Somewhere in the Skies - Witness Accounts: Volume 26

Episode Date: March 20, 2023

On episode 309 of SOMEWHERE IN THE SKIES, we return to the heart of these mysteries in our skies with another collection of UFO stories from you, the listeners. From across Europe and North America, we span continents and decades to hear truly unique accounts of UFOs and close encounters that changed the lives of those involved. Special thanks to those who submitted their stories. If you would like to share your own UFO story, email: [e-mail] to discuss further. Patreon: www.patreon.com/somewhereskies Website: www.somewhereintheskies.com YouTube Channel: CLICK HERE Book your Cameo video with Ryan at: https://bit.ly/3kwz3DO Official Store: CLICK HERE Buy Somewhere in the Skies coffee! Use promo code: SOMEWHERESKIES10 to get 10% off your order: https://bit.ly/3rmXuap Order Ryan’s book in paperback, ebook, or audiobook: https://amzn.to/3PmydYC Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ryansprague51 Twitter: @SomewhereSkies Instagram: @SomewhereSkiesPod Read Ryan’s Articles by CLICKING HERE Opening Theme Song, "Ephemeral Reign" by Per Kiilstofte Copyright © 2023 Ryan Sprague. All rights reserved. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/somewhere-in-the-skies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is Somewhere in the Skies with Ryan Sprague. Hi everyone at Somewhere in the Skies. This is Dan from that UFO podcast. Dan Zedestrm, that is. Or Cetostrm, depending on where you're listening from. So this sighting took place on the 8th of June, 2021, at 247 in the morning. This was in Barry in South Wales. The compass head in that the object first appeared from was 147 degrees.

And the weather at the time was 10 degrees Celsius, and it was completely clear. skies. The layout of the property, it was a small bungalow with the garden so I could see this huge swath of sky. It wasn't blocked by anything. To cover one of those swaths of sky, it took a plane, which this happened after the, I saw the UFO. It took a plane about 10 minutes to fly over. And you'll see why that's relevant as I go forward. And just to front. this by saying that after this experience, I checked, sassolite trackers, I checked, plane trackers, I checked, everything. And even though I kind of knew from the movement that we didn't make things that moved that way, I still thought that it was important to check these things.

So I was sat outside, looking up at a clear sky, and I asked for something to happen. And about five seconds later, this enormous hour flies over. And if you've read anything, thing, you know, esoteric, you know, that the owls are usually a sign of high strangeness. In this case, I wouldn't have thought anything of it if what is about to happen didn't happen. This owl was so big that I jumped. So I asked for something bigger, like of a bigger event. A moment later, five of the same kind of sized owls flew over the top of me in a V formation. It was wild. So a few moments later, I look upwards, I take a deep breath, and I take a deep breath.

I give gratitude to the universe and say thank you. And at that moment, I saw a star moving right near where I was looking. It wasn't moving in any crazy way. It was just kind of steadily saw and train through the sky from north to south. So I watched it. It got to the highest point above me, and it stopped. And it stopped for long enough that it got my attention. Up until that moment, as I said, I thought it was a satellite.

So is it stopped and I registered that it'd just been hanging at the same point in the in the night sky for a while? I asked it for something impressive. And at that point, I kind of, I did a double take because the movement that it started making just wasn't movement that anything, any craft that we make makes. If you imagine a leaf falling on the wind, swoosh in side to side and get an ever look. lower, that's what this thing was moving like. From the highest point in the sky, it drifted downwards like a leaf on the wind to the horizon. And just as it was about to disappear over the roof of the house,

the object shot from south to north and covered the space that it took the commercial plane, you know, a good chunk of time to cover, in about three seconds, and it was gone. This was simply just not hours, or at least something that doesn't use propulsion or move in the same way as we are used to seeing. The left-right swinging motion was just wild to witness. So as I'm sat, kind of slack-jured, mind-blown about what just happened.

I once again give gratitude to the universe and say thank you and do a little meditation. And then as I open my eyes, four more owls fly over me. Same size again. there's just no other words to describe the experience other than majestic. It was a really impressive experience and a really life-changing experience because the way the object moved, like I say, it just wasn't anything, like anything I've seen humans make ever, ever, not even secret technology, not even the wildest things that they can come up with.

you know, a human technology, we like to get places fast in a straight line. We don't tend to, we don't tend to make things that can fall like a leaf on the wind. That is one of many experiences that took me from a believer to a Noah. And not Noah like Noah's Earth, I mean like Noah like K-N-O-W-E-R. This thing was anomalous.

