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This eerily similar to my 2 ufo experiences....One of which was recent out on a camping trip out in Yosemite. Myself and a couple of friends awome before sunrise to head into the park and get some early morning photos. As we were driving into the mountains, the sky sees it's first light before the sun breaks on the horizon. at this moment i am driving (listening to incubus, i shit you not lol) i see a light hovering above a mountain peak. Right as i go to point it out, it darts upward at a speed that made the light streem, as it dissappeared into the abyss of the universe...At this moment i could have blamed the lingering effects of LSD, or lack of rest from days full of long hikes. But this being my second encounter, and having it be almost identical to my first, i was convinced. My first sighting was in my home town back in the summer of 2012. I was driving home late at night after a show on the phone with my girlfriend exchanging i love yous when all of a sudden, above the highway, there was this large bright orb hovering in a circular motion. At this point i say to my girl "You would'nt beleieve me if i told you, but there is a hovering light in the sky" .. i countinue my ride home as this light continuously bobs and hovers above me when all of a sudden it stops dead still for a moment before it shoots into space and disappears. Still to this day, it has me questioning everything i thought i knew. whcih is why now, i have no beliefs. Because in a world where seemingly anything is possible i can't rule out anything, even when it sounds like a pure fantasy... life is miraculous and unexplainable, and that's just the way i like it. oh yeh, and THEY DO EXIST!!!๐Ÿ‘ฝ๐Ÿ––

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I love ufo and ghost stories. They are the best!! Thanks for sharing!

I worked as cabin crew in Spain for a few years in the 90s and one night, during a transatlantic flight, the captain called us into the cockpit to show us something. โ€œLookโ€, he said, โ€œ these little lights have been following us for a whileโ€. When we looked to the right, there were three lights moving alongside our plane. They just moved at the same speed as us and then, suddenly, they started to move in circles and up and down, as if they were dancing. After another ten minutes or so, they sped up and just disappeared. The captain said he had no idea what they might be; however, he had seen similar lights before over his long career as a pilot. Whatever they were, they were beautiful!!

I think it would be quite naive to believe that we are alone in this cast universe!!

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I've never seen anything myself, but I've never been looking. I think it would be deeply foolish of me to think there was no life anywhere else, but I do think the most plausible stories come from decades prior to now, like yours. Mainly because I have to assume that intelligent lifeforms would have earth marked as a no fly zone by now ๐Ÿ˜…

Such an incredible thing to witness with a group though, some people to back up your experience. It would be fascinating to find these people again and see if everybody still remembers it the same way!

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This is so cool. I have never had any extraterrestrial experiences myself but definitely paranormal ones. All I can say is that the unknown is fascinating and I hope in my lifetime we witness some kind of real communication with an alien life form. Such a cool story! Thank you! ๐Ÿ––

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One morning I was laying on the couch looking out of the picture window, when I began to notice a deep red rotating circle to the upper left of the room I was in. I remember noting the counter clockwise rotation and how the color continued to deepen to the deepest red. It seemed that just as I decided the rotation was definitely counter clockwise, that, much like the rim of a fast moving vehicle, the rotation seemed to change to clockwise, then it seemed as if it was rotating in both directions. As continued to behold this (cloud of particles?) I didnโ€™t want to blink because the last time I saw something I couldnโ€™t explain, I blinked and it was gone. (Another story) so, as I watched I noticed that in its midst it was packed with more rotating circles, then as I focused better the rotating looked as if all of the inner circles (which were arranged like sphere packing models) were also rotating from their cores (like a torus field) which made the circle look more like a sphere opening towards me, and just before it disappeared from sight I focused into the center, as I did I was so surprised to see a square also rotating that I said out loud โ€œwhat are YOU doing there?โ€

This is the most recent of the several incidents that have held my attention since the experience.

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When I was 13 so around 1990, I saw a small bright orange orb flying object in my room, it glowed brightly and moved in strange patterns around my room. It made a whizzing sound and I was convinced it was alien technology. It was a little bigger than a tennis ball in size and a physical craft of some kind. I told my parents who used to then send me Christmas gifts from 'Whizzy the Alien' until I left home!.

