Recorded Mon Aug 4 18:26 EST 1997
 

I've often been asked if I have ever seen a UFO and my answer is always "Of course!"   Almost everyone has seen a flying object they can't identify so by definition almost everyone has seen a UFO.   If someone asks me if I've ever seen an aircraft of non Terrestrial origin then the answer is I think so.
    Long before I began recovering my abduction experience memories I didn't like to go out at night.   When I did I would have what I would call "flashes" but are more accurately known as flashbacks.   It was as like a double exposed picture.   What I was seeing overlapping with something I must have once seen.  One image on top of one another.  I would see a "flying saucer"  sitting there in total darkness with it's ramp extended to the ground.   I just wrote it off to an overactive imagination or the last gasp of a childhood fear of the dark.   Now that my memories are coming back I know that was the ship I was taken into in New Mexico when I was 4.    As for any other sightings, well, I really never wanted to see one, or maybe I should say, I never want to see another one.

    In the early spring of 1975 just before I quit teaching school I had a very interesting experience.   I was staying with a friend  who was going through a divorce and needed help with her three young children.  She had a new home, a tri-level, built on a hillside out in the wilderness of north Georgia.   Beautiful but kind of lonely because it was surrounded by a pine forest.   The bottom level which contained the family room was the coziest part of the house. It had a large fireplace and windows that looked out on the hillside.

    One evening my friend and her children went to visit friends so I went downstairs to read and relax.   I built a fire and had just started on my book when it seem as if a voice said "If you want to see a UFO go look out the window." I arose, crossed the room, and looked out the window. The sun had just set so the sky was still light. In the west was a large bright orange ball just hanging in the sky.   Cold chills ran through me and I  got that sick feeling in my stomach that comes after an adrenaline rush.   I started to shiver and needed to sit down very quickly.

    As I turned away from the window looked toward the fireplace I realized one of the reasons I felt so cold was because the fire had burned to ashes and the room had grown cold.   It did not occur to me at the time that there was missing time.  For me it had been no more that 5 minutes since I built the fire and started to read.   Yet in that space of time a large fire had burned to ashes and the room had grown cold.    I figure that 5 minutes was at least an hour and a half.

    So to answer the original question of ever having seen a UFO, I guess the answer to that question is: "Yes."