Story time! Let me share a story with you guys, about one of the most incredible things I have ever experienced.
I've had a few amazing 'UFO' sightings, even filmed two of them. I don't care anymore if people believe it or not. But this one was very different.
One night I was in my backyard with my ex at about 3AM, when a bright light hovered in from the north-east, It was heading in a straight line toward our house, when it suddenly stopped and 'focused on us' with an intense light. I had seen different UFO's before, but they never got extremely close or interacted with me. This one actually 'saw' us, and it stopped still, before lowering and slowly coming closer!
I was smiling and had my hand up like a friendly hello when I first saw it floating towards the house, I knew it was a so-called UFO instantly and cheerful that I was seeing another one of these mysterious things again.... But when it suddenly stopped and approached us, the cheer turned to overwhelming awe.
It stopped almost right above us, and slowly got so close we could hear and feel it! My gf at the time was absolutely frightened out of her mind by it and was panicking badly. I would say if I was standing on my roof, I could have touched it with a broom, that's how close it got. But even up close I still could not make out the actual body of what it was, it was just very strange and intense light, with a sort of hollow or see-through centre. The size of it was hard to determine, at a distance it could be seen as large, but at it's closest it seemed no bigger than a person.
We both agreed that it seemed this thing wanted to land right in our back yard, or make some kind of direct contact with us. It slowly lowered itself and came as close as it could before my ex would have either screamed or fainted, she was gripping my arm so hard that it hurt and her nails were digging in. I strongly felt as if this thing was so intelligent, it knew exactly how close it could get before it 'became too much' - because just as I thought my ex was about to scream, it would stop approaching and slowly back off.
When it started moving away slowly, my ex would let go of my arm and then run over toward it, out onto the grass, but then it would come back and try to get closer again, and she would run back to me, grabbing my arm and going into panic mode. I was acutely aware of her emotions and could almost feel her exact level of fear.
It did this three times, I felt it was getting as close as my ex's fear would let it, and not an inch closer. All I could do was stare at it, my eyes and my mind trying as hard as they could to understand what this was, but to no avail. After the third time, it quickly flew up higher and began moving all around the sky with unbelievable speed while the light coming from it was changing colour and shape.
It would just disappear from visibility by flying behind the trees and neighbors houses, and then come back again to right above us. No earthly thing can move the way this thing did, or as fast, it would suddenly stop in mid air and then take off again, flying from one side of the sky to the other in a flash. I swear it knew exactly how far it could move in each direction before we could no longer see it. Intelligent.
Then the most amazing thing happened- I was going to lose sight of it as started heading behind our house during one of its motions, and I decided to run out onto the lawn in an attempt to keep sight of it, when my right thong/flip-flop broke, and I had to look down to pick it up and fix it (the rubber bit that goes between the toes always comes loose, and it's easy to push back in to the sole). The moment this happened, I yelled out to my ex "keep watching, don't lose sight of it!" I knew it could move so quickly that the 2 seconds it takes to look down and fix my thongs would be enough for it to vanish, so my ex kept an eye on it while I quickly fixed the problem.
When I looked back up into the night sky, it was gone, but there were two very bright stars. I know my stars, and one of them was the Evening Star venus, the brightest in the night sky. Venus always stands out as a single very bright star, with no other star matching it- but here I was looking at two equally bright and identical venuses, right next to each other.
I didn't need to ask. I yelled "which one is it?!" and my ex replied "the one on the right!", pointing at it. The moment she said that I focused on the star on the right, It immediately flashed like a big camera and then flew all the way back down from what looked like the distance of venus in space, seemingly from outer space all the way back to its close position right above us in our back yard, in under 2 seconds! The noise it made when it flew back in was loud. Almost like an 'underwater earthquake' is the only way I can explain the sound it made as it ripped through the atmosphere.
It stopped above our heads once more, and made a 4th and final attempt to slowly come closer. The same thing happened, it came closer and closer until I could feel my ex next to me recoiling in horror and just when I thought she was about to completely lose her shit- it backed off and then flew back up into the sky, this time floating off in a straight line S/E toward the hills and leaving for good.
After the ordeal, I was in shock and awe but my ex was almost having a mental breakdown... That. Just. Happened.
The first thing I felt compelled to do afterwards was build some sort of landing-pad or something, in case it ever comes back, I even said to my ex that I have to make a concrete slab or something for when it comes back. Idk why. I knew deep down that it didnt make contact or 'land' so to speak, either because it was never going to, or because we were mentally and emotionally unprepared- and probably not because it didnt want to burn a hole in our grass or have a suitable landing surface. So I never got around to building it.
For the rest of the night, I had colorful lights burned into my vision like when you close your eyes after looking at the sun- except there was strange and beautiful patterns forming and moving in the vision, unlike the plain multicoloured spots one gets by looking at the sun or a flashlight. This after effect combined with the overwhelming excitement of the event made sleep nearly impossible that night.
Also this is purely speculation, but while the so-called 'UFO' seemed to possess some sort of advanced capabilites such as space travel and gravity-defying movement, there was something about it that to me seemed very 'ancient'. Like whatever this was has been around for a very long time, possibly since the beginning. Since this experience I view ancient accounts of the supernatural, stories of the saints, angels, the occult, and many other phenomena very differently.
It was hard to tell at the time because of all the excitement, it felt like all this was going on for ages, but the whole interaction went for no longer than 10 minutes.
This happened over two years ago and I have not seen any sort of UFO or similar since. The sightings have completely stopped. I feel sad sometimes, thinking that I 'missed my chance' with this encounter and I may never have another one like it. I sometimes think to myself, maybe if I was with someone who was more calm and centered, or if I was by myself, something truly amazing might have happened. Who knows.
