My first and only sighting happened 3 weeks before my mom died
I’m just posting this here in case anyone finds it interesting or has any opinion on my story. I think about this a lot especially lately with all the news.
In 2015 I was 16 years old, I went out to dinner with my mom on a Friday night in October, the Italian restaurant we went to was located in kind of an odd place, it was in a strip mall with maybe one or two other stores that were closed. It was really busy that night and we didn’t get a table until late into the night.
We finally got served and ate dinner. We walked out around 12-1am but by this time most of the restaurant had cleared out and there was only 1 waitress and maybe 2 cooks left so the parking lot was beyond empty and dark.
As we were walking out I noticed this small orange light in the horizon, it was a decently cloudy night and I paused to point it out and show my mom. My mom didn’t say anything the entire time just stared at it while I pointed and rambled about it (which is kind of weird to me cause my mom was super talkative all the time especially on nights we went to dinner).
As I pointed at it grew nearly 20x larger, began dancing around, it almost felt like we saw each other. It felt like it was dancing around for me almost the more fascinated I was about it. It’s still a really strange feeling to describe and I sound schizo when I say it but looking at it felt like when you hold eye contact with someone for a long time and gaze at each other and you feel like you can “feel” the “consciousness” almost. Like a really deep connection.
It would shoot up, pause, stand still, then move again, stand still, then move rapidly again, within milliseconds this thing was shooting across the sky, changing sizes. This whole time I’m saying “Wow!” “Woah what the hell!” My mom is also looking along with me saying absolutely nothing at all which is beyond weird to me. This was the mom that would tell me to come outside and look at how big the moon was during a Super Moon but was completely uninterested in the most insane thing I have ever seen in the sky.
At the time I had an iPhone 4 and after about 5 minutes of watching this thing in amazement dance in the sky unlike anything I have ever seen, I thought to myself “Oh shit! I gotta try to take a picture or something!”
Nearly as I touched my phone in my pocket it immediately shrunk down to its original size and did a 45 degree shoot into the sky like a comet. It was really weird to me and I kept trying to talk to my mom about it the entire ride home but she seemed very uninterested which I couldn’t wrap my head around. The really weird part to me is it felt like we were looking back at each other while I stared at it in the sky.
Then about a week from that very day I came home and my mom told me that she called my uncle to take her to the hospital, I was freaking out, I started asking her “Why??” “What’s going on??” “Are you okay??” She kept giving me these vague answers of “I don’t know” “Stop asking.” nd kept cleaning the house, folding laundry, vacuuming, almost as if we were going on a trip or vacation and she wanted the house to be clean before we left. This was insane to me and still is. My mom and I talked completely normal about anything and everything all the time so to have her completely ignore me and seem almost annoyed at me was freaking me out especially for something like this?? It almost felt like her entire person was gone or something.
The whole time I was crying because I literally didn’t understand how she could not show any signs of sickness and continued refusing to tell me why she’s even going to the hospital to begin with. This wasn’t like her at all.
My uncle picks us up and took us to the hospital. She got admitted that night and they began running every type of test they could on her. That was the last time I ever got to speak to her at all. My family and doctors kept asking me if I had noticed anything strange or different at all, and I hadn’t one bit. My mom was completely healthy I still literally cannot understand. To this day my family asks me how I couldn’t have noticed when there was nothing I noticed at all!
About 4 days later they determined it to be cancer, I spent every day just sitting by her bedside hoping I would get to talk to her one last time. She was nearly completely unconscious every day that I sat there. It killed me inside because I didn’t know the day she got admitted to the hospital would be my last time ever speaking to her. It had spread to every part of her body they said and at this point it was time for hospice by the 7th day at the hospital.
She was gone a few days later. Within the span of a week and a half my mom went from going on morning jogs, planning vacations, hanging out with her friends, to advanced end of life cancer.
I still don’t know or understand what signs I missed supposedly. Someone who is waking up at 5:30AM, making breakfast, then going for their morning jog and spending the rest of the day perfectly fine laughing and doing normal activities doesn’t struck me then or now as someone who has cancer in every single organ.
It destroyed me pretty bad because my dad passed away when I was 8 from the infected/bad doses of heparin from the Heparin Crisis of 2008 (there’s a lot Wikipedia) and then losing her was unthinkable. I have no siblings so after that I was on my own and lived with my grandmother until I was 18.
I don’t know why or if it even matters, but I think about all of this pretty often. I sometimes wonder if seeing that orange orb dance, grow, shrink in the sky as my mom was completely unphased had anything to with what happened. Maybe I’m just looking for reasons for why my mom died like this so suddenly but I forever relate seeing my first UFO to the worst 3 weeks of my life.
Sorry if this was really long. I’ve wanted to post this somewhere for awhile.
TLDR: I saw a ufo that felt like it was looking back into my soul when I was 16 and within 3 weeks my mother was diagnosed with end of life cancer and I still can’t wrap my head around.
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