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When Seeing Is Believing – UFO Sightings By Skeptics
Sunday, April 22, 2012 5:01
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'Seeing is believing.' 'A picture isworth a thousand words.' 'I would not have believed it if I had not seen itwith my own eyes.' I'm sure you've heard quotes like these all of your life.I'm also sure you've felt you needed to experience certain things for yourselfbefore believing they were true. The people I've written about here felt thatway about many subjects listed under the paranormal heading. They knew peopletalked about, wrote about and made movies about such things, but they really neverbelieved any of it to be true – until, of course, they came face-to-face withsuch phenomena and saw the enigma up front and clearly – with their own eyes.
The first encounter that forcedmostly skeptical eyes wide open happened to a young couple I know through afriend of a friend. I met the couple a few times briefly and could tell theyfelt I was that wacko who writes about all the crazy paranormal stuff! Theylook at me differently now – in fact, they look at lots of things differentlynow. This couple and their six-year-old son had what you would call a “lifechanging experience” one weekend late in the summer of 2011 while on a campingtrip in the Catskill Mountains inupstate New York.
The three of them would often packup their camping gear and take long weekends in different forested locationsaround the state. One spot they always enjoyed visiting was one of the manywooded areas of the Catskill Mountains. It was an easy drive from their homeoutside of New York City and a beautiful place to find nature and adventure fortheir little boy.
Late in September of 2011 the smallfamily decided to spend a long weekend while the weather remained warm hikingamong the Catskills. The would drive to an area where they could pull theirlarge, older model van off the road and set up a small campsite close to wherethey wanted to explore the wooded mountainside. Their campsite consisted of afew folding chairs and a portable grill they placed on the ground as a smallfire pit. For safety and comfort the three of them slept in sleeping bagsinside the back of their van. The family would investigate the hiking pathsduring the day, returning to their makeshift camping to cook a dinner ofhotdogs and toasted marshmallows over their small campfire at day's end. Atnight they would sit and watch the sky until their little fire died away. Then,exhausted from a day of exploring, the family usually crawled into their vanbefore 9 P.M., slipping into warm sleeping bags. The next day, dawn would startthe pleasant routine all over again.
The weekend at the center of ourstory was like many others they'd enjoyed over that summer – hiking along themountainside, sitting around the campfire and sleeping in the van. Then camethe day the six-year-old grew tired and hungry about 5 P.M., sending the threeback to their small campsite. The parents set about building a small fire inthe portable grill and pulling out the cooler full of food for the night. The little boy played nearby with a handful of toys hebrought along. With the fire crackling, the young wife poured enough water in asmall pot to make some hot chocolate for the family to help with the colder airslowly beginning to make its way across the Catskills. It was still daylight,but the family was tired and their day was winding down.
They sat contently around the smallfire, fussing with the food and talking about things they'd seen during theirhike when the child stood up from where he was playing around on the groundwith his toys. With his back to his parents, he was looking out towards the skyabove a small valley below them. Suddenly he interrupted his parents bywhispering to his father, "Dad, what is that thing?” At first the fathercontinued talking to his wife when his little boy called to him, sounding a bitmore frightened, "Dad, that thing, what is it? It's scaring me!" Withthat the little boy backed up to his father and grabbed his shirt tightly.
Turning to face the small valley,the young father looked to see what was upsetting his son. His wife was nowpaying attention to what was happening as well..
