© Illustration by Keith Bastianini.
A friend of the woman from Montreal approached me wanting to know if any of my readers or colleagues have heard of any similar encounters.
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The following story is in his own words and unedited. From his first note to me, this is an overview of what he recollected that the woman said:
It was in August of 2004 and occurred on an island in Vermont. Anyway, she tells me it was it at night, she was going to bed and saw out the window two small red light circles, then a small light moving away from them. It was quite disturbing, and shortly after, she saw a small object come into the house through the crack between wood panels on a wall - she describes this object as a cylinder the size of your little finger, with silvery metal rounded ends and a clear center filled with a milky liquid. It was truly frightening to her. The object floated through the air, at one point disappearing and re-appearing elsewhere. She called state troopers who came and took her story.
I encouraged the man to revisit the woman and get more details. In this second note to me, he recalls more details about the woman's encounter.
Here is the rest of it as I remember.
It was at their country house in Vermont. She had a friend with her. The incident occurred after dark, when they were getting ready for bed. She had seen the two small red lights outside, showed it to her friend, and feeling uneasy, then went downstairs to check the house, when the floating cigar-shaped incident happened*. She then went upstairs. Her friend had seen the lights, but not the moving object. She called the state troopers, who came quickly and checked the house a bit, but didn't find anything. She said they were very respectful and seemed to take her seriously. They pointed out the tree outside the window, so she thinks the red lights were maybe in the tree - and not far away as she had thought at the time.
*Another detail about the floating object incident, which only lasted a few seconds (I may have mixed up recall of this part....). It was floating slowly in mid air going up the stairs. She said at one point it disappeared, and slowly emerged from a painting (of a duck) on the wall. Then it left through a crack in the wall. In any case it apparently had the ability to either disappear, go through walls, or perhaps simply distract and disorient the observer.
Shaken by the incident, she decided they had to pack and leave right away. They drove away, and at a certain point she said as they were rounding the last corner before the bridge off the island, you could see the sky was lit up around that corner. As they rounded the corner she said her heart dropped, as there was - literally - a large saucer shaped UFO (maybe 75 feet in diameter??) - perched sideways on an angle at the edge of the road at the railing just before the bridge, part of it going down over the edge and part up in the air.
She said she was almost paralyzed with fear but instinctively continued driving, ever so slowly, right past it. She said she could have put her hand out and touched it. She described it as beautiful, and covered all around with thousands of small square led-like lights - blue, red and white I think.
They drove back to Montreal. Scarcely a word was said, and she says they never talked about it or mentioned it again, although she knows that they both saw it.
Shortly after that, she found a strange red wound mark on her knee, as though it had been punctured. She went to her doctor, who was mystified and could not explain it. It took a year or so to heal. She is sure it was from the floating object which she thinks must have been a medical sampling device.
This woman is in her 70's, she is all there and a credible person, so I do believe her story! Like most people, she hasn't told anyone for fear of embarrassment or ridicule.
Overall I appreciate your looking at this, and I would be interested in knowing if you or any of your colleagues might have heard similar details. As for an illustrated story, I don't see any harm in that, and as you say, maybe others might come forward.
© Illustration by Keith Bastianini.
Every time I meet this woman, the conversation comes back to the event, and I try to get into more and more specific questions.
I met her today and she filled in a few details, and clarified what I had remembered. You asked for age. The lady was in her seventies at the time of the incident (she feels that this is a disbelief factor!!). It was in August of 2006. She said the state troopers would have made a report. She mentioned she came back the following summer and casually asked a restaurant employee if they ever heard of anything strange, and the girl said her father had been awakened at night on his farm by dogs barking, etc. and when he checked outside there was an unidentifiable craft hovering above some of his cattle, which were "all in commotion". As soon as he arrived on the scene, the craft took off. Apparently it was also in August of the same year.
Here are some more clarifications:
What She Saw Out The Window.
It was 2 red circle outlines, like the frame of a pair of round eyeglasses. She said there was a small white light which came from that area and moved towards the house going out of her sight. That was when she got worried and went to check the house.
The Floating Cylinder Device.
She says it was about as long as your middle finger, 1/2 inch or so in diameter, clear in the middle with silver capped ends (flat not rounded). There was a milky white liquid in it, with what looked like some streaks of black powder mixed in with it. I was wrong, she did not "see it come out of the wall", she says she was looking down from the top of the stairs, and saw a small round white light in between two wood slats on the wall and another round light in the center of a painting of a duck on the wall. Then she saw the cylinder slowly floating up the stairs (it was level, and pointing ahead). Then she says it simply disappeared.