This thing was, extremely likely to not be ours. I wish I had footage of it. It was this sighting that made me go, you know what? When I have a house, I'm totally going to set up this, you know, a system on the roof

to kind of just track these things. It's one of many experiences and I hope I can share the rest with you in the future. But thank you for listening and thank you for giving me an opportunity to share. Brian, my name's Ashley. I just wanted to share a story that is somewhat relevant to

everything that's going on in North America this past two weeks. So this happened on Veterans Day in 2018 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. I was out to breakfast with my two daughters, and we were, and I'm going to be really specific just because I can. We were in a restaurant called Mike's Chicken and Donuts that is no longer there. It sat at the corner of 56th Street. and 7th Avenue right by Lake Michigan on the shore, basically. And my daughters and I were seated at a window that was facing 56th Street.

And so we're sitting there and we look out the window. Everything's totally normal. And I look up and I see a silver ball that is just going overhead from the southwest traveling in a ballistic trajectory to the northeast. So it, you know, it's heading diagonal. And as I'm looking up, I notice that there is another one that I can only presume is about maybe 10 miles north of it flying completely parallel to it. I watched this thing, My daughter, you know, I pointed out to my daughter who was eight or nine at the time. And I asked her like, oh my gosh, do you see this?

What is that? And, you know, we acknowledge it. We look at it. And because of it going in a ballistic, straight line trajectory, not making any zigzags or anything, I didn't really think that it was, you know, a big deal or anything. But, you know, it was definitely odd. But we watched it the whole time until it disappeared into, you know, to, you know, to, far away, too far away for me to see. But they were both completely spherical silver balls.

There was absolutely no marking of any kind that I could see. There was no differentiation in color. They were completely silver. And, you know, I know that I can't tell how high or low they were, but they were low enough for me to be able to tell that they were spheres. If I had to guess, I would say that they were within probably about 16,000 feet. And I'm only able to make that guess because where Kenosha, Wisconsin sits is right between Chicago and Milwaukee. And planes fly. the landing path is through Kenosha for Milwaukee. And the takeoff path from O'Hare Airport goes straight north, obviously, if they're heading north.

So I see low planes very frequently, and I know that they can't obviously be too high, and they're certainly not at, you know, cruising altitude of 32,000 feet. So anyway, I'm watching. this and you know they're heading out over the lake and I you know I watch it I noticed that there's the second one and I would say that they were probably between five and ten like ground miles apart in the sky and I only assumed that because you know you can see farther in the sky but they were still close enough to where I could tell you know what was going on that they were both silver

balls that had no identifying marks on them they made no sound whatsoever there was When the planes are low in Kenosha, you can hear them over a building if you're inside. But yeah, I don't know. I don't know what it was. I never really said anything to anybody about it because it just didn't seem like it was super special or anything like that. You know, I just saw two bowls in the sky. But I believe that it was not satellites because of the position of the sun. I saw this at about 11 o'clock in the morning on Veterans Day.

And, you know, Kenosha, Wisconsin, it faces the lake, which the sun rises in the east. And so the sun would have been almost directly overhead at this point. And, you know, if you, there have been times that I've, like, laid out on my back deck at the time, which also faced east, that when the sun sets, you can, if you're looking straight up, if the sky is clear, you can identify a satellite. you'll actually be able to see the sort of cross shape of like, you know, the working area of the satellite versus the solar ray on either side of it. And you can see it reflecting the sunlight from the setting sun at certain time. So it wasn't, whatever these spheres were, they were not high in the sky. They weren't the typical satellites that you see. And this was in 2018.

and I don't believe that Starlink had been launched yet. And even still, I don't really understand. I mean, I don't know anything about this type of stuff. But there were two of them. They were identical. They were flying at the same rate of speed, completely parallel to one another. There were no identifying markers.

And, you know, I saw it with my own eyes. I never looked to see if anybody had also reported this on like Mufon or anything like that. So I suppose I should go and check that out. But with everything going on, I just wanted to share this with someone who may have heard it before. Maybe I saw whatever surveillance things are being taken down now. I have no idea, but I can say they were bigger than a car. That's for sure.

Thanks for listening. Email me back. Let me know what you think. If anything, it's just what happened, what I observed. Thanks. during Scotland. Bye. Hey, Ryan. Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to share my experiences with you. It's an honor and a pleasure to do so.

