On the night of June 13, 1997, my daughter
had planned a surprise party for her husband and had asked me to look after my very bright
Grandson and their new 3 month old puppy for the night. About 7:00 P.M. I took the both of
them to Queen Elizabeth Park for some air and a walk to release some of the wild
child/puppy energy. It was a beautiful clear evening and the walk/run was invigorating. We
arrived home about 9:30 P.M. and after some cookies, milk and much chatter, we settled
into our beds about 10:55 PM. The puppy was contained in a kennel which I had placed under
my second floor bedroom window.
As I lay in bed, in the dark, I could detect
a slight puppy odour, even though my window was wide open. I quietly got out of bed and
opened the drapes hoping the cool night air would dissipate the puppy odor. I got back
into bed and lay my head on the pillow and realized I could now see the night sky (my
bedroom is on the second floor of our house). I suddenly noticed a large cluster of white
lights hovering above the city. As I stared at it, I presumed it had to be the landing
lights of a 747 or a DC-10 airplane a little off course heading for the airport. I thought
it strange that it was flying so low (perhaps 2,000 feet ) and facing my direction,
southeast, AND NOT MOVING. I was tired and the thought of having a young boy and a puppy
waking me up at 5:00 or 6:00 A.M. the next morning suddenly filled my mind and I closed my
eyes.
I felt the cool night air brush across my
face and I opened my eyes wide to the sight of the unusual lights again. My curiosity of
wanting to know what the lights were got the better of me and I was no longer tired. As I
stared at the lights, it now became obvious to me that what had appeared to be landing
lights were far too big and now there were colors, not just the standard white, green or
red. There were rainbow shades of gold, reds, neon pinks and bright blues which would at
times look like very powerful spotlights or strobe lights beaming down toward the city. At
other times, they would just "glow". Up to this point, I hadn’t paid too
much attention to the shape of the object that the lights were coming from because the
lights themselves were mesmerizing and seemed to be getting more vibrant and stronger.
After watching for maybe 7 or 8 minutes, I suddenly realized "it" hadn’t
moved and ‘it" wasn’t the shape of any airplane that I was aware of. I had
been married to a pilot and had worked for the airlines for several years and had never
witnessed anything quite this unusual. I raised myself up on to my elbow and squinted and
strained to get a better view and suddenly realized it was the shape of a huge hamburger
with the lights coming from the center of the "bun". I had heard of people
sighting a UFO in the shape of a hamburger before, but thought it not only funny and
corny, but preposterous! If this was a hoax, someone had gone to a great deal of work to
build such a huge object. The hoax idea quickly vanished because the feelings I was
experiencing were far too special to accept anything less than spectacular. This had to be
an Unidentified Flying Object! I bolted out of bed.
I looked around my room, everything looked
as it always did. I rubbed my eyes, I took a deep breath and exhaled. I felt my bare feet
planted strongly on the carpet, I was not imagining this. I looked again... my God, it was
more alive and bigger than ever. I was almost delirious with excitement, but frustrated
that I could not share this with anyone until I remembered my Grandson.
I stifled my excitement as much as possible
and quietly called him to see if he was awake. He answered immediately. I asked him if he
would come and have a look at some lights. Within a moment, he was at my side looking out
the window. With bated breath, I pointed to the object of lights. I did not tell him what
I thought it was, only that there were some lights in the sky. He stared in disbelief and
almost started to cry as he said he wanted t call his parents immediately because he was
very frightened of what he saw. In my excitement I didn’t realize how frightening
this could be for a child and I gently calmed him down the best I could before he started
crying by telling him that it was not dangerous and that I would protect him from it. I
told him we were only observers and that it was all right just to observe such a marvelous
happening.
While my Grandson gazed at our incredible
discovery, I got out my binoculars and focused intently. I could hardly believe my eyes!
It was definitely the shape of a hamburger with a slight knob on top. It was almost too
unbelievable. It was at least two times the size of a 747 aircraft. I felt like laughing
and crying at the same time. This must be a UFO! I was so excited, I didn’t know what
to do but to keep staring at it. My Grandson was equally excited now by what he saw and
stared at it as well as trying to pull the binoculars from me. We quickly passed the
binoculars back and forth straining to see as much as possible.
At first I was mesmerized by the lights and
hamburger shape of the ship. But my Grandson was more intrigued and frightened of a huge
circular black mass directly underneath the ship that seemed to be constantly changing by
the effect of the lights from the ship itself. The ‘circular black mass’
(resembling a black hole) wasn’t always visible, then it would appear to be
effervescent/transparent as though something was exploding in the center of the mass. Then
we saw what appeared to be clusters of electrical storm bolts charging down into the
center of the mass via the light beams. The mass appeared to be gaining incredible power
surges pulsating from the ship through the lights via the electrical charges? The sky was
clear, there was no wind or clouds or any hint of a storm.
My Grandson was very worried about all this
activity as I could not explain what it was. He kept saying it was going to explode and
maybe blow up the whole city. Beneath my excitement I also felt pangs of fear.
Then all of a sudden this hug glowing red
ship (approximately the size of a 40 story building lying on its side) came out of the
mass and flew across the sky in about two seconds. We were exhilarated to say the least!
After the red ship left, the lights from the
first ship started to fade along with the large mass of electricity underneath. I ran to
the phone and phoned the UFO Sightings number, in the hopes that someone else could see
it, but no one answered, it was a recording. However when we came back it was gone. I
would say it was there for about 25 minutes. This experience was so powerful, I felt as
though it gave me a new lease on life. I cannot explain the experience, the experience was
so wonderfully nourishing. This was the most spectacular sighting that I have ever seen
and yes, I have a witness.
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