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I saw a UFO when I was about 11 years old. Scared the dickens out of me!

I was laying in bed, on my tummy, propped up on my elbows, looking out the window. It was raining (not storming), and I couldn't sleep.

A glowing oval-shaped object slowly rose up from the woods behind my dad's workshop. It was the size of a small house or a bus. There was no sound coming from it. I watched -- totally frozen -- as it went up into the air, and then curved around like it was going to "land" again. At that time, I slammed the curtains closed, and laid in the bed, too afraid to move or even call for my parents, heart pounding. I don't remember anything else after that, except for waking up the next morning. I told my parents about it. My dad believed me, but my mom thought I'd just had a bad dream or something (nope, most definitely not a dream).

I played in the woods often, and when I finally got the nerve to go into the woods again, I found a weird "rock" in a small clearing, in the same area that I'd seen the UFO. I collected rocks, and knew that I'd never seen that object before. It was white with blue speckles, and was much too lightweight to be a real rock. It almost felt like plastic, but it was very hard like a rock. Unfortunately, I don't know whatever happened to it. I kept it for a long time, but it's possible that my mom threw it out along with most of my other rocks when we moved a couple of years later. (Okay, so my whole closet floor was nothing but rocks! )

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And then there was the time when DH and I were sitting in the living room watching TV, and we both saw a really weird thing! Our living room and kitchen are basically one big room with only a half-wall separating them. There's a sliding glass door in the kitchen. Both of our recliners were facing the kitchen, and we both happened to glance up and see a sparkling blue-ish "thing" appear to come in through the (closed) sliding glass door, follow the wall to the corner, turn the corner, follow along another wall, turn the corner, and disappear down the hall. It looked like one of those "plasma balls" that you see in stores, but without the glass globe. It didn't make any sounds, or make any marks along with wall.

We looked at each other, big-eyed, and looked down the hall to see where it went, but it was gone. We never did figure out what it was. DH even went outside and shined a flashlight through the glass door, to see if, perhaps, someone was playing a trick on us, but there was no way a flashlight could be aimed in those angles. Someone suggested it might've been ball lightning, but it seems like lightning would've burnt the walls. Weird.

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Has anyone else ever seen anything unexplainable or strange?

Okay, I can't possibly be the only person who's seen or experienced something they couldn't explain!

Forgot to take the meds again moonrise? lol

Seriously though, neat story about the UFO. I'd love to know what the rock was. Any idea where your Mom might have thrown your collection.? Its not like she could give away a rock collection so they must still be where she put them.

Not really the same thing but the closest I can come to an unusual experience is when we first discovered the wonders of the computer and in particular IRC we 'met' this lady in one of the chat rooms and became instant friends. She lived in Dublin, Ireland and DH met her in person on one of his trips home. We talked on the phone, e-mailed and chatted on IRC all the time and she was one of the funniest and kindest people ever. Fast forward a few years and she got cancer. I still called her in the hospital and at home but she wasn't getting any better. My last call to her was answered in the hospital by her sister. She was too weak at that point to talk.

Not too long after she died I was in Ireland and went to visit her husband. I've never been one to let my imagination run away with me but that was one strange visit. Everything was normal on the surface but it felt like there was someone else in the room. Not just in the room but right in your face sorta thing. I felt she was there but something very slight was separating our worlds yet strong enough that she couldn't break through. I had a sense she was trying though. Of course as time went on I told myself my imagination was on overdrive that night. I still think she was in the room with us and she felt she should be able (and tried) to play hostess.

She probably threw them back out in the yard, or in the trash, when we moved.



Wow! That's eerie and kind of neat at the same time. I'm sorry about your friend, though!

I guess we'll never know then. It could have been a gift from our little green friends and you were meant to find it and save the world from itself with it, or better yet, it could neutralize the fat calories in chocolate. Then again, maybe it was just a rock.



Thanks.