Sharing my experience

I am concerned about who I can share this with. I am not a drunk. I am not a drug user. I am not white trash. I am not mentally ill, and I have not had a past with any of the aforementioned. I am a programmer. I am a student at a very reputable school in the United States. I am what many people call, a "goodie two-shoes". I am an intelligent scientific man who preaches truth only through my work and studies. I have stated these facts primarily because I am afraid of the stereotypes. I know so well, about the social "image" that one here may be burdened with. I am afraid that I will be discredited, the truth and science is my life. I cannot live with a reputation of being "one of those people". The strange, no life, new age, modern day hippies that flood society and the Internet with drug-influenced or drunken tales of the paranormal and metaphysical. I am concerned about who I can share this with, for that sake. For my sake as a man of truth.

So why choose to pick a paranormal website at random, in which to expose a story that I know to be simply unbelieveable in the most literal sense? I am not afraid, I am not at unrest. I am not even concerned about the future. I do this as a student, as a human being driven by that very thing which makes us human - an unquenchable desire for truth! I again reiterate that I am concerned about sharing this, I even hesitated to wait until I went on a trip with some friends out of state to post this here, and even then while using a proxy.

I've had a good weekend so far, and now that I have finished my daily meditation; I see it wise that I reflect on my story. Like a master of Zen may say, "The clouds that form above mountains are not real, but a reflection in the lake is." - I too shall show many eager minds what is real. With that being said, I will try to explain my story to you - for the sake of Truth.

So here's what happened...