In front of this small family,rising from the valley floor, a huge oval-shaped craft. The hulking craft hadsinister glow as it loomed over the valley, changing rapidly from blues togreens to purples; however, there was no hint of the familiar lights thatannounce the nighttime presence of a standard aircraft. The entire surface ofthe ominous craft glowed with the continuously changing colors. It appeared thecraft was seamlessly fashioned of a silvery metal skin with rotating luminousneon colors. It didn't seem to have any windows, doors or breaks in its smoothmetallic surface and made not even a single sound. The family stood awestrickenand frightened for a few seconds as the massive craft rose above the mountainscenery
Quickly conquering feelings ofnausea and overpowering fear, the husband, a combat hardened military veteran,knew he had to move his family to safety. He didn't want whatever controlledthe threatening craft to notice them. Slowly, he bent to empty the pot of wateron the fire, dousing the flames. He slowly swept up his son, whispering to thechild not to make any noise, pulling the boy close while he reached for hiswife's hand. He shook his head when she started to speak. The young husbandslowly withdrew his family, silently, to the van. He opened the passenger door,motioning for his wife to get in and passing her the child who was nowwhimpering in fear. He slowly moved to the driver's side of the van, keepingwary eyes on the craft that continued to slowly rise from the valley. He slidinto the van and started the engine, slowly guiding it into the tree line forconcealment. The van was a dark green, and he hoped he could hide it from theview of whatever mastered the rising craft. He was trying to maintainconcealment while putting distance between the fear inducing craft and hislittle family
At a crawl, the van edged its wayalong the tree line as the husband moved carefully away from the threateningcraft. He did this until he could no longer see the UFO, hoping the craft'screw couldn't see him either. He slowly increased his speed, trying not tocrash into any of the trees as he distanced his family from the mysteriousgiant object. He continued this path along the side of the road, under thetrees, until he felt it was safe to take to the road's surface to get hisfamily out of there as fast as possible.
The young family hit the road,speeding down the mountain as fast as they could, moving rapidly away fromwhatever it was that was rising above the valley.
They young husband headed them forthe closest area where other people would be and found a gas station at thebottom of the mountain road. The family, now shocked and still terrified, toldthe gas station owner what they had just seen. Strangely, the gas station ownerdidn't seem shocked, nor did he think they were crazy. He told them they didthe right thing, getting out of there, and suggested the young man fill histank and continue driving away from the area. The family took his advice,quickly finding their way to a heavily traveled highway and heading directlyhome.
When they were safely locked in farfrom the mountains in their own home, the young man called the sheriff's officeresponsible for the area where they had their ominous sighting to report whatthey had observed. A deputy politely took his report but showed no emotion orreaction to what the family had witnessed. The young husband couldn't tell ifthe lack of reaction was due to the deputy not believing him, or just theboredom that might set in for an official who had heard similar reports from amultitude of callers that night. The deputy had no response to the young man'squestion of whether others had reported the sighting besides him. The deputysimply thanked him and ended the call.
The couple had never thought muchabout things like UFOs before and never anticipated coming face-to-face withone while sitting around a campfire in the Catskills. Fortunately, the youngfather knew instinctively that he needed to get his family away from there asquickly and quietly as he could. He did an excellent job of keeping his focusand saving his family. The fact of the matter is that no one really knewexactly where this family was that day, and no one was near where they parkedto spend the night in the woods. If the crew of the mysterious craft hadnoticed them and taken them, the family may have joined the ranks of themissing with no chance of anyone ever knowing what happened to them. The quickthinking that led the young father to rise above the terror of this situationwas exactly the cool thinking needed to save his family from the possibility ofan unknown fate.
This couple now knows theseanomalous objects exist, and their able to perform in ways that can't bematched by any known terrestrial aircraft. The object they witnessed was aboutthe size of a cruise ship. Its illumination came from glowing rather thanactual lights. It was silent, and even as large as it was, it could hover inmid air, slowly gaining altitude between periods of simply hanging still in thesky. The man told me only personally seeing such an object could ever convincehim these fantastic aerial enigmas and their capabilities exist.
Not only did this family experiencea life changing encounter, they received a lesson in keeping an open mind whenit comes to claims about UFOs and similar seemingly outlandish things that arebeing reported worldwide.
That leads us to a report Ipersonally received from a formerly skeptical source a few years ago. The onething I've learned during the years I've been writing about the paranormal isthat you never can be sure who will be the next person to tell you of anextraordinary event. More than once I've had one of my most strident critics orhardened skeptics take me and tell me about something incredible that happenedto them, something that challenged their beliefs and left them shaking theirheads.
