1958 UFO ENCOUNTER
by Hilary Portermby
by Hilary Porter
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The year of the following event was 1958, as far as I can recall: Unfortunately, I am not absolutely sure of the precise day or
month, although it would seem that it was during the summer holidays, as, after this experience, Janet and I were too frightened
to go out of our homes for quite some
time, so it must have been during one of the
school breaks.
We were just standing at the bottom of our road chatting to each other: It was I think, near the middle of the day,
(as
I
remember the
sun was high), and
we were
close to the
house of a
family we knew as the
Hammond's.
Suddenly, something took my eye, an object glinting high in the bright sunlight; it was a disc-shaped craft, which I could see in
the distance, hanging over
trees up on
Hawley
Park.
I shouted at Janet to look over towards that area: She too remarked that she could see the disc, and, as we looked harder,
we
both observed a doorway
appear in
the
side of
the ufo,
complete with a
figure
standing
inside.
In the blink- of-an-eye, the craft zoomed forward till' it was hanging low in the sky; it was then hovering over near to an old
factory called the Drum
Laundry, which was quite close to where
we stood.
By now
we could see that the
saucer-craft
was quite
sizable.
Artist Impression (H. Porter)
Although frightened, we dared to
continue watching the ufo and clearly saw a
humanoid form standing
there,
(of
fairly high stature), looking
at us
from the open
doorway on the
side of
this
craft.
Then the object flew
away.
I can't say for sure how much time passed during our observation, (or whether we were abducted during the experience, but that
remains a possibility, because over the years we have known each other, both Janet and I have experienced many very odd
events for which we have no explanation), but the main upshot of it all was, that we were so terrified, we ran as fast as we could
from the scene, back up our road and into our homes, and we didn't play together again for quite a while, as we were too scared
to even
go
outside!
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FLASHBACK
SPARKED IN
1962
It was 1962, a few years after my real-life ufo encounter, when I attended film night at the Fernhill 61 Club, which was organised
by our school youth group; the title screened was 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' starring Michael Renee, a popular film, made
eleven years hence.
I had no idea what the movie was about and watched with interest, that was, until I saw the part where a huge saucer lands in the
town park and suddenly a door
slides open and 'Klaatu',
the
humanoid/
alien
protagonist,
just
stands
there.
Well, this was like deja vu, and that sequence terrified me to such a degree that I started crying; I wasn't with Janet that night,
but
another friend who saw my tears, came over
to comfort me; ye
t nothing
could calm me down.
It was no good, I had to go home; running out of the hall and all the way home; I arrived totally exhausted, much to my parents
surprise, but said nothing as I knew they
wouldn't
understand;
so I simply
went up
to my bedroom to hide away
.
I don't think for one minute Janet or I ever really forgot the full details of our mind-blowing UFO sighting, but the brain/mind
has its own way of coping with such things and would prefer to simply file certain parts of the memory away, only for the ' filing'
system to open again
thanks to specific '
triggers', corresponding images,
sounds or even
odours, to
reveal disjointed
memories.
Also, the Aliens themselves have ways of giving their chosen ones a form of amnesia, but even with this, the mind is very
powerful and
will
record all of our
experiences.
Hilary
Porter