My name is Tom Thompson. Some people may recognize me from my YouTube channel, Cortex Zero, Podcast Zero, and my activity in the online UFO community, specifically on Twitter. I'm a guitarist slash musician, content creator, an artist, and I own a small digital design company. I've been researching the phenomenon for most of my life. life, which, based on my age, would make that over 25 years of personally investigating the more inexplicable side of life. This is my personal story of the UFO sighting that I had as a

child, which significantly intensified my interest in not only the phenomenon, but all the other subjects that are typically connected to it even further. Growing up, I already had an immense interest in things of this nature, but this is what really dumped gasoline on that fire. So when I was nine years old, I was in the Boy Scouts, and I was on my very first camping trip ever. On this particular evening, I was in the process of earning my fire badge, so when everyone called it a night, two of us would attend at the campfire and make sure it was out. One of the adults would then check the fire just to be on the safe side, and we would receive our badges. It had been a pretty interesting night, considering we had a campground right next to us that was occupied by a group of Wiccans. I'm not sure what they were out there for, but at the time it felt like some kind of celebration.

The chanting and singing coming from their camp was really beautiful and carried on into the early morning hours. After tending the fire and earning our badges, one of my friends and I decided to stay up a bit later, excited over the fact that we technically had no designated bedtime that we had to abide by strictly. I had exited my tent which was occupied by myself and three of my friends. We sat down on the logs around the campfire just chit-chatting while I poked the remains of the now-extinguished fire with a stick. I remember how clear the night was. That really sticks out in my mind amongst some other details. The camp was situated in this nice clearing in the woods surrounded by a tree line that broke apart to reveal a circular section of the sky.

This was in the middle of Lebanon State Forest, now known as Brendan T. Burns State Forest in southern New Jersey. This was a very clear, very bright spring evening into early morning, cloudless with the stars prominently displayed above us. My friend and I were just carrying on a regular conversation, and I can still remember the smell of the woods distinctly. The air was very still, aside from the occasional light breeze here and there, and even that was hardly noticeable. We were sitting there for maybe a half hour or so, and out of nowhere there was just this woosh, this, this pushing of air all around us that happened and it didn't feel like a natural breeze. It almost had the quality of a car driving past you at high speed. You can just tell the difference between that and the wind.

As I took notice to this, I felt the hairs on my body stand up. It was this remarkably weird, static electrical sensation as if I was sitting next to a giant latex rubber balloon. Just a few seconds after I began to feel that weird static electricity, I couldn't help but notice that the usual noises of the outdoors were now non-existent. It didn't make any sense that all the various wildlife around us would simultaneously fall silent like that. It was ominous. But that's when it happened. Something caught my attention and my peripheral vision to my upper right in the sky. It started protruding from that section of the sky.

It slowly moved further into view until the entire object was visible. It was massive, and I mean that. Just enormous, especially for anything that would be flying through the sky. The moon was exceptionally bright on this night, so there was no misidentifying the object, and it obscured the stars behind it. This craft, whatever it was, was triangular with this deep, beautiful, yet featureless matte black texture. Each corner of the triangle came to a sort of rounded point not quite sharp. There weren't any discernible rivets or lines of any kind.

It wasn't moving very fast. It was comparable to a ship out on calm seas. I just cannot stress the immense size of this object enough. It filled a significant portion of the chunk of sky that was available to us over the clearing we were in. It couldn't have been more than a few hundred feet over the top of the top of the sky. the trees. My friend and I didn't say a word, and we didn't make a single move,

not initially. I remember being so mesmerized by the triangle that it was almost as if my brain was on autopilot. The craft came to a very slow stop in the direct center of the clearing overhead, and on each corner of this craft, three lights in

succession, starting from the very front of the object, moving to the left and then the right just flickered on in a strange fade-in. sort of fashion. It was kind of like a smartphone when you hit your power button and the screen fades out, but in reverse. I will never forget the quality of the lights. They were gorgeous for some reason. They were white lights, but they all had a sort of haze around them that reminded me of a customized set of aftermarket headlights on a car, but much more striking. It was like an

aqua blue fluorescent haze. It was just one of the most beautiful things I think I've ever seen. This is when I finally said, oh my God, what is that? Look at that. Look at that. Are you seeing that? Am I imagining this? You know, I just wanted to be sure. I needed that verbal confirmation from my friend. He was badly freaked out.

