Appearance / Description of Object(s)

in the story

Size of Object(s)

40x20

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

20 feet in front us beutiful veiw so close saw everything

Description of Area / Surroundings

we grew up in an area surounded by miles and miles of wooded area with sparadic neihborhoods

Full Description & Details

my friend joey and i were sleeping out behind his house,with nothing but woods for miles.we had slept out there many times we had snacks and listening to a portable radio just like always. I remember this like it happened yesterday. For some reason,I told Joey I was getting sleepy and he said that he was also. I remember us both getting our sleeping bags,as we were doing this something compeled me to turn around. I remember turning and seeing what looked like a street light,and Iremember thinking ,it cant be a streetlight because were in the woods hmm,it must be a star.At that point I turned back to Joey and said,hey Joey look how bright that star is.I remember this so well,it's errie.I can see us both turning and looking at this bright light.As I think now under normal circumstances we would have been scared shitless and ran our asses to his house,but we stared silently at this light as it was about a foot over atree aproxamitly twenty feet away.After a few seconds this started to move towards us and this is the part that that is crazy. as the light started my memory goes blank. The next thing I remember,i opened my eyesme and Joey are side by side on our knees about ten yards from where we had been .Weare now overlooking his fathers big garden. And there hovering about twenty feet over the garden is this UFO ,it was about forty feet wide twenty feet high saucer shape with 5x5 window shapes flashing colered lights red,blue,white again we should have been running but I remember looking at this thing sitting there lit up like a christmas tree not making a sound . I remember thinking to myself what's this thing made of. I also remember hereing a slight wherling sound ,so now I guess about twenty or so seconds have gone by,neither of us has said any thing. as I here this sound I look at the bottom of this UFO and I see a large round part spinning around and around. I take a really close look at the material that thing is made of I see what looks to be a brushed metal.I then look back up to the colored lights that Joey is stareing at. And I remember then Joey saying there's the captian,and I said where? Joey say's right there and he's stareing at these flashing lights. At that point I said Hey lets shine the flashlight at it. And Joey says no dont they'll shoot a ray at us or something. then joey got up and started running towads his house. I wasn't going to stay there myself so I followed him.But I'll never forget as we were running I could see light moving on the ground and in the trees as the UFO must have started to move away I wish I had turned and gotten one more look but I did'nt.Joey ran into his house and woke up parents. They came outside but of course nobody ever beleived us. When I look back at that experience I feel so lucky that "THEY" let me remember everything in such detail.when that occured we must have been eleven or tweleve years old. Iforgot about it for seveal years. Then one night when I was about 18or 19 I was shooting basketball I looked in the window where my parets were watching tv and I saw a bunch of photos of UFO's and as I looked I saw one that looked just like what we had seen.For the first time since that night I thought "OH MY GOD" and been obseced ever since. I have written my story a few times to send to Bud Hopkins but threw it away.Then years later out came Close Encounters and I AM SO glad to had my experience. The greatest highlite of my LIFE no doulbt

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

NOPE

Witness Background

normal white new englander

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

before sighting nothing we were kids sleeping out like we had alot of times

Other Comments

I would love to be put under HYPNOSIS I am so obbcesed

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