Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

A listener writes “My parents and I had a UFO experience in the early 90’s. I know this isn’t a Sasquatch experience, but I thought you would, if nothing else, find it interesting.

Around 1993 or 1994, my parents had an encounter with a UFO when I would have been about 5 years old. It was late one evening, around 11 or 12 O’Clock and they had been watching television in the kitchen. They decided to turn in to bed, so they shut off the TV and the lights in the kitchen. At this point, they realized it was quite bright outside given it was around midnight. They decided to go check outside.

My parents home is near the top of a mountain, or at least what we call mountain in Pennsylvania. The house sits at the upper end of the elevation of their property and overlooks a medium sized spring-fed pond that is about 1/4 mile in circumference. When they went outside, 4 lights were hovering over the pond – 3 smaller lights making a triangular shape and 1 larger light in the center. It appeared the space between the lights was solid, you could not see stars between them. They stood and watched it, speechless. After several minutes, the object rose straight up, then shot off to the west at extraordinary speed. They looked at each other, said nothing, and went in to bed. They kept the story to themselves for many years.

I heard this story from my mother about 12 years ago. My father is a pretty no-nonsense kind of guy. He doesn’t believe in ghosts or spirits or aliens. He wouldn’t speak about this event, except to agree that it did happen. I thought this story was interesting and the conversation ended there.

Several years later, the topic happened to come up again and my mother said there was part of the story she hadn’t shared with us. She went on to tell me that the next morning, I woke up and came down stairs. I told my mother “Mom, I saw spacemen in my window last night.” She was incredulous and asked me to repeat myself. I was adamant that I had “seen spacemen” in my window that night. My room was on the second floor of the house and was on the opposite side of the house from the pond where my parents encounter took place.

Following this event, I developed a strong fear of my bedroom, specifically the window closest to my bed. I remember standing in my room with my mother, her explaining to me that I had seen headlights from cars that night. Again, I was adamant that it wasn’t lights, it was a spaceman. I remember spending many nights sleeping on the floor of my sister’s room instead of my bedroom because I was too scared to sleep there. I remember looking out my window at night and seeing my reflection trying to convince myself that I saw my reflection.

I lived in that room until I was 19 or 20 years old (I stayed at home and went to a local college). Even as a teenager / young adult I would always have my blinds pulled down and curtains closed on my windows. There were many nights even as a teenager that I remember uneasy feeling and fear simply because of that window. It would feel like someone was there watching me.

I don’t remember anything about the night my parents had their encounter and presumably I had mine. It could just be coincidence, kids develop fears of the dark and whatever all the time. However, I have a hard time explaining my persistent fear and unease I would experience in my bedroom growing up.”