NUFORC Sighting 61751

Occurred: 1974-08-23 19:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2008-02-21 06:40 Pacific
Duration: about 3 hours of lost tim
No of observers: 3

Location: Bridgeport (pond flowing out of Remington Arms compound), CT, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Changed Colo

2 girls lose track of time while singing "Octopus's Garden" and taking a short cut through the woods around a pond after seeing a UFO!

On our travels away from my home to my friend's house, we cut through some wooded areas that concealed a barbed wire fence enclosing a compound called Remington Arms. We had done this hundreds of times before, just like all the kids did, but this time we had become frightened while passing through the first woods because of an orange glow which seemed to be illumunating behind some trees in the compound. It was a dry humid summer night, but it smelled strange, like rain or some wierd sweet odor.

We started to sing the Beatle's song:"Octopus'Garden" over & over again as we entered the second section of the dark wooded area. Brushing sounds of branches made us so nervous! Soon we were at the clearing around the pond and could see the open sky. We sang a bit louder and tried our best to ignore the orangey glow behind the trees. I remember that the moon was hanging low and to keep our spirits light we slowly walked along the path toward it and kept on singing.

An object seemed to fly out from inside the Remington Arms compound and we noticed the strange odor in the air again. That wierd sweet odor, but even creepier was the way the tree tops were swaying, especially because there was no wind!

When we had first entered the pond area it felt as if something had been following us from behind the other side of the fence. My friend was scared and I was too, but acted a bit braver and told her to keep singing and so our voices got louder with nervousness. As we got closer to the shore of the pond we could see the sky better across the open water.

Suddenly we noticed that it was a triangular shaped ship which appeared without any sound, except for the movement of tree branches brushing together as it emerged from behind some tree tops. The dark triangle cruised directly towards us. It had some bright orange lights and made everything look like a negative film, with that orangey, brown tone. We kept singing, but softer as we couln't believe our eyes. Was this truly a UFO? Time seemed to stand still and must have slipped away because when we finally were able to move away and go down the path, skipping rocks in the strange glow which illuminated our way out of the woods and into the streets, the moon had risen and looked smaller.

We hurried to her house as fast as we could and upon arrival everyone was worried. We were three hours late. It was after 11:00 pm and we started out from my house at around 8:00 pm. It was less than a thirty minute walk even with our dilly-dallying! No-one believed our story and said we each shared an over active imagination. We cried and begged to be believed. "Call the authorities! We're telling the truth." and continued to insist that our experience was real! Then the next day my friend's Dad said, "Maybe, girls, what you witnessed was only a new aircraft of sometype that the government was testing out. Make sure you both keep away from that area because you'll be caught and convicted of tresspassing!" Of course, we didn't heed him and went back the next day afterschool. We sang until our lungs turned blue, but no UFO appeared. Later, after supper at my friends house, she decided to only walk me halfway home, the pond would be the "good-bye" point. So we sat on rocks in the clearing and began singing Octopus' Garden again. Sure enough, the orangey glow hoovered over the moving tree branches and the UFO softly floated above the water once again, not making any sound. This time we were both frozen with fear and disbelief. Again time slipped by, my friend wore a watch, but when we checked it later, it had stopped. She admitted that maybe she forgot to wind it or push the pin in tight enough after setting it. Whatever happened we'll never know? We ran down the path not even skipping the rocks properly. With soaking sneakers and drenched bell-botttoms, we reached the streetlights and fell to our knees in the middle of the road and began to pray! The older kids in the neighborhood started to make fun of us when we told our tale, so we stopped sharing it! One boy who had a tree house and lived near the pond told everyone that it was true and that he saw the same UFO! We sorta felt better and became closer than ever before. Eventually,though, we kinda stopped talking about it altogether. Soon we became more interested in teenage things, like love, Rock N Roll, and our developing figures. I was always on the skinny side, butd suddenly started to loose a lot of weight. The boy and my best friend fell in love. Soon after my parents moved to the country, I was hospitalized. The Doctors diagnosed me with Hodgekin's Lymphoma. But the pathology report said some nodes had bizarre changes in them which couldn't be identified! Radiation & Chemotherapy took over my young life. I was just turning sixteen. I lost touch with ALL my childhood friends. The last time we got together was in 1984 after our dear friend, who said he also saw the UFO, committed suicide. My best friend was newly engaged to be married, but suspected that she was barren inside, maybe because of our experience. I haven't seen or spoke to her since.

However,I was able to give birth to twin girls in 1986 and in March of 96 or 1997 during the visit of Hale-Bopp Comet, I had bizarre dreams of being abducted and woke up with tiny needle marks on the veins in my right hand. My daughters both had nightmares! One of them saw me on a table in a white room. I couldn't beleve it when she told me that these aliens took her arm off and she saw them doing painful things to her twin sister. I told them that I had a visit too and showed them my hand. I had two tiny unexplainable scabs directly on my veins. I chose not to tell them until later in adulthood that I saw them in the white lights too, and in my dream I also saw that same daughter laying on a table without her arm. God's honest truth! To this day the twins become uncomfortable talking about it. They don't like to remember the bad experience and say that I am making up my admissions just to scare them. I wonder...can generations become targets of study?




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD


Posted 2008-03-04

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