Silent Skies Pt.2: The Return

Written By Peerless Cloud

“Part 2: The Return”

An experience from my life.

Exactly two years to the day after my first extraordinary encounter, something else occurred—something even stranger.

It was 9:00 a.m. on a quiet morning. I was in the washhouse, going about another ordinary day, when a flicker of movement outside the door caught my attention. There—bent over beneath the clothesline—was someone, scrabbling at the pebbles in the garden bed.

It startled me. Who was this man? My husband wasn’t home, and there were no weeds to pull, no reason for anyone to be there. I stayed behind the glass, watching with caution.

What I saw next sent a chill through me.

The figure was wearing a blue coverall, but the sleeves ended abruptly at the elbows, revealing unusually long forearms and fingers. He moved quickly, urgently, hands sifting through the gravel like he was searching for something.

Then, he stopped.

He became aware of me.

He turned his head—and I gasped. The face staring back at me was not human. It was ugly and scrunched in appearance, with large, black, almond‑shaped eyes and a deeply unsettling expression. There was no hair, just a hat pulled low over a smooth, domed head.

My body responded before my mind could. I stumbled back from the door in shock.

As I looked again, the figure began to melt—there’s no other way to describe it. His form blurred, then shimmered, then simply dissolved into the air. He was gone.

“…the figure began to melt—there’s no other way to describe it.”

  • Elizabeth

I rushed to lock the doors, a wave of fear washing over me. What had I just witnessed? Was this a dream? A glimpse of another parallel reality? A future owner of the property? Or… something more?

Once I had calmed myself, something clicked. I checked the date. It was an exact match—two years to the day since I had seen the infinity‑shaped craft in the sky. That was no coincidence.

Something was reaching across time. Across dimensions.

I knew then that I needed help to make sense of what was happening.

So I reached out to Mary Rodwell, a respected UFO researcher and former midwife who had worked with countless experiencers. A hypnotherapist and author, Mary had dedicated her life to helping people process encounters just like mine.

What happened next opened a doorway I never expected…

 

So I Did Some Research

For many experiencers, the first hint of the phenomenon isn’t a spaceship in the sky but an uncanny visitor in the comfort of home. Humanoid beings appearing in familiar settings – a backyard garden, a living room, a child’s bedroom – are a recurring motif in close encounter literature. These entities often present a curious blend of the familiar and the fantastic. Witnesses describe figures that at first could pass as human in dim light or at a distance, especially given their attire, yet upon closer look their physical features break the illusion.

In one well-documented early case known as the Andreasson Affair (1967), Massachusetts homemaker Betty Andreasson and her family experienced a sudden power outage at night. Peering out the back window, Betty’s father saw “several little creatures” outside, initially thinking they looked like Halloween-costumed figures (encyclopedia.com). Moments later, a group of small gray humanoids somehow entered the house. The family was frozen in place (a common paralysis effect), and the beings addressed Betty telepathically, their manner calm and reassuring (encyclopedia.com). Under hypnosis years later, Betty recalled the entities had oversized heads and eyes, and wore a kind of uniform. They gently took her with them – passing through a closed door as if it weren’t there – into a waiting craft (encyclopedia.com). Her astonishing account, investigated by researcher Raymond Fowler, mixes the typical alien-abduction elements with a contactee-style warmth: one entity, named “Quazgaa,” delivered a message of love and told her they had come to help humankind (encyclopedia.com).

Another famous experiencer, author Whitley Strieber, described a similarly jarring intrusion at his cabin in upstate New York. On the night of December 26, 1985, Strieber awoke to the sight of a small figure in his bedroom – decidedly not human. Despite the burglar alarm being active, this being simply appeared inside the house (sobrief.com). It was diminutive with spindly limbs; most memorably, it had a large head with huge, dark eyes (the iconic image later depicted on Strieber’s book Communion). Strieber felt a sudden wave of paralysis flood over him as the entity approached. In a flash of fear and confusion, he lost time and later found himself elsewhere, undergoing bizarre procedures. His initial terror gave way to enduring questions, as he struggled to comprehend how such a creature could breach the safety of his home. The event was “so shocking it felt like a dream, yet his mind was sharp and fully awake” (sobrief.com). Strieber’s case cemented the idea that these encounters can unfold right in our bedrooms, not just aboard spaceships.