I'm both amused and amazed at thesepeople who ridicule and give me a terrible time for years only to turn aroundand search me out to tell me of an incredible encounter of their own. Thestrange thing is no matter how clear and how bizarre their experience may havebeen, this type of individual will still hold on to the reasoning it was allexplainable, or, at the most, a secret of our own government. Opening theirminds to other explanations is just out of the question to this type ofpersonality, even when the unknown is staring them directly in the face!
This sighting took place in WestHaven, Connecticut. The event was experienced by a man who is a hardcoreskeptic and his wife and two children. The belief challenging encounter withthe unknown took place in the early 1990s.
In his own words, this is exactlywhat this man told me happened to him and his family:
"It was around the end ofAugust. The family and I decided to go pick up a few burgers and take them downto the dock overlooking the water (the Long Island Sound) to eat them. By thetime we picked up our food and made our way to the dock it was about 7 P.M. Itwas a beautiful day with a huge blue sky filled with big fluffy white clouds.We got our bag of food and drinks and parked at the dock along with about threeother cars all doing the same thing as we were – eating. We were all sittingthere looking out over the water enjoying our burgers looking at the water andsky when out of nowhere the water directly in front of the dock about 200 or sofeet out from shore started to whirl. As the water swirled around up from themiddle of it a big UFO came out of the water slowly rising right in front ofus. At about 300 feet over the water it hesitated and simply hung there in thesky above the water. It was about as big as three school buses tied together.Oval or cigar shaped with a dome on top. The damn thing was big and right therein front of us. It was gunmetal gray with only two small blinking red lights oneach either side of it. Otherwise no lights at all were visible. The thing justhovered there in the sky dripping. I thought it had to be a government secretcraft of some type or maybe a hologram.
“Icould hear the cars around me try to start their motors as soon as this thingstarted coming up out of the water. They could not turn over the car engines tostart. I also tried to start my car as my first response, like the other cars,was to get away from this thing. The cars would not start.
We all had no other choice but tosit and watch. No one wanted to get out of their car at this point. We did notknow what this thing was or what it would do if we got out to run. We all justsat in our cars not knowing what to do.
“TheUFO once again started to rise up into the sky. At this point I realized thatclouds were directly over the craft and the craft seemed to moving quicklytoward them. Within a few seconds the UFO had entered the cloud cover above itand silently slipped deep into the cloud cover until you could barely make outthe outline of the craft.
“Wesat staring at this until I heard one of the other cars start. As soon as hiscar started all the other drivers tried and were able to start their cars too.The next thing we all heard were the squealing of tires as we all sped awayfrom the dock as fast as possible.
“Wedrove home still a bit shocked at what he had just seen. Once safely inside ourhome I realized it was now nearly dark outside and glanced at the clock. It wasnearly 9 PM. I could not understand where the time had gone as the entiresighting at the dock lasted only a few minutes. How we went from 7 to 9 PM wasconfusing. My wife and I talked it over and decided to call the police and askif any military operations of any kind were taking place over the Long IslandSound. When we called our questions were received with at first a long silenceand then a bit of confusion. The long and the short of it was that they did notknow or hear of anything unusual going on.
“Iknow my family and I saw something unique that day. I have no idea what kind ofexperiment we were caught up in but feel it must have been either military orscience driven. I would not even bring it up but since so many people areseeing things like we saw I thought I would throw my two cents in too."
That's what this man told me. Iasked him why he ruled out the possibility this craft may have been somethingthat didn't originate on our world. He simply laughed and said, “That'sridiculous and I'm not an idiot!" I felt it best to leave him thinkingwhat he needed to think in order to deal with the incredible UFO sighting heand his family had while munching burgers in West Haven.
Many people see unusual things, andas you can see from the two reports I've given here, people also have their ownviews about what it is they witnessed.
Until we know for sure what these unidentified objects are that so many of ushave reported seeing all over the world, we shouldn't discount any explanation,including the possibility they originate in a galaxy far away. For now weremain in the dark about who or what is behind the UFOs we're seeing and oftenrecording on film. One day this phenomenon will be understood. Until then itwill remain in the realm of the unknown.
♥ Copyright © 2012 Chris Holly all Rights Reserved
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