NUFORC Sighting 35146

Occurred: 1968-05-12 09:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2004-02-17 19:01 Pacific
Duration: 3 1/2 hours
No of observers: 2

Location: Valparaiso, IN, USA

Shape: Unknown


1968, Grey Squares in Sky, I'll take you with me cuz you're my friend, 9 o'clock past bozo circus noon, scary man, doll burning

I was four years old in the Springtime of 1968. I was allowed to go half way around the block and play with my 3 year old girlfriend "Fluffy" after 9 AM...her brothers and sisters would be off in school and that is the time my mother said I could go over to Fluffy's house to play. As I walked around the block to her house, I looked in the sky for cloud pictures and there were no clouds, a cloudless sunny day. I went down the driveway as usual to the back of her house and already found her outside in her backyard by the tulips along the side of the yard next to neighbor's garage.I think it had to be the month of May because of the tulips. Fluffy was wearing a new white blouce with rick-rack stitching across it...I asked her if it was new and she said yes and I told her how pretty it was. I asked her what game she wanted to begin playing and she said hide-and-go-seek! Then it became very, very windy and I was laughing trying to part my long hair out of my face...I noticed the grass was long and blowing strongly too and had not been cut or mowed...I looked over to my girlfriend "Fluffy" and she was already crouched in the corner of an "L" shaped hedge by the side of her house...I said I hadn't even counted to ten yet and you're hiding! The wind was so strong and I was reaching toward her and she looked very pale and scared. She was shouting at me, "What is it? What is it?" and I looked up and saw large square grey tile shapes (metallic, yet I didn't know the word back then) it was low and hovering near the height of the tall tree and high enough up right above the neighbor's garage and I said, "I don't know...I don't know!" She was begging me, "Don't go! Don't go!" I reached my hand out and said, "I'll take you with me cuz you're my friend, cuz you're my friend." The next memories I have are: Her mother is standing at the back door swinging it open and yelling angry at us, "I've been looking for you children, where have you been playing, get in here, lunch is ready now!" (the house has an added on back edition with large picture window facing the backyard and window that looks out to the side of the house by the hedge area, neighbor's driveway.) We were at the side of the house together and it was as if we had become unfrozen from time and were now walking toward her mother upon hearing this to go inside the house. I am confused because I know I just got over there past 9 AM and how can it be lunch time now? Why is her mother seem upset and angry with us? We walk in the house and Chicago WGN Channel 9 is on TV with popular kid's show that comes on at noon called "Bozo's Circus" The ping-pong toss into buckets one thru six are happening in the show...which means it is almost over, at the end. I sit down at the kitchen table and look at the clock on the wall and it reads 12:25 PM and I am counting from 9 AM to Noon trying to figure out how it can already be that time...we hadn't even played hide-n-go-seek...why is her mom mad, has she baked a lunch casserole or fancy dish. She serves us folded over half sandwiches of peanut butter and jelly.

After lunch, Fluffy and I go down in her basement with crayons (we know we can not draw on the walls of the house) and put some chairs against the wall underneath the see thru stair steps where we draw with orange, bright green, and red crayons a big spooky man ...he looks scarey like a monster and we put him there on the basement wall that day under the stairs down to the basement laundry room. Fluffy's five brothers and sisters come home from school in the afternoon and discover the drawing teasing each other and asking one another who put that on the wall to scare us. They don't believe us when we tell them we drew it, we explained we stood on chairs to draw him tall and big. The picture remained on the wall till the mid 1990tys before her parents decided to paint the basement with two coats of paint. I go home that day before 6 PM dinner time to tell my mommy and daddy that I saw something in the sky.

I tell them how windy it was and my mom says you must have seen a helicopter and I say no, it didn't make any sound. My father asks me what it looked like and I say big square grey shapes and he says you must have seen a blimp! I don't know or realize what a blimp looks like until I am six years old and I see one in the night sky. My folks remember this day because I would not stop talking about going over to Fluffy's house to play and seeing something in the sky. I remember the feeling of not feeling safe. Her mother did not know where we were and we went away somewhere all morning and came back after 12 o'clock noon time. Fluffy and I both had 3 foot tall manequin dolls and she took her doll out to where the autumn leaf pile is burned in the back yard behind her house and lit a match and burnt her doll. I watch and her mom comes out asking her why she did such a thing to her doll and she says, "I don't know" I am afraid of my doll getting me that I keep shut in my bedroom closet.



NUFORC Note:

One of six, seemingly credible, reports submitted by same witness. Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2004-03-02

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