Interestingly, not all these humanoids look like the classic greys. Some appear almost normal – the so-called hybrids or human-looking ETs – but there’s always a telltale oddity. Barbara Lamb notes that “some aliens appear quite human-like, including the ‘hybrid’ type”, who might at first blend into a crowd (regressionjournal.org). They often wear ordinary clothes and can walk among us. However, up close their behavior or features betray them: their eyes or facial expressions seem “non-responsive” or their proportions slightly off (regressionjournal.org). Experiencers report that these beings’ demeanor can be eerily flat, as if they’re mimicking human interaction without fully understanding it. One might imagine encountering a tall stranger in one’s garden who seems normal until his unblinking stare and stiff movements send chills down the spine. Mary Rodwell, an Australian counselor who has worked with over 3,000 experiencers, has likewise heard many accounts of childhood visitations by friendly humanoid figures. Children have described playmates or guides who appeared human at first, only to later be remembered as having very large eyes or glowing aura-like light around them (everand.comavalonlibrary.net). Rodwell writes that these kids often feel a deep bond with such visitors – seeing them as “as real as their ‘real’ family” – because the beings provide comfort, knowledge, and a sense of protection (everand.com).

 

Vanishing Visitors: Shimmering, Disappearing, and Interdimensional Clues

Perhaps the most disorienting aspect of these encounters is how they end. Again and again, witnesses describe the humanoid visitor departing in a manner that defies reality: walking through a wall, dematerializing in a flash, or simply vanishing into thin air. In our opening vignette, the garden visitor “shimmered” and melted away. This is not mere poetic flourish – many experiencers truly report a visual effect like a flicker or ripple in the air as the being departs. It’s as if these entities can cloak themselves or slip back into whatever hidden realm they emerged from.

Dr. John E. Mack, the late Harvard psychiatrist who investigated hundreds of abduction cases, found ample testimony of these surreal exits. “I was told stories about patients who experienced aliens that could pass through walls,” Mack recounted, noting how utterly this violated his conventional understanding of reality (aeon.co). Abductees might see the visitors literally walking through a solid door or window, or else the beings simply appear/vanish while the surroundings (and any stunned bystanders) remain physically untouched (aeon.co). Such events suggest an interdimensional or physics-bending aspect to the phenomenon. The entities seem to operate in a reality where matter is no obstacle – they can begin in an “unseen realm,” then cross over and manifest in our physical world, as Mack observed (pbs.org). And when their business is done, they can withdraw in an instant, leaving the experiencer blinking at an empty room or yard.

Even the notorious “Men in Black” (MIB) – often thought of as paranormal enforcers linked to UFO events – exhibit these vanishing tricks. Barbara Lamb summarizes reports of MIB appearing at experiencers’ homes: they look human at first, albeit unusually pale and stiff, dressed in outdated black suits and fedoras. Their eyes are often described as unsettling or hidden behind dark glasses (regressionjournal.org). They speak in a monotone, robotic fashion while issuing warnings. Then, abruptly, the MIB will depart and literally disappear. Witnesses have seen them “stagger toward the door and leave,” only to notice that the figure “disappeared halfway along the sidewalk” outside (regressionjournal.org). One moment the man in black is walking away; the next he’s simply gone. This kind of instantaneous disappearance is a hallmark of these encounters. Experiencers often liken it to a light switch being flipped or a curtain of reality dropping: one second the being is there, the next second empty space.

