Date: December 22, 1968 (Exact date is approximate, but month & year are correct)
Time: approx. 2:00am
Location: West Jueau (Corner of Nowell Ave. and Cordova St.); Juneau AK
Conditions: Clear, temperature approx 0 degrees F, winds calm
Camera & Film: None available
UFO sound? None I can recall
UFO lights? Entire object evenly illuminated, emitted bluish-white light
Duration: Unknown, likely in the 5 to 10 minute range unless an abduction occurred
This encounter occurred when I was approximately 5 years of age. The exact date can't be recalled, but it was very near Christmas and the weather conditions were clear & uncommonly cold.
Around 2 in the morning, I was awakened by a shaft of bright bluish-white light entering my bedroom window. I got out of bed and walked towards it to see what was causing it. When I stepped into the beam, I became paralyzed within a few seconds. But not before I looked out the window and saw it:
A large, bluish-white object was hanging above the bare trees in the back yard. The object was shaped somewhat like a half-moon; but the "flat" part wasn't flat at all, it was scalloped like the tops of towers on a medieval castle. It was also canted over at a bizarre angle - even at 5 years of age I somehow knew the moon wasn't supposed to look this way.
It was much brighter than the moon, and seemed to be about 2 to 3 times larger than the moon should have appeared.
This is a crude representation of what the object looked like, and is fairly close to the angle in which it was tipped.
Just after seeing this object, some strange things began happening. I began experiencing what I might now call an altered sense of awareness. My hearing seemed to become much more sensitive - faint sounds became greatly amplified. A pin dropping would sound like a piece of rebar being dashed into a concrete wall; the sound of the dog's footsteps on the floor were almost unbearably loud, and that kind of thing. This persisted for most if not all of the remainder of that night.
For at least the next six years, I had these kind of dream-like things every night - and they would always start the same: a series of colored rectangles (bright yellows, greens and blues) would quickly form in my visual field; they would appear quickly, continuing to appear and overlap one another. A minute or two later, a dark area would appear in the exact center, which would then become filled with a brilliant, green scintillating light. At this point, I would become paralyzed and unable to move and my hearing would become "amplified" again. I would also be overcome with an intense sensation of terror or dread.
Over the years, I learned a way to abort these "dreams" before they reached the paralytic phase; however occasionally one of them still slips through to this day.