And all he could say was, I see it, I see it. Like, I remember him just stuttering, like someone who had been out in the cold for too long, and he was physically more frightened than I was. He was trembling, and he actually stood up and was sort of pacing in a small space back, and forth while keeping his gaze on this gigantic black triangle. The craft began to move again and as it did we felt that unnatural electromagnetic sensation escalate as it made its way across the sky again. As it disappeared over the trees, the hairs on my body ceased to stand on end, accompanied by yet another unnatural wish of air and maybe four to five seconds after we could no longer see

the triangle, the noises one would expect to hear out in the woods at night return to their natural state. Now, you would expect kids of our age to wake everyone up screaming and shouting about what had happened, but we just didn't. That sticks out when I recall this event. We went back to the tent, and I don't think we slept very much, but we just didn't talk about it the rest of the night. Considering I already knew so much about the phenomenon even at such a young age, the stigma associated with the subject prevented me from sharing this story with almost anyone for several years. As I've gotten older, though, I have shared it on several occasions, including in one of my earliest YouTube videos, though I didn't go into the kind of detail there as I did here. At 33, I have lived with this experience as one of the driving factors in me researching the phenomenon in related subjects.

This happened to me, and there's no changing that fact. It changed everything. I went from a believer to an experiencer. The difference is massive. I still get chills when I sit in. picture that triangular ship gliding through the sky. I'm left with really only two potentialities as far as what it was. Black military or aerospace tech of the highest order or non-human intelligence.

The technology required to get that thing off the ground, let alone maneuver it through the air, didn't exist at least publicly, in 1998, nor does it exist now in 2023. There have been moments of mostly internalized. frustration associated with sharing my experience, mostly stemming from relaying it to the closed-minded among us. I get it, though, I do. Still, I can't help but wish they could have seen what I did and felt everything that I felt that early morning.

This experience altered the trajectory of my entire existence. I am not insane. I have never been diagnosed with any significant or debilitating mental illness. I'm just a guy looking for answers to the most profound questions we have asked as a species. This is why I'm active in the community, why I talk about these subjects on my YouTube channel and podcast, and why I am relentless in this search. I live with the knowledge that something is happening, and it's a double-edged sword like almost nothing else. This one is much more recent. On November 26, 2022, an event occurred that caught me completely off-guard.

Even though this is not the first time this type of thing has taken place in my life, it takes nothing away from the sheer awe I found myself in, as I laid eyes on something I could not explain floating in the sky above me. At approximately 2.17 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, I was driving my work truck, heading east in the direction of my job to return from doing field visits. Ironically, only 10 minutes prior to this, I had been recording a vlog video on the phenomenon. As I approached the intersection where I would be taking a left turn, there was a sharp, bright glimmer I caught my eye above me through the windshield. I looked upward, and there it was.

In the sky above my truck was this cone, just sitting in place, yet it was rotating, not very fast, but just turning in a circular motion. Top portion of the cone came to a sharp point, and with the sun to its right, it glistened almost like metal, but it had a very glassy, translucent appearance. The blue sky was clear of any real cloud cover, so I had the object in full direction. view. Honestly, it was a beautiful thing to lay eyes on. My sense of time began to waver, not to mention the fact that I had to keep my eyes on the road. The sighting lasted for what I estimate to be the slowest three seconds I've ever experienced, and then it vanished. But not in a split-second flash

or anything like that. It was as if the object took the sky behind it and wrapped it around itself like a sheet and faded behind it. At this point, my phone was now in my hand, with my camera on and ready. It had transpired too quickly for me to even have a chance of capturing anything, but just in case the object decided to show itself one more time, I pulled over into the parking lot directly to my right and began to record. I waited for about 10 minutes or so, but to no avail. I was stunned.

It really took me by surprise, ironically appearing just after I had recorded a video talking about the phenomenon. It was as if I was being teased by whatever the intelligence was behind this event. After I stopped the recording, I got back into my truck. I began recording a different clip, one where I made note of my location, the time, date, and the quick details of what I had seen. Not too long after this, I returned to my job,

and I filed a report with the National UFO Reporting Center. I provided as detailed a description as possible. It really kills me that the object, whatever it was, vanished before I even had the slightest chance to capture it on video or in the least a photo. Regardless, I was grateful to have seen such a beautiful and mysterious sight. The rest of the week was pretty odd for me too. I'm not sure if these events are related, but I still wanted to make note of anything out of the ordinary because this is how the phenomenon seems to operate based on what I know of it. For the next week, every single night, my dreams were dramatically lucid just out

