NUFORC Sighting 170726

Occurred: 1984-07-03 01:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2022-07-27 02:28 Pacific
Duration: Don't know
No of observers: 2

Location: Between Entiat and Lake Chelan, WA, USA
Location details: Between Entiat and lake Chelan

Shape:
Characteristics: Possible abduction

Though I have seen several UFO's, this was more of a personal encounter rather than a sighting, This was on July 3rd but I'm not sure of the year but it would have been 1984 or 85 I believe. I never knew about this web site or I would have written about this a lot sooner. ---

I was camping with a friend at a park in the Entiat area in eastern, WA. We wanted something to do the first night we were there so drove to the town of Chelan. Once there we were told that a town just down the road called Manson was celebrating the 4th of July on that night, July 3rd. While Chelan celebrated on the 4th. When the fireworks were over, we stopped briefly in the town of Chelan but there was nothing to do so we headed back to the camp site.

On the way there I decided to find a spot off the highway (97) to look up into the stars. This is in the middle of an area with very few homes so it was pitch black out and the sky was very clear. It seemed like there were a million stars and they were so bright. I pulled off the highway onto a dirt area that headed downward away from the road. We were perhaps 20 yards away from the highway. I told the friend I was with to make sure his door was locked. But instead, he started getting out of the car. I asked what he was doing and he replied that I had said to step out of the car when in fact I had not said anything even remotely close to what he heard.

When he got back into the car, I leaned over my steering wheel and looked up into the stars and he looked up as well. Within a matter of seconds, the car started to slowly shake. My friend stated it was getting windy but I could tell it was not the wind and then the car began to shake more and more until it was shaking violently. We both began to panic and I remember shouting loudly, “What the f…is going on? Neither one of us could tell how much time was passing. I remember my stomach feeling odd like when I’m on a boat starting to feel slightly queasy like we were moving. I recall slamming my foot on the brake and immediately the car felt like it was dropped very hard. You have to imagine it was pitch black out. We both recall seeing an orange light reflecting on the side mirrors but it seemed to be at a long distance away. Our minds still felt panicked. For whatever reason, I opened my door, I think to run from the car. And I don’t know why but I tried to look at the ground but it was so dark I had to lean over and I could see the white paint that separated the middle of the road. The car had been moved about 20 to 25 yards from where we were parked and remember, we were slightly downhill away from the road.

We are still in this panic mode and I frantically try to start the car but there is no response at all. Now we are even more panicked. Then I notice the car is in neutral though I know I had it in park. The car finally starts and I drive away from there as fast as I can. When we get to the park and get out of the car, our legs are shaking uncontrollably.

In the morning we decided we wanted to go back to the location to where we were parked. We wanted to see what the car would do when we parked at the same sport but had the car in neutral. And of course, the car began to roll downward away from the road.

This was literally one of the scariest things I had ever experienced. I had nightmares for the longest time and tried to do everything I could not to think about it. At night it always felt like I was being watched or tracked. I wondered if it was paranoia but I no longer went out at night for the longest time but still felt as if I was being watched, even in my own home. I could not shake the fear and thought about seeing someone in the psychology field. But who was going to believe me? The friend I was with has never told his family and not even his wife.

I can finally think about it but I have this question. Why would anyone or anything want to move the car 20 yards and then drop it? For what purpose? But now I wonder if there was a period of time that we are not aware of. I wish we would have looked at the time but it did not cross our minds at the time. The friend and I now talk about it but it took a few decades.

There is something strange that happened since that event. The friend I was with has never had a cold or the flu since that night on July 3rd, 1984 or 85. I had forgotten about it but came across a blog site where several people shared their UFO experiences and mentioned they had never had the cold of flu since those events. I have been trying to find those bloggers again but have had no luck. But my question is, why did that not happen to me. I get my share of illnesses, he does not.

If you are still reading, I will take you back to my first experiences. When I was 10, I overheard my parents talking about my uncle, who was a forest ranger in the Tahuya forest in western, WA. He lived on a lake and they would see UFO’s hovering over the lake. My father shared with me back in the 80’s that my uncle showed him a film my uncle took of one of the UFO’s. My father said you could see a beam of light from the UFO to the water. But when the first encounter happened my uncle reported the incident and my aunt told me about visitors who were part of project bluebook would visit them. I’m only 10 but I remember. These people took his film and they stayed in touch because there were more sightings. I still remember my 3 cousins jumping up and down with excitement, the morning after one of the sightings.

By coincidence during that same year when I was in the 5th grade, the teacher was teaching us how to write letters and we were asked to write a letter to someone. I don’t remember the specifics but I remember I wrote my letter to Project Bluebook. My teacher must have found their contact information. They responded back with a number of sightings that were explain as weather balloons, etc. I wrote them back and explained about my uncle and asked for me to send info on UFO’s because I knew they were real. Remember I am only 10 years old. They actually sent me a number of cases that they could not explain.

From there, I began to sleep outside at night when I was in high school. I had several sightings but at a far distance. A couple were quite odd. If someone wants more detail, I would be glad to explain. But there was a night I was with a friend at a park on Puget Sound called Seahurst Beach during the summer of 1973. This was a time before there were curfews. Again, I was looking to the night sky for UFO’s. A UFO appeared right in front of us going at a very high rate of speed without any sound. There isn’t really a way to know how large it was because it was so large. There isn’t a reference point to compare it to. It could have been several hundred yards long to a quarter mile long and it was right in front of us. This had several bright colors but yet they had an odd darkness to their color but yet they were bright. On the upper part of this saucer, it looked like there was some kind of window that took up most of the upper part of this saucer but yet it was colored. Never seen anything like it.

I began to read whatever I could find about UFO phenomena, etc. And then that night on July 3rd occurred and I stopped reading anything about them. I was frightened and I stopped any thought about them. Now over 37 years later, I’m starting to slowly read about them again and finding new info. I have my own beliefs on some of these things and why some people seem to have more experiences than others. Hope I can get to sleep tonight.


Posted 2022-09-09

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