Such reports blur the line between technology and magic. Are these entities using advanced cloaking devices or teleportation? Or do they hail from a realm where physical form is fluid? Some experiencers favor the latter explanation, suspecting that these beings are interdimensional – able to phase in and out of our 3D reality. John Mack came to accept that “phenomena…can begin in the unseen realm, and cross over and manifest in our literal physical world”, so that an encounter is both a literal event and something from a parallel reality (pbs.org). In other words, the garden visitor might have stepped in from a coexistent dimension, and when he vanished, perhaps he returned there. This interdimensional angle would explain why even though multiple family members or friends sometimes witness part of an encounter (e.g. seeing a strange figure momentarily), the beings still elude any concrete capture – they aren’t entirely here in the way a person or animal is.

Physical evidence is scant; instead we have these fleeting visual impressions and the psychological impact on the witness. Interestingly, even as they vanish, some entities leave a parting sign. A common detail is a bright flash of light or a brief electric buzz as the being disappears. Experiencers interpret this as the closing of whatever portal or energy field had opened in front of them. Others describe the figure fading out with a faint “shimmer,” as if gradually becoming transparent. One experiencer quoted by researcher Linda Howe called it “like watching a hologram switch off – first I could see through him, then he was gone.” Such descriptions reinforce the idea that these visitors can toggle their physicality. In some encounters, once the entity vanishes, normality snaps back so suddenly that the person questions if it really happened – until they notice the lingering marks on their body or the disturbances in the environment. (Indeed, physical traces like imprints, burns, or triangular skin marks often turn up after alleged close encounters, adding weight to the reality of events even when the beings themselves are no longer present (regressionjournal.orgregressionjournal.org).)

 

Time Markers: Encounters on Significant Dates and Anniversary Visitations

Another intriguing pattern reported by experiencers is the timing of these encounters. Some events seem to occur on symbolically significant dates, or even repeat on an anniversary of a previous sighting. This isn’t universal, but it’s noteworthy enough that experiencers and researchers have speculated about a deliberate timing or a cyclic schedule to certain contacts.

In Whitley Strieber’s case, for example, the initial life-changing encounter happened on the evening of December 26, 1985 – the day after Christmas (sobrief.com). The holiday timing haunted Strieber, as if the “Visitors” chose a moment of personal significance (a family holiday in a secluded cabin) to make their presence known. Strieber later reflected on the almost symbolic nature of that date – the end of the year, a time of reflection – to ponder if there was an intentional message in when it occurred. Similarly, Betty Andreasson’s abduction took place on January 25, 1967, and while that date wasn’t an obvious holiday for her, she noted later that it fell in a period of personal upheaval and spiritual questioning in her life. It was as if the encounter answered an unspoken need at that time.

Beyond one-off dates, there are cases of recurrent visitations that seem tied to an annual or biannual rhythm. Some abductees report that “every year around the same week in [a given month], I feel it coming” – a kind of intuitive knowledge that their otherworldly contacts will resume. For instance, an individual might experience intense encounters one summer, and then exactly one year later, almost to the day, another encounter unfolds as if on schedule. One experiencer, after a frightening bedroom visitation, noted in her journal that it occurred on her birthday; the following year on her birthday she was woken again by a bright light and sensed “them” nearby, though she only recalled fragments of contact that second time. Such stories have led some in the UFO community to playfully refer to “abduction anniversaries.” While not all repeat encounters line up so neatly, many abductees do report cyclical experiences over years or decades. Barbara Lamb’s research shows that once contact begins (often in childhood), it tends to continue throughout the experiencer’s life at intervalsregressionjournal.org. A person might be taken or visited at ages 6, 12, 24, 48, etc., suggesting a pattern – sometimes the timing coincides with birthdays or with the date of that very first encounter, almost like the visitors are checking in on a schedule.