of nowhere. On the 28th, two days after the sighting, the way my day began was extremely unusual. Following yet another lucid dream for some reason when I got up out of bed, and I've never had this type of feeling to such an extraordinary degree. I was questioning whether or not I was still asleep. It was really odd. I've had that kind of thing last for maybe a few seconds in bed before getting up plenty of times prior, but this stopped me in my tracks and lasted 50, 15 minutes or so. Again, I don't really know if there's any direct correlation between my sighting and this unusual sleep pattern and subsequent incident of my mind questioning my surroundings, but I feel it was more than worth noting. That's not all, though.

On three separate occasions over that next week, I experienced what I can only describe as precognition. I am not claiming to be some kind of mystic here, and I have my own personal opinions on such phenomenon, but this really couldn't. be ignored. And during meditation, I had been experiencing very strange presences around me. Very similar to the feeling that you'll get when someone enters the room you're in. You haven't even laid eyes on them yet. In the months following the sighting, it feels like my life has entered a beautiful new chapter. So many wonderful things have begun to happen, and I can't help but feel as though that cone in the sky may have been a sign of the great things that have now come to fruition. There is no way for me to know whether or not that's true, but all I know

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for giving me the chance to share my story on your podcast and with all your listeners it's an absolute pleasure and yeah I'm going to get straight into it so my name is Rob Scott and I'm from the west coast of Ireland from a small village called Ahagawa and just outside of a town called Westport

I guess from a very young age I was always fascinated by UFOs or aerial phenomenons as they're called now and also the paranormal so yeah i guess the story starts in the summer of 2022 i moved to vancouver in the summer of 2019 so i was there a couple years before this event took place before that i had never witnessed anything supernatural in the skies before but always had the hope one day that I would get the chance to witness something. I guess it started, my first account of it would have been at the back of my house on my deck. I was playing guitar

with my girlfriend up on the deck and having a few beers. So I always used to go up there, chill out and just look up at the sky at the night time. The skies were always super clear during the summer in Vancouver. You could see everything up there. And that night it was super quiet. It was about 10pm. Super quiet. You could hear a pin drop.

And so I was just relaxing, leaning back in my chair against the deck and had my eyes fixated on. the skies and I witnessed a triangular object fly above me with three lights underneath one on each corner three white lights quite faint but visible to the eye nonetheless

flying at quite some speed it must have been a couple of hundred a hundred miles an hour completely silent as it flew above me it was no more than 1,000 feet. So as soon as I seen this, I was absolutely shocked. I shouted at my girlfriend and, of course, she didn't see it,

even though I told her to keep her eyes on the sky in case Anathan ever does fly by. So I have a witness there to back me up. But anyways, she didn't see it. It was just myself. And so I shouted at her straight away. Did you see it? Did you see it?

And she said, no, no, what are you talking about? So I just said, I just seen this, I seen this thing fly by, like super low. And I was absolutely, I was, I was shocked at what I'd seen. I couldn't believe it. So at first I was like, okay, surely this has to be a plane. It was flying from north to south. And so at first I thought it was a plane. so I checked my

flight radar on my phone to see if there are any any aircrafts in the area flying from north to south and lo and behold there was zero aircrafts in the area and I was like okay that's that's quite odd

I guess it has to be something else so yeah this thing that I seen was flying super low 1,000 feet no more high rate of speed and had a wingspan of at least, I'm guessing, maybe 40 to 60 feet, shaped like a triangle with one light on each corner. So I guess after I witnessed it, I was trying to disprove myself to see if it was if it was an airplane. but obviously not because I checked the flight radar

and that was a no-go as there was nothing flying in the area at that time from north to south so my second thought was then it was a UFO something which I had never witnessed before especially that close you know it was only it was no more than a thousand feet above me

and yeah so I was pretty shocked when I seen it but I always believe that these aircraft were out there but I also thought it could have been military as well

because I know I know the US military has stealth aircraft that looks similar to the aircraft that I've seen but I know that stealth aircraft

have are quite noisy when they're flying low but this one had it was completely silent as it flew across at a high rated speed above me. So, yeah, I guess that's really about it. Like, you know, I kept trying to say to myself, like, you know, it was an aircraft, it was an aircraft, but there was nothing in the area.

