When did you guys and gals start getting interested in ufos

[Jimmyduek Profile]

when a was a kid... more than 15 years ago... i had a book and i was very scared about it ut i continued reading it and all my family was like "what the hell why do you want this, it doesnt exist" they do that today but now i dont care hahaha

[Lavell1theelite Profile]

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[Stophaarp Profile Website]

I was walking my best friend home when I was younger, maybe about 9 years old. At the half way point where we usually stop and say bye, we both looked up and saw a slowly spinning circle of lights in the sky, about the size of a quarter from our perspective. we said a hurried good bye, and rushed to our houses. I remember being terrified, then feeling conspired against, when I entered my home to find my parents watching the X-files, haha.

Once I got over my fear of what they could mean, I became very interested in all things ET-related, alternative theories, etc.

[Lavell1theelite Profile]

when a was a kid... more than 15 years ago... i had a book and i was very scared about it ut i continued reading it and all my family was like "what the hell why do you want this, it doesnt exist" they do that today but now i dont care hahaha

i HAVE lot of my family members beleive they exist that a great thing

[domdabears Profile Website]

I got into them about 4 years ago.
I been scared as fuck of them since I was a kid.
Never seen one though. Just always had the worst fear of being abducted after watching Unsolved Mysteries when I was young.

[Harbin Profile]

lavel is some junior intelligence operative.

[Redwoodrick Profile]

when i was 8 and went to the movies to see a little film called
close encounters of the third kind.i think it was 1978

Wow Boondox we are the same age
I saw Close Encounters on the big screen at a drive in movie When it came out.My ufo experience happened the same year a few months before I saw the movie.I have posted it in the other thread but I will repost for this one what got me obsessed with the phenomena:
I have decided to finally post what happened to me as a child of 9 years old.I am currently 40.
I was living in a very remote part of the sierra nevada mountains with my mom and younger brother.We had all been going outside to look at this bright object which would hover high in the sky near twilight in the same spot for hours then be gone in an instant.It would appear sporadically and we all watched it but it was no big deal.One morning I went out on a long hike to hunt for arrowheads in the remote part of our property.I remember starting out at about 9 am or so and the next thing I know I am walking home and the sun is low in the sky.I had no arrowheads and couldnt remember where I had been all day.I remember starting to get really confused trying to remember where I had been all day and then hearing a voice (maybe my own inner voice?) in my head reassuring me not to worry about it it was okay.
That night I had a dream that seemed incredibly real.I dreamed I was lying on a small rectangular examing table.I was in a large well lit room with my mother and brother on tables too but on the other side of the room kinda far from mine.I saw an open door in front of where my table was.I remembered (in the dream) that the whoever had led us into this room and laid us down had told us not to get up off the tables.But the same voice added in my head that it would be okay for me to if I wanted.And when I thought about getting up and looking around a voice in my head said that if they didnt want me to they wouldnt have placed me by an open door.
When I got off the table I noticed I was wearing some kind of flimsy gown like you get in a hospital.The doorway I walked out of was shaped like a regular common doorway and was open but with no visible door.I walked out into a hallway and a being came up to me.It was tall,with humanoid features that kind of became less and less physically defined from the forehead up.For some reason I never looked down past his waist.The face was vaguely European or something but I wouldnt say identical to a human being.The jaw and cheekbone and temples were more elongated and it almost looked like his features became more of a shimmering kind of light from the forehead up.
I remember he looked my right in the eyes and communicated things to me silently that I couldnt hear in language..it was like he was talking to another aspect of myself,and with respect,as one would to someone in your own peergroup.I remember being amazed that this obviously incredible entity was treating me as if I was an equal,and with respect.We were in a well lit hallway that curved gently in a circle.He asked me if I wanted to look around and we started walking down the hall.We came to a door and he said "Remember the room where you came in?" and the door opened(vanished) and i looked inside the room.I poked my head inside and looked and the floor in the room became transparent and I was gazing down at our mountain ranch which was way,way below us.
That is all of the "dream" I remembered and I woke up extremely happy and tried to tell my mom and my brother but they didnt want to listen.
What happened next was horrible.
I started having nightmares.Incredibly frightening nightmares about some little creatures I could only get a glimpse of out of the corner of my eye.Also terrible dreams that I was in the car with my mom and there was a big ufo above our car following us and I was always TERRIFIED.These nightmares came almost every single night for months and months.I was scared to go to sleep.I always had the scariest dreams and woke up terrified.After a long while the nightmares stopped.
I have never heard of the kind of being I saw and am wondering if anyone else has any take on this experience that may shed light on what kind of being I met (assuming my initial dream was actually a memory of a real encounter that day)
I should also add this was long before I had ever heard of abduction or anything in ufo lore.I know the details are a it classic-scenario but it is the truth.

[Lavell1theelite Profile]

lavel is some junior intelligence operative.

true true

[Poooooot Profile]

I have been interested for as long as I can remember. It probably started with what I believe to be my first abduction experience. I go through phases, though. Sometimes I become almost "obsessed" with ETs. It'll be all I think about, 24/7. I'll even dream about them. And then months will go by where it barely crosses my mind, and then I'll go back to being deeply interested in them.

But as far back as I can remember, I was always fascinated with the night-time sky. I would spend hours outside just staring at the stars.

[Alexrubic Profile]

I seem to have developed an interest at a very early age but cannot pinpoint any particular reason/event. The obvious answer would be TV/films as an influence but as hard as I try I can't come up with a conclusive time-frame. It always seems to me that my interest developed before any exposure to UFO related media! But that may be faulty memory/wishful thinking!

I do distinctly remember that my interest morphed originally out of an interest in ghosts and other similar 'paranormal' subjects - and as kids, my brothers, friends and I would gather in the summer-house and tell one another spooky stories until we were too afraid to leave in the gathering gloom (the summer house was at the very end of a very long back garden!).

I also remember having a fair few UFO sightings and other bizarre occurrences around that time - but after my interest began.

The most bizarre incidents didn't involve UFOs but always struck me as 'ET' related at the time. On one occasion I was in the back garden alone on the swing trying to propel myself as high as possible. Each time I reached the height of my swing back I would look round to see how high I was getting in relation to a rockery wall/rose trellis behind the swing. At one point I caught a glowing figure, which appeared to be descending the steps in front of the summer house at the far end of the garden. It stopped me dead. I waited for the rest of my family to return before telling them what occurred. When we plucked up the courage to go and investigate, we found odd scorch marks in the concrete of the steps - clustered in patches that would correspond to where I saw the feet of the 'figure'; one patch on one step and one on the next one down!

On another occasion sometime later we had been playing in the summer house and been called into the house as the sun was going down. After we had been indoors for a while, my dad asked if we had closed and locked the summerhouse door behind us. Of course, not wanting to be the last to leave and make our way down the garden on our own in gloom, none of us had. So I got the short straw and had to go back up on my own to do it. As I stepped inside to reach the key, which was on a table at the back of the summerhouse, I saw a 'glowing face' in the window of the back wall - it just suddenly popped up. Naturally I just screamed and ran straight back down the garden into the house. No-one believed me and my dad was not best pleased that he had to go up and do the job for me!

I later found similar scorch marks at various points around the front and back garden - sometimes on concrete and sometimes even in the lawn.

The glowing figures appeared human shaped and made of gold coloured sparkling light which was more intensely illuminated at the centre of the 'body' where the heart would be! As far as I can recall this happened before the original Star Trek was first aired on British TV because I remember getting chills when I first saw the beaming-up effect as it was almost identical to what I saw!

However, even though the memory of those events remain vivid, I have to wonder how much was due to a childhood imagination/faulty memory?