let's talk about our personal experiences. i'll go first

**edit: sorry, shoulda said in the title, this is about UFOs/UAP/NHI**

asking because i see a tremendous amount of ridicule since the whole jake barber/coulthart debacle, which this post is not about (and if you wanna ridicule, okay, i can't stop ya).

i am curious as to how many people on these subs have actually seen something themselves that truly cannot be explained prosaically, because it really does seem to me that these encounters are foremost personal until discussed with others. and while i think there is a need for verifiable evidence for at least base claims about these things (it is helpful, for example, to know that there is data associated with the phenomena and it's not simply a collective hallucination), i also feel it's important to recognize... we're in uncharted waters here. i don't think clear-as-day videos are going to explain anything. in fact, i think, as we are witnessing today, it tends to just create more confusion, melee, and denial until we reach a tipping point wherein the majority of humans encounter some high strangeness that 'awakens' our curiosities further.

i'll go first: i have seen two separate anomalies on two separate occasions, years apart. one seemed intentional (as in, it was intended for me to see and interact with) the other was happenstance.

the first was two and a half years ago (on my birthday!) in 2022, in indiana, involving a 'craft' that looked and behaved like none of what we're seeing currently, save two (alleged) instances — jonathan reed's 'vanta black' triangular prism and the grey diamond photo from calvine, scotland. my 'visitors' were in (or... was itself) a craft like those examples — angular, seamless, matte black, and (weird to say) felt like it had a texture to it, but it was not a pyramidal/prism shape. from the 'top-down' view, it curved like a kidney bean, which was the only smooth curve to its dimensions. i know this because it floated with that facade facing me until i thought to myself "there's no way i'm looking at a ufo right now," at which point it started slowly rotating on it's z-axis, like a rotisserie chicken (lol) while remaining on its slow trajectory away from me. it was as if 'they' were showing me in response to my thoughts something that cannot be discounted as a mylar balloon, human-made drone or aircraft, and indeed had an otherworldly feel and look to it. also, it was silent and didn't waver at all in the air. it was as if it was on a magnetized track/trajectory. it was rigid with a center protrusion that was revealed as it rotated — it had thickness to its center point — and despite the smooth curve of it from the 'top' down perspective, it had very visible, rigid angular lines where it's center was.

after i was blown away that it seemed to directly respond to my thought, i immediate asked myself if i should be scared. i scanned the sensations in my body, head to toe, and realized, "no, i don't need to be afraid." i felt warmth, friendliness, even a 'hello' kind of vibe, as if they knew me and i knew them.

my ex was with me at the time and was actually the one who saw it first. and i know this is gonna make people mad or laugh but... the thought of capturing it on film never even crossed our minds. i was captivated by it/them. it was like... idk it felt personal in a way that disabled any egoic need to document it. idk how else to describe it. if you've witnessed something like that, maybe you'd understand.

i did write a post about this soon after i experienced it in 2022, as it was my first and i wanted to see if anyone else saw what i did, which was in a residential neighborhood in broad daylight and in a clear sky. that post was mysteriously scrubbed with no post history saying it was deleted on reddit, along with a cryptic message from someone about trying to gather such stories as mine. i was spooked and sat on that experience till last year. my ex simply brushed it off and in fact got upset whenever i talked about it — i think she was scared by it. anyone else see anything like this ever? dm if so.

the second was a white sphere at night last october in socal that i happened to glimpse as it sped off and up at a rate that is humanly and naturally impossible. no trail to it, was not moving relatively slowly like a satellite or comet/meteor. this was more akin to the orbs and tictacs military and civilians have been documenting more heavily. it felt like an 'accidental' sighting, though i do feel some 'connection' was made after seeing it/them. this one i did have the urge to pull out my phone, but the sighting was less than 2-3 seconds long. like i said, happenstance.

i do not believe these two instances are connected by the same actors. the behavior and ... connection was quite different between each.

i would love to hear about others' experiences because, well, shit is weird, man. things are increasingly not making any sense, but clearly something is happening. i don't think we're going to understand what is going on with clear-as-day videos—in my opinion, they want to be known but in a very specific way that requires interaction with the observer. the things i saw were almost too fantastical to believe yet incredibly mundane. it's like seeing a whale for the first time. it's so weird and powerful yet... there those things were in the sky, plain as day.

anyway, hoping to hear from yall! thanks for reading