NUFORC Sighting 27540

Occurred: 1981-09-25 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2003-02-04 20:18 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 0

Location: Blue Springs, MO, USA

Shape: Other

When I felt the bed sheets grazing my back, I knew I was the one moving and not the bed.

I had an unusual experience when I was 15 in the fall of 1981. I had never had an experience like it before, nor since, and I am now 37. Right after it happened, I told two friends and my mom. They did not believe me though I had never had a reputation for lying or even having been a daydreamer. In 1981, I was popular, had good grades, was a cheerleader, and did not do drugs or smoke. I had nothing to gain by telling a false story. My friends and mom thought I had a "dream," though I kept insisting I had not. I had no clue as to what the experience was about, but as the years went by, and I heard more and more about people’s experiences with UFOs, I came to wonder if it was of the same nature. I have always been skeptical of UFO stories, but there are so many similarities to my experience. This is what happened (exactly), as I remember it like it happened yesterday. It was right after 10:00 p.m. on a school night. I had just hung up from talking on the phone. I wasn’t sleepy yet, so I dimmed my light and turned over on my left side with my head propped up on my pillow. I closed my eyes to relax when I distinctly heard a scurrying sound coming from the back of my closet. Since we lived at the end of a cul-de-sac near the woods (only one other house around), it wasn’t unusual to have squirrels on the roof. I thought maybe one of them had gotten down in the wall. I recall giggling to myself thinking how appalled my mother would be when she found out there was a squirrel in her wall. It was such a nonthreatening sound, I didn’t bother to open my eyes. Right after the scurrying stopped, I heard crinkling paper (but it was distant). Again, I thought, what are those rodents up to now? Then the crinkling stopped, and in its place I heard a faint murmuring of voices (like in a crowded room). I thought about getting up and looking out my window, as teens like to come down into our circle to hang out. Maybe someone was playing their radio. As I debated on whether I should get up or not, a l! oud clea r voice suddenly spoke near my right ear (the one not on the pillow). It said something I didn’t quite catch, but the last words were "the gun." When something startles you, your natural reaction is to fly up, and that’s exactly what I thought I was doing, when I had what I call a "time gap." In the split second I was turning to see what had spoken, I found myself flat on my back vertical with my bed with my right arm extended upward. It was pitch black (though my light had been left on), and I strained to see the tips of the fingers on my extended arm. I was paralyzed, but not in pain. My whole body had an electrical current running through it (like when your leg goes to sleep). I was stunned because I had no recollection of coming into that position. I thought, how did I get like this? Then something else began to happen. Up to this point, I thought I was lying on the bed. I didn’t realize I was actually levitating over the bed until my body, in a perfectly straight form (with arm raised), began slowly moving counterclockwise. When I felt the bed sheets grazing my back, I knew I was the one moving and not the bed. In a 180 degree position (cross with bed), my body would be longer than the width of the bed, so my head and feet would stick out in the air. As my head cleared the bed, I literally felt my hair FALL off the edge!! That was when ALL doubt left me as to the reality of what was happening. This was NOT a dream! Reaching the 180 degree mark with the bed, I stopped, then began moving back the same direction I had come. When I was vertical with the bed again, my whole body dropped (including my arm) onto the bed. I was released from my paralysis, though not from the electrical current. In a panic, I reached for the phone on my right, but it had no dial tone, just a loud buzzing sound. I threw it on the floor. I then leaped out of my bed to the left side and landed upright on my feet. I was going to run out of my room to my mom’s across the hall. I took one step and looked! up all at the same time. I stopped in dead fear because instead of my bedroom door being there, there was a very black hole (tunnel like) in front of me. It was already pitch black, but this hole was blacker than black. I was too scared to go forward, so I decided to yell instead. When I opened my mouth to yell
"“mom," my voice was electric and it came out like I was holding a vibrator to my throat. The sound scared me so bad, I threw my hand over my mouth in utter shock. At that very moment, I had another "time gap." In a split second, I was back on my bed, turned to the left, head on the pillow, light dimmed, just as I was before the whole event happened. I spun around and looked at my whole room. My phone was back in the cradle, and only 10 minutes had passed on the clock, though I felt like it had been at least an hour. If you saw or know anything unusual that happened in my area during the time mentioned, please let me know. This has bothered me for years. Thanks, ((name deleted))

NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD

Posted 2003-03-21