Wayne in BC
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I have always been a cynic, wanting to see, hear, or feel something before i accepted it. An experience i had when i was only 18 years old made me revisit my thinking on UFO's. Prior to this i pooh poohed all accounts of "Aliens" or "Space visitors". (Many of them i still think are BS).
I, my girlfriend, and a good friend were traveling from our home about 11:00 pm along an old rural highway. We were not drinking, just on our way to a dance in a neighboring town and cause of it getting a bit late, i was "standing on" the gas pedal in my 57' Merc, (actually it was a "Monarch" Merc's Canadian cousin
)The fourbarrels were open and the old, green to red line speedo was getting bright red!
It was an open stretch of road surrounded by farm fields, unseen because of the black dark moonless night, and no traffic, as was mostly usual in those days. All the world was good as my girlfriends head rested on my shoulder and my buddy who was between girlfriends ran on about the girls he would meet at the dance in the next town.
Odd how two things can happen, suddenly and at once, leaving you wondering later, what came first?
I believe the first thing was the large luminescient blue object that suddenly appeared in front of and nearly above us, i did not even have time to complete the action my brain dictated in that split second, which was..... HIT THE BRAKES! because the car died! Now i have no idea why my reaction would be to brake, when in retrospect, getting the hell outta there would seem more logical, maybe ingrained driving reactions? I am actually now better able to recall the fact that, as i listened to my buddy give a big "uuuhhhh!!" And my girlfriend who had been dozing and had seen nothing, but being disturbed by the sudden loss of motion, said quite peevishly...what are you doing? All this as i steered the dead car, with no lights,all power and electricals just gone, to the side of the road while looking fearfully up at the weird apparition!
Another question that has always stayed in mind was how that thing stayed in the same position in front and above, without changing as the car came down from 80 mph to a stop? In what seemed to me to be way too quickly!
It was maybe a couple seconds after i got stopped that the object "streaked" away across the field to our left, stopped at what appeared to be a mile away then hovered for a few seconds before streaking away and disappearing. Now my bud and i both said the same thing in unison.....holy %$#@#@ did You see that?! And i replied, who do you thing was driving! My girlfriend was being quite caustic, as she thought it was a situation where i was goofing around with the car just for fun, something she claimed i did way too much of
......she had not seen a thing! She also refused to believe us.
At the moment the big blue thing zoomed away, my headlights had come back on, so it was with relief that i turned the key, started the car and headed back to town, wondering if i would make it and going like hell again, confusing my girl even more. Best we not go into how long that relationship lasted
On the way we discussed reporting it to the RCMP, (as the girl retreated into suspicious silence some three feet away from me) but changed our minds as we knew their opinion of the two of us was, shall we say, "predjudiced".
At that time i had little or no knowledge of what occured in many "UFO" encounters so did not have any way to "make up" the effects of the encounter. I did read about similiar things happening in later years tho, and it gave me the shivers. We never really got to examine the object, it was not clear or sharp and left only an impression rather than a picture in our minds. I am sure that the whole episode lasted only seconds, not allowing we two guys to make a judgement or time to observe, just to wonder if our shorts would need changing......
I, my girlfriend, and a good friend were traveling from our home about 11:00 pm along an old rural highway. We were not drinking, just on our way to a dance in a neighboring town and cause of it getting a bit late, i was "standing on" the gas pedal in my 57' Merc, (actually it was a "Monarch" Merc's Canadian cousin
)The fourbarrels were open and the old, green to red line speedo was getting bright red!It was an open stretch of road surrounded by farm fields, unseen because of the black dark moonless night, and no traffic, as was mostly usual in those days. All the world was good as my girlfriends head rested on my shoulder and my buddy who was between girlfriends ran on about the girls he would meet at the dance in the next town.
Odd how two things can happen, suddenly and at once, leaving you wondering later, what came first?
I believe the first thing was the large luminescient blue object that suddenly appeared in front of and nearly above us, i did not even have time to complete the action my brain dictated in that split second, which was..... HIT THE BRAKES! because the car died! Now i have no idea why my reaction would be to brake, when in retrospect, getting the hell outta there would seem more logical, maybe ingrained driving reactions? I am actually now better able to recall the fact that, as i listened to my buddy give a big "uuuhhhh!!" And my girlfriend who had been dozing and had seen nothing, but being disturbed by the sudden loss of motion, said quite peevishly...what are you doing? All this as i steered the dead car, with no lights,all power and electricals just gone, to the side of the road while looking fearfully up at the weird apparition!
Another question that has always stayed in mind was how that thing stayed in the same position in front and above, without changing as the car came down from 80 mph to a stop? In what seemed to me to be way too quickly!
It was maybe a couple seconds after i got stopped that the object "streaked" away across the field to our left, stopped at what appeared to be a mile away then hovered for a few seconds before streaking away and disappearing. Now my bud and i both said the same thing in unison.....holy %$#@#@ did You see that?! And i replied, who do you thing was driving! My girlfriend was being quite caustic, as she thought it was a situation where i was goofing around with the car just for fun, something she claimed i did way too much of
......she had not seen a thing! She also refused to believe us.At the moment the big blue thing zoomed away, my headlights had come back on, so it was with relief that i turned the key, started the car and headed back to town, wondering if i would make it and going like hell again, confusing my girl even more. Best we not go into how long that relationship lasted
On the way we discussed reporting it to the RCMP, (as the girl retreated into suspicious silence some three feet away from me) but changed our minds as we knew their opinion of the two of us was, shall we say, "predjudiced".At that time i had little or no knowledge of what occured in many "UFO" encounters so did not have any way to "make up" the effects of the encounter. I did read about similiar things happening in later years tho, and it gave me the shivers. We never really got to examine the object, it was not clear or sharp and left only an impression rather than a picture in our minds. I am sure that the whole episode lasted only seconds, not allowing we two guys to make a judgement or time to observe, just to wonder if our shorts would need changing......
