Little Town Has Big Weird!¡!¡
It was early December 2008. I was helping some friends working on a horse farm. Two actually, mostly at the one in Aurora, Kentucky (Western Kentucky near Murray & May field, about an hour west of Paducah). Unbeknownst to me at the time, Aurora apparently is a hotbed of paranormal (especially UFO/UAP activity. Not sure if it has bearing on this ongoing phenomenon but Ft. Campbell is also nearby.
It was like 8 acres I think? Maybe bigger.
It was a gravel road off 80 that went thru the woods & arrived at two horse barns & a big fenced in field. They had like 8 horses there.. I think. But the road ended at a turn around area. Tree line on left, horse barns & field on the right, a big horse gate to open into the field at the end.
So we would feed the horses at like 2am & turn on these heat lamps to keep the horses warm. So we built a fire then dropped bales of hey over the fence next to heat lamps. The horses came up and ate & chilled by the lights. We (my friend C____ & i) stood around the fire a minute. There was no snow but it was super cold.
Then for no reason, we both walked over to the gate staring at the treeline.
That's when this bright ass light became visible. I couldn't tell if it was weaving through the trees or I was seeing it through the tree tops, but it was zigzagging. It was so bright. Like had to squint to look at it..
Then it was right above us, or it may have been something different, Idk. But then the thing above us was a triangle & there was a red light on the bottom, it was like a light show, the red light was forming images, like symbols, but really fast, too fast to remember. I remember some were familiar but it was way too fast to know what most of them were.
Then it got dark .. like super dark .. like I felt like I was in a dark room with no window or light .. it was .. just .. dark!!
I tried to move but couldn't. I couldn't tell if I was conscious or not. It was weird. Weird & so f**king dark!
At one moment it was like people were marching (?) past, but I couldn't make them out. It was like they were holographic? Like the holographic camo the monster has in Predator. And really short, like 4.5-5ft tall. & stout, like barrels. That's why I think they weren't soldiers (we were very close to Ft. Campbell). Or maybe they were below me?
Then it was just dark again.
I'm not sure how long, my sense of time was nonexistent. But then all of a sudden it was regular night. Brighter than before tho. The sky was this weird night time purple (it's also possible that it was twilight, we left the house at like 2 or 3 am, or a little after, & no idea how much time had passed), but there were 4 lights in a row over the furthest treeline across the field. They were symmetrical in positioning. In a row, evenly spaced, same distance above the trees. Just 4 lights sitting there.
But we weren't talking,we just turned around and went back to the fire & stood there a minute, then walked to the car, got in and we drive off. Went home and crashed. Not one word spoke.
So freaking weird! I can't find any similar experiences online so have nothing to compare it to.
I spent like 10 years trying to find an empirical explanation. But after the experience started a decade of self exploration & discovery. I got "sober" for like 10 years. Started meditating daily, had some drastic bursts of awareness, and started having spontaneous spiritual experiences & found I could generate these experiences during meditation. Made a lot of major life changes. Not sure how much (if any) of it could be attributed to the experience but definitely some correlation.
I've always been prone to paranormal experiences, but after the sighting I've had a couple of REALLY intense paranormal experiences.
But the guy I co-sighted with? We weren't in contact for like 4 years, and didn't discuss before. The most we discussed it was the next day when I was like "sooo .. last night .. " & he responded shortly:"yeh!", & that was it. But when we did talk about it 4 years later, our experiences matched. EXCEPT they didn't see the light imagery .. the light show (thats the closest reference i can think of).