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Damn. I feel like you transported me to that night you saw the dancing ball of light in the sky. That sounds so mesmerizing and beautiful, yet also confusing and confounding at the same time. Also, to find out that there's both a nuclear power plant AND a large military base near that area?? Hmmm...I don't want to go into conspiracy theory territory, but I'll leave it at the fact that I have a few questions. Haha ๐Ÿ˜น

This actually reminded me of my own UFO experience when I was 10 or 11 or so, it was kind of buried far in the back of my head but now I've dug it back up and this is the first time I'm sharing it with anyone. I was just in my bedroom trying to sleep, but I couldn't. Fifth grade me was just laying there, at four in the morning, kinda dazed. Then I glanced out the window (there was a window over my bed that showed the sky) and I saw this translucent, slightly glowing white object that was surprisingly large. I also remember it having three black spots. I glanced away for a second, then looked back and it was still there but smaller. I probably started at it for a dangerously long time without blinking trying to figure out what the hell it was. Then I had to rub my eyes, and after that it had either disappeared or blended in with the stars. 11 or 12 years later and I'm still scratching my head.

Also, for the record, I don't understand why there are people out there who "don't believe" in aliens. Think about it: we inhabit only one planet in an infinitely expanding universe with so many places we have yet to even comprehend, let alone visit or see with our mere human eyes. There *has* to be more out there, and maybe we have indeed crossed paths unknowingly. Space in general has always fascinated me and I really can't wait to see what we discover as our technology and our minds get more advanced. Fingers are crossed that I'll get to see earth have its first confirmed alien encounter in my lifetime.

Thank you again for bringing us together and opening our minds with such a fascinating and wonderful story. I always love these glimpses into your beautiful mind. Love you B, hugs from Washington like always ๐Ÿ’–๐Ÿ˜บ

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I was probably 7 or 8 and lived in Costa Mesa at the time. We were driving home late/early in the morning from visiting family in Baja. I was asleep in the back seat, I had my head resting on the car door. We mustโ€™ve been on a bridge or a part of the freeway that was higher up because the car was level with the top of warehouse building. I opened my eyes and there it was, hovering over the warehouse. I looked around the car to see if anyone else noticed. My siblings were asleep and my mom had her eyes focused on the road. I knew if I asked her to look I would get yelled at for distracting her so I kept it to myself. I looked back at it, it was a shiny dark metal object with only 1 light shooting straight out of the bottom. The light wasnโ€™t like an exterior light that was on it was more like there was a light on inside and there was an opening at the bottom letting the light escape. It was very still which made me question if it was part of the building but then it disappeared. Faster than a blink of an eye, just gone. Like it had the ability to turn invisible? I remember not being frightened which was strange because I had once watched an episode of X Files that gave me nightmares for at least a month. Since then Iโ€™ve seen many โ€œstrangeโ€ lights in the sky. Many of them turn out to be satellites or weather balloons but I know not all of them can be explained.

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I absolutely love your writing Brandon. There are just so many weird things that happen in life and Iโ€™m positive we only really know a small fraction of what the hell is actually going on! While you were surfing and going through your experiences, I was watching Unsolved Mysteries. Why my parents let me watch that show at 8 years old is beyond me, but it opened my eyes to a whole world out there including UFOs. Now at 40, I wonder how could there not be other life out there. Truth/ thing are unfolding rapidly so time will tell.

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Iโ€™ve had like two/three experiences that I can think of that I could never explain but a couple I think mightโ€™ve been meteors? Who knows lol. All my experiences were out in the country here in OK. Two experiences were these big lime green balls of light that moved like a meteor but not exactly the same. Another experience kinda reminds me of yours but it was really far away. All I know is Iโ€™ve always been a little creeped out about this stuff and probably think about it more than I should ๐Ÿ˜…. When I was younger I used to have waking nightmares and once I saw a cat that jumped and me and turned into a small green alien then disappeared. Canโ€™t wait to hear your other experiences. Iโ€™ve always wondered where the lyrics for Calgone came from (one of my favorite Incubus songs). ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ‘ฝ

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Alien Saviors?

I have witnessed 3 UFOs in my lifetime thus far, but Iโ€™ll save the details of my experiences and convey a few other interesting happenings instead, for now.

