1980S Metro Manila Sighting

A fan of the UFO Hunters show shares his UFO experience..."I recently watched an episode of UFO Hunters, wherein William "Bill" Birnes said to the camera that "..if you have seen something that made you stop.." post it here at the board.. --I'm a big fan of UFO Hunters, ever since it premiered here in Asia via the History cable channel, by far the most objective, non-spoof, and straight-forward show about the phenomena, in my opinion (unlike other shows about UFOs that just seem to poke fun at the whole thing, while trying to be serious with their tongues in their cheeks), and of his UFO Magazine, which I always search hard for in various local magazine shops (its not normally circulated here, but I do find some copies).. I initially didn't think much of what he said, I was enjoying the show, and I was about to watch another episode, when by sheer coincidence, I checked my email, and saw an update.. An author/online contact of mine, recently posted on his social site blog that he just saw and photographed his first UFO sighting, that, despite him being a co-author of a well-known book about the existence of evidence (and subsequent government cover-up) of advanced but ancient extraterrestrial civilization in a neighboring planet and the moon--has yet to see an actual UFO here on earth himself, until today. Upon seeing the show, and reading about the author's recent sighting, I began to recall an incident that happened some 20 odd years ago, an incident, that was always at the back of my mind, and never had an answer to.. I was always aware of UFOs through pop culture and stories of sightings, but nothing prepared me to what I saw that night.. It happened in the late 80's, I was in grade school then, and living in the suburbs at the southern end of Metro Manila, Philippines, the house we rented and stayed in at the time was situated in a private village community that was not yet densely populated, so you could pretty much see the horizon because there weren't that many houses built yet, there were many open spaces, and at our street there weren't any streetlights built yet, so at night, you can clearly see the bright stars in the sky.. Our street was situated on higher ground than the other areas in the village, its a stretch of road, and we're in the middle, and we only had one neighbor near us, located far left and across the street.. So there we were, two houses, in the middle of an open block, on high ground, on a dark, slightly windy, but clear night.. We just finished dinner around 8pm, our rented house had a broken water pump, so we had to ration water in a large metal barrel, on that night, the barrel went empty, and we didn't have enough water left to wash the dishes with that night, so we called up our neighbor across the street, and asked them if we could fill a couple of pails with water from them so we could finish up washing the dishes, they said yes, and to just come over and enter their property directly as they have already unlocked their gate, and to just fill our pails with water from the water hose at the front yard and to close the gate after.. So we got our pails ready (me and our maid), and went out the front door of our house and unto the street, I could remember that it was a cool night, a bit windy, I couldn't remember where the moon was located, probably behind us, because the horizon in front of us was clear, but moonlight lit the street enough so we could see where we were going, even though it was dark out.. I looked over at the northwest horizon when something caught my eye.. The sky was littered by faint stars and far-off clouds streaks, but there was something wrong about it, a gigantic dark spot in the middle of the horizon just silently hanged there like a big hole in the sky, eclipsing the faint clouds and stars behind it.. And it slowly moved! I couldn't judge how far it was from us, it slowly rotated and was slowly moving away from us, as it did, I could make out its shape, it was a gigantic rectangular object, silently floating and slowly rotating clockwise, moving across the sky (like a domino tile, only as big as a medium high-rise building), it was semi-shiny, flat black in color, reflecting faint moon and star light, it was smooth-solid like polished metal or marble.. And it was absolutely silent and serenely moved through the sky away from us until it grew smaller and got further, until we couldn't see it anymore.. There we were, me and our maid, standing there, holding our empty pails, not a word between us during the whole thing.. I looked at her, and she was white all-over, and I knew that she saw the same thing I saw just then.. Then with goosebumps all over us, I told her, "Did you see it?!" and she said yes, she did.. "What the hell was that?!", we both saw what we saw, but we couldn't figure out what it was.. It was the most exhilarating 5 minutes of my life, short of like seeing a ghost-- you see it, and you can't believe it.. After the excitement died down, we figured that we should hurry to the neighbors (it was already getting late) and finish with the water and get back home, and tell the family all about it.. As we went walking across the street to our neighbor's house, I noticed something odd, it was darker out than when we went out a couple of minutes ago.. Reaching our neighbor's gate, I tried to push it open.. but it was locked! -- I peered through the fence and I saw that our neighbor's lights were off.. I banged on the neighbor's gate so we could finish what we came out for and hurry back home, after a minute of loud knocking (perhaps they forgot we were coming), the porch lights turned on, and out came our neighbor and seemed irritated, i told her, "Good evening ma'am! here we are, for the water!" And she said, "What? I waited for you, what happened to the two of you? I was already asleep..", I answered back, "It's only 8:30 ma'am!?..", and then she said, "8:30? --its already 10:30PM! now, get inside and get your water, so I can go back to sleep!" Oh my God! Now, I feel, I'M white all-over, what the hell happened to us?! We lost 2 hours! -- That's why it was darker, I looked over at our house and sure enough, the lights were off too! --everyone was already asleep! We hurried home, and banged on the front door, and my dad opened it and was very angry at us, he thought