I've had many, many things like that happen to me but, I'd like to tell you about the first time.
It was late January or early February in 1993. I was coming back from my laundry room, which was outside my apartment, and I'm walking west across my parking lot when I spotted Venus in the evening sky for the first time that year. I've always loved looking at her since I was a little girl so, I stopped an enjoyed it for a few minutes. As I was watching, I noticed that she seemed to be changing shape. On her left, my right, she seemed to be flattening out. I thought that's odd. Then when that side came back to fullness, the bottom seemed to flatten out and I noticed these tiny lights flying into the bottom and disappearing. I watched to see if they would come back out the top but, they didn't. Then, the left side flattened out again, and I saw more little lights coming into her.
I thought they were doors opening and closing. As soon as that thought came into my mind I heard a voice in my head. It said, "Why so surprised? We often hide in front of stars and planets to avoid detection." And, I started cracking up. I thought of all of the old stories about people who had seen UFOs but, when they reported the sightings they were told that they had only been seeing "the planet Venus." And, all of that was so ludicrous to me that I had to laugh.
I believe the person who spoke to me in my head knew it would make me laugh...even tho it was true. Then, I started going up the stairs towards my apartment....I don't know why I started doing that at that pivotal moment but, that's what I did. When I had gone about two steps up, the voice came again and said, " Wait!" So, I stopped and waited. Just then, my 13 year old son came to the door at the top of the stairs and said, " What are you doing?" And, I said, " Hush and get down here." So, he came down and we both looked west for whatever it was that we were waiting for.
After about 2 minutes, we saw a small UFO coming towards us over the school across our street. It was about the size of a Cessna, maybe a little bigger. It went across the street as it approached, then over our parking lot, then over our heads, then it went over the next apartment building...and off into the distance. My son ran for the fence around the school and climbed it to be able to watch the UFO longer while I stood in our parking lot dumbfounded.
When he came back to me he said, " Mom? What was that?" I was reaching for an explanation and what I came up with was, " Could it have been an ultralight? " And, he said, " But, ultralights are really noisy. That thing didn't make a sound. " And, he was right.
The craft was sort of diamond shaped with kind of squared off corners. It had five small globe like lights on the bottom....but, they weren't lit up. It was kind of like looking at the turn signals on the back of a car when they aren't on. You know, the red glass plates? These were red, too. At least, one of them was red. For some reason I kept staring at that one.
Well, since then, we've had numerous encounters with the ETs and their crafts. Sometimes I think they are keeping tabs on us or else they like to hear me laugh. I don't know. But, I know one thing, and that's that they mean us no harm. I don't know if there are others who do mean us harm but those who have contacted me, are benevolent....and funny.

Just like regular people.
Barb
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