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July 2001
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A Life
Less Ordinary
by Mike C.
I never ever believed that my life was anything but "normal," but I have come to realize after reading the diverse and strange experiences of many other people that perhaps my life has never been ordinary and some of the experiences I have had over the years are all starting to add up.
My very first close encounter was at the age of 10 on the back steps of the house I shared with my family. At the time of the sighting I was employed as a paper delivery boy. The morning of the encounter was beautiful - a clear blue sky (unusual for the UK), and the time was about 5:30 a.m. As I stepped out of the door onto the back steps, I happened to glance toward the horizon, and there to my utter amazement I saw what I can only describe as a cigar-shaped craft traveling across the sky. It looked to me like a dirigible airship, and I could clearly make out rib like structures along its length. However, the the resemblance stopped there. This craft was a pure gold color, which the sun was reflecting off, and it trailed what I can only describe as "sparks." I watched this spectacle for about five minutes until it disappeared from my view.
One UFO encounter is quite acceptable, but it doesn't stop there. A few years later, during the '70s, I was walking into my local town (Romford in Essex) when I again noticed a strange-looking craft. This one was dumbbell shaped with bright orange ends and a black bar in the middle. I watched this object for at least 30 minutes. It definitely was not a balloon or kite (as someone suggested). About two years after this event, my wife (at the time) and I were coming home after a party (and I wasn't drunk) when we both saw an enormous craft pass directly above us. We were both speechless and it wasn't until we got indoors that we both realized that the craft had been totally silent. We had both looked up at the same instant and both had the feeling that there were people at the windows looking out at us. We didn't see all of the object, but it was large enough to cover both our and next door's house. It also had large square windows along the side (a bit like a cruise ship).
Well that's three UFO sightings, and if I include the encounters by close friends and family (my mother saw the infamous Devils Foot Prints in our garden)... the school friend who encountered a ghost at a local church and was terrorized by it for two years... or the funeral director at my grandfather's funeral who's wife disappeared without a trace after going into the garden to empty the teapot... and then add to that the fact that after a serious accident in 1986 in France (I wasn't injured at all, someone drove there car at high speed under the truck I was driving at the time) I was examined by French doctors who told me that I had a mysterious hole in my skull where none should be... or that in 1998 whilst climbing into a truck I rammed my head against the door jam and put a dent in my skull about a quarter of an inch deep (I just shook my head and carried on) and was only informed last year that the blow should have killed me... or the enormous black butterfly I saw shortly before my uncle's death from cancer... or the footsteps I heard walk past my bed which coincided exactly with the time of his death... or the two enormous peacock butterflies I saw in a church at a funeral service in the middle of last winter.... perhaps my life isn't ordinary at all!!
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