that we went out strolling around the village instead of fetching the water! We were flabbergasted, he went on with his sermon until we got inside, and we never got to tell them what happened that night.. We told them about it the next day, but they didn't believe us.. To this day, I don't know what we saw, or what happened to us, during those lost 2 hours.. "- MikeUpdate:Posted onFeb 25, 2009 11:20 AM"....I had 1 more experience with missing time, but not UFO related--or at least we didn't see any, this happened in the late 90's.. Me and my ex-girlfriend and 2 other friends were on a road trip to her home town, it was a 4-5 hour drive, we left around 10pm so there won't be any more traffic in the streets so we could get there faster.. It was about 1:15am, said the radio DJ, so did the clock on the car's dash and on my mobile phone, we were traveling on this narrow country road, where there were no lights, just trees and grass, and lots of open spaces on either side.. no houses.. And of all places, one of my friends said he had to pee, I told him to just hold it in, cause we're in the middle of nowhere and the next town is about 15mins away.. He said he couldn't anymore so I had to pull over so he could relieve himself, "oh why the hell not, might as well pee too, its not like we're in a horror movie cliche.." I jokingly said, as I looked back at the backseat of the car, seeing both my ex and her best friend both fast asleep, unaware that we stopped over in the middle of nowhere.. It was a full moon out, so we could pretty much see even it was dark out.. Business finished, and quite relieved, we returned back to our seats, and started back on our journey, listening to the music on the radio.. A couple of minutes passed, and we soon reached the next town.. As we entered the town, as expected, everything was dark at that ungodly hour, everyone was asleep, and the radio DJ came on and said the time.. "It's 2:30am.." -- what? Checked my mobile phone, it was just 1:40am, and on the dash clock, 1:40am! -- my friend checked his mobile phone, and it too said 1:40am.. did the radio DJ made an error?! We couldn't believe it, we didn't travel that far, to have traveled for almost an hour?! --pee time took only about 5, and we traveled like not more than 20mins.. We decided that the DJ was wrong.. So we moved on and traveled for a couple more minutes, and spotted an open burger stop, so we stopped over for some refreshments and for some snacks.. And asked the burger staff what time it is, and they said it's 2:45am.. Checking our clocks, we had 1:55am.. We really lost 50 minutes! We decided not to tell the girls what happened 'till we arrive at our destination.. And after we did, my ex went to her parent's house and her parents came out and welcomed us, and we greeted them a good morning.. "Have some coffee, you all look tired!" her mom said.. Then my ex turned to me and said.. "I thought we would get here faster? --Its nearly 4am!" My friend and I can only look at each other after that.. I had lost 2 hours and 50 minutes of my life (at least the ones I DO know to have lost), and I don't have any recollection of what happened during those lost hours and minutes.. Did time stop? Did we just froze in place? Or did something happen to us? To this day, we still don't know.." - MikePosted on Feb 28, 2009 2:05 AM"Yes, it occurred to me just now, that there were some sort of pattern and time line to it, like it maybe happening (in my case) every 10 years or so, I might have more than the 2 missing time episode, but those 2 are the only ones I can recall happening.. On 'freezing' on my first encounter, what I can recall is that I was mesmerized at the object in the sky, couldn't take my eyes off it, coz, well, you don't see something like that everyday, I was trying to analyze what I was seeing, trying to guess at what it is, if it was explainable or recognizable at all, and all the while I had a feeling that if I took my eyes off it, it would be gone, it was very surreal.. Fortunately at least I could verify that what happened, really happened, coz I was not alone, if it happened when I was alone, I would have a hard time believing it myself.. Unfortunately I lost touch with the other person who experienced it with me, we really never discussed it after that week, and she left after that year, went back to her province, I don't even remember her name now, but I do barely remember her face.. I didn't really care if people did not believe me, I never told everyone what I saw, just my folks and some close friends since then, some did snicker, some just went onto deep thought, some chose to acknowledge it because they were my friends, but hey, I can't blame them, they didn't see or experience it themselves, it would have been a big paradigm shift on their daily lives if it was ever validated to be true, that's why other people ridicule or marginalize what happen to us, because they are afraid, its too an incredible thing for them to accept.. I also want to know what happened to me, and especially what the hell was that gigantic thing in the sky was, who were 'they' and what transpired in those lost hours.. I'd like to do hypnotic regression also, but I don't know anyone here locally who does that (expertly), if they could handle such a thing, bare in mind, it is a very dangerous procedure, if not done correctly.. If I were to do it, I'd do it with my wife or a very close friend present, and I'd have it videotaped and tape recorded, so I can see it for myself after, and to check if the hypnotist inadvertently planted any false memories (I'm a skeptic even to my own memories :p).. What we should take away from these experiences is wonder, not hate or sadness, whatever happened, happened for a reason, and that's that, we're human, we're resilient, and we should go on, sure it was incredible, but that's only hours off our entire lives, and we have so much more to look forward to everyday.. I'd like to think of us humans as special, even if other beings exist out there, even if they have fantastic powers and technology beyond our wildest dreams, I still believe we are unique, in our bodies and in our very soul.." - MikeTo learn more about his close encounter visithttp://boards.history.com/topic/Ufo-Hunters/Ufo-Sighting-Manila/520037097

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