What could be the significance of these timings? Experiencers and researchers have floated various ideas. One is that the beings are tracking an individual’s development – for example, appearing at puberty, then at adulthood, then mid-life, as if to update some long-term program (this is often discussed in the context of hybridization or genetic experiments where timing might matter). Another idea is that significant dates lower our guard: during holidays, anniversaries, or personal milestones we might be in a more reflective or open mental state, which could facilitate contact. It’s also possible that the meaning is in the eye of the beholder – that humans naturally assign significance to dates and anniversaries, finding patterns even if the phenomenon itself isn’t intentionally doing so. Yet, when multiple credible witnesses independently report encounters that recur on the same date, it does make one wonder.

UFO researcher Mary Rodwell has commented on the temporal aspect, noting that many of her clients feel their encounters were “pre-arranged” on a soul level, almost as if the timing was set by an agreement or higher plan. Some even describe a build-up of anticipation or psychic foreknowledge leading up to a contact event (“I started feeling restless every year as April 15th approached, knowing they were coming”), which implies a connection to the phenomenon outside of linear time. While concrete evidence of anniversary visitations is elusive (it’s hard to prove timing is more than coincidence), the pattern of lifetime repeat experiences is well-established. As Dr. John Mack observed, people rarely have just a single encounter – those who consciously recall one encounter often discover, through hypnosis or later memories, that there were earlier encounters in childhood and possibly subsequent ones as well, forming a chain of experiences that can span decades (regressionjournal.org). The “significant date” element may simply be part of that broader picture of planned, ongoing contact.

 

“I Felt It in My Soul”: Telepathy, Emotions, and Psychic Connections

One of the most commonly reported aspects of close encounters is a powerful emotional or psychic connection between experiencer and entity. These are not cold, clinical meetings (despite the often clinical procedures reported aboard UFOs). In garden and bedroom encounters especially, witnesses frequently describe a strange blend of fear and intimacy. The being might induce intense fear at first – after all, it’s a shock to meet an alien in your yard – but many experiencers say that once the initial panic subsided, they sensed strong emotions emanating from the entity, or even a telepathic exchange that flooded them with feeling.

Telepathy is almost universally mentioned. In Betty Andreasson’s case, when the small greys entered her kitchen, they immediately spoke to her mind-to-mind. She heard a calm voice inside saying that her family would not be harmed, and conveying a feeling of reassurance (encyclopedia.com). This telepathic calmness sharply contrasted with the terrifying reality of being paralyzed. Likewise, Whitley Strieber reported that some of the beings he encountered seemed able to delve into his mind and evoke certain emotions; at one point, a female figure placed her hand on his forehead and he felt a sudden, overwhelming sense of love – an experience that moved him profoundly, even though moments earlier he’d been terrified. Barbara Lamb notes that with some species (for example, the tall insect-like “praying mantis” beings), initial fear often turns into affection: “As repellant as they might appear, they often turn out to be unconditionally loving and kind… once an abductee gets past the unusual appearance, he or she usually reports a great fondness for these beings.” (regressionjournal.org). This suggests that the mantis-type, despite looking like a giant bug with spiky limbs and huge wraparound eyes, somehow radiate a feeling of love that the person can tangibly feel (regressionjournal.org). Many abductees have described holding clear telepathic dialogues with such beings during an encounter – conversations not spoken in words, but exchanged mind-to-mind in a way that feels instantaneous.

