ENCOUNTER ONE

My first sighting was in my hometown, which is a small village situated 20 miles south of Edinburgh. It was in the year of 1982 at around 7.00pm at night in the month of April. My friend and I lived next door to each other and we were playing in my back garden. After playing for some time my friend decided to go into his house for the toilet while I waited outside. He had only been away for a few minutes when suddenly I felt the wind picking up, turning round facing away from my friends house to see what was happening behind me, I suddenly saw this huge craft in the sky. It was oval in shape with lights all around it. It looked like a giant Christmas decoration as it spun round in the night sky. I stood there in amazement looking at this wonderful thing. I couldn't believe my eyes. There was no sound coming from the craft and it must have been about 30-40 feet from the ground. It flew over the rooftop of the house across the street. It only lasted for a few seconds.  I couldn't believe what I  seen it was so fast. I felt scared but also excited at the same time.  When my friend came back I told him what I seen but he just laughed at me.  We played for the rest of the night, but I felt so much excitement in me that I really wanted to tell someone. But after telling my friend, and what his reaction was I felt a bit unsure whom to tell.  After playing I went into the house and went into the living room and told my father what I seen. But all he said to me was that I had seen a plane or a helicopter. I tried to tell him that it wasn't but he just said it was.  That night I couldn't sleep I knew what I seen wasn't a plane or a helicopter.  A few years later when I was about 17 years old, I asked my father again because I thought I dreamt it, but he said, "yes you came into the house saying you seen this huge ship in the sky covered in lights".  Of course he only said that it was a plane or a helicopter to calm me down, and that he did believe me, because he too had a strange encounter when we moved into the village.

ENCOUNTER TWO

My second sighting was in my hometown again; it wasn't as dramatic but was still strange.  It was around October of 1986 while in bed watching TV. At around midnight I heard as usual, a plane fly over the house.  I looked out of the window and there it was flying over the house opposite. “When suddenly” I noticed this orange ball throbbing directly below the plane. It wasn't large just about the size of a match light if you held it at arm length.  I watched it for a few seconds, and then I went to the edge of the bed to get my binoculars. When returning to the window it had disappeared, but you could still see the plane flashing in the distance.  I had only been away from the window for about 7-8 seconds, I couldn't believe it when I went back to the window and it wasn't there.

ENCOUNTER THREE

My third sighting was very strange indeed but this time it wasn't with lights but people. It was on a Saturday afternoon and I was with my good friend Steven. We met each other at high school and he used to come up to my house every weekend to train in martial arts. We also often went for walks down the field opposite my house.  It was on the month of November of 1987 at around 2.00pm. Half way down the field, the hill goes down into a valley and then goes up at the other side where there is a wall; on the other side of the wall there is a path. When we got to the top of the hill, we were looking down into the valley, when Steven noticed three strange people with dogs. At first we thought nothing of it. When suddenly we noticed that they walked very strangely, as if they couldn't bend there legs and walked with them straight.  One of them was carrying sticks but he was carrying them with his arms straight and with the sticks over his arms. Everything seemed to go very fast, and it also looked as if they were floating. They seemed to be down the hill and across the stream and onto the other side of the field very fast. They were about 10 feet away from us. The dogs looked normal but we notice that they didn't bark once. I started feeling very scared and I wanted to go back, but I wanted to see more.   They also wore clothes; the person carrying the sticks wore purple trousers, a black leather jacket and had brown hair. The second person that sat down on a tree stump had blue trousers with yellow top, and had blonde hair. The third person had yellow trouser and blue top and with blonde hair. At this moment I decided to have a look at the guy sitting on the tree stump through my binoculars. When I looked through them the guy was looking the other way, “when suddenly” he turned his head and looked straight at me. His face had no expression and his eyeballs were white. The fear hit me instantly, I dropped the binoculars round my neck and ran up the hill thinking Steven would be behind me, but when I looked behind he wasn't there. I finally stopped running, and tried to get my breath back.  I finally got the courage to go back down, when suddenly Steven came walking up the hill. I shouted on him but he didn't answer, when he reached me he just said let's go, and we both ran up the hill to my house.  In the house, Steven told me what had happened after I left. He said that the guy walking down the field with the blonde hair, went up to a tree and put his hand through a thick branch, which was at lest 10 inches thick and then picked it up with his legs straight. And then that is when Steven came up the hill. I also told Steven what I saw through the binoculars.

