Question:

This happened circa 1966 when I was about 10 years old and my sister was about 16 years old. It is middle of deep night around 2 a.m.and I'm sound asleep. I'm awakened (startled) by my sister who is straddling me on all fours on my bed - looking over me, staring me in the face at a very close range. I start to scream, then realizing this person is my sister, I don't - she also puts her hand over my mouth (her left hand across my face, covering my mouth). She says for me to 'wake up', 'look', and 'watch', and 'shhhhhh'.

I'm a little confused and quickly scared from believing my own eyes. There are 3 distinct 'lights' (balls of energy?) in our bedroom! They're not communicating, nor making sounds, but I'm 'getting' this message that 'everything's okay - such to the point that neither of us call to my parents for help or safety. (I find this extremely strange since we'd holler for them at the sign of a water bug or roach in a second).

Our home was large, old colonial style, just a few streets over from the Intracoastal Waterway (main canal for Ports from Houston-Galveston-Port Arthur and Beaumont). Lots of old trees, but no signs of 'light sources' anywhere nearby. We looked to see where they were coming from, but found nothing. This 'mutual experience of ours was also kept 'secret'. We never even discussed it much among ourselves until many years later.

I used to 'see' things; figures, silhouettes, - sometimes they frightened me, other times seemed intrigued with what I was doing (playing piano in the old living room for instance) - many 'signs' of other lives around there that had come and gone or perhaps preparing to come? I don't know. We found an old trunk in the attic one summer that held photos identical to some of the things I was seeing around the house - then, we discovered we needed to discuss some of this stuff. We didn't talk about it much at all, though. I wish we had. My father had 'visions' of these things too, but not Mom.

My sister was 'spooked' from early on. The least little thing would frighten her and she hated to be alone. She was diagnosed with cancer in 1996. In the Fall of 96 during her radiation therapy, we had another 'incident together'. I was driving her Grand Cherokee Jeep back to her house from a day-long visit with our parents.

She was tired. it was about 8 p.m. We were going westbound on I-10 from Beaumont to Pasadena, Texas. Around Winnie (beach road cutoff area) the night was foggy (normal for Spring & Fall around here) and we couldn't see anything. I mean nothing. It was as if everything simply disappeared or something. What's weird about this evening is that although we could see no traffic, I mean not so much as one car, the whole way, no businesses, no residences, no animals, no lights of any sort. I don't even recollect the road much except that I know I was driving the car.

We did however see this 'object' on the horizon a long way off up ahead in the distance! There was no fog there -?-. We began discussing this new fandangled light - wondering what new overpass was up, or just what had occurred because we both knew this road so well, having traveled it for 20+ years.

There were no overpasses of any kind in this particular stretch of the road. All of a sudden, this 'object' was literally on top of us. It had traveled a couple of miles toward us, and was all-of-a-sudden travelling with us in the complete opposite direction with us! It was so close to the car, I was afraid it might 'attach itself' to the top of the car or hit us or ???. I tried to stay in control, for my sister's sake. She was immediately 'taken' mentally by this object. No beams of light, no floating bodies or anything but many, many brilliant lights around it - as if they were coming from the inside of it - like a holographic display or something (that's the closest I've found so far).

The brilliance was like nothing I've ever seen. We don't have colors like that, the closest being red & a bluish-white. The intensity was unbelievable. I mean, I'm an accomplished designer with ' color' as a specialty. We just don't have this kind of color! My sister was white, 'frozen', her knuckles were so white and tight, they looked like they might tear apart! Her fists were wrapped around the edge of her passenger's seat. She was both non-breathing & hyper-ventilating. I kept ' slapping her leg and telling her to breathe - then she'd hyperventilate again. It was as if something else was in complete control of her.She wouldn't look away at all - only a slight glance to me at the first of it. Then, her eyes were bulging and fixated on the object. I'm positive they communicated or interacted in some way.

My familiarity with this thing was that the same kind of 'calming' affect came over me - not in a voice, but as if someone 'put' a message onto my brain of 'everything's okay'.

This 'encounter' lasted for 12.5 -13 miles! To my memory there were no changes in my car, we did not stop - rather, I sped up trying to 'get away' from it. No lighting problems or malfunctions of any kind (that I recall). At first, I tried to 'hear it' by rolling down the window; only to realize it made no audible sound for us - and fright had me roll the window quickly back up.

I almost stuck my head out of the window but 'heard' a clear 'no!' and didn't. I'm quite spiritual and do ask for divine guidance and protection. maybe I had it that night, maybe not. For some reason I think I was protected in that I didn't stick my head out. That thing was so close - 30 feet above us at the most!

It was about the same as a local billboard (and around here maybe not quite that high!). I couldn't make out the shape because of the 'fog' (?) but when it 'stopped' - of course we continued moving - away from it. The shell of the craft appeared to be of non-color, possibly dark grayish, possibly even 'reflective' of the environment it was near. But it had a lack-luster look some way......no gloss, no detectable paint, no visible signs or numbers or anything. Just highly unusual light-ability. It seemed to be rotating (?) so fast that maybe it could have been made to look 'invisible'. I watched it through my rear-view mirror - comforting my sister and telling her it was gone and she could relax. It 'hovered' there in the hollow of the overpass opening (the overpass just before our exit/turnoff towards Baytown). It 'filled up' the two lanes completely with its size - maybe 40 ft diameter.

