My first UFO sighting occurred a while back in Hertfordshire UK, around ten to fifteen years ago; I can’t remember the exact year although I did file a report online which I have been searching for. If I find it I will update the post but I have been looking for a while.

I had been out with one of my friends for the evening and he dropped me home at the end of the night on the corner of the street. It was a cloudy night and as I rounded the corner I looked up and saw what I thought was the moon behind the clouds. I turned again and started to walk up my driveway and then spotted the actual moon in a different part of the sky (break in the clouds). So now I am standing in my front garden and I can clearly see the moon and also a large shining object still behind cloud cover that I thought was the moon?!? I stand there for a few minutes trying to work out what it is, with no luck! I rush inside and get my entire family outside, the unknown object was directly opposite our front door. Pointing up I ask them what that is, the response was what my initial thought was “it’s the moon”. At which point I state it’s not and point out the actual moon which is about 90 degrees off to the left, at which point there is silence.

None of us could work out what it was, it just hung there in the sky behind the cloud about the same size and brightness as the moon. It was really weird, as we are all standing watching it somewhat puzzled the weirdness stepped up a gear. Suddenly what appeared to be rings of light started to come off the object, like smoke rings or the ripple of a stone dropped in a pond. The rings went right out from the object across the horizon, the silence in the air was stunning and everyone was speechless. The pulses of light come of this object happened at regular four or five second intervals. The rings were noticeable, not just light pulsing off but a fully formed ring radiating out from the object across the sky.

It was truly amazing to see even covered by cloud, it then appeared to be dropping down. It got brighter as it did and stopped just above the cloud base frustratingly just out of clear view. We all watched this object for sometime (ten minutes I guess), I started to walk down the driveway towards it and stopped at the edge of the road (large open field opposite with a hill). I continued to watch for a few minutes more, in the corner of my eye the neighbours’ bathroom light came on and in that instant the object shot off over the top of my house and out of view at amazing speed and vanished. All the time throughout the sighting there was no noise whatsoever, and I had that being watched feeling throughout but was never afraid or worried by the experience. Before I had been a fairly hardened skeptic, but that ended on that evening that’s for sure as I have never been able to work out what it was apart from it being quite simply a UFO.

It was amazing, I have no evidence to back it up only my family’s confirmation that it happened. I can totally understand why some people cannot provide evidence as the last thing on my mind was to grab a camera! I was totally transfixed on it and didn’t want to miss even a microsecond!

Continued..

Now the most disturbing thing occurred, the entire family went inside and obviously I was mega excited and wanted to talk about what we had all seen. My families reaction was very very strange, they acknowledge that they saw it but went a bit zombie on me. They each split up and carried on whatever they were doing as if nothing major happened, it freaked the hell out of me and just remembering it sends a shudder down my spine! They were like this for about two months, and to be honest did not behave or react as they normally did at all. It was like they weren’t my family just blank shells, I had a big problem with it and didn’t feel comfortable at all. I had sleep problems and couldn’t relate to any of them like I did before.

As I said this passed after a couple of months and we can talk about the sighting but there is still some block or lack of ease in talking about it with them which persists to this day. Both my brother and I have talked about getting hypnotised to run through the night again to see if something clicks but I have my reservations about doing that. The bit that has haunted me is the difference in mine and my family’s reaction and the fact they went all zombie like on me for quite a long time, it is hard to put into words but they behaved really strange. Why was my reaction different, did something happen to me or maybe them? I don’t know but something definitely happened that night and I can’t explain it.

I thought I would share, it was the most impressive thing I have ever seen and I would give anything and I mean anything just to be back there to see it again. If anyone has seen anything fitting the description or has any ideas what it was please let me know. To me there is no doubt we are not alone in this universe and its only a matter of time..

[edit on 26-11-2009 by Bunker or Bust]

Thanks for sharing your experience. Sounds amazing.

Without evidence of an abduction, my guess is that your family's strange zombie-like reaction was due to having their belief system seriously challenged and the efforts they were unconsciously making to repair it and to 'delete, distort and generalize' (according to NLP) the sighting away in order to protect their mental status quo.

Your reaction was different. Despite formerly being a skeptic, you did not resist the new information and a new experience but were willing and able to change and adapt and to remodel your belief system. This probably disconnected you from your family somewhat who did not want to or could not make that transition with you. They were perhaps unconsciously working on 're-hypnotizing' themselves to their former oblivious mindset, while you were trying to get them to accept or at least acknowledge what they had seen and it's implications.

That would be my take on it.


[edit on 26-11-2009 by Malcram]

Wow, very interesting. Maybe the family is just so shocked they just can't believe what they saw. Probably trying to make sense of what they saw. But anways thank you for sharing your experience. Keep us updated if you see anything else!!

[edit on 26-11-2009 by capgirl]

I can defintely identify with the camera being the last thing on your mind. My first sighting my friend and I were so mesmerized by the object since we were expecting to see a helicopter that capturing the moment would have been an afterthought. Not to mention the fact that the object was black against the night sky with no lights on it so a pic wouldn't have shown much. The same was true when I witnessed another aerial phenomena years later when camera phones were pretty much the standard. Even though the sighting lasted about 5 minutes I never thought about taking a pic but I did try calling my friend while it was happening.

Cool that you had a UFO experience. The vast majority of us have not, so we can't relate. I've seen plenty of lights in the sky, but nothing that exhibited any characteristics that would give me pause to consider it out of the ordinary.

Did you contact and report this to any UFO organizations? Might want to just in case someone else saw it and reported it to.

And not to worry about the lack of pics/video. Not many have the right equipment to properly catch something like that at night on film. A cheap camcorder or even a medium priced camera would not have produced results worth discussing unless am experienced hand was operating them with a clear head and little pressure.