I recently finished a review of 30-plus years of personal journals. I had several projects in mind for doing this, one of which was to mark entries related to contacts with visitors from other planets. After finding them all, I planned to submit reports of the most significant physical sightings to the National UFO Reporting Center. This part of the project is now complete, and I have posted links to each report I've submitted at the end of this post.
To date, I have had eight physical sightings of what I believe to be extraterrestrial spacecraft. It was a fascinating project to bring them all together in one document, and to consider the evolution of these experiences as suggested by my journal entries. I intended only to list the physical sightings and maybe say a little about them here in the R-r-r-ibbit, and to encourage anyone who has had their own close encounters to report them to NUFORC.
Reporting phenomena is as much an activity of citizen science as observing phenophases, recording bird sightings, or photographing insects found in one's backyard. For every object I saw that I now believe to be unexplainable (if not extraterrestrial), I probably saw fifty others that were explainable: comets, satellites, stars, conventional aircraft of one kind or another and so on.
If you have not seen unidentifiable flying objects, it's still interesting to check out the NUFORC database and read a few of the reports. You can choose to view the most recent events, or look at lists indexed by date of the event, state, shape of the UFO or date posted. On the home page, the NUFORC staff will often list notable recent sightings, or groups of sightings that have common histories. In the sidebar you can look at reports in special categories (e.g., Directors Picks, Case Briefs, NUFORC videos).
I have had many other encounters with extraterrestrial spacecraft or space beings in dreams and meditations. Now that I've reviewed them, I'm thinking I may share some of these in R-r-r-ibbit posts. At the moment I'm still in the process of integrating these older experiences with more recent ones and contemplating the bigger pictures and narratives that continue to unfold.
But, for now, here are the links to my reports of physical sightings at NUFORC:
A bright, fast moving light is chased by a military fighter jet.
3 slow moving disks over south Boulder
Bright white light moves in U-pattern then fades out
A bright white light flashes 10 times
White light moves west to east, suddenly stops, then moves south at a high rate of speed.
Large oval object with white glowing lights moves slowly above the car
Triangle-shaped craft hovers silently over the Pecos River. [Has not yet been posted by NUFORC. I will hyperlink this sighting once the report is available on the NUFORC website.]