So it had to have been a UFO. So I guess today I look back in it, think you know what a crazy experience but also i'm very grateful that i got to witness it because i'd never never witnessed um something like that before so yeah that's uh that's that's that's really is uh that's my the height of my uh UFO story yeah so i just want to i want to thank you very much for for letting me share my story on your podcast and uh best of luck in the future thank you Hi. Hello, Ryan. My name is Ben. I live in southeastern Pennsylvania. The area around here is very rural, mostly farming country. A lot of the Amish community resides in the area. My family has been farmers for many generations. I actually live right across the road from our farm, but grew up on this farm, was born and raised here. So I actually do antique restoration and farm for for over 20 years.

I've been self-employed building furniture and restoring, restoring antiques. My shops are on this, we're on our 120-acre farm here. Yeah, I'd like to tell you a few of unexplainable experiences that occurred to me. The first one happened about 12 years ago. I was alone outside raking leaves in my front yard and across from my place, oh, maybe like 100 yards. Right across the road is the farm and the fields, and there's a driveway, a long driveway that goes in between the fields. And the driveway is, it's lined with these huge white pine trees. My grandfather actually had them plant it years and years and years ago.

So I just happened to look up and see this dark shadow come across the left field. It was maybe 100 feet off the ground, if that. And it stopped over top of the last white pine tree at the end of the driveway. And when I looked at it, it was a huge black triangle. maybe each side was 30, 40 feet of the triangle. It made no noise whatsoever. I could see the angle from it because it was kind of up from me. I could see the bottom of it and at each point it was illuminated.

Like, I want to say a round light, but it wasn't like a spotlight. Oh, and it was probably maybe four or five o'clock, so it was still light out. I had a really clear view of this thing. But it was, I don't know, it was like an orb, but it was part of the ship underneath. I was all struck. I just stopped what I'm doing, stopped what I was doing, and looked out across and was just blown away by what this was. At first, I'm thinking maybe some, you know, Air Force craft or something, but it made no noise whatsoever. And it just, I was immediately just was like, I think this is a UFO.

So I just stopped and stared in it. It hovered above this pine tree not too far above it. It felt like forever, but it was probably 20, 30 seconds maybe. And then it just slowly moved across my field of vision to the right. No noise. Same height, same altitude off the ground, pretty, pretty low right right there man and uh then all the sudden it was gone it literally appeared to disappear in front of my my eyes i i don't know that's the only way i can explain it

it was it was there and gone um just it was so cool what an experience uh and i went inside and my wife was in there with the kids they were little at the time and you know i told and she was kind of like, wow, that's so cool, but you know, that was it. So, but to me, it changed me. I've always been interested in UFOs and outer space and just stargazing and hiking across the fields at night and just looking for stuff, just out of curiosity. But, you know, always felt like there was more to just this earth and humans. So, and sure enough, I got to witness something.

So I thought it was special. And it just made me want to delve into the topic more and see what was out there. And boy, I realized that there's a lot of this that goes on, especially now at this time with what the military has released. You know, I believe they know. And they're either not telling us or they probably don't know everything either. So my other experience I wanted to share, which actually happened a couple months ago, I think it was probably the end of summer. Me and my son were in my wood shop working and all of a sudden we hear this really loud noise. It could almost feel it.

It's like literally shaking the windows in the shop. you know like the vinyl windows that people have anyway so we go outside to see what this is and we look across the field and sure enough there is this fighter jet what looked like you know an Air Force fighter jet coming across the field pretty low so low and I'm guessing that's why it was so loud

came across the field and we were like just what's going on here why is this thing flying so low because it was so loud. And sure enough, there was a gray, silver, round ball. I don't know. Compared to the jet, it was maybe it was six, eight feet in diameter. A couple hundred yards, maybe more in front of this jet. And so this ball comes across our field of vision, across the field,

and this fighter jet is following. It clearly was evident. This thing was following this ball. And me and my son were just started running across, sprinting across the field, just trying to keep up with it. So it was in our sight. And we're yelling at each other like,

it's chasing this gray ball. This is incredible. What's going on? And then, strangely enough, the fighter jet does this odd maneuver. To me, it was odd, but I'm sure it's common with these guys. he kind of hung hard left, still slowed way down, hung hard left and kind of went up and to the

side, and three or four flare shot out of this fighter jet, really bright flares. By this time, the jet was kind of like over top of the neighbor's field, which isn't that far away. So these flares were let go over top of this field, but he's still real low. And sure enough, then he resumes his flight. path and and by this time this gray ball has become a dot in our vision but it's still just rolling i mean across the sky and so this jet now at this gray ball had a pretty good lead on it but the jet just took off what looked like right after you know after this gray ball so that was really cool um at one point it pretty much everything just kind of disappeared it got far away from us and we could still hear

