NUFORC Sighting 49998

Occurred: 1980-06-24 14:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2006-04-06 20:45 Pacific
Duration: possibly 5 hours
No of observers: 2

Location: Mount Weather (near Leesburg), VA, USA

Shape: Unknown


Missing Time: Two People

My mother and I have a long history of UFO sightings/involvement. It's highly possible that there was an abduction experience when I was not quite three, and my mother was 23, involving not only us but a busload of soldiers en route to Augusta, GA, in 1957. But when the incident I'm reporting now happened, I was around 25, and my mother was 45. I had driven from my suburban Alexandria home to visit my mother in Front Royal, VA, and we decided it was a lovely summer afternoon for a drive. We went on one of our old favorite rides: to a nearby mountain where an airliner had crashed a number of years before, just up the road from a semisecret military installation. The road led through some beautiful countryside, and we'd always enjoyed taking leisurely drives and talking about life in general. My mother and I had seen many UFOs, both together and separately, and had, as mentioned earlier, a bizarre bus trip when I was very young, but on this summer day the conversation was light, and the subject matter was strictly terrestrial... except, of course, for our traditional speculation on what went on at that semisecret military complex out in the boondocks yet so close to DC. We were travelling north in bright sunlight early in the afternoon... then the next thing we remember, we were travelling south, about 20 miles from where we last remembered being, and the sun was almost setting. We both seemed to be coming out of a brain fog -- speech was very difficult. My mother spoke first, saying in effect "How did we get here, and how can it be this late?" It took great effort for me to respond that I had no idea. We literally did not say another word for the remaining forty minutes of the trip -- very unusual for two chatty sorts, especially given the circumstances. I could not comprehend how I could have been driving in such an apparent fugue state, and that both of us were in the same condition was quite disturbing. Neither of us could remember a single thing that had happened to us during the five or so hours just past... and neither of us were capable of talking about it -- or talking about anything else, at that time. Even years later, it was exceedingly difficult for us to discuss the incident beyond the bare known facts, and both of us vividly recalled the incredible introversion of our thoughts on the way back to her house. But we both, as we managed to admit to each other years later, were positive that we had seen "something," that a craft (UFO) was involved. Our difficulty talking about this event even years later seemed perhaps the result of a mental block of some sort placed by an outside source. Especially given our individual and shared histories with UFO sightings (also witnessed by others numerous times), there was little doubt in either of us that we'd had an intense and lengthy encounter with something, and some entities, decidedly not of this world. The roads we were travelling My mother was an accountant for a furniture/appliance store, and I was a chef/restaurant owner (physically a bit disabled now, thanks to years of heavy lifting, etc.) and am now a professional artist and writer. This report is probably only the first in a somewhat long line -- it's time I deal openly with the strangeness in my life that seems to have revolved around UFOs, and this is step one. I'm very open to discussing the full range of experiences and incidents with an investigator, if you or an associate are interested. I will also consider hypnosis in order to penetrate the mental veil concealing the two incidents of missing time, providing that the hypnotherapist is reputable and well-versed in probable abduction incidents. Those two incidents have haunted me for so long -- once for nearly fifty years -- and I'd like to know the truth, however discomfiting it may be.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD


Posted 2006-05-15

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