At What Age Did You Become Interested in UFOs?

[Rick Deckard]

Originally Posted by MaryRachel

My dad is an illustrator, He and my uncle (The Brothers Hildebrandt) were asked by George Lucas to paint the movie poster when Star Wars came out and they did. I grew up in the realm of fantasy/ art and my dad and uncle used to draw aliens. When I was 5 my dad said I corrected him on an alien drawing he did for me. He asked what I meant and I recreated the alien. He asked how I knew and I told him I saw it in my dream. I still have alien dreams, scary thin brownish dude, big eyes and pock marked skin. My dad said he and my uncle have had alien dreams... since childhood.

I have a recurring dream about skies full of 'ships' (saucer-shaped craft) - I had one the other day - the ships are often chased away by military aircraft. But they've never landed in my dreams and I've never seen the occupants.

[MaryRachel]

Yeah, I've seen four different kinds of "aliens". Actually once while dreaming of being inside a craft, I saw Asian and Caucasion people. I don't read about others who believe they have been taken by aliens. tmi for me. I do not want to feed my imagination any more, besides most of the dreams are unpleasant and I wake up in a very unusual and fightening way.

[Rick Deckard]

Originally Posted by MaryRachel

...besides most of the dreams are unpleasant and I wake up in a very unusual and fightening way.

I have had episodes of sleep-paralysis and 'waking' dreams - they are not pleasant either. There's no 'alien' connection there - I've always had eratic sleep patterns brought on by sleep deprivation - sometimes there just aren't enough hours in the day to finish what I've started, so I get carried away and before I know it, the sun's coming up again...mental exhaustion is a bad thing.

[MaryRachel]

I only wake up that weird way after having the dream with that creepy looking creature. Sleep-paralysis...can't move, talk or breathe? I have insomnia for days after seeing that thing, maybe because I'm trying to avoid the "dream" and then it is followed by a peaceful rest. I have moved several times, different locations...similar dreams...oh well, not that I think moving would change my sleep patterns.

[auntiegrav]

"Ezekiel's Wheel" got me really started at 10 y.o. or so, though my family always joked about little green men landing in the barnyard to scare me when I was barely able to walk (and not allowed outside after dark) - it's hell being the youngest.;-)
The reading I've done points to terrestrial sources for all of it, with just some communication/minor interference patterns in the loop which might be alien.
"They must not eat from the tree of knowledge" pretty much says how far back the power brokers have been steering the masses.

[Rick Deckard]

Originally Posted by auntiegrav

"They must not eat from the tree of knowledge" pretty much says how far back the power brokers have been steering the masses.

Yeah, but aren't the "power brokers" really ET?

[David Lebonge]

Hi trendsetters,

My interest started when I saw two metallic craft fly overhead in 1977 (age 19)
This was at Woronora River in Sydney, 2AM in the morning...
they flew quite fast, taking about 2 or 3 seconds to fly from perihilion to horizon.
The first one flew over, then the second one about two seconds later in a parallel path

One of my first thoughts was.."I wonder if they could be us returning from the future"
That first thought seems to be confirmed to me because of my recent interest in the Dan Burisch saga

I've realised recently that the path of these ufo's would've taken them
directly over Australia's only nuclear reactor, at Lucas Heights

I had another sighting in Feb 2002, which was confirmed by another ufo report from Botany Bay

I've also had a lot of strange psychic & spiritual stuff happen in my life...
but I have no memories of abduction..this may be because I'm an easily hypnotised subject
I did suffer a succubus attack once though...not very nice

Cheers, Dave

[hopeful skeptic]

I became serious about the topic after staying home sick from school one day and watching "Overlords of the UFOs" on TBS. The entire program was riddled with nonsense and quite poorly written, but good fun, nonetheless. I had a passing interest in the subject before that day, but "Overlords" got me thinking that there must surely be someone smarter out there who had considered the subject.

My father was a minister for 26 years, and we often had raging discussions about Earth's uniqueness and the plausibility of life in outer space. Curiously, my father was the proponent for UFOs; I was the naysayer.

I remain very skeptical about UFOs, and have never seen one shred of incontrovertible evidence supporting their existence, but I remain hopeful that clear proof will one day arrive.

Joe

[erik5387]

I have never personally seen a UFO but my younger brother has. He was around 13 and I was probably 15 when he had his experience. Since then I have been interested in the possibility of UFOs and I very much enjoy researching the topic.

[hopeful skeptic]

Originally Posted by erik5387

I have never personally seen a UFO but my younger brother has. He was around 13 and I was probably 15 when he had his experience. Since then I have been interested in the possibility of UFOs and I very much enjoy researching the topic.

I admire those researchers - Stanton Friedman comes to mind - who admit to never having seen a UFO. I think some folks play up that angle as though it's some kind of prequisite for interest in ufology.

I don't know how I'd react if I saw one. I suppose it would depend on the circumstances of the sighting.