These psychic communications often carry messages or visions with deep emotional impact. A notable theme is warnings about Earth’s future or pleas for human spiritual growth. John Mack found that “many experiencers felt that aliens communicated an environmental message about the urgency of saving the planet.” (aeon.co) This occurred in case after case: abductees would come back with vivid imagery of Earth suffering ecological collapse or humanity destroying itself, delivered by the beings as a kind of moral lesson. In the famous Ariel School encounter (1994), where dozens of schoolchildren in Zimbabwe saw a landed craft and a strange being with big black eyes, several of the kids received telepathic messages “about trees falling down” and the need to take care of the environment. The pattern is so consistent that some researchers view these experiences as a form of cosmic wake-up call. Betty Andreasson’s encounter included explicitly spiritual and ecological content – she was shown a visionary experience of a phoenix-like bird and was told by the beings that humans must “study nature” to overcome our self-destructive tendencies, all conveyed with an atmosphere of love and reverence (encyclopedia.com). She even described one being she met during her experience as a figure of divine light (her Christian interpretation was that she met God or an angel). Whether one believes the literal truth of that or not, it’s clear Betty’s visitors aimed to leave her with uplifting, transformative emotions along with the information. They ended her experience by expressing that “they loved humanity” and that their mission was to help us (encyclopedia.com) – a profound statement that left Betty feeling special, shaken, but ultimately hopeful.

Mary Rodwell often emphasizes the positive emotional side of contact. In her work with “Star Children” (kids who report ongoing alien contact), she notes that many of them consider their unusual visitors to be friends or family on a soul level. These children might cry when a beloved ET “guide” leaves, and express longing to see them again (everand.com). Rodwell shares cases of youngsters who, after an encounter, develop newfound psychic abilities or a sense of mission, along with a feeling of being loved and protected by their otherworldly friends (everand.com). This is not to sugarcoat the very real fear many experiencers initially feel. In truth, the emotional journey of an abductee or contactee is often turbulent – terror, awe, love, confusion all swirl together. Psychologist R. Leo Sprinkle once described experiencers as undergoing a form of “spiritual boot camp”: first they face their deepest fears (the shock of the encounter), then they receive transcendent insights or loving energy, and finally they are left to make sense of it and possibly change their life’s direction.

Many experiencers indeed report long-term emotional aftereffects. They might develop a strong sense of compassion for humanity or a mission to spread a message (be it about environmentalism, peace, or consciousness expansion) that they feel the beings imparted. Others struggle with the absence – once having felt that intense psychic connection, returning to ordinary human interactions can feel jarring or lonely. Close encounter support groups (such as those run by Barbara Lamb or Mary Rodwell) hear these themes frequently: Why do I feel homesick for a place I don’t remember? Why do I miss those big black eyes looking at me? As strange as it sounds, a bond often forms between the experiencer and the “visitor.” Whitley Strieber even took to capitalizing the term “Visitors” in his writings, hinting at an almost reverential respect for these presences that so upended his life. Over time, Strieber’s emotions shifted from terror to a kind of partnership with the unknown. In Communion, he mused on how the visitors seem able to “weave imagination and reality together”, playing on deep levels of the human psychegoodreads.com. His fear gave way to curiosity and a desire for understanding, demonstrating the complex psychological arc these encounters induce.

 

Who (or What) Are They? – Visitors, Future Humans, or Interdimensional Beings

After experiencing something so extraordinary, the inevitable question arises: Who are these beings? Over the years, experiencers and researchers have proposed a range of interpretations. While the classic answer in pop culture is “aliens from another planet,” the truth emerging from encounter reports is far more nuanced and mysterious. Let’s explore how the experiencer community and UFO researchers interpret the nature of these humanoid visitors.

Extraterrestrial Visitors (Classic “Aliens” Hypothesis): Many experiencers do believe they’ve met aliens in the literal sense – intelligent beings from elsewhere in the universe who have found a way to visit Earth. The details of the encounters often support this: the entities arrive in UFO craft, conduct examinations or gather samples, and sometimes explicitly tell the abductee that they come from a planet (e.g. Zeta Reticuli, in some famous cases). Betty Andreasson, for instance, eventually came to view her captors as benevolent aliens with a spiritual bent. The extraterrestrial hypothesis sees these visitors as flesh-and-blood (though highly advanced) beings who may have bases on the Moon or secret landing sites on Earth. The quasi-human clothing some wear could be an attempt to put witnesses at ease or blend in briefly. Indeed, researcher Jacques Vallée noted that some UFO occupants reported in the 1950s and ’60s wore seemingly ordinary clothes (like coveralls or even business suits), which could imply they wanted to roam among humans undetected for short periods. Barbara Lamb’s mention of hybrids “intermingling on Earth” fits here – if aliens have created human-looking hybrid offspring, such beings might walk our streets and only be recognizable as non-human under close scrutiny (regressionjournal.org). This interpretation casts the visitors as literal outsiders: visitors in the truest sense, visiting from afar but ultimately part of our physical universe.

