One of the things I believe in the most, is UFOs and I think there is something to it. When I was about 16 years old, a group of us friends would go hiking a lot on the weekend. We would rough it to some degree, just a sleeping back and sleeping under the stars. One night, while hiking into a lake in Northern California, we all were sleeping in a clearing just out of legal distance from a small mountain lake we liked to fish in. At about two in the morning, my friend woke me up and asked me to see something. I woke and in the distance was a large bright light that was lightening up the night sky. We thought at first it might be a helicopter with a spot light on, but it made no noise. As we all watched it, it went behind the trees and the light was shinning from behind the trees. It was so bright, I could have taken a book out and read too it. We all thought it was weird and since we were all Witnesses, we kind of did not want to say UFO. As you know, that was something we said was not real and a product of Satan's world. So it then just set there behind the trees for about five or ten minutes and all the area was as bright as I mentioned, and we all were wondering if we should walked the couple hundred hard to see what it was. No one was much up to volunteering for this. Then it started to rise, and went up slowly at first. As it got above the tree lines, it started to speed up and then in a second it was gone and out of site. No engine noise, no sound at all. One of the weirdest things I saw as a young person. We all had a hard time sleeping that night, talking about it and trying to figure out what it was. One person even suggested praying to Jehovah about it, as they were scared. Well, we ended up trying to sleep the rest of the night away, to little success and the next morning the majority of the group wanted to just go home and we did. We talked about it a ton to others, when we got home. Soon though, we got a talking to by an elder, about how we should not spread the worlds faults lies about UFOs and most people thought we so a helicopter or something. Soon, that is what the story changed too, we heard a helicopter and it made the wind blow when it landed and there was people talking and so on. Those who lived it, and were honest with themselves, knew that was not true ... but we were Witnesses! So years later, after my exit, I ran across one of those friends one day and learned they left the Witnesses too. We talked about things we did as a child, and guess what comes up. So, did we just fool ourselves?
Personally, I think something is to the sightings. I think people might sometimes mistake military planes or other things, as UFOs. That is always going to be a percentage, but not all the time. I think there is something to it, and that is why I keep an open mind. I have always wanted to go to Area 51 and watch the night sky, just outside the outskirts and when I see programs about it on the History or Discover channel, I enjoy watching. What do you think though, any experiences like mine? Please share your thoughts.