February of 1995. Canon Beach, Oregon, staying at a bed and breakfast in a second floor room with a south-facing view of Haystack Rock.
After dozing off while reading, I woke up just enough to put my book on the nightstand. As soon as I turned out the light, a very bright light shone in the window behind the head of the bed, casting a shadow of the horizontal blinds against the far wall.
Panicked, I lay still for a few seconds until the light source moved away and up, judging by the movement of the blinds' shadow down the wall and up the bed, toward me.
I was pretty scared, and this all happened very fast. My heart was racing. I lay flat on my back with my arms at my side, staring up at the ceiling, thinking, Should I look? Should I look?
I decided yes, and rolled over onto my stomach. I used my finger to part two slats of the horizontal blinds, and saw down the beach, about twice as far as Haystack Rock, a small and pale blue light ascending. It was an overcast night, and I watched the blue ball slowly ascend into the clouds, briefly illuminating the clouds around it until it disappeared from view.
Prior to the sighting, while I was dozing in and out of sleep, I remember well hearing a tone in my ear. This part is hard to describe. It was a bit like listening to headphones. I distinctly recall that the deeper I relaxed in my half asleep, half awake state, the clearer the tone became. Deeper relaxation resulted in the tone shifting up and down quickly.
The tone felt very pleasant, and had a physical quality. I felt like it was a game, and I was controlling the tone with my level of relaxation and concentration. I have no other memory of the tone thing happening in my life before or since.
It was a very strange experience, to say the least. The next morning, I asked the manager of the bed and breakfast if they saw any lights overnight. Nothing. I called the police, too. Nothing. The county sheriff had a helicopter, but it did not fly that night.
I was scared enough to cancel the rest of my stay and drive home that morning.
That's my one and only direct UFO experience.
The tones made such an impression, would love anyone's comments on that aspect of my experience. Are the inner ear tones a common experience among UFO sightees?
After dozing off while reading, I woke up just enough to put my book on the nightstand. As soon as I turned out the light, a very bright light shone in the window behind the head of the bed, casting a shadow of the horizontal blinds against the far wall.
Panicked, I lay still for a few seconds until the light source moved away and up, judging by the movement of the blinds' shadow down the wall and up the bed, toward me.
I was pretty scared, and this all happened very fast. My heart was racing. I lay flat on my back with my arms at my side, staring up at the ceiling, thinking, Should I look? Should I look?
I decided yes, and rolled over onto my stomach. I used my finger to part two slats of the horizontal blinds, and saw down the beach, about twice as far as Haystack Rock, a small and pale blue light ascending. It was an overcast night, and I watched the blue ball slowly ascend into the clouds, briefly illuminating the clouds around it until it disappeared from view.
Prior to the sighting, while I was dozing in and out of sleep, I remember well hearing a tone in my ear. This part is hard to describe. It was a bit like listening to headphones. I distinctly recall that the deeper I relaxed in my half asleep, half awake state, the clearer the tone became. Deeper relaxation resulted in the tone shifting up and down quickly.
The tone felt very pleasant, and had a physical quality. I felt like it was a game, and I was controlling the tone with my level of relaxation and concentration. I have no other memory of the tone thing happening in my life before or since.
It was a very strange experience, to say the least. The next morning, I asked the manager of the bed and breakfast if they saw any lights overnight. Nothing. I called the police, too. Nothing. The county sheriff had a helicopter, but it did not fly that night.
I was scared enough to cancel the rest of my stay and drive home that morning.
That's my one and only direct UFO experience.
The tones made such an impression, would love anyone's comments on that aspect of my experience. Are the inner ear tones a common experience among UFO sightees?