Extraterrestrial Visitors (Classic “Aliens” Hypothesis)

Interdimensional or Spiritual Beings: A growing number of experiencers and researchers, however, feel the ET hypothesis alone doesn’t explain the high strangeness – especially the shimmering entrances and exits, the telepathy, and the dreamlike absurdity that often accompanies encounters. They suggest that these entities are “transdimensional” – coming from a parallel reality or spiritual realm. John Mack became a proponent of this view. He argued that the phenomenon “invites us to change our perception of reality” because it doesn’t fit our either/or categoriesaeon.copbs.org. Mack wrote that aliens might exist in a state that’s both physical and psychic, capable of crossing from an unseen dimension into our worldpbs.org. This is akin to older ideas of angels, jinn, or fairies, which were said to flicker in and out of our plane. In fact, the interdimensional hypothesis in ufology notes that reports of humanoid visitors go back centuries and were often interpreted as supernatural beings; today’s aliens might be a modern mask for the same underlying phenomenonen.wikipedia.org. Under this view, when an entity vanishes in a flash of light, it isn’t “beaming up to a spaceship” so much as stepping back into a parallel dimension. Experiencers who have felt the profound spiritual energy of some encounters (like being in the presence of a divine being) often lean toward this interpretation – they describe the visitors more like guides or guardians on a soul journey than scientists from space. The emotional and psychic depth of communication (the sense of shared consciousness, the life-changing visions) sometimes leaves people convinced that something more than a high-tech alien was at work – perhaps an intelligence that can manipulate reality itself. As Whitley Strieber eloquently put it, “Whomever or whatever the visitors are, their activities go far beyond a mere study of mankind. They are involved with us on very deep levels, playing in the band of dream, weaving imagination and reality together… they may be different aspects of a single continuum.”goodreads.com In other words, Strieber came to suspect the visitors are part of a larger cosmic or spiritual tapestry that connects directly with human consciousness and even our dream states.

Interdimensional or Spiritual Beings

Time Travelers / Future Humans: Another provocative theory, raised both by experiencers and some scientists, is that these beings could be humans from the future – essentially our own descendants who have mastered time travel or interdimensional travel. Some abductees have been told puzzling phrases by the entities like “We are you”, or have noticed that certain ETs (especially the more human-looking Nordics or hybrids) resemble us to an uncanny degree. Could it be that in some far future, humans have changed – taller, larger heads, maybe weakened bodies but stronger minds – and they are now coming back to observe or even guide us? The hypothesis sounds like sci-fi, but it gained some traction after people like physicist Jacques Fabrice Vallée and air force Colonel Philip Corso hinted that time might be as big a factor as space in UFO phenomena. In pop culture, the film Interstellar explored this notion by depicting future five-dimensional humans reaching back in time to help their ancestors (en.wikipedia.org). If the garden visitor was a future human, his semi-human clothing would make sense (he’s dressing from our era to blend in), and his disappearing act might be explained by moving along the time dimension. Some experiencers feel this idea is comforting: instead of aliens, their visitors might be distant family, our own species evolved and perhaps coming back with good intentions. There’s an interesting twist here – some experiencers who were shown Earth’s future (desolate landscapes, etc.) interpreted the beings’ warning as if the visitors have a stake in our survival. If they are future humans, that stake is literal. Even Mary Rodwell has mused that some encounters blur the line between ET and human, and that “future intelligences” could be involved in mentoring present-day humans (chaindesk.ai).