The Saucer Craft At The Bridge.
It is a causeway, not a bridge. The craft was three quarters submerged in the water, with the edge of it resting against and protruding at an angle over the guardrail. The entire saucer was covered with lights, not just the edge. The lights were square, and outlined in silver (like silver boxes, maybe 1 1/2 inches square). She tried to describe the beauty of the colors, says they were mainly red and green and maybe another color. She says all the lights were like these, except there was a solitary BLUE LIGHT, and another single WHITE LIGHT among them, both about the same size - these two lights were on opposite sides of the craft. She was indeed driving at a barely creeping pace (out of fear and instinct), then just as they passed it, it disappeared.
About The Mark On Her Body.
At the time of the incident in the house, she was wearing a nightdress that came to just above the knee. It was on the right knee that she discovered the marks later on. She says it was like two small circles, one around the other like bull's-eye. The mark took a full year to go away.
Also, when she went to the cottage the following August, she found a patch of dead grass under the tree outside the window, and she wonders if there is any connection.
She still wishes to remain anonymous, but is fine with the idea of an illustrated story. I should mention she keeps trying to get up the nerve to call into the Coast to Coast AM radio show!
Editor's Note: The MUFON database has nothing similar in Vermont for 2004. The National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC)has eight sightings from Vermont in 2004. The following is one of those cases - this one from March 1, 2004.
Occurred: 3/1/2004 21:00 (Entered as : 03/01/2004 21:00)
Reported: 1/14/2005 10:26:37 PM 22:26
Posted: 1/19/2005
Location: Plymouth, VT
Shape: Unknown
Duration: 3 min.
Life changing event for me will not view skies ever the same.
Coming home from work at the top of the hill after the salt ash inn on 100A in Plymouth, Vermont. I saw two lights hovering just above tree line in a field about 100 ft. up the lights were about 50 ft. to 75 ft. apart. They were absolutely still, yet pointed at my car, being who I am I stopped imeditely to observe it. My first thought was a u.f.o but, it could be a D.A.R.T helicopter. I stopped my car in the road, turned off the radio, poked my head out of my driver side window to listen, I heard nothing, it was about 45degrees and the moon was bright, the craft's lights watched me for say- 10 seconds then the lights or the craft turned on a dime and flew above tree line slowly away toward Rutland/North Clarrindon area.I made a u turn, went down the hill. As I got to the Plymouth store I saw it flying just above tree line slowly with no jet trail. I asked at every house in Plymouth if anyone had seen it, with no success. The last house I asked invited me in and showed me a video. I do not know what to do with the video. If it's a government ship, hats off to you, why me? Call me.
((Addedum From Witness))
The craft was just hanging in the air about 150 ft. up, it was over a field in the town of Plymouth, over a farm. Two lights similar to car lights maybe fifty to 75 ft. apart the lights were looking right at me for about 20 seconds then turned on a dime and slowly hovered above the tree line just like a movie. I had stopped my car in the middle of the road as soon as I saw the lights, rolled down my drivers side window poked my head out I heard absolutely no noise. I pulled a u turn and followed it down to Rt. 100 it was flying just above tree line slowly, with no exhaust trail. it was about 50 degrees that night and the moon was pretty full. I asked everyone in Plymouth if they had seen it and had no luck my last try I found a house where all three people had seen it and they had taken a digital video which the father showed me I have not decided what to do with the video.
((End))
((NUFORC Note: We have sent two messages to the witness, and have received no response. PD))
Here are just a few links to other UFO cases from August 2004 - apparently an active period in time for UFO sightings.
Diamond UFO Over Maritimes Highway, Canada, August, 2004 [LInk]
Staffordshire Mini UFO Flap August 2004 [Link]
UFO over MGM-Disney Studios, Florida: 1 August 2004 [Link]
UFO Sighting Report, Tapachula Chiapasufo, August 28th/29th(?) 2004 [Link]
And check out this Youtube video from August 2004 - with Illinois MUFON Director Sam Maranto speaking about this incredible sighting captured on video. Headline: UFO, Alien Giant Battleship Mothership craft over Minneapolis Saint Paul August 19, 2004
And finally, here is a short video piece I produced with Sam Maranto, where he describes - 2004: the Year of the Weird. I've posted this before, but if you haven't seen it yet, take a look.
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