So for a decade I searched for an empirical, logical, and immediately observable in this world. I became an agnostic pantheist for five years, getting an ordination with the Humanist Society, tried to also find an explanation of spirituality fitting into those parameters as well. Eventually .. I had to admit to myself I could not, & in a Kierkegarden manner .. began assuming a spiritual source of .. stuff? A lot of synchronicity began happening, began to experience Chakra opening & kundalini rising & had some super intense visionary type meditations (that was after i began incorporating cannabis & music into my meditation practice). Started a cannabis church, taught meditation, wrote a couple of books, performed wedding ceremonies .. a lot of spiritually oriented stuff. I had a paranormal experience in this remote cemetery in the woods, graves back to the settlers, road to it had grass over the hood of the car. I finished college & became a counselor. While working with a four greenhouse farm experienced revelations which led to me starting a weed church.
A lot in ten years I had never expressed an interest or motivation in the past. Hell, now even lol. The turning point began after a decade of searching for an explanation of what my friend & i saw.
One day I was reading a segment of a book on alchemy. It occurred to me I had never looked into alchemy much & wondered why that was.
Then i saw it. Tramsmutation circles. I was staring at the imagery I had seen in the light show on the bottom of the craft(?). A rush of intuitive insight rushed in. If what i saw was concrete, as in empirical (quantitatively if not qualitatively), & what it was showing me were these symbols in this form, that would imply that alchemical concepts (at least that portion) were also empirical in nature (if not measurable evidence). That meant .. to me .. that things of a paranormal manner were in fact, very normal .. just not acknowledged as broadly as other (imo) harder to believe concepts (for me) that are widely assumed (religisio-normative?). Followed by one sign after another, so much it became a little overwhelming. Finally I was like ok, ok, ok .. I believe! I believe .. I believe.. you can leave me alone now.
I had searched for a way to explain spirituality from an assumption about scientific, empirical nature of reality. When I began writing from an assumption of spirituality I was able to complete the line of thought i had been struggling to conceptualize. Then put of the blue a woman in had been mad about 30 years ago, that lived on the other side of the country, just popped up in the town I lived in & hmu..put of the blue. She got her masters in psychology, dropped out of med school & got her PhD in neuroscience.. so i felt she was qualified, lol, but she was able to direct my processing to come to conclusion on my own..a lot of stuff like that. I began to see right through people. Toxic people became obvious .. like when they would attempt to manipulate I would toy with them. I realized I had let myself get used by a lot of people & it was satisfying to go back & fuck with them when they tried to get me to fall for their shit like I once had. Life became like a combo ofThey Live when the guy wore the sunglasses & like Flowers for Algernon. It was so wild.
It was like I had reincarnated while alive!
Now I'm still aware .. Im like a loady version of all that now, lol. Im cool with it, just wish I made the amount of money i did then, lol.
The week before the sighting things had been weird too. A lot of military aircraft activity at night, weird light in the sky that seemed fixed. Somebody said it was a satellite? Idk. Like I said earlier, we were real close to Ft. Campbell (also close to the dogman of LBL story origins). One night four stealth black hawks went overhead real low (like almost treetop) , made a C formation around the light and held. Just hovered there.
And there were a lot of horses in the area I was staying in. One night my friend & i ( i had the sighting with) were outside. One of the neighbors horses begsn making this shrill screaming sound. My friend was like "they only do that when theyre terrified". The guy we worked for had seen a flash of blue or purple light through a window one night. He went outside & said all the horses at his house were standing together facing the same direction. We found sets of combat boot prints around the creek that ran through his property not far from the house. His land connected to a huge expanse of private property, so no one should have been around the creek, especially on his side. A lot of stuff like that.
And that was all in the week before the sighting.
Idk what any of it means exactly. I felt like the sighting was directly related to the alteration I had in my life trajectory. I just don't know exactly why, or of it was temporary, like I need a booster sighting lol. I tell people more often now, but kept it pretty quiet for a long time.
I tried to find answers on my own so have waded through as much stuff as I could find on reported sightings, & the writings of UFO researchers. Could barely find experiences that had similarities but none that matched my experience. But even my friends experience was different in that one way, he didn't see the "light show". Idk if that means something or doesn't.. if it is something that happens that most people don't remember or if its an isolated experience..idk, but id like to find out.
I do know this: Little towns got big weird!