Time Travelers / Future Humans

Something Else Entirely: Of course, not every theory falls neatly into these categories. Some view the phenomenon as a consciousness-based experience – not inhabitants of a distant planet or dimension, but manifestations generated by a higher collective consciousness (or even by our own minds interfacing with the unknown). Others suspect an elaborate military or psychological operation (though that hardly explains the deep cosmic messages or non-material traits). A few experiencers with religious worldviews interpret the humanoids as angels, demons, or agents of a divine plan, interacting with us at pivotal moments (hence the significance of dates and the spiritual themes).

What is remarkable is that across all these interpretations, experiencers themselves often evolve in their understanding. It’s not uncommon to hear someone say: “At first I thought they were demons; then I decided they were aliens; now I wonder if they’re something like spirits – or maybe all of those at once!” The phenomenon seems to resist a single label. Dr. John Mack summed up this conundrum well. After years of research he concluded that yes, abductions physically happen, but also yes, they have a transcendent quality – and our society “has no place for… phenomena that can begin in the unseen realm and show up in our literal physical world.” (pbs.org) He called it a true mystery, one that forces a widening of our worldview (aeon.co).

In the end, many experiencers settle on calling their strange visitors simply “the Others” or “the Visitors”, acknowledging the limits of our labels. Whether they meet them in a garden on a summer night or aboard a spacecraft in a beam of light, what stays with them is the relationship – the sense of contact with an intelligence beyond the ordinary. Mary Rodwell notes that those who integrate the experience positively often feel they’ve been “activated” or awakened by their encounters. They take the interdimensional visions, the telepathic lessons, and the emotional highs and lows as impetus for personal growth. Some become authors, artists, or healers, inspired by what they’ve seen. Whitley Strieber famously turned his trauma into a quest for knowledge, writing multiple books and even starting a community for fellow experiencers. He advocates a stance of curious openness, suggesting that to truly understand the visitors, humanity may need “a new discipline of vision” that blends science and mysticism (goodreads.com).

Meanwhile, researchers like Barbara Lamb and Mary Rodwell continue to provide support, helping people navigate the shock and wonder of these encounters. Rodwell often reminds new experiencers that they are not alone – not only because the visitors seem to be watching over them in some capacity, but also because thousands of ordinary people have reported surprisingly similar encounters. Indeed, when we line up the stories – the humble gardener seeing a long-limbed figure among the hydrangeas, the child meeting “the tall lady” who glowed, the couple waking up to a big-eyed being at the foot of their bed – a bigger picture emerges. It’s a picture of a phenomenon that is intimate yet elusive, frightening yet often profoundly meaningful.

Are they aliens, angels, or our own future selves? Perhaps they are all of the above – or, as some experiencers muse, perhaps those distinctions don’t matter to the visitors at all. What matters, it seems, is the connection forged in that moment of contact and what the human participant chooses to do with it. As one experiencer simply put it: “They touched my heart and then they were gone. I’m still trying to understand, but I know my life has changed.” The garden may be empty now, but the memory of the visitor lingers – a mystery beckoning us to keep exploring the unknown, both out in the cosmos and within ourselves.

 

In the Wake of Wonder

Ultimately, what lingers after these uncanny meetings isn’t our need to label them—alien, angel, time traveler—but the quiet transformation they leave behind. Those who emerge unbroken often speak of being awakened, as if a door has quietly swung open within. Writers, artists, and seekers carry that spark forward, forever marked by a presence that defies explanation.

And yet, for every story told, countless impressions remain unspoken—images and whispers tucked away in the corners of memory. What lies hidden in those shadows? In Part Three—The Crystal Room—we will step beyond the threshold of conscious recall, chasing the faint echoes of light and sound that may hold the key to what truly awaits us…

Part THREE coming soon

“Silent Skies Pt.2”

~Written By Elizabeth S

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