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Searching for UFOs in the Arizona Desert - Writer Gets Goose Bumps
I went on a UFO sighting tour in Sedona, Ariz., with a woman who says she has been abducted by aliens.
It happened quite spontaneously, after I casually picked up her brochure in a local shop. The brochure came with this promise: Sightings are guaranteed or your money back.
Hard to pass that up, and I was curious. Within 24 hours, I found myself scanning the night sky for “unknowns” (aka UFOs) with military-grade night-vision goggles.
"UFO Sighting guarantee is just too good to pass up"
Before you start judging (and perhaps you already are), know that I entered into this experience with a fair amount of skepticism, not the wide-eyed merriment of a gullible tourist.
Melinda Leslie - UFO Guide
My guide was Melinda Leslie. She leads nightly UFO sighting tours out of the Center for the New Age, a one-stop shop for all activities and trinkets under the New Age umbrella.
My UFO sighting tour kicked off just after sunset. According to Melinda, the first few hours after sunset are the best time to spot “unknowns” in the sky.
The UFO Tour
Melinda and I drove off to two different locations to scan the sky with military-grade third-generation night-vision goggles. Costing roughly $3,500 per pair, the goggles are pretty badass. They amplify 20,000 times more light than is capable of being seen by the naked human eye.
When I looked through them, I could see thousands and thousands of stars above, including numerous shooting stars. The constellation viewing alone was spectacular.
Leslie instructed me to look for quick-moving orbs of light in the sky and to follow their trajectory. She explained that commercial airplanes and military aircraft have a rhythmic blinking light, and satellites, while unblinking, travel all the way to horizon. “Unknowns,” on the other hand, would be unblinking lights that vanish at least 30 degrees above the horizon — signaling that the object left orbit. Melinda said this is evidence that whoever or whatever was controlling the object is an intelligent life form.
Author looking though night vision glasses
My WTF Moment
It happened during my fourth “unknown” spotting. Whenever Melinda or I would see something through our goggles, we’d shine a green laser pointer into the sky to identify it for the other person. I used the laser to point out for her a fast-moving, unblinking orb. After I did this, the “unknown” flared back brightly.
Melinda excitedly asked for the laser and shined it on the orb again. Once more, it flared back at us, even brighter than the first time, before disappearing shortly thereafter, almost directly above us.
The truth is out there
Could it have been a UFO manned by an intelligent life form from a galaxy far, far away? And if it was, did we piss it off? Or was the bright flare a friendly acknowledgement? Did E.T. just say “Hello” to me?
Whatever it was up there, it appeared to react to that green laser pointer. In that moment, UFOs weren’t making me chuckle — rather, the episode both excited me and scared the s*** out of me.
After my UFO sighting tour, for instance, I’ll never look up at the sky in the same way again. Certainly not after that “wink” amid the stars … possibly from E.T. himself.
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