how humans performed surgery? I don’t remember ever having been examined, though. All I remember is lying on the couch and looking at them as they looked at me.

To read more about my Alien Encounters, click the link for UFO Sighting.

Aliens & UFOs

Have you ever had a UFO experience or an alien encounter? I have. And I relate my experiences about those encounters in the article, Aliens In My Life – True UFO Encounters.

UFO and alien subjects raise eyebrows in people who don't believe in things they haven't seen, touched, smelled, heard, or tasted. Some people think that those of us who admit to having witnessed them must be crazy or misguided. I don't judge those people. Until they experience first-hand situations they can't understand, they won't believe in anything that can't be proven to them.

However, I do believe that some minds have opened somewhat in regard to UFO phenomena. Ever since the television show, The X-Files, and, more recently the movie by the same name, attention to UFOs and aliens has interested more than just people who claim to have been abducted by aliens (I'm not one of them) or who have experienced UFO phenomena. The FBI has case files (link provided in the above article) with pages of witnesses who attest to having seen UFO activity.

I saw the cover of the book above while wandering through a book store shortly after Communion was published in 1987. My reaction to seeing that picture was the catalyst for reminding me of my experience with aliens. I invite you to read Aliens In My Life – True UFO Encounters, because I'm still looking for people who witnessed what I saw in the early 1970's in a suburb of Chicago.