It was twenty
years ago to the day that I saw a UFO. It was on June 13th, 1996, at
around quarter to three just round the corner from my home in Warrington,
England. I know these specific details because when I returned home I made a
note of them. The note you see pictured is the actual account I wrote down at
the time.
The skies were a sparkling blue that
day and as I walked to the local shop, glancing up at tranquil heavens (as I’m
prone to do), I noticed something that made me do a double take and stop dead
in my tracks. There was a perfectly round object over to my left in the sky
flying away from me. I hate to opt for the cliché name but it was a flying
saucer because that’s exactly what it was! It wasn’t a shiny metallic object,
as so often depicted in the movies, it was dark and contained no apparent
lights of any kind, flashing or otherwise. I wrote down the color brown in my
description and added that it was “marked.” I can’t specifically recall how it
was marked. The crude image I drew doesn’t really help in my recollection. I
wish I’d had a camera on me. That really would have helped.
Unfortunately back in 1996 I wasn’t in
possession of a handy mobile phone with a camera on it. I had cameras back at
the house but in the time it would have taken me to run back and find one I
would have missed the whole spectacle and, as I remember, I was pretty
transfixed by it, mesmerized even. I think I watched it for somewhere between
two to three minutes approximately until it had fully flown out of sight.
The UFO wasn’t flying at any sort of
speed I’d consider unusual; it was flying at the same speed as an airplane. In
fact there was an airplane in the sky at the same time, over to the left of the
disc. The fact that I could clearly make out the shape of an airplane leads me
to the conclusion I wasn’t witnessing some kind of atmospheric distortion. I
was looking up into that clear and vast blue oasis and I was staring at
something I couldn’t quite believe was there. What the hell was it? I can’t really speculate a rational
explanation. This was a large flying disc up at the same height as an airplane,
unlike anything I’d ever observed up there before. It was as real as the houses
around me, as real as the cars parked on the street next to me. It truly was a
bizarre thing to witness.
I realize that there are plenty of
people who don’t believe in this sort of stuff but there are so many confirmed
and valid sightings when you start to look into it, things that are difficult
to debunk. Without doubt there are unexplained objects flying around out there
and I can say this with some authority having witnessed a mysterious object
myself. I’m not saying I know what they are, seeing a daylight disc myself doesn’t
really help shed any light on what is behind the phenomenon. It could be
something terrestrial, something natural or… who knows?
So, do I believe little green men were
at the helm of the craft I saw? Well, that’s the big question isn’t it? If
you’re prone to skepticism you’re probably hoping I’ll go full-out kooky and
say of course there were aliens onboard, they beamed me up onto their ship and
shoved a probe up my ass later that evening. Truthfully I don’t know. I would
go as far as speculating that it’s plausible UFOs are unmanned (well,
unaliened) crafts just like the ones we send out into the cosmos ourselves to
gather data and observe and photograph the universe.
In 1995 there
were 117 reported sightings of UFOs in Britain, in 1996 that figure shot up to
609. I’ve only just found out that fact but it’s pretty interesting. It does
appear to be an incredibly heightened year for UFO sightings in the UK and
perhaps that’s why I was lucky enough to see one that year. I still have no
idea what it was that I saw and all I can firmly say is that I had never seen
anything like it before and twenty years later, sadly, I have never seen
anything like it since. I’ve seen other strange things in the sky, things I
could offer explanations for, but nothing as unambiguous as that big ol’ chunk
of flying round metal that I saw on that warm day in June all those years ago.
I do feel rather blessed to have seen a
classic daylight disc UFO. It certainly made me see things differently, made me
question things a little more, opened my mind up. I have no motivation to
fabricate something like this, in fact over the years when I recount the story
to people it is more often that not delivered to grinning faces and ensuing or
interrupted words of ridicule and disbelief.
Whatever your opinion maybe one day you’ll be idly
looking up at the sky and see something you can’t explain yourself, maybe you
already have. One thing’s for sure, on the anniversary of my sighting I’ll
definitely be looking. I’ll be sure to tell you if I see anything and I hope
you’ll do the same for me.
Thanks for reading.
“Watch the skies, everywhere! Keep looking. Keep
watching the skies!”
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