NUFORC UFO Sighting 182633

Occurred: 2013-01-23 19:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2024-08-13 14:16 Pacific
Duration: 15min
No of observers: 2

Location: Sobrado, Porto, Portugal
Location details: Northern Portugal

Shape: Disk
Color: Yellow/orange
Estimated Size: 20m diameter
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: Various
Angle of Elevation: 45
Closest Distance: 50 meters
Estimated Speed: 20km/h
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Disk lifted off vertically from top of hill, stopped and hovered over my neighborhood then stopped directly above my backyard

The day that changed my life.

This experience happened in 2013 which is quite a while ago and my time recollections and some specifics could be a bit off but I still remember the experience as if it happened yesterday. The whole experience lasted for approximately 15 minutes.

On the 23rd of January 2013, on a somewhat cloudy day with intermittent light rain, at around 7:30 pm I had the most incredible experience of my entire life that really changed me. I never saw the world the same way after this.

I was coming home from school. I got off the bus stop and started walking - it takes me about 5 mins walking from the bus stop to my house.

I start walking and then I reach the end of this road and have to go down a somewhat steep road. As I approach this place with a few buildings, I look to my left and look toward the hills - as I would everyday, just cause I love the hills.

I looked and I immediately noticed this bright light light up on top of the hill. It looked like a lamp post was lit up there on the mountain top which I thought was weird.

It was yellowish/orange in color. I continue walking, turn left to go down the road and this light starts ascending, like vertically ascending, it looked like CGI, like a scene straight out of a sci-fi and I just stopped, shocked, I actually thought to myself "Is this happening? This can't be real, it can't be" then when noticed the disk shape… At this point I'm frozen and just stop looking at it completely shocked.

So then I kind of snapped out of it and started rushing down the street, almost running because there's a point in this road where there are houses on the left and they were blocking the thing in the sky, I vaguely remember someone going by me, a woman going up the road and for a split second as I looked at her I thought "Are you seeing this? Why aren't you looking?" as I kind of hesitantly raised my hand to tell her , but was so shaken, that I just kept going to get down there so I could see it again.

When I passed the houses to my left passed I could see it again and it's still going up, in a somewhat slow way, and as I get down on the intersection I stopped in awe looking at this thing, as it passed throught a cloud and watched the cloud brighten as the object passed through it.

It was so beautiful, a perfect disk, from that point of view I could only see its side and bottom. It was so bright. I had never seen that kind of brightness, I can't explain it, and as the object got closer I noticed the surface it was this molten metal/lava-like material, really weird that's the only way I can explain it, and it had these dark spots like when you look at pictures of the sun and it has those dark spots.

It then continued ascending and then it slightly stopped, and kind of tilted towards my direction and started moving toward my location, at this port I could see its top, it was was same, and because it was even closer I could see movement on the surface, like the it really was lava or something moving and along the sides it had these lighter bars, almost like glass against this lava surface, they were whiter in comparison to the rest of the craft.

Suddenly and for the first time since seeing this thing, I thought about my phone, and immediately upon touching my pocket I remembered that I have hardly any battery left, my phone was a Samsung phone from like 2012 or something and it had this setting where the camera app wouldn't work if the battery was below a certain percentage. I think it was 15% or so at the time.

But I still tried I opened the camera app and I remember the app actually opening and I did see the object on the camera but like a second later a warning showed up saying that the battery was low and it automatically closed.

I was so frustrated but at the same time I was like "Oh well fuck it I want to see this thing" and just put the phone back into my pocket. The people who say "Why don't we have more UFO videos out there" or "If I saw a ufo I would immediately reach out for my phone and take a picture" need to understand that shock has has lot to do with many experiences. I'm telling you from personal experience it's not like that because you do get shocked at least I did I don't know what other people's reaction would be if they ever saw something like I did but when I saw it I was so shaken by it that all I wanted was to look at it. I was shocked from beginning to end. Reaching for my phone wasn't my first thought at all, only after a good couple minutes and then I was so frustrated about not being able to take a picture. I actually threw the phone away a couple weeks after because I was so mad at it for failing me that day.

