I believe you saw something. I'm a huge skeptic on aliens and UFO citings, but I agree with your dad. It's mathematically impossible, given the circumstances, for us to be the only planet capable of hosting advanced life. And I believe you saw SOMETHING that was "otherworldly."
I think we get hung up on the thought of aliens and intelligent life forms as though they'll come visit us in some kind of vehicle, when in reality, if they are advanced enough to visit us at all, this far away, they've probably figured out some kind of transport of a more metaphysical nature.
I mean, hypothetically speaking, if people are seeing things, and those things are not anything we could identify, it doesn't necessarily make it other worldly. It could be a spiritual manifestation of someone or something, or an out of body thing, or some kind of experimental thing.
It doesn't necessarily have to be a visitor from another galaxy for it to be supernatural, does it?
But the fact that it's fairly difficult for you to read all the other stories, and that it's chilling for you to write about is indication that something truly phenomenal and inexplicable happened to you. Which is kinda cool, and scary at the same time.
hi! thanks for your comment, I definitely don't think of myself as a spiritual person...that's probably why I identify what I saw as a UFO rather than something else. But who knows, before 7 years ago I never thought I'd ever see something like that. I actually had some regrets a couple days ago about writing this at all because I have to keep going back to the comments, and while I do usually think about the encounter when I see something related to UFOs, its definitely come back to the top of my mind now.
Why the regret? Have you had negative feedback or something?
Oh, no its not about negative comments or anything, everyone ive talked to on Steemit is super nice! I just find myself thinking about the encounter more now than I did in the last couple years. I would think about it once in a while when I would see or hear anything about aliens. But now I find myself thinking about it all this week since I wrote the post as much as I did when I originally saw it all those years ago. Its tough to explain, lol.
Probably a little traumatized. I can see how that would bring all that back up. Then again, your soul is ready for the discussion now. And more important than what it was is how overwhelmed and vulnerable it made you feel. Maybe you could write another post about that!