On July 23rd, 2012 there was a solar superstorm, we had 3 coronal mass ejections (CMEs) headed directly toward Earth in a line to hit us dead center. They are massive balls of plasma about the size of Mt. Everest and generally travel just below light speed, so they covered 93 million miles in 14 hrs or less. All 3 were a near miss. Humankind should have been annihilated that day. Something bumped all 3 CMEs out of their trajectory. They were deflected just a little bit, but it was enough to save us all from certain death. They passed extremely close between Earth and the moon, at only 110k miles away from Earth.

This event happened in 2011/2012 and it wasn't till 2014 that the press even talked about it. If you do the math, it would have taken about 6 months after the impact for the last human to die on Earth. It would have been around January 1st 2012. The Mayans were right. Their calendar was spot on. Said event really happened. This is not a conspiracy theory. It's verified by NOAH, NASA, and about a dozen other countries that mapped it. I encourage you to delve and research it for yourself.

For those CMEs to change course the way they did is impossible without some sort of intervention. Surface mainstream scientists are just calling it a โ€œphenomenonโ€ because that's their go-to word when they can't figure something out or explain it. lol.. The entire Federal Government knew about the CMEs while they were on their way before they were mysteriously bumped off their path to destroy us.

They had already began moving their families, military forces, etc, underground and at Mount Weatherby in Virginia, which is a huge underground facility designed to protect members of congress, the senate, the state of the union, the cabinet, the supreme court, and all their families. They were not going to tell the public. That's part of their protocol in the case of a preconceived world disaster or threat. This was an extension level event (ELV) which calls for all other powers that be around the world to lock down and not release the information also. If an impending disaster is ever in our midst, we won't know until it's too late. I find this highly offensive.

The reason is they wouldn't want people panicking to abstruct their own path to possible safety.

It's that simple.

They are scumbags. Though there are some good people existing in the covert government echelons who do have the human decency to unleash classified information.

In the world of UFOlogy, we call them โ€˜White Hats.โ€™ More recently Linda Moulton Howe, a highly accredited investigative reporter with over 40 years of UFO/alien investigation experience, reported some intel via a White Hat high clearance CIA operative insider who leaked classified information to Linda confirming that there was a massive alien spacecraft that bumped the CMEs out of their trajectory toward Earth. Linda vets and does extensive due diligence on all her sources before reporting. One fails to wonder how many times these off-world beings have done that. It seems clear that Earth and its inhabitants are being protected.

I'm convinced that there have been alien interventions to protect Earth from various apocalyptic catastrophes throughout the human timeline. I'm also convinced that there are multiple races on ships out in our solar system who protect us. In my perspective, itโ€™s fascinating truth.

Hereโ€™s one more convincing occurrence out of the many Iโ€™m privy to. Keep in mind that these happenings can all be researched yourself. They are all well documented.

In 1994, 60 children at Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe witnessed and reported a โ€œUFOโ€ landing, and the commonly seen Zeta Riticuli Gray alien species โ€œaliens with big eyesโ€ exited the spacecraft in bushland near their school playground. Some of the children reported said alien beings telepathically communicating to them that the Earth was in danger of humans destroying its atmosphere by way of pollution and nuclear technology.

The story was reported around the world. A BBC crew was among the first on the scene and spoke to the children and their teachers. There were also reports of strange lights and a 'craft' in the sky that day in other parts of Zimbabwe, as well as in Zambia and South Africa.

60 children with the same story about what they saw do not lie. This story alone is proof enough for me that these off-world beings are here on Earth if I didn't know about any other esoteric alien information.

In other research I have done, I found that as of 1989, there were already 57 different known alien species documented by the United States government.

I often wonder how many more they know about today.

Thank you for reading. :)

- Valentรฉ

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I live in Ireland and last year i swore i saw a ufo, there was this strange green light in the distant sky. I took all necessary selfies (should i get some notoriety for my discovery), i even excitedly told people about my discovery, you see i was fairly certain. Turns out that the lit up a bridge near by for St. Patrick's day and i am a complete moron! All jokes aside though myself and myself saw another in the middle of the day. I'm a believer...and also a moron!

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Meet me in Outer Space. It all seems unexplained yet something that is a topic of discussion no one wishes to discuss.

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Great Story and thanks for sharing

I have 2 separate experiences..of many

1. I was very young (5-6 yrs of age) I was living in a small northern Ontario Canadian town called Elliot Lake (uranium mining/think atomic) with my parents and older brother. My brother told me that I used to go venturing off quite a bit and this sense of adventure has not stopped at all, even now 40 yrs of age.

