Prior to this event, which took place in 1979 during my summer vacation from university, UFOs were not a subject of interest to me. It occurred at the end of June or July, just past midnight, in the city of Laval, Qc, Canada, while walking along a sidewalk next to an extensive recreational area at the rear of two high schools on my right. Behind me was a shopping center, a few hundred yards away. As I approached the first house of a residential area across the street (to my left), it unfolded.
Out of nowhere, from further behind me, an unfamiliar, almost electronic, repetitive sound emerged. Initially, I wondered if an alarm system in one of the mall stores was malfunctioning, producing the distorted and strange noise. However, I sensed that the source was closer— somewhere in the mall’s parking lot, between the stores and me.
This is how it sounded : https://youtu.be/Ky1c_pF5qoc?si=p-nBZlzXHV6zAVy4
My awareness heightened as I felt the sonar-like beeps were seemingly “hitting” a specific point in the mall parking lot before echoing (reverberating). As I was continuing to walk in the opposite direction, the sonar beeps suddenly started moving rapidly toward me, as if I were a magnet drawing them closer. I stopped walking to look behind me.
Turning my head to the left, I saw what resembled a small submarine racing from the leftmost point of my field of view. It came to a halt in a fraction of a second, directly in front of me, hovering less than six feet above a two-story house across the street.
The object, situated at less than 150 feet from me, was approximately the size of a yellow school bus (the longer type). It had an oval shape, was pitch black with an opaque finish, with small colored lights racing along its middle ridge.
While observing the object, I realized that the sonar beeps had reached me, hitting the ground around me in a rapid circular motion. I felt somewhat trapped in a “sonar bell”. A strong impression grew that my body and mind were being scanned. Fear surged, and I started running—right in the middle of the street—with my eyes fixed on the object.
As I reached the first perpendicular street leading away from the area, the object vanished. One moment it was there, and the next, it was gone.
I sprinted to my parents’ house, which was a twenty-minute walk from where the event occurred. When I arrived home, the kitchen clock displayed 2:30 a.m. which meant I couldn’t account for about two hours.
General setting of the 1979 sighting
The next morning, I felt duty-bound to report what I’d witnessed. I called the military base closest to my area (then St-Hubert), but the person I spoke with informed me they weren’t collecting reports of this nature. They advised me to contact someone at the nearest civilian airport (Dorval), which I did, only to receive the same response there.
That same year, and in the subsequent years and decades, I experienced other UFOs related events of high strangeness. One such encounter involved human-looking aliens who came to converse with me in 1981, at my then part-time job at a Sears store. The previous evening, I had a most remarkable UFO sighting, and somehow, their visit was related. Since then, I know that some of them have adapted to our world and live among us.
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