Then, it suddenly ' shot off' towards the Gulf of Mexico in yet another direction, due south. We didn't discuss it. We were both pooped. We commented we didn't know what it was. When we arrived - evidently some time later, my niece greeted us with; ' It's about time! What took ya'll so long?' My memory here plays a number on me because I remember looking at the craft against the overpass and it wasn't dark out. But it was dark, we'd left our parents before sunset - maybe 6pm or so, because we didn't want to drive at night - but then, I remember the fog, and the darkness -?- We arrived at night time - 8:30 or 9:00 p.m. - this is most odd. This drive is never more than 1.5 hrs. I didn't write down the time, but my memory of day and night and arriving late tells me perhaps we missed something. Maybe the entire car was 'transported' somehow. Maybe that's why we didn't see any of the traffic or other businesses that are around that area. I've mapped it, drove it many times since. I know right where it came in and left us.

I'd love some concrete answers but fear what I may learn. This experience haunts me sometimes. My outlook is different now. Other connections I'm becoming aware of are also pointing towards possible abduction. Thanks for being there.

--Jill from Texas

Answer:

AAER: Anyway, to give you some feedback: If you were to undergo hypnosis, you would very likely learn that what you are remembering is the beginning and the ending of the abduction. The two are joined together with the middle portion missing from your memory.

The UFO you spotted on the horizon moments before zipping over to your car was not there by accident. It may have been there for the purpose of healing or checking on your sister due to her recent cancer diagnosis. Was she cured by the way or did she go into remission after the episode?

Jill: There's more......my sister began having extreme blood disorder the very next day, to the point that we had to find blood donors to try to compensate for her cells 'giving out'. I'm sure that 'they' were aware of this, possibly caused at least part of it from the extreme level of stress from such an 'altercation'. My sister 'hung in there' for another few months, but left us on January 6, 1997. Only 3 months after this 'experience'. I wish we'd discussed it, but all I was able to do was ask her if she remembered the object and she immediately turned towards me, and 'glazed over' saying 'y-y-e-e-e-s-s-s-s-' ! Her response took me by such surprise that I simply chose to 'leave it alone' for fear that it would cause her only more pain.....I wish I'd pursued it with her though. That same night, after she died, I watched a 'ball of light'. I thought then that it must have been her, but with all of this starting to come together in my mind, I'm beginning to wonder if it could have been 'them'. My spiritual beliefs lead me to think it was her or angels or some other celestial good thing. My 'experience' leads me to question whether they could have been there waiting for her all the while and were trying to tell me they got what they came after -?- I guess maybe only time will tell, eh?

AAER: The missing portion of the abduction probably begins with you seeing the UFO immediately over the car. Watching your sister "be taken" for about 13 miles was probably right after you both were returned to the car / or the car to the highway / as the case may be. Since this was likely after the abduction, she was probably in a state of shock known as Post Traumatic Stress which was why she was non-communicative with you. I like your description of the holographic colors. Do you remember seeing inside the bluish-white light?

Jill: No, more like watching them 'dance' around on the craft but from the inside more so than the outside. But also, there seem to be 'gaps' that are starting to come together for me, and more questions. This makes me uneasy. But I think I might be opening up to face it in my memory. I expressed a lot of this to another person a couple of nights ago, and my Mother informed me that I was 'screaming/moaning' during the night! I never do that. All I can figure is that I must have been 'reliving' something since I had that on my mind and it was so late, I was tired, etc.

AAER: Was it a beam?

Jill: Not that I remember. But I can't figure out the 'fog' stuff. Maybe it wasn't REALLY foggy out? Maybe were in some kind of 'fog-like' environment, or slightly different dimension?

This is the color commonly associated with the transport mechanism, as in the old Star Trek series, "Beam me up, Scotty."

I've never been a big fan, but saw a little of it and remember the phrase. This was not like anything I've yet to 'uncover'.

AAER: Also, while you think you did not stop the car, clearly both of you and the car were stopped somewhere in time or space. Your description of the UFO having a reflective quality similar to the environment has been a theory proposed by researchers and non-researchers alike. That would enable the UFO to visually acquire the qualities of the surrounding environment. Also, your not discussing it with your sister or family is typical. Many people are unable to explain years later why the subject was never discussed. However, now that you are probing it, you may begin having flashback memories or even dreams at night of what really happened. Also, the balls of light are known to communicate with people. After all, who said intelligent life had to look like us?

Jill: OKAY! Thanks for this comment (per my earlier comment above). I do feel like something was definitely trying to communicate with me. I told my Mom back then, when it first happened (after my sister's death), that I believed she must have been trying to tell me something. I didn't get up, but the ball of light (like some kind of energy - and definitely blueish, swirling, mass of ???? but slightly transparent) kept coming straight to me and then 'racing' through the dining room, into the kitchen, and back to me again for a long while (mostly from about 2 - 4 a.m.). I couldn't tell many about this, they'd think I was bonkers, but my parents understood. my father has had 'unusuals' in his lifetime. It struck me as odd, though, because my sister left around 1 p.m. in the afternoon. I saw nothing until during the night, more than 12 hours later.

AAER: The bluish white balls of light sound like plasma energy. They are magentic energy and have the potential for incredible power. It is a form of energy which occurs naturally on earth known as Teslas.

However, there is also a strong indication that alien visitors may know how to create or manipulate this energy for communication, control, or travel purposes. Thus, it is not at all unusual that you felt the balls of light were communicating with you as a youngster and that they ultimately guided your behavior into not calling your parents for help. Many other people have reported similar experiences. It is also intriguing that your sister's passing may have contributed to a ball of light which you saw 12 hours later.