NUFORC Sighting 91433

Occurred: 2008-08-08 02:00 Local
Reported: 2012-08-04 17:17 Pacific
Duration: 3 hours?
No of observers: 2

Location: Hamilton, MI, USA

Shape:
Characteristics: Lights on object

I was with being helping them and saw the ship perfectly.

I’m a retired police officer. I retired in 2002. My event occurred on September 8th or 9th 2008. I say that because I don’t know when my event started but it was the night of the 8th 2008. It was a warm clear evening, the rest of the family went off to bed but I wasn't tired so I stayed up to watch TV. After a little while the next thing I know I’m standing out in our yard which is 2 acres and way out in the country. We live near Holland, Michigan which is on Lake Michigan.

As I was standing there wondering how I got there I could see a small pin hole of light out ahead of me at about eye level. As I looked at it the light got bigger and came right at me. As it passed by it was like a wave of light and as it went past me it almost felt like it pushed me back a little. Then I could feel the presents of someone behind me. As I turned around there were three smaller gray beings with large black eyes. Standing shoulder to shoulder. They looked similar to what most call the grays. As I looked at them I wasn't alarmed or frightened at all. I had the feeling that I knew them. Then I could hear in my head, "We need your help." I said OK. The thing was the way they said it. It was like they were saying it to someone they knew. Plus, I answered as if I was talking to a neighbor or friend.

The next thing I can remember is I am standing in a different area of our property. It’s like I can barely stand up I’m so tired. I’m sweating as if I had been working or hot. I can’t move but I can see a bright light at ground level that is behind me. As I look up with my eyes I can see two craft that are identical. The main body is a large round area that has dark red or burgundy lines that move around it. They are very glossy. The main body was dark. Then there are two straight arms or beams that come out at about a 30 degree angle. They are green in color. Then two bright glowing spheres at the ends that pulsate white light. It’s hard to say how far away they were because I don’t know how big they were but my guess is they were about 3 to 4 hundred feet above the ground and about the same distance apart. Maybe 500 feet apart.

I can notice something out of the corner of my eye. So I try and turn my head. It like it’s glued in place. I try with everything I have and I can move it just enough to see two other men standing like I am about six feet away from me to my left. They both look like I feel. I have never seen them before. I can’t see anything else. It is so still out. Not a breath of wind or noise. I can’t see anything but the ships. The next thing I know I hear a rumbling and a big hole in the sky opens up! I could see blue sky with white clouds in it as if I were looking though a window. Large clouds formed the outer circle of the hole and were turning in on themselves. Like if you rolled up a news paper.

Then in the blink of an eye the first ship zipped into the hole followed almost instantly by the second one. Then after the second ship went in there was like a clap of thunder and the hole closed up. The next thing I know I’m sitting straight up on the couch with what has to be the biggest adrenalin rush I’m ever had. I instantly get up, looked at the clock and it was a little after 5 am. I grabbed a piece of paper and our kid’s crayons and started to draw what I had just seen. The whole time it was like, "What the Hell just happened?" It was real, as real as you’re sitting reading this right now.

About an hour later having had settled down as I sat trying to figure out what it all meant my wife came down getting ready for work. I didn't say anything because I wasn't sure what to say. She told me later on the phone that our eldest daughter who was eight at the time had come to sleep with her because she woke up and saw very bright lights flashing out of the top dormer window of our house. She saw about 11 flashes before she got scared and went under the covers then she headed to mom. Well, my jaw about hit the floor when she was saying this. I hadn't said anything to anyone about what had happened to me at this point. Was this some kind of conformation of what had happened? An incidental independent conformation? I talked to our daughter about it later and she told me about the same thing she told my wife. She said it wasn't like lighting but like a really bright light blinking like a stop light kind of thing only slower. Now, she is not afraid of thunder storms and we! like to watch them so a flashing light wouldn't have scared her but she said it was different.

Well for the next week or so I was sick like I had the flu. Tired, aching, and a bad headache which was weird because I never get headaches. I filed a report with MUFON that day and sent the drawings I made. Over the next week after I was feeling better we went to the hobby store because I had to make a model of the craft I saw. I didn't know what stuff I was looking for but looked until I had what I could use to make it. I then took a picture of it so you could see what it looked like from my vantage point. I know its old school but I can’t do computer generation stuff. Then I made a picture of the hole in the sky. It’s weird but it was almost like in the movie Close encounters where he was always trying to make the mountain. I told my wife what happened and she believes me but is also an "I have to see it to believe it" type. I know to her it’s a way out there story but it is what it is. I can only tell what happened to me.

Life got back to as normal as it can after something like this happens. Over the years since I have photographed blue clouds over or near our house which both of our girls saw and last year I found a strange mark on the inside arch of one of my feet. I also took a pic of it. It was four pin holes that had scabs that made a perfect square with one right in the middle and one outside of the square. I couldn't feel it at all and never would have seen it if not by chance. It was gone in a day or two. I now seem to have a better understanding of how everything is connected together. Humans with nature and nature with the universe and so on. It’s like we are all one. I know it sounds weird and before this all happened I probably would have rolled my eyes at it. But it did happen, we are NOT alone in this universe and we are all connected. It was a life changing event to say the least. It doesn't run my life but it’s always there. Running though my head like an endless movie clip.

Posted 2012-08-05

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