Starting right around the beginning of the month, I had become restless at school and work. I decided that I wanted to get away from it all and take a mini-vacation; And so I did. I basically chose to go visit my parents as I had missed them for Christmas. It is a 7 hour drive approximately, and I wanted to leave ASAP so I packed my stuff and left the very night I decided to go. Most of the drive was uneventful, and when I got off at my exit, it was almost 3:30am. Being a big "night person", the time did not bother me very much, I was still quite alert and very much "myself". The backroads into where my parents live pass through a region amidst 3 large quarries, all of which are depleted. Other than those quarries, that area is deserted save for a farm here and there, or a field of soy-beans. And so there I was, driving through the backroads only but an hour away from home; I had been listening to my "long drive" mix CD the whole way and it had just run to its end. I reflexively turned the radio back on, and continued to drive. A few minutes after having turned the radio on, I thought I heard a strange clicking on the radio. To describe the interference, I will compare it to a Nextel cell-phone that frequents the lower end of the spectrum, and the interference it causes when it is brought near electronics. I disregarded it at first and changed the station, but it was continually there... even when as I was tuning the stations. It sounded like it was an overlay-ed interference. I did a quick check for any towers nearby, but knew and confirmed there were none. For almost 10 minutes, I kept the radio on hoping it would clear up, but it got only more distinct, it eventually got to the point where I could make out that it was clicking, and then buzzing. *click click click click click* *buzzzzz*, again and again (and this sounds very much like a Nextel phone interference, if you have one you know). But this had a much more "clean" sound to it. As my preoccupation with the interference peaked, to my astonishment and surprise, I noticed a helicopter coming from one of the fields to my right side, very fast, and seemingly out of nowhere! At this time I turned off the radio, slowed down and did a quick scan of the area this helicopter was coming from in the worry that this was a news helicopter reporting something like a fire or accident. Seeing no smoke, no glowing, or any sign of... anything in that area (maybe a farmhouse or two), I was quickly drawn to the helicopter which was now passing over my car. I'm not a very good judge of distances and so I can't tell you how high off of the ground it was, but in my own words - "not as high as I am used to seeing". It continued on its course never slowing down, and eventually I was mused and continued on driving. I switched the radio back on, and tried to find any kind of news for the area, assuming if something had happened someone would be talking about it. But I instead found a song I like and listened, and in the background I could hear that clicking/buzz interference slowing fading, and disappear withing a minute. I continued to drive for another 10 minutes. The road I was on is very remote and long, I have to drive on that same road for almost an hour to get home. But now the part I have a hard time believing myself came to pass. By chance, I glimpsed in my rear-view mirror, and saw something that made me slow down and do a triple-take! I could see a very dim, faint ovular form jetting back and forth over some area in the distance. I didn't know what to make of it so I stopped and turned around to look, and I simply could not believe my eyes! In my entire life I have never seen a sight so eerie, awe-inspiring, and yet provocative at the same time. The object, which from my point of view appeared to be an oval on its side with a very faint shimmer on the bottom side of it. (It was hard to make out from such a distance) It was about half of a mile behind me in the field to my right where I had seen the helicopter earlier. A rushed chain of thoughts begun to string together in my mind, "Is that what I think it is?", "No, way.", "I want to see it closer.", "I should get out of here.", "No one will ever believe this!", etc... I stared for a minute or two, watching this thing slow down its movements and then remain perfectly motionless. At this point I began to fear, for in my mind, seeing it moving about meant that it was "occupied". But hovering motionless in the distance behind me sent chills up my spine as I felt it may decide to investigate what I was doing. The image of this object in the distance is just indescribable, the movies don't give these things enough credit for stunning sleekness! It was hauntingly beautiful! But now, as my fear grew and I turned around to get out of there, my heart stopped yet again. As at that moment I noticed there was another one of those "things" hovering off in the distance in front of me to my left. But I knew where this other one was, it was hanging in the air above a quarry, not moving, shimmering slightly making no noise about a quarter-mile ahead of me. I quickly glanced in my mirror behind me and was not surprised to see the first object right where I left it. At this moment I was very freaked out, I felt a bit trapped, yet both objects were some distance away, both seemed to be busy with something, one wandering about frozen farmland, the other hanging around a quarry. I sat and watched both with extreme caution, checking for movement. I had planned that I would try to wait for them to leave as to not, as I thought to myself, "look interesting". I have given long lectures that felt quicker than the five minutes of time that went by with me waiting. I was on edge, and speechless, thoughtless, and waiting. The object in front of me finally began to move as I noticed the shimmering of the bottom began to shift a bit, giving me the hint that it was moving. When I noticed that it was coming in my direction, I completely left my brains and sense in the backseat and hit the accelerator as hard as I could. I almost began to cry out of fear as I was so afraid that I was actually seeing "UFOs", and that I had one coming towards me (although it was still off to my left, I was too afraid to think logically). In a few seconds I was going 80-90mph down a rural road, crying to myself as I knew if I looked out to my left I would see a UFO. This was something I had always denounced and criticized, but now I was in the midst of multiple entities! I drove fast and never looked back except to check to see that they were both behind me, I probably broke all the rules of the road on my way home. I got where I needed to be in 20 minutes, and immediately ran inside and sat in the living room with the lights on. I feverishly looked out the windows habitually, in the fear that those "things" were around. But after they were in my rear-view mirror, they stayed there. I did not sleep that night. I stayed awake, in disbelief trying to come up with explanations to what I had seen. I stayed with my parents for a few days, "relaxing" like I was supposed to do. But I never could, I could not stop thinking about what I had seen (would you?). On the day of my departure (making sure to leave during the day this time), as I was eating my breakfast reading the newspaper, I stumbled across an article about a local farm who has reported "another" horse theft! This was actually a common occurrence for the farms in the area, as animals have been stolen in the past from the relatively unprotected farms. When I noticed that the horse-in-question had been missing since the night of my encounter, I felt ill from the now reoccurring thoughts about seeing that object hover about the exact area where this persons' farm is. Now of course I didn't say anything... "I think your horse may have been taken by a UFO.", would land me in a bad place. Needless to say, on my return trip, I avoided that same road. And even today, I have yet to travel down that road again.

This happened to me in the early morning hours of January 5th, 2004. I know what I saw. I do not plan to talk to anyone about this event for reasons mentioned earlier. And I also do not want to mention where this took place. (so do not ask please)

So many years of science, logic, and reason failed me completely on that day. And now I do not discredit such stories upon hearing them. I can only sum up how I feel about the entire thing with a word, "wow".