Kim, it looks to me like maybe you saw an UFO at the time of the Phoenix Lights in 97, when several UFOs were seen across the States. Do you remember the time of the year when it happened?
Yes I believe it was the same time I'm thinking March. They described the craft as being triangular but from the bottom it looked more hour glass in shape, now don't forget I never left the couch cuz like I said I didn't want it to know I was awake. After I couldn't see it any more that's when I jumped up and woke my husband who was asleep in our bedroom. I told him that and he joked if they brought me up they would have seen how mouthy I am and spit me back out. You have to have humor it was scary.
Not an expert in aliens by far, unless you count a life-long interest in science fiction as some sort of expertise. Still, on the discussion that Kim, Runestone and Starpath are having on that particular UFO, it's reminded me of the movie "Arrival", where the main question was "why are they here?" Quite an interesting movie about communicating with aliens. There's a point where the main character says that she can see her whole life from beginning to end. Imagine that!
"The shape of water" was also about talking with an alien, and the main character that managed to communicate in this case was mute and used sign language. It's good to remember that aliens might communicate in a fundamentally different way to humans. We're living in interesting times, but also tricky for those of us that are simply trying to make sense of what the hell is going on and beginning to put some of the pieces together.
I find the whole topic interesting!
Had a conversation with a friend last night, who related an unnamed friend's alien story to me, which I will relate here, with commentary FWIW.
She was on a trip camping in the Great Lakes area with her spouse, when suddenly he veered the car off on a dirt road, to the location of an old, abandoned church. They got out and proceeded to 'do it' on the hood of the car. Meanwhile, she's sensing some kind of physical presence nearby and might have seen something.
The next day, she knows she's pregnant. Asks the hubby if he felt anything wierd at the time--but he can't even recall the incident.
She's totally freaked, eventually goes and has what she figures is alien spawn removed.
That night, while hubby goes downstairs, she feels an alien presence, and feels her DNA being scrubbed from top of her head down to her toes, in bands, or segments. She is fully conscious, but held immobile while this happens.
It ends. Hubby comes back up, she asks if he's seen anything, felt anything. He doesn't even remember going downstairs.
This kind of 'aliens got me pregnant' story, complete with being awake but immobilized for some procedure is not uncommon.
I have a logical mind, and the first thing that comes to me is to ask 'Why?' Either why would people all over the world make up stories remarkably like this one, and/or why the heck would aliens be trying to get women pregnant?
The woman in question was left of the opinion that aliens were trying to breed us for a food source. Seems like a long, drawn out, unproductive way to get food to me--unless we're the tasty equivalent of truffles, in which case why not go to some overcrowded place and take surplus people? Why go to the outback of the Great Lakes area? The stated motivation is illogical, and the means of satisfying the motivation is illogical.
If there's a point to my rambling, its that I think it possible to understand the motivations of possible alien visitors by observation of their behavior.
What I recall are a whole lot of night sightings, strange scary visitations at night, crop circles appearing at night, or weird unexplained sightings during the day--all of which seem to generate a standard fear response.
WTF?? Why what appears like an investment in scaring humans?
As a writer, I can come up with fifteen ways before breakfast to make First Contact that doesn't involve scaring the stuffing out of the natives.
Either these aliens aren't as bright as I am, or they don't care if they freak us out, or the fear response is a *feature not a bug* in their plans and we're being manipulated for some reason--or these appearance are not alien in origin.
Yes, I can conceive of aliens so alien that we are to them as ants are to us. In which case they'd float on by and ignore us, like we do most ants.
However, a lot of alien contact stories involve an element of interaction, which hints at motivation. They're more on our level. Aliens seem to want something, if that's really them buzzing the ISS, or impregnating random women.
Somebody should be looking for the patterns. R1
Well, an encounter like that is not unusual. There are UFO archives full of them.
A friend was a passenger on an airliner that had a near miss with a UFO coming into land. Passengers all got interviewed on landing, and the pilot got threatened and told to never discuss it. Subsequently, my friend had multiple contact type experiences. All of them a bit dreamlike. He had a serious spinal problem. Aliens fixed it. I saw the X rays of his spine, before, and after. it was fixed, with some very unusual surgery, that appeared to have reshaped the spine bones, and fixed the nerves. To me, it looked like something we humans cannot do yet. but it had happened. He had subsequent "Visitations". Some interesting conversations. They were quite friendly. A fairly typical experience. also, "Alien implants" have ben recovered surgically from people. They look like thin strings of rubber rope, the length of a finger. Dissection shows strange structures, but the material is a plastic substance. Its sort of a Cyborg insert. A number of these have been recovered. When the first one was recovered, and it was published on the net, others came forwards. The "Star-Child" skull, from central America, is another example. Its a hybrid. Wierd DNA. The universe is not just a strange place, its stranger than we can imagine. Mostly, human/alien encounters are quite peaceful, and for a purpose. The purpose is to help us avoid destroying ourselves. The Alien "Pregnancy" was a manipulated event. almost hypnotic. When the friend had an abortion, it signalled she did not want it. Thats why the DNA got scrubbed. Otherwise, any child she had, would have been a hybrid. So in a strange way, they respected her decision. Such "Hybridization" is going on. If the child had been born, it would have looked perfectly Human, but very smart, well developed, and very healthy. The child would have passed on its inheritance. Some women in encounters, have consented and got pregnant. (Yes, really). The "Star-children " are already amongst us. Cherish them.
PS:
Trump is an experiment that went wrong, lol. (just joking)
I am a fan of the Ancient Aliens shows on the History Channel, especially the earlier episodes which had a lot of the hard evidence such as the monoliths and similar stuff all over the world. They are beginning a new series this month (Friday's). Early seasons are available at their website. Also their Hanger One shows and Dolores Cannon's books. Her book The Custodians has a lot of information. I don't always agree with some of their conclusions but I don't "throw out the baby with the bath water." I have no doubt they have been here for thousands of years, including the two UFO's that I have seen.
I like those shows too, but like like the ones on ancient Egypt best.
Runestone,
If you met an Alien, you would be fascinated, and they would as well. Conversations often result. Or they simply vanish, in an instant. "Glancing encounters". People do not usually say anything. They think about it, read, and realize that no harm came from it. It often has a profound effect on them.