I recall meeting a young boy with blond hair in the parking lot of the building we lived at. He seemed a smidget older than myself... We were going to go on a mission to find dinosaurs eggs.. after all, we were children.. this is where it gets weird...

I don't recall HOW we got to a lake 15 KMs (9.32 miles) from home (one way) but I do remember playing in water and seeing the sparkles off the water from the sun. The next piece of memory I remember is being in the back of a car and seeing the scene of the outdoors pass me by through window. I don't recall if the boy was in the car as well...but the next memory is being dropped off at home to a frantic mother. I had been gone for most part of the day. My brother recalls the police dropping me off. Later, I discover that the lake I had gone missing to, has many elders tales woven around its history. Not to mention the rock cliff name on this lake is my Chinese zodiac. Maybe this boy was guiding me to something, I'd love to hear his version of that day. I always wonder where he is or who is was...

I have not seen that boy since we were lost in the woods...

2. In 2019 while in North Bay Ontario, Canada while walking up Kings Landing pier on Lake Nipissing, and my thought focused on the strange ripples forming on top of the water and thought it looked quite strange....it was around 915pm in the late summer...

I kept walking up the pier then noticed in the sky an orb like object with a ring around it enrobbed by a strange mist, was seemingly making its way across from Garden village reserve on the outskirts of North Bay to a series of islands called the Manitou Islands (Manitou is the Creator/Great Spirit name) where ot disappeared into nothingness.

**sidenote from a geek: Manitou Islands are formed in a circular pattern and are said to be an ancient volcanic pipe.

By this time, I had already taken my camera out and started filming this marvelous sighting. Others were also capturing this moment on film, all of them looked like doppelgangers to other ppl I knew elsewhere... I had met 4 other ppl within that week who also seen the strange sighting over Lake Nipissing.

I have a strange life.

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The only experience I've had like this was a few years ago. I live across from a cemetery and one night there was a strange glowing light in the cemetery that rose up and then flew over my roof, but I'm about 99% sure it was a drone. Although I'm not sure why someone was flying a drone in the cemetery at night... My dad has always been curious about aliens and into science fiction and he likes walking around looking at the stars at night. He told us once when he was younger he saw what he thought was a shooting star and then it stopped moving in the sky and shot away in another direction. Other than that I always think about the vast amount of oceans on our planet that haven't been explored and how we still discover new species of insects and things like that, so there is plenty we as humans do not know. We don't even know much about our own brains and bodies haha. And my cats freak me out on the regular by the way, especially when they look over my head like they're seeing something behind me. I'm always like, what do you see? I had pet turtles years ago too and they're some of the oldest species on the earth, so I would ask them sometimes to tell me their secrets and the meaning of life hahaha. They would just turn their head to the side and look at me.

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I've actually only shared this story to about 2 people, my fiance being one of them. But, anyway, here it is. This was about 2011 or 12, so i was about 21. I decided to go for a run with my friends younger brother who's only a couple of years younger than I. We neighbored the Santa Ana River in Riverside and decided to start our run there, up to Mount Rubidoux and back. While on our way back somewhere in between the 60 fwy and the Market st. bridge we find ourselves at the 90% mark of our run almost home when from behind the trees of the heavily vegetated river, we see a bronze/golden colored spherical object, that seemed to be metallic, rise up slowly. The object got about 150-200ft off the ground and hovered/floated completely silently. We slowed our run to a slight Jog to keep our focus on this thing and just wrap our heads around what the hell we were looking at. The object stayed silent in the air for a good 15 seconds and I remembered asking myself "is that some type of ball someone threw in the air? Is it a balloon?" And then it makes it's slow descent back behind the vegetation. I remember asking my friend what the hell is that thing and he seemed to be just holding in fear and wanted to continue his run with this look in his eyes that is burned into my memory of just "I want to go home" as he says "I don't know". I, for years, put that experience behind me and didn't care to share our story as people would probably just brush it off as a throw away story, until recently in conjunction with the government whistle blowers and release of select videos of UAPs I stumbled across this ( https://youtu.be/1fKhqnAtnx8?si=a9lV3-gwHAxrW1fD ). The object in this video is damn near EXACTLY what we saw that day and I have struggled for months on if I should send this to that friend and ask if he remembers that day.

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