UFOs. Wow, that's a loaded word. It brings on a wide range of emotions and reactions. Belief, disbelief, fear, acceptance, trust, distrust, they are here to helps us, they are here to hurt us, a reality, ridicule, they don't exist, they do exist, they are from other worlds, from other dimensions, angels, demons, they have always existed here on earth,and so many other explanations. I could have gone on and on. This is just a very small window of thoughts and feelings on this subject. This phenomenon seems to have been going on for thousands of years but yet we still don't know the who, what or why of these visitors, if that's what they truly are. The thing is that that thousands and thousands of people from all over the world have been reporting strange flying objects in the sky, encounters with beings not of this world, abductions by these beings, contact with them and the list goes on and on. I truly believe something is going on and I've seen things myself and like others that have had experiences or people that have the good sense to know that something seems to be happening , I want to know the truth of this phenomenon.  The UFO world has for the most part been a male dominated arena. I get that as a female that grew up in an era where math was mostly a guy thing and science as well. Higher math was a challenge for me but never science. But I still held my own and was, yep, a geeky kid. And hey, that's a good thing these days! We gals are are becoming more and more involved in this arena and that's a good thing. So let me introduce myself and let's get this blog cranked up.

Hi, my name is Karen King and I have been studying the UFO phenomenon ever since an experience I had in the fall of 1990. Before that I was pretty much agnostic to the idea of aliens,visiting our planet, UFOs, abductions and all that went  with the genre due to the like of the tabloids and all their crazy and outrageous stories in the 70s and 80s. Not that I didn't believe in other intelligence out there like our own or far more advanced, it was just that I didn't believe woman were having three headed alien babies and all the other crazy stories that were out in left field. I just didn't really think about the subject much at all, even though my late dad of whom I worshiped the ground that he walked on, did believe. Let me add here that my dad was a very unique and smart man. An electrical genius, cartoonist, philosopher, story teller, carpenter..oh he could do just about anything he set his mind to and he always told me that I could do anything I wanted to if I wanted it bad enough. Sadly he passed away at the young age of of 39 due to the ravages of Type 1 juvenile diabetes. But in those short eleven and a half years I had with him, he imparted a treasure trove of knowledge to me that no amount of money could buy. He always emphasized that science and numbers were the only impartial things of this world and that they were always honest. I'm talking about a man that built me a Tesla coil when I was seven not just to entertain me but to explain electricity and hey, how a  Faraday cage worked. How cool is that? More about my dad later. Let's talk about the sighting I had that got me roped into this arena.

It was October of 1990. I was living in Ripley, Tn in a rural area. We had a few acres of land that we had several horses on and that night my ex was out on the road as he was a truck driver. The only people in the house were my twelve year old daughter and myself. My ex brother in law's house was adjacent to our house within about 50ft.. He worked as a night foreman at a muffler factory so Lindi and I were the only ones on the hill that night. He had a Great Dane pup named Deacon that started barking wildly around the hours of ten and eleven. I was reading in my bedroom and when the barking wouldn't stop, I got up, got my flashlight and told my daughter that I was going to go outside to check on the horses. I told her to stay inside and I'd be back in a few minutes. The days had been warm up there and my ex brother in law had cut the grass so clippings were all over the yard. When I walked outside, I immediately went round the corner to where the feed troughs and hay stations were and all the horses seemed to be ok but they were all huddled in a corner. I proceeded onto the back yard and saw the dog, Deacon sitting on the other side of the fence that adjoined our place . He was mostly white and I could see him well with my flashlight. He was sitting across the fence barking at the sky. I called to him several times and he ignored me and just kept barking. I crawled between the barbed wire fence collared the dog and he dropped to ground and started whimpering. I finally got him and me on the other side of the fence and he shot off. The sky was really clear that night and since we had very little light pollution I could see thousands of stars. I sat down on my ex brother in law's porch, lit a cigarette, sat back and did a little star gazing. I was attracted to a large patch of stars off to my right and while gazing at them the whole patch started to move. That's right, I said moved. From right to left right towards my house. I sat there trying to wrap my brain around this and then everything went dark. It wasn't long before I could make out an outline of a huge rectangular object over my house. Not only my house but all the space around it. It wan't the high up. About 50 feet at the most above the treetops. At first I was very frightened, in disbelief, just a whole range of emotions as I tried to process what I was seeing. Then these soft canned type white lights came on all underneath eh object and there was a low humming sound. A sound that you could literally feel in your teeth, your hair and under your skin. I remember then not feeling so much afraid as curious. In fact I remember being underneath this huge craft as though I walked underneath it but to be honest it was like things happened in little parcels. The soft lights went off, a huge light in what I assumed to be the front of the craft came on, it flashed left , right and center and the next thing I remembered was that the craft was moving off slowly toward the west and the Mississippi River.

The next thing I remembered was standing in my kitchen door and my daughter asking me over and over why I was out there so long and what happened? That was two hours later. To be honest I was in a fugue state of mind. I was just out of it, told her it was ok and went to bed. The next day I slept for the most part  and felt as if I'd been sedated.In fact when I first woke up, I thought maybe everything the night before may have been a dream except that there were grass clippings in the bed from off my feet when I went outside. What happened in those two hours? I have no clue, have never had any bad nightmares or flashbacks and have no intention of ever being regressed. I do feel that something profound happened to me. That's a given. Just to see something like that. But because of fear of ridicule, of frightening my child, the old you're crazy thing, I kept this to myself for nearly two decades and finally told my daughter after her asking over and over for years what happened that night.

I put this away for a few years and then started doing research of my own. I found out that a lot of people had seen things much like the one I'd seen. What was it? Where did it come from and what was it doing over my house and property? I've been searching ever since and like others that have had these strange encounters I want to know the truth. But I want to know the real truth and not the same tabloid junk that is all over the web just as it was in the paper tabloids that scared me off the subject in the first place.