Once upon a time, several years ago, I had an alien experience.
I was outside at my old house. Probably 2002. We lived in the hills and there wasn’t too much light polution and rarely did anything interesting happen at night or otherwise. I think the most interesting thing that happened other than this was that my dad happened to see a black bear. I think I caught a glimpse of it.
Anyhow…
I was outside and just looking around, for no apparent reason, at night. My grandma’s house was above, my uncle had a house below, and hills surrounded us in a U shape (with our house being in the middle of the U and my grandma’s house being at the “bottom” of the U).
So I heard something, looked up and saw your semi-traditional UFO type of thing. It was triangular, had one light at each end, big light, was probably 400 or so feet up in the air and wasn’t too loud, as a traditional airplane would be at that height. It was gone as quickly as it came.
I was scared shitless.
But I didn’t get abducted, no one performed experiments on me, I didn’t get radiation burns, and I’m still not sure what it was.
Whatever it was though, it’s safe to say that there could be much that I’m missing about the situation. Such as, thinking back, had I watched a show about aliens? Had I seen a plane and thought it was something else? Was anything there at all? Did my mind play tricks on me?
Who knows.
All I can safely say is… it would make me more inclined to believe in Earth-bound aliens than Jeff Peckman’s footage. But I don’t. Just because I couldn’t and can’t yet identify what I saw (if anything, truly) doesn’t mean I should jump to the extreme of calling it an alien.
I have some skeptical questions and notes:
1. You heard it? That’s actually a rarity. Many people do not hear UFOs and attribute it to awesome alien technology but in reality it is simply an astronomical event, planet, or the moon (yes, the moon is attributed to a vast majority of UFO sightings).
2. 6 years ago is a long time and memories are incredibly terrible. Being a listener of the skeptics guide has opened my eyes to a crap-load false memory incidents.
3. Humans are terrible, TERRIBLE, at judging how far away a light is at night. Unless you could record at what angle you saw the light from two distant places I don’t see how you could make anywhere close to an accurate estimate.
Although I’m skeptical, I do sympathize with your experience. I used to watch all those crappy UFO shows and I used to look outside my window pretending that the reflection of plane lights and street lights were aliens. I might have had an overactive imagination when I was young…
1. It was more likely I heard the trees moving.
2. I realize this.
3. I know it looked close and the hills are about 200 feet tall.