We Asked...It Came?

[karmakah]

It was a gorgeous fall day in Massachusetts. The time and date will be forever stamped in my head. September 20th/, 2008. 12:45 p.m. (about a month and a half ago...)

I was lying in my hammock, reveling in the 70 degree warmth of the afternoon. The sky was so crystal clear, such a beautiful blue, and I was enjoying it to the fullest. Now, I'm not a religious person, I don't know how to meditate, but I do believe in a higher being, a divine creator, however you'd like to name it. (I'm not sure it even can be put into words or a label...) Most of all, I truly, utterly and completely, appreciate nature and all it's splendors. I have even been known to cry at the beauty of a butterfly on a blade of grass...Corny, maybe, but true.

So, I'm lying in my hammock, looking as deep into the sky as I possibly can, not a cloud to be seen, just an occasional Blue Jay or plane. (It is of importance to note that the few planes that day had really thin, thin vapor trails coming off them, but they immediately dispersed in the atmosphere.) As I'm looking up, I found myself hoping to see something really unique and out-of-the-ordinary before my eyes in the sky. 'Wouldn't it be crazy if something indescribable happened by?' So I say (to myself, in my head) to the powers that be, "Please show me something special. I'll close my eyes, and when I count down from 10 to 1, I'll open my eyes and it'll be right there in front of me, in the sky." So I did this, like, 3 times and nothing happened of course!! So I said to myself "I guess I'm just not one of those people that can wish for it, and voila, it appears. Oh well." Just as I finished that thought, my 8 year old son came into the backyard, and proceeded to lay down on the hammock with me. After a few moments of silence letting him revel in the gorgeous day, I said to him "Maybe you can help me. I'm trying to ask to see something really unique in the sky. Wouldn't it be cool if we saw 'something'?" (Now, he knows I have an interest in the UFO phenomenon, and assume he 'knows what I mean' by that.) He agrees nonchalantly. So, I tell him how I've been trying to summons "it". So we close our eyes, count down from 10, I get to 3 and he says "I didn't do it, mummy. I didn't concentrate." So I say "Okay", and before I can say anything else he says aloud "Dear God, (a word I hadn't even used while asking) please show us a UFO (another word I hadn't used)." My son started at 5 and counted down, and when we opened our eyes...

I jumped off the hammock, almost dumping my son to the ground! "Do you see it??" I was freaking. Shouting! Squealing! Right there, in front of my eyes when I opened them (like I had originally asked) was a star-like, stationary, 'something'. "Do you SEE it?!?" I repeated. "No...." my son said. I had to orient him with the tree line, and if you've ever tried to point something out to a child it usually takes them a while to grasp the location. After a few seconds of that, "I see it. I see it!!", he shouted. This moment was so surreal. There 'it' was. We asked, and it came! A brilliant, beautiful light, that just stayed there motionless, for us to observe. "Go get the binoculars!" My son ran inside so fast...I refused to take my eyes off it! I observed this anomaly through the binoculars and it was reflecting every color of the rainbow off of it. Just shining immensely. Like a prism in the sun. The sun was behind us, and the 'object' was in the North sky. It was almost diamond or tear-drop shaped. Totally still in the sky, but quite far away. A few miles, at least. And this is why I never thought to get a camera. I just knew, because of it's distance, that it would just look a blob on film and not do it any justice.

We called for my husband (who is such a skeptic and non-believer of anything inexplicable), to come out and observe. After many shouts to the house, he finally came sauntering out with a "what now?" demeanor. "Look!!" As soon as he came into the yard, it started moving, slower than I've ever seen anything in the sky move. Sooooo sloooooow. Away and to the left of us (East). My husband observed it through the binoculars, and had no ready explanation for it. Usually he'd be like, 'it's a this or that'. But not today! In fact, as the 'object' went out of our view, it was my husband hogging the binoculars, climbing onto the deck, to get every last look at it. Then it was gone into the tree line...This lasted a good 8 minutes from beginning to end.

Now I'm not claiming we saw a UFO. I just can't believe that my son and I asked to see something 'special' and lo' and behold, we did! That's what makes this experience so memorable and meaningful for me. I'm just an average person, with an open mind, and an appreciation of the earth, the universe, and any dimensions in between. Maybe my son is one of those people that can summons a UFO, or whatever you like to call it, on command. I'm not about to re-test him just yet, though. This time was exciting enough for now, for him!

Important notes: I filed a report (my first ever) with MUFON, and became a member right away. Also, within days after the sighting I had very realistic dreams (natural disasters, nuclear war...) that lasted a few weeks and had such an impact on me upon wakening in the morning. I never put 2 and 2 together, that maybe the 2 are related until just recently. Who knows if they're related. The dreams have now sub-sided, thank goodness, because they were terrible! (Luckily my son hadn't had any of these dreams that he could recall. Of course I asked him.) I certainly will never forget that day in September. I'm definitely a believer in "something" I just can't put my finger on it or give it a label. It's a mystery to me....