2007-12-01 - Blue Springs, MO - Other

Being on a floating platform watching me from 25 feet away.

At approximately 5pm, I took a couple bags of trash outside and around the back of our duplex to the trash containers. I placed the bags in the containers and then lit a cigarette. The day was very clear and I was facing away from the house. Behind our house was a driveway, a small drainage ditch, several trees and a small business office about 100 yards away.

I felt as though someone was watching me, as I was not fond of the neighbor in the other half of the duplex. I looked around and saw no one. I continued to smoke until I detected movement from the corner of my eye up to my right and in the trees about 25 feet away. I looked up to the right and saw `something` upright and floating for a very brief time, it seemed to move away from behind one branch and go behind another. It was large though, but less than 6 feet with the device. There was a translucent globe where a head should be. I smelled this awful smell that was worse than the dirty diapers in the trash! It hung in my nostrils and my throat. It was so foul that it was almost chocking.It was obscured by the branches and just disappeared! I was paralyzed with fear as I attempted to process what I saw. I dropped the cigarrette and ran indoors to the master bedroom and retrieved a handgun. I was so terrified and confused that I was unable to look out the window for a few mi! nutes. I didn`t say anything for a few days as I doubted what I think I saw.

The only description I can think to explain it would be a being, though it certainly did not appear to be a man, with a device around it that enabled it to hover silently in an upright position. This device was attached at the waist with some platform to stand on but it didn`t make sense to me. It was not anything that I recognized.

I served honorably in the Army and was required to master aircraft recognition as part of my air defense training. I had no idea what it was except that it was a being of some sort. No eyes in the globe but `it` was watching me! I felt as though I was being watched or monitored. I truly felt threatened.

I am a family man and have several children that I am very protective of. When I could no longer see it, I could smell a foul odor that was noticeably worse than the dirty diapers in the trash I was carrying. I felt as though something was very wrong but couldn`t remember much of the details of it though I had frequent night terrors and horrible nightmares since. I acknowledge that I have had a traumatic past and had been taking medication regularly prior to, during and after this event. But I know I did see something, even if I mis-identified it, something was there. It disturbed me so much that I missed Christmas with my family in 2007 and had recurrent panic attacks. I began to do destructive things, totally out of character for me.

I remained quiet about this event up until my wife told me something strange scared her very bad, right about the same time that I had my incident. We do not go in depth about our experience to each other, though we are very close. I find myself unable to describe this event clearly as it seems `backwards` or scrambled when I try to explain it. I did lose track of an hour or so and my neck and my upper back muscles were locked in spasm, as if I had just got into a fight and stayed that way for hours, although I think it was all due to the adrenaline, my memory is blurry of the incident and it takes me awhile to piece it together.

I work in retail loss prevention, and have to watch people closely all day. I notice little things and non-verbal behavior. Sometimes when I have to apprehend someone for stealing, it entails a chase and or altercation.

I do not remember any aircraft at that point but remember the house vibrating later that night from helicopters flying overhead. We lived near an ammunitions plant and an Air Force base. We moved away from Blue Springs in 2008.


((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date is approximate. PD))

((NUFORC Note: We spoke with the witness, and we find him to be both eloquent, and seemingly quite serious-minded. He expressed concern over the cause of the incident, more detail of which seems to be coming back to him, in his memory of the event. His wife also remembers portions of the occurrence, a fact that both of them just shared with one another. PD))