it, the jet, didn't hear anything as far as the ball. The jet, if it was making noise, the jet was clearly overpowering it because of how loud it was. But, yeah, the ball just kind of disappeared. One thing that struck me, though, was when before we lost sight of this gray ball, it almost changed color. Now, I don't know if it was some atmospheric thing or there was no clouds in the sky, or if they were, they were way up. But it went real like a light gray, almost white,

and then back to the dark gray. It appeared to almost change colors. So, and me and my son, we did actually, we just have some iPhones and we took them out. At one point, we stopped running. We're out of breath. We were like, let's try and videotape this. So we put the video on and, you know, we're trying to.

We couldn't get much. everything was happening so fast and you know far distances with those cameras they just at least on our phones they they weren't very well uh you couldn't see very well with them or record much um but we do i think my son he did catch some of the jet um the fighter jet on there and and mine i maybe called a little bit but it was mostly just you could just hear the jet on there and of course our um excited state we were we were really like blown away by that blown away. I try and remain skeptical on all this stuff. I try and really view it that way. I'm not real quick to just believe everything. You know, I really, you know, I know there's plenty of stuff out there.

People will try and get, get you to believe anything. But I do believe, you know, a certain percentage of what we are seeing and hearing and through, you know, on the internet or from people I witness accounts and stuff. I actually believe there's definitely truth within it. I also believe the government knows a lot more than we do, and I feel like they're probably scared to tell us a truth. It's just hard to believe that we would be the only ones in this vast universe, and it's fascinating to think about for me. I feel, I think I feel really, it's real special that I've been in. able to witness some of this stuff, you know, unexplainable. Hey, I'm not saying that it's,

you know, that black triangle is full of aliens. I don't know what it was. A part of me wants to think that it was for something like that. But, you know, until we physically see this stuff and they land in the field and come out and say hi, then, you know, it's hard to just say that's exactly what this is. But I'd like to think that it's something, you know, from another area in the universe or who knows? I find it odd that they are just showing themselves. It's like they want to prime us for something or they're just like planting a seed, like

to get us thinking along the lines of, you know, if there's something else out there, We're just kind of giving you a little bit. Here we are, but, you know, and make you, you know, process this. There's something definitely is going on. And it makes me fortunate to be able to share my little bit, my few little stories of what I've seen. There's so many of them. I think it's important. What you're doing, Ryan, is great to make people aware of what's going on.

because there's so many people that I can't really tell this to. I've tried, and they just are, you know, they're just nine to five. They're doing their thing. And they don't have time to think outside the box. I've always just been a person who has questioned everything. So I kind of just keep this stuff more to myself. A few of my friends, close friends and family, you know, I've told. But a lot of them are just like, wow, that's neat.

and they don't have much to offer towards it. But, you know, it's kind of like until you see it, it's hard to grasp. I get it. But anyway, yeah, that's my story. Thanks for having me, and I'm glad I could share it. This episode is brought to you by Netflix. Most valuable promotions in Netflix are hosting a blockbuster triple headliner

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My name is Patrick. I'm 35 years old. I'm from Dresden in Germany, and I'm a customs police officer. The encounter happened on July 25th, 2013, so almost 10 years ago, in southwest Germany. It happened right at the French border, literally right at the French border, and it was approximately 10.30 p.m. When my ex and I went outside to have a cigarette, we had a house with a pool, and we were standing and sitting by the pool. and we were talking like always and suddenly I noticed three oddly bright stars in the corner of my eye hovering above where France would have been

there was also a nuclear power plant so about that area I don't know if that has anything to do with it just think it's noteworthy as I said I looked over my shoulder and in that moment when I looked up at those stars, they quickly descended. Like super fast, like on a straight line.

Boom, there was. Completely unexpected. A pitch black triangular craft, a structured craft. Hovering completely silent without making a noise, about 30 feet above our heads. It was kind of looking at us, I would describe it. The belly first. The lights were looking at us,

pointed towards us. Each side of the triangle was approximately 30 feet long. So 10 meters. That's the measurement I use. I would say 30 feet, maybe a little more than 30 feet, but really close. The lights in each corner were extremely bright, but they were not blinding. I don't know how to describe it. It's really hard to put it in words.

