Encounters With the Unknown

compiled by Brent Raynes

Exclusive personal narratives of men and women from all walks of life detailing their first-hand experiences with unexplained phenomena (i.e., extrasensory perception, UFO encounters, contacts, ghosts, hauntings, Bigfoot sightings, angels, demons, etc.). These detailed accounts are taken from our own case files and correspondences, as well as those collected by the UFO Contact Center International.

Note: Unless express permission is given to do so, identities of those sharing these personal experiences is not provided in order to protect their privacy.

“A Gift” ?

Email dated August 13, 2002:

“One evening in Mid-March of 2002. I was walking in the Cold Dead of Night in a neighborhood which seems to me to be on the south end of [location is in Indiana - BR]. I could see my breath extend far out beyond my reach and I could feel the ground firmly under my feet as I walked through this really dead quiet neighborhood that curved around like an old suburban setting. I had this attitude in my mind and purpose in my walk that I needed to get somewhere on the other side of a woods that was just a hundred feet off. I entered the woods, still seeing my breath, and proceeded perhaps another hundred feet into the woods when I became aware of the sound of someone walking behind me. I stopped and turned, and he stopped still.... ‘he’ was a little guy in a ‘peeked hood.’...there seemed to be at least 2 of them behind me, perhaps 3. When I turned, he stopped still. I continued on just like it was normal. I walked about another 20 feet still thinking that I had to get to the other side of the woods when all of a sudden I shot straight up into the air above the leafless March Indiana treetops. I could look down and see the trees illuminated by a dull glow above me. Then, all of a sudden, I was back on the ground near the end of the woods with my companions behind me and I walked over this small hill into an UNREAL, ASTOUNDING COSMIC UNEARTHLY HORIZON that was colored pink and lavender with exotic spheres and amazing objects....I just went AWE...like my OHHHHH like I was shown some special privileged thing or space...Awestruck...I turned and started walking with my ‘friends’ the other way and it became daylight and we came over another hill and down in a cleared depression was this FABULOUS JADE GREEN DOME sitting on the ground in which I went OHHHHH once again...I walked down to it and entered it and don’t remember anything until I was standing outside of it again seeing Ground Vehicles taking off at high speeds in a couple of directions....this area opened up there from woods to real arid desert like area...in front of me, about ten feet away, were three guys in ‘peeked hoods’(this was still daytime and it was overcast) ...the one to my right walked off to my right and pulled down his hood as he departed like he was hot...as he walked away I could see fully the side of his skull, it was HUGE and BULBOUS behind the ear especially, and he had real, real thin long hair that was messed up by pulling down the hood....the hair was only behind the ears and to the back...light brown to grey...his skin was pale white...I then looked at the taller middle one and he took his hood down and CHRIST SAKES HE FIXED HIS EYES ON ME AND GRINNED like he knew me...his skull went way back behind the ears....the kicker here is I pointed at him and said (although I could not hear any sound) ‘ARE YOU AN ALIEN?’ ...he walked over where I had pointed my index finger of my right hand at him when I asked this, and he took my index finger and gave it a clockwise turn and that ended my consciousness of the experience. To this day, nobody knows where I was that night and I really sometime the next day started relating this LUCID DREAM that I had to my friends. I have come to realize this was not a DREAM.”

“The Taller being in the center, his eyes were solid black and they were set apart just about as wide as a humans....his eyes were not real large like in some movie. His eyes curved up like a teardrop to a point. ...he moved them into a smile like grin...like he knew me like an old friend...really remarkable feeling...just real amazing...I feel like I’ve been given a Gift...a kind of insight.”

Email from same subject dated August 16, 2002:

“I emphasized breath and the clear experience of purposefully walking to underscore how unusual this would be in a dream state. I’ve had Lucid Dreams before...but not with clear breath and clear gravity under each step. ....I don’t recall what kind of entranceway put me inside...but inside of the outer wall somehow let in light...like it was translucent. What bothers me was that I was walking on sand inside...this could have been a dome shaped protective building or something...the inside of the outer wall was curved though...This is one of the places where hypnotherapy may help...here and after I was elevated and how it became daylight rather quickly. This experience has much more real sequencing though than any other dream that I’ve had. I just sat down and wrote about 11 pages in long hand and I’m just going to hang on to them and give you some things in a little more organized way...or at least I’ll try. ...If it’s worth it I was born two minutes after midnight on March 21, 1950....right on the Equinox...to some people they might find that significant....to me it’s just more synchronicity....I’ve had one daytime sighting with my brothers back in the late 1950s that I can relate if you like....Bye for now.”

That sighting was described in this email of August 21, 2002:

“I was in our backyard on a bright mid-summer afternoon. My brothers and a few friends were throwing the basketball at a basket we had nailed to a tree (this is, after all, Indiana) and I noticed one of the kids pointing to the sky in the North. We all turned and looked to see three glimmering shiny silver mirror like disks traveling silently at a good clip from east to west about a mile off perhaps 30 degrees above the horizon. I caught sight of them for about three seconds when they disappeared (they could have shot off at a right angle at a high rate?). About two minutes later a squadron of about 10 of those wedged shape jets scrambled over the top of our house ... To ths day my brothers and me still say do you remember that? We never told our parents (or at least I didn’t).”

In the following communications, this subject begins to speculate about dreams, and alternate and spiritual realities. In an email dated August 22, 2002, he wrote:

“When I was doing Dream Research I was reading about the Hopi Indians and how they would share their dreams among themselves (they are apparently a very at peace tribe). One of the things they would do when falling in a dream, instead of waking up through fear they would follow the fall and fight through the fear all the way to the ground. I did this, and actually went through the ground into a kind of alternate reality...or some state that I am unable to describe. After this, periodically through the years I would have dreams of flying and hovering and doing acrobatics...but once in a while I would take off from my bed and penetrate the side wall of my house or go through the ceiling to the outside. Those are beginning to look a little more curious. Did I ever get the impression that I was actually physically hovering...I don’t think so. But I have developed a Notion of Luminous and Astral Bodies. Casteneda referred to developing your Double through dreaming and the Ancient Egyptian concepts of Ba and Ka come to mind. Keep in mind it’s not as though I have some pathological history of abnormal Dreaming here. These are special Dream events out of the context of normal dreaming spread out over the last 33 years or so.”

Email dated October 30, 2002:

“There’s been deep reflection about synchronicity and the investigations I was pursuing regarding Particle Physics and Astral and Luminous Bodies...there’s a lot of wonder about whether or not I have a developed sense of an Astral Body and that I may be an Older Soul of some sort, that the Universe is really a Multiverse and the Real connections are not Traditional Space Time but Psychic Spiritual...I believe. They provided me with a Spiritual Intellectual Gift....I think they know me and that in my Heart of Hearts I’m just a Very Very Benevolent Creature...Why? ...Life is a never ending Puzzle???? I think it is for them also...I think we share a common Genetic Heritage with them too.... something like Cosmic Ancestry...Panspermia...”