This encounter happened 38 years ago, I discovered the report in the forums last night, around the time it was posted. I want to thank Nanook for the following report.
38 years ago, I had an ET/UFO experience that was kind of half-way between an encounter and an abduction.
School had just let out for the summer, 4th grade was gone, done, and summer vacation was here.
In the house I lived in, it was a split level house with four half-floors. I slept in the very lowest, the rest of the family had bedrooms on the highest floor.
There was a basement door that I could enter/leave without going to the main floor of the house or waking or disturbing the rest of the family.
I woke up early, about 3:30 AM and felt an urge to go for a walk. Strangely, I didn't feel the same urge to get dressed first. I threw on a jacket but left in my pajamas without shoes.
I walked four blocks to an open area next to the elementary school I went to. It was just clay covered ground, no grass or ground cover or even normal soil, just clay.
The area was about a city block square surrounded by trees on all sides except the side that faced the school so visibility from outside of the area was not good, except from the school.
By the time I got there it was just starting to get light, that is, you could just see the northeastern sky starting to show signs of light.
There was a saucer shaped craft landed in the clearing with a ramp down to the ground.
I had the strange idea that the aliens would be out exploring the surrounding woods and maybe I could figure out how to fly it, steel it, give the technology to mankind and strand the aliens where the authorities could find them.
Odd idea I know but it seemed like a good idea at the time. But as I approached the ramp an alien stuck his head out from the side.
I was frightened but he motioned me with his hand to come. I thought even though I could be harmed it was also an opportunity of a lifetime and one few people get so I went on board.
There were two of them. I've been very interested in the subject of UFOs but I've never heard of anyone encountering beings quite like these. They were short, like the grays we commonly hear of, but their skin was what I'd call computer beige, not unlike the border to the left of this text entry box as I type this or like the bezel on this Viewsonic monitor.
They had slightly disproportionately large heads but not huge. Their eyes looked over sized but had a human like eye structure, that is they had whites, an iris, a pupil. They had small nose, mouth, and ears. Actually I have a poor memory of the ears, seems like there was not a lot of structure past a hole and they were kind of low set.
They wore a one piece jump suit that appeared to be a very tightly woven metallic fiber fabric. It had a strange green iridescent sheen like the back of some beetles.
What impressed me most was the total starkness of the interior, no furniture to speak of, only one large circular room about 25 feet in diameter.
The ramp actually came up about two feet above the inside floor level and another smaller ramp went down to the floor.
The door/ramp was never closed while I was in there, we didn't leave th ground, so I don't know how it folded up or whatever it did.
There were no other rooms, this one room took up the entire inside volume of the craft.
There was no food or water storage, restroom facilities, sleeping facilities, or even a chair to sit in.
From this I gathered either this craft must go very long distances essentially instantly or it is only a shuttle and meets up with a more equipped mothership.
There was a glass tube around the inside circumference of the craft about a foot off the floor and about a foot from the inside wall that appeared to be filled with mercury. It was a complete ring around the inside circumference without a break anywhere. It had a minor diameter of about four inches.
Just to the right of the ramp (looking outwards), there were two copper enameled wire coils around the tube, about 16 gauge wire, separated by a material that looked like a phenolic spacer, like old 50's vintage table radio cases, with a similar spacer on the outer edge of both coils.
The coils attached to something resembling an overgrown car battery. It had three cells instead of six and the intercell connectors were external.
There were no obvious control mechanisms anywhere on the craft, nor were there any switches or other visible circuitry between the coils and the device that looked like a lead acid battery.
I had the distinct feeling that I was there to see this technology, that it had been simplified as much as possible and implemented with familiar materials for me to be able to understand.
I do not, after 38 years, understand the principal of it but I believe it has something to do with opposing magnetic fields, diamagnetism, and mass, time, and gravity.
There are two things I really want to understand, the physics of the technology that allows them to get here, and the motivation for coming here, what they want to do here.
After this I found myself back in my bed, and my first thought was whoa that was a heavy dream.. But then I realized my pajama legs were wet and I looked and they had clay on them. Now near my house there was no exposed clay, there was thick topsoil, and that clearing was the only place I knew of in the area with exposed clay.
Oddly, even though my pajama bottoms had clay on them my feet were clean.
I say this was kind of half-way between an encounter and an abduction because I wasn't physically forcibly brought to the craft, I was awake during the encounter initially. But it has abduction qualities in that I was compelled to do something I normally wouldn't, go for a walk without getting dressed first, and after seeing this device, I then lost consciousness and did not get back under my own volition.
In 38 years since I have not had a sighting but in the last year I have photographed UFOs inadvertently twice (didn't notice until afterwards) but they were an orb-like UFO not the saucer shaped craft.
Nothing about my experience really seems typical of what I've read about on the net but I am interested in hearing from others who have had similar experiences or might have some insight to offer.
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