ENCOUNTER FOUR
 
My forth sighting was on December of 1987; it was around 7.30pm at night. It was a weeknight and I was in my bedroom looking out of the window doing my stargazing. I would put out the light in my bedroom and outside and sit and dream into the stars. I would go outside as well, but occasionally I would do it from the bedroom window. Anyway I had just finished seeing some satellites go past, “when suddenly” over the roof of my house two white yellowish lights approached, they were very close to each other, moving simultaneously on the same flight path. They were about the size of torchlight if you held it at arm length. They were moving quite fast. I shouted on my father and he came up and joined me, and we watched them until they disappeared into the distance. I asked my father what he thought and he said, “ That would be the closest you will come to a "UFO”. He also agreed with me and said no normal aircraft would behave like that. We also had the window open and we heard no noise coming from them, and there were no other lights on them either.

ENCOUNTER FIVE

My fifth sighting was on January of 1988. It was a weeknight at around 5.30pm my mother was in the kitchen making dinner and my father was in the living room. I was up stairs in my parent's bedroom, looking out of the window at the stars. The window looks out on to the field where Steven and me had the encounter with the strange people. I began getting interested in plane lights, and taking notes on the different types of lights. I also done stargazing as well at the same time, and I was also getting into ufology too. Anyway suddenly I saw something different; it was a yellow and green light coming up from the trees at the back of the next village. It took of and headed east quite low in the horizon, it moved quite fast as well.  I didn't think UFO at the time, but it was different from any lights that I had ever seen.  I ran down the stairs to the front door and opened it, I shouted on my mother and she joined me at the door. When she first approached she said “Oh that is just a plane” but I said to her that the lights were different.  While watching it, it suddenly turned Southeast going over the bridge, which comes into village. When again “SUDDENLY IT STOPPED”, in full flight and then instantly turned back north again. My mother looked at me but this time it was a different look. She shouted on my father and said the light had stopped suddenly, and that it had turned back. My father didn't say anything, so my mother just gave me a confused look and went back to the kitchen.  However I went back upstairs to see where the light was going. When I got to the window, the light was going west again back along where it had come from; then it disappeared behind the trees.

ENCOUNTER SIX

My sixth sighting was in February of 1988; it was a weeknight at around 7.30pm.  I was looking out of my parent's bedroom window, when I noticed this white-yellowish ball come up from behind some trees at the back of the next village.  It had some colours as well, which appeared to be in the centre of it.  It shot up into the sky and then moved in a circle twice, and then went back down behind the trees again. It only lasted for about 10 seconds; I waited for another hour but never saw it again.

ENCOUNTER SEVEN

My seventh sighting was in February again of 1988 at around 8.00pm. It was a weeknight and I was looking out of my parent's bedroom window again, as I was doing nearly every night, I would however go outside as well.  Anyway while watching I suddenly noticed this white-yellowish ball come up from behind the trees. It was heading east, “when suddenly”, it stopped and shot south towards my house. I grabbed my binoculars and looked through them at the object, it was in a triangle shape with white lights and it had two red lights on the outside. I watched it for about one minute and then it disappeared into the distance. 

ENCOUNTER EIGHT

My eighth sighting was at the end of 1988 in the middle of December, on a weeknight at around 5.30pm. Again my mother was in the kitchen making dinner, and my father was doing some work in the house. I was upstairs in my bedroom when my father asked me to get some tools from his van outside.  I went down and out the back door, and I was just about to walk down the path when I noticed this strange light in the sky.  It was round and quite large and I would say it was a little bit smaller that the moon. As I watched it, it moved very slowly.  It also had some colour in the centre of it.  It was flying in between two houses about 2 miles away, flying above the field opposite the houses.  I watched it for about 2 minutes and then it disappeared behind the houses. After that I went to my fathers van and got the tools, and went back into the house.  I really wanted to do something about it. But I couldn't drive, and I didn't want to ask my father to drive me to the area where I saw it.  Anyway, not thinking anymore about it, until my friend came to the door. (We met most evenings to do our band practice in the bedroom.) At 7.30pm I answered the door to him, and there it was again the light, moving slowly behind the trees at the field opposite my house. I asked my friend what he thought, and he just said he didn't know. And then he asked me why? So I told him that I saw it earlier that evening. He didn't seem to bother about it; he didn't even say that it could have been a plane.  We watched it for about a few minutes, and then we went into the house to do our band practice.