The following anecdotes were selected from emails I have received recently. Please send your experiences to Phantoms and Monsters.
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Several years ago, I used to walk to the Fashion Valley Shopping Center during my break from the Union Tribune newspaper. One morning, while walking in the shopping center, I noticed a short man, maybe no more than 4'11" walking with 2 men, maybe 6' tall or more. The short man was walking between the two tall men. The 3 were wearing very neatly pressed blue work clothes with caps. The short one had a big head, and odd development around the upper eye bones. Each man on either side 'escorting' the short man was a very clean cut, healthy, attractive black and white man. For some weird reason, I mentally told him welcome. I don't understand why I didn't walk up closer to the 3 men but did walk by them and they were no more than 6' away. I always remembered this experience though everyone thinks I'm nuts. I got the impression that the 2 men were showing the short man some of human civilization in a relatively safe environment.

Lai Quon-Oyama
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Back in 1966, over Lake Michigan, Michigan City, Indiana, I witnessed a UFO. Clear sunny afternoon, near the shore, 1/2 mile away from me, about 100 feet high, dimensions of about 3 football fields wide by 60-80 ft. No noise, just stationary in mid air.

I watched for about 20 minutes, then it disappeared. I was also visited by 2 strange men after that. Since I was almost 13 years old, that is all I can remember

Gloria Douglas
Lebanon, MO

NOTE: you can read our posting on The Lake Michigan Triangle...Lon
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For the record, I wish to report that in the summer of 1950, I had a close encounter with a UFO, which lasted for at least 20 minutes. After a short time, I mentally asked to go for a ride. I would have been about 4 and a half years old at the time, so I had not yet learned to be afraid of such an object. When I got a mental reply, "No. Not now. Not yet." I got angry, and proceeded to shoot, with my single shot cap gun, 3 rolls of caps at it!!! Well, a few minutes later it, after moving silently, to the West, then moved East behind the trees again, I lost sight of it.

Over twenty years later, as a young adult, I saw both a photo and on television a short film of the UFO in which the late George Adamski claimed he had met a visitor from Venus. This I thought was interesting, because as I am a Libran sun sign, and am ruled by the planet Venus, that was a strange coincidence. All I can say, with certainly, is I had this strange, but fascinating experience. Sincerely, Fred E Schollars, Kansas City, MO.

NOTE: you can read about George Adamski here...Lon
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Hello my name is Chris Bledsoe I had an experience In Fayetteville N.C. on the Cape Fear River.

There was a show on the Discovery Channel called UFOs Over Earth: The Fayetteville Incident. The spiked craft looks very much like what I saw hovering just 10 feet over the ground in front of my truck less than 300 feet away. It was laying on its side the spikes were vertical and it was glowing very bright white and the spikes were also rotating.
The spikes are not new...I have seen them and up close. "There is nothing impossible with UFOs".
I think this video is real.
Thank You
Chris

NOTE: this was sent in response to our posting about Chris' and his father's claim at Videos: MUFON Investigation - UFOs / Lost Time - Cape Fear River, NC ...Lon
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