If I had to describe them somehow, I would call them pure lights. I've never seen anything like that. before. We were absolutely gobsmacked. Like, you know, deer caught in the headlights. Or if you would encounter a bear in the wilderness, you turn around, there's a bear, you know, you freeze. Though we felt absolutely paralyzed as if we were hypnotized or controlled. I'm not saying we were, but that's just how it felt. Just frozen and staring in disbelief. Everything was or seemed silent in that moment. Everything has fallen silent. Before you could hear frogs and crickets because, you know, we had that pool and was out in the village.

And, yeah, everything just was silent. It was just a triangle existing in that moment. Yeah, it was as if time had stopped. Oddly enough, neither one of us can tell if it lasted five seconds, 30 seconds, three minutes that the triangle was there. As I said, time seemed to have stopped. Yeah, then before it took off, it started to move super fast. Like from the left, upwards, to the right. It was kind of zigzagging, like a ping pong ball, or I don't know how else to describe it.

It was totally surreal, like this shouldn't be happening. But I don't think I thought anything in that moment. I did not understand what was happening. And yeah, then it should. off towards space. In an instant, it was so freaking fast, it left trails of light behind. Like in that Star Wars of Star Trek scene when they hit warp speed. I don't know, I wasn't much of a Star Trek fan, but yeah, it's the best I can describe it. It left these trails of lights behind. And during all of this, it didn't make the slightest noise. It left like it was

a bullet shot out of a gun. But no noise, nothing. We immediately turned our heads towards each other. And, yeah, we had to confirm that we really just saw what we saw. And we both saw what we saw a black triangle. I've never heard of a black triangle before in my life. I was interested in UFOs whenever they came up on TV. But that was about it. Yeah, we looked up again.

Then we looked at each other again. and we didn't have to say a word and both ran into the house because in that moment reality kicked in the flight instinct and fear kicked in I remember being very scared in in that instant because I did not know what happened however my curiosity though quickly took over again and I went outside looking up but the craft never returned I thought I could make out three stars because you know before it looked also like stars but just brighter um that were a triangle but nah nothing so it never returned that was it um that's um what happened i didn't choose to have that sighting but yeah it happened it was a blessing because i feel lucky you know for to

know for a fact that the phenomenon is real but um it was a curse because many people just don't believe you Some choose ridicule, which was really hard because I know what happened and they just would laugh it off. But yeah, I mostly got over that. What's worse is that this incident has created a ton of questions. So many questions more than I had before, but it hasn't provided many answers. The only answer I got is that the phenomenon is real and nobody can take that from me. I will not say or claim that what we saw was alien or ET because I have simply no way of knowing that or confirming that. But what I know is that the craft was 100% real, 100%. Needless to say that that night has changed my life forever.

Funnily enough, not right away as much as one would think. So I had a lot of things going on. We went on vacation, a quick vacation the next day, because the... next week I was transferred to a new city where I live now. And yeah, I just generally had so much going on that we didn't even talk much about it. Then after a few weeks and months, we would bring that topic up every once in a while. But it didn't have that much of an impact in my life as it has now. It probably started with a New York Times article.

But yeah, as I said, before the questions that I have in my head and I have no answers. I mean, I used to be pretty atheist, a hardcore atheist I would have called myself. I made fun of religion in my younger years. So in that sense, I definitely deserved the ridicule. I got from other people. But, yeah, it didn't turn me, didn't make me religious. It's just, I'm very open-minded now, let's put it that way. Since that night, I know. that all I know is that I know nothing, except for that that triangle was real, it was there, it was unambiguous. That's the definition of unambiguous. And yeah, as I said, since that New York

Times article came out, that's when it's really kicked in for me. And it's now a daily part of my life. I made my story public on Reddit after having, um, um, found also new friends. You know, I lost friends, but I've also found new friends on Twitter. I connected with people who have had similar experiences. So as I said, I'm very grateful for that. But I want to end this with, yeah, saying that all I know is that I know nothing. Absolutely nothing, except for that the phenomena is real.

And I hope that one day we will have something like disclosure that everybody will accept the reality, whatever that even is or means. And yeah, I can just suggest everyone to keep looking up in the sky because there is something somewhere in the skies. Thanks for having me, Ryan. Somewhere in the Skies is produced by Third Kind Productions in association with the Entertainment One podcast network. UFOs seem to be invading both our skies and our news outlets like never before.

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