Anyhow, so I continued looking at this disk, it stopped and started moving right almost parallel to to road I had to take to go home. So I start running because after I realized that I couldn't take a picture I was like "OK then I need to get home and call my mom and whoever is at home to see this thing" so I started running and as I'm running this thing is like going parallel with me I'm looking to my left and I see it in between the houses and then I get to a field and I see it very close still moving right but relatively high still, not close to the houses.

Then I turn and keep pacing looking at it. Then there's two houses blocking it and I look in between them and then finally I get home and call mom, "Come out! Look at this, there's a disk, a ufo, come grandpa come out and see this'' and then I went straight into my room because my room has a window that's directed to the side where I saw the ufo outside I thought that I'd be able to see it given the position it was at outside. I look out the window and I see nothing and then I hear my mom shouting "It's here it's here, I see it! Come out!" and I go out immediately and this thing is now stopped, just hovering right above my backyard.

I would estimate it was approximately 50 m above my backyard, very close and this thing was huge I would estimate it to be like 20 or 30 m in diameter or something it was big really big but the weirdest thing was when I went outside after my mom called me the disk wasn't "bright" anymore it had "turned off its light", the surface light was gone it was just black. There was only this black mass in the sky and that's what my mom was seeing I told her how it was before I got inside, and we just stopped there looking at it just in silence looking at this black mass in in sky, clearly visible against the lighter gray clouds, suddenly to our amazement it started flashing lights violently underneath, like Christmas lights but a really fast flashing, multiple colors in small lights all throughout the bottom surface of the craft.

My mom was immediately like "Take a picture or something" and I told her real fast why I couldn't and then she went "What is that? That can't be a plane right? It can't be a plane right?" then I remember my mom saying "it would be great if we had something to film this thing with" and I was like "Yeah I know we could have an amazing video". Her phone didn't even have a camera. We didn't have a lot back then, we were and still kind of are a poor family, so there was no other chance. Plus there was no one outside, it was a cold day and at that time no one was really around. Except for that woman I passed coming down that initial road.

We watched this object flashing for about I would estimated like a good minute and a half and then it stopped flashing and went back to being a black mass in the sky again. Then it started to slowly ascend until it hid behind the clouds and we couldn't see it anymore and we were just just like in silence for a few seconds.

And if this whole experience wasn't weird enough I immediately went up to my grandpa's house and I realized that he hadn't come outside. I was like "Why didn't you come outside and he was like "Well because I've already seen those things many times" and I was like "What do you mean?" and then he starts telling me about a few "disks" he has seen, especially about one day when he says he saw a metallic disk on the ground right across the street, there used to be be field there, now it's all houses, and he says when he saw it he ran out towards it to try to get close and he says it just vanished right before he got too close to it. He said it just "disappeared in from of me like magic". He even made a quick drawing of the object, which I no longer have. He passed away 4 years ago.

I asked my grandpa why he never told me about UFO's and he said something along the lines of "I don't wanna be out there saying I saw this or that, people are gonna think I'm crazy".

This experience changed me. I never looked at the world the same way as I had before.

I'm sorry for making this text too long but I really had to put all of it in here, it's not an account that can be shortened because it was massive. I feel pretty lucky to have seen such a thing, but eternally cursed to live with the uncertainty of what I experienced and also to live with constant ridicule from even close friends.

This changes us, especially my experience which was for me, unequivocal evidence for something bigger than us.

I provide a Google Drive link with 14 Google maps screenshots indicating place and prespective and also 2 badly made sketches (I'm not a very good artist). One of them (no. 13) the one with lines, was done right on the day I saw it.

This is in a town called , in northern Portugal.

Https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dDNU1VonOVwBju4qoEX-fMwpADSmACw4?usp=share_link

Posted 2024-08-22