I've had several weird experiences dating all the way to childhood. I've seen a ghost, a UFO ( alien craft ), experienced missing time, and more; too much to post up here. That's probably the main reason why I don't arbitrarily rule out the paranormal stories of others. This realm is a strange place to exist in. So-called normal life is just a thin veneer over a wider and deeper reality. Some people are afraid of telling others what they have experienced. I'm still reserved about certain things, but the older I get the less I care what other people think, and the more I think it's a shame we can't be more out in the open about our paranormal experiences. If anyone is interested they can check out how I became interested in ufology and some short descriptions of some of my experiences here: http://www.ufopages.com/Reference/BD/Murphy-02a.htm
I've only had two paranormal experiences in my life (I'm 22) and hope to have many more. My first experience was when I was very young (5-6 maybe). My Grandmother had just passed away and some time shortly after we found out, I was taking a bath (with the restroom door open so I could see out into the hallway) and a young woman in a big, ruffled victorian style dress walked by the door from right to left and disappeared down the hall. I found out later that my grandmother's favorite thing to do was throw victorian style parties when she was younger. My second experience was recent. On the evening of September 24, 2010 around 10:00pm I was driving home from work (I live in Las Vegas, NV) and when I exited the freeway onto Tropicana Blvd a bright red light flashed in the eastern sky near Sunrise Mt. and a red bolt of light shot across the sky from east to west and disappeared over the horizon. I looked around in the local news the next morning but could not find any reports of this happening.
Ok, here goes. My personal UFO experience. 1989. I was in my late teens, probably 17 or 18. I was hanging around a shopping mall as teenagers do. It was dark so I am guessing about 2000 hrs. It was very warm so I am thinking summer, in my small hometown of Pinetown, South Africa. I was on the roof parking lot of this mall doing god knows what when I noticed a light travelling across the sky, right to left as I was looking. It was quite bright, blinking mostly a red colour. I am no great judge of distance, but it seemed far away but not terribly far away. Perhaps the height of a plane when it becomes visible in the night sky? This on it's own was compelling, but the show hadn't even started yet. As the object moved overhead I noticed that it was flanked on either side by an identicle object. These objects eventually came 'together' and became one before they disappeared from sight. They may have been moving into formation causing the optical illusion that they were joining, I haven't a clue. Now here's the punchline. This happened over and over again, i must have seen dozens of groups of 3 passing overhead. I even walked over the road to call my friend who lived in some nearby flats. We climbed to the roof of her building and marvelled at this strangeness. I still have no idea what they could be. PS - If anyone has any ideas or questions, pop into my 'new guy' thread and have your say New Guy
Hi DT, can you elaborate? Were they 'joining up'? I have always wondered if this was a perspective issue, maybe they were falling in-line with each other. How many did you see, and have you any idea how far away they were? Sorry for all the Q's but I have always wondered if anyone else has seen this phenomena. I just can't rationalise this away!
I was about twelve when i saw a very bright reddish light that seemed like it was miles away and then all of a sudden it was very close what seemed to be a few hundred yards away above a hill that i was across from.It seemed to grow in size and intensity and then all of a sudden it seemed to disappear and be to the left and then disappear and seemed to be on the right and then it disappeared again and was right back in its original spot and grew brighter once again and then it just seemed to move backwards at such a speed that it might as well have vanished.This happened very late about 2 or 3 in the morning and what was strange is when i was seeing it i couldnt hear any noise from my surroundings and when it left all sounds returned.I was fishing and couldnt even hear the water anymore very strange huh.Ive always wondered if it was one large craft and the lights were on different points of it or if it was three different craft.If it was one large craft it would have made a perfect triangle .If they were different craft that joined up they did it in a way that my eyes couldnt tell which is why i think it was one huge craft.Though i maybe wrong and they were three craft moving in such a away and at such a speed that they seemed to be one large craft .
It seemed like the two smaller lights that appeared on the left then right faded out and then the larger light was in the center again and then seemed to take off and disappear in the blink of an eye .I wonder myself if the two smaller lights were blinking out and then lined up with the larger object and i couldnt tell from my perspective. They large object seemed about 500 yards away while the two smaller lights seemed about 1000 yards away but hard to judge because it was very dark out in the desert .I think it may have been one large triangle shaped object and the larger one was the front light while the smaller ones were on the corners on the sides.I heard no sound from it and couldnt even hear any sound from my surroundings either which was so strange because I was on the bank of Apache lake and should have heard the water and sounds of the desert and the wind around me and when the object was gone i could hear everything again as if a unmute button was hit.My mother and her friend have also seen strange objects at the same lake years before posted reply to my sighting if you wanna read it
The first time I saw something that was bizarre was when I was with the Canadian Armed Forces back in'88. I was a Trooper with the 8th Canadian Hussars stationed at camp Zimmermann near Rottweiler, Germany. At the time I was a jeep driver for the Canadian and British officers. Because the exercise had not started my fellow troopers and I had duties throughout the camp. Mostly cleaning before / after meals or fire picket. It's pretty easy walking around the compound looking for someone who should not be there, looking for fires for usually 2 hours then trading with the next detail. Just after 2 am I started walking around the building where tent city was while my partner was in the canteen bathroom. Quietly standing alone just as I passed the corner of the brick building was someone not part of our team. The person was under a bright light, about 10 feet away from a brick wall turned toward me. The shadow I assume from the bright light casting on him making it hard to see if he had on a uniform or civilian clothing on. But what stood out was that he was dancing. His arms were crossed, kicking one foot out and dropping down on the other foot then would repeat the same procedure to the other side. He did it perfectly a couple of times then slowly placed his hands on his side. From the surprise of seeing this I had stopped about 15 feet away. I had no idea what was going on as he did not move and did not seem to notice or really care I was there. Walking down the path I tripped on one of the rocks and looked down to check my path. As I looked up again to watch him but was no longer there. He should have been there everything was too far away from him or at least seen something of him as he hid. When my partner came back we checked the lines and reported the incident. It took me a while after the incident to get a grip on what had happened. The incident was not scary just very weird. Enough to look into ghosts myself.
You're not the only one that happens to. I think "just knowing" happens more commonly than suspected but is often dismissed as coincidence because it's so EASY to dismiss it as coincidence. If you were a skeptic you wouldn't even think it worthy of consideration. When I grew up I commonly "just knew" when something wrong. For me it happened most "dramatically" when I was thirteen and a friend of mine was staying over for dinner. We had ordered a pizza and went to pick it up. To my mother and my friends "ire?" I refused to go in and get it. After a roughly ten minute argument my mother decided to go get it herself. It turned out that they had put the order under another name. If I had gone in we never would have gotten the pizza. I know it's not as dramatic or as dangerous a situation as you described but I just knew something was wrong with the order and I stubbornly stuck to my guns. I just knew something was wrong. So I was right and we never spoke of it again.
