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23rd June 2020 14:31
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My UFO encounter
Location: Benidorm, Spain
Year 1997/98
Hi all, thought I'd share my UFO encounter from years ago whilst away holidaying with my mates.
There were about 8 or so of us, making merry on our hotel balcony which looked generally out towards the sea. The beer was flowing and the music was thumping. We used to 'pre game' with cheap San Miguel lager on our balcony from 7-ish up until around midnight, which was when we'd all then head out on the town - well oiled.
So there we were, the sun was not long gone down and it was twilight. Suddenly my mate to my right exclaimed abrupty: "WTF???" - to which I then turned to him and saw him looking out towards the coast with this incredulous look on his face. I looked in the direction he was looking and saw roughly 10 or so (horizontally straight) bright amber lights coming directly towards our hotel. After a couple of seconds, the view of them became momentarily obscured by the hotel opposite us as they drew closer. Just as they were about to come flying directly above us, I stood up to get a view of what I'd assume was a 'microlight stunt group' with lights attached - pretty much like the ones we saw in Ibiza a few years earlier.
To my amazement, as they cleared the hotel opposite and flew diretly over - I was shocked to see a V-formation of bright amber lights - each one I'd say was roughly the size of a small car and each one (and this bit is a bit difficult to remember) were very brightly self-lit, bizarre, irregular shapes, with what looked like angular appendages protruding from them. They flew directly overhead at a distance I would have been able to hit with a stone if I threw one at them. As they cleared our hotel, I stood there absolutely gobsmacked. We then all charged out to the back of the hotel to see where they were headed - it was only a single facing hotel so this took us about what, 20 seconds - and they were nowhere to be seen!!?
I came inside our room - I remember sitting on a bed in shock for a few minutes. This was in the days before mobile phones and I distinctly remember thinking about phoning my parents from the payphone booth downstairs, and asking if there is some sort of alien invasion happening (we had no TV, so no news). After I composed myself though, I thought better of it. I had a discussion with a few of the lads about what we just witnessed, and it transpired that some of them didn't see it, and instead were looking at me freaking out rather than looking up. So although I can't say how many of us saw them - I can say for sure that at least 2 of us definitely did. One of the lads swore to me it was a single craft, with one of the lights moving sideways, which I was a bit dubious about, since I was personally convinced they were all separate.
I often think back to the sighting still wondering all these years later what the hell I saw. I've tried to rationalize it but to no avail. Was it radioactive geese? I do find it odd that these UFO's chose - out of everywhere to fly in the world - to fly directly over our balcony that night. Were they somehow telepathically drawn to the hedonistic stupour and energy that we were somehow radiating into the ether?
One more thing - when I have watched documentaries about the Phoenix lights - and I mean the earlier sighting of the V shaped craft, not the later 'flares' - it does sound remarkably similar to that and it happened roughly around the same time!
Last edited by Thule; 23rd June 2020 at 15:00.
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24th June 2020 12:29
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