Hi, my name is C.J. and I’m an experiencer. It was a year ago that I found a newspaper article from the 1970s that confirmed a UFO sighting I had as a child while walking home from school. Once I had real confirmation that what I had seen was real I wanted to know everything there is to know on the topic. I joined MUFON, became a MUFON Field Investigator and am now on the MUFON Experiencer Resource Team.
Along with my childhood UFO sighting I had a series of recurring nightmares involving a man wearing all black including a hat and cape, I had images in my mind at night of people in my bedroom trying to talk to me. I had recurring images of large eyes right in front of me looking back at me that wouldn’t go away, this bizarre image haunting me through childhood and youth. Those eyes would just suddenly be in front of me looking at me and I begin to feel that there was an intelligence behind the eyes and just started calling him “him.”
As an adult in the early 1990s I moved to Los Angeles and it was late at night around 3 in the morning, working the graveyard shift as a waitress at Jerry’s Famous Deli that a man came in, sat in my station, ordered a coffee, drank it and left. Not unusual in and of itself but this was no ordinary man. This man was average height and slim build, he had long stringy black hair and large eyes with no iris and no sclera that I could see. His eyes were completely black. I was instantly unsettled but I filled his coffee and dropped a check and tried not to look back at him. I live in Hollywood so I figured he was some weirdo with strange contact lenses I had never seen before. It wasn’t until later that I heard repeatedly the description of human looking aliens with slender builds, long stringy black hair and black eyes. I’ll never know who he was but many have told me that I was being visited and tested.
It was at around this time in my life that there was a series strange beeps that I would often hear while driving in my car, even on the crowded 405 during rush hour I would hear this series or combination beeps or tones, almost like a hearing test. I took that car apart looking for anything that could be the source of the beeps coming from the back of my car but I never found anything. I was constantly asking people researching why someone would hear tones and beeps with no source and found nothing.
The phenomenon has continued. There’s a bizarre circumstance of a strange cloud hovering over my home in an otherwise clear sky and recently I woke up in the middle of the night and my bedroom was full of a mist or fog of unknown origin.
I had a bizarre and vivid dream where I was visited by a man I once knew – I was actually suddenly in his kitchen and he was making me pancakes and speaking very animatedly. There was light all around us, we were bathed in light. Later I found out that not only had this man died but his home had been sold and the kitchen walls were completely gone when I drove by his home later. I guess that explains all the light in the kitchen.
Basically, I’m a life long experiencer. There are more stories to tell and I want to share them with you.
I am now a MUFON Field Investigator and a member of the MUFON Experiencer Resource Team. I know what it’s like to have so many unexplainable memories, to find confirmation for those events, and the shock and fear that comes when you realize it wasn’t all in your head. The world can seem like a strange and unsettling place when your reality shifts and you are awakened to a new reality. I want to help other people who have come to realize that this is not a manifestation of the mind, but a multidimensional enigma as real as you and me. We still don’t know the nature of the phenomenon and I can’t help but feel we don’t even have the vocabulary to describe it if we did figure it out, but at least we know it’s real at this point and we can move on from there. I am also proud to be on the Executive Board of the Hollywood Disclosure Alliance fighting against top secret government programs who are hiding the truth of our reality from us. I have learned so much about the UFO phenomenon through rigorous study and interviewing other experiencers and I want to continue to help other experiencers.
I have always enjoyed the therapeutic aspects of creating art so when James suggested that I paint my memories, feelings, images and ideas taken from my experiences, I was more than willing to do so. I was kind of surprised I hadn’t actually done it already. I started by doing simple art with my son and then art about images associated with my experiences and it really helped to ground my experiences. I can look at most of my UFO art and say “I saw this. This happened.” I also do UFO art that is just for fun. Not things I’ve experienced but maybe things I’ve read about or heard about. Some of these stories really get into my mind and stay with me and I love putting them in art also.