UFO/UAP Experiences
6/1/2026
I’ve written about the experiences I’ve had with strange beings coming and going, but I haven’t yet written about all the UFO sightings I’ve had throughout my life. Spurring this on is my most recent account that happened the night of 5/30/2026. I’ll start there and go backward. My husband, daughter, and I were on our way home from a celebratory dinner for her graduation. Like me, my daughter is tuned into UFO/UAPs, and she had gone out with my husband the month before and said she saw a couple of UFO/UAPs. Since then, she’s been keenly attuned to the sky.
They were at a club watching a friend play. My daughter walked off and stood outside, looking up at the sky. She said she saw what she called a “flying pea.” From what she described, it sounded a lot like a UFO/UAP I had seen a couple of years ago, just before my dog yanked me off the stoop, and my wrist was broken. She described it as a glowing green ball.
When I saw this same object a couple of years ago, it was bright and hanging in the sky. There was a couple walking down the street, completely oblivious to it, which threw me off. I was confounded by a pretty big, glowing green ball hanging in the air, and by these two people walking and talking as if nothing was happening. I was trying to process it, wondering if I was hallucinating since they paid no mind to it, when my dog decided he really wanted to smell something and yanked me so hard I fell.
My daughter’s experience was similar. She was at a show, people were all around, and no one noticed the phenomenon except her. She also saw another unusual object, which she described as the “skinny airplane.” She said it was sort of shaped like a distorted airplane, and when she looked at it, it was almost cartoonish, long, thin, and odd-looking. That particular encounter scared her. She’s been talking about it ever since. Since I wasn’t there (I was doing the Cosmic Fold that night), I didn’t get a look at it. I wasn’t sure what to think of all of it. From then on, she’s been talking about these experiences and saying that she’s seen the “flying pea” again on a couple of occasions. She’s also been pointing up at the sky, thinking everything is a potential UAP, which, in my experience, is normal after having an experience.
The reason this happens is that the experience is a strange combination of the banal, ordinary, and the extraordinary. It short-circuits your brain. You look up to see something impossible, yet it’s floating in the same sky you see every day in your neighborhood or the streets you drive to go to the mall. These events can and do happen randomly when you’re coming home from dinner, going to the grocery store, or driving to the 7-11, so they are mixed with the ordinary in ways that are hard to explain.
It’s as if you are suddenly thrust into an alternate reality in the midst of the banal, yet you’re still in the pedestrian scene simultaneously. It isn’t like the movie “Close Encounters,” where everyone pulls over and notices the strange object. In fact, after the encounter, reality quickly fades. What was crystal clear in the moment, the strange objects, every quirk and unusual feature registered, and seared into your memory within moments, starts to morph and fade because it is so outside anything you’ve seen before that your synapses have no way to fully process the information. I’ve learned to try to grab a camera, which never works, and then write down what I can recall immediately. The only time I’ve captured a UAP/UFO on camera was by accident.
Here are photos I took at the 150-year commemoration of the Battle of Franklin back on November 30, 2014. I was taking pictures of the event. Both my husband and I got the same strange objects in our pictures, so there was no way it was a camera issue.
You can see something in the sky in the main photos. I’ve taken the liberty of cropping and blowing up the strange flying things so you can get a better look at them. You’ll notice that the objects were hovering for quite a long time, as they are there in multiple photos of different people speaking. At the event, no one noticed the observers; we were all too entranced by the somber and bloody history of the day when more than ten thousand people lost their lives in that battle 150 years prior. In 2014, I was the Middle TN Chapter head for MUFON and shared these and other photos my husband had with the group.
Back to May 30, 2026, I was driving because my husband had an “Old Fashioned” at dinner; neither of us is a big drinker, so he was feeling it. I decided to take a
