UFO. New Zealand

Date: Saturday 3 January 2009

Time: 10.25 pm

Location: Masterton, Wairarapa, North Island

Features/characteristics: multiple witnesses, close encounter, physical effects on witness

Description:

Duration of event approximately 5 minutes.

A retired school teacher and keen astronomer, was outside when she observed an orange/yellow/red sphere of light descending from the sky at phenomenal speed. The object was followed by a “fire trail”. Around 100 m from her backyard shed, the light “stopped dead in its tracks” above a eucalyptus tree in an adjoining paddock. The witness stated that the light was shimmering brightly, with light coming off it like sunlight reflecting off chrome. The object then began to spin in circular movements, before becoming stationary again. It then began spiraling towards the witness and hovered about 5 feet above the ground near the base of the trees, approximately 40-50 walking paces from the witness.

At this point the witness was “blinded” by the intensely bright light. She found that she could not move at all and was “paralysed and transfixed to the ground”. She felt entranced and could not even contemplate running away from the object.

After a short time, the light/object moved back up to tree-top level and “shot off at phenomenal speed.” The witness felt as if the light/object had ‘held’ her while it ‘checked her out’, before releasing her from its hold and departing. She was unable to reliably ascertain the size of the light/object due to its extreme brightness. She spent the next ten minutes checking the night sky before going inside.

When she awoke on Sunday morning the witness was plagued with several unusual and hitherto unknown ailments, which she attributes to the encounter.
“I had strange pains I’d never had before. I couldn’t get up and I was all stiff around the middle of my body. I felt as if I was seizing up and I had a very dry throat.”

The witness also reported abnormal pains in her head “like it had been held in a vice” and “a thin pain like a pencil line round my forehead.” She also felt of phantom loss of feeling between her knees and ankles, which gave her the curious effect of “walking on air” and experienced a “crackling around my head like the ‘dawn chorus’ (like many birds chirping in the early morning) – even though I don’t get tinnitus”.

The witness reported the incident to police but said she was met with skepticism by the duty officer.

The light/object was also sighted by a number of other witnesses. A close neighbor who lives directly opposite and has a full view of the eucalyptus tree, said she also saw a “big bright round light” at the same time/date and for the same duration. She said the spherical object “wasn’t a plane, a helicopter, or a weather balloon – it was silent.”

The light/object was also witnessed by residents of nearby Gladstone earlier in the evening, who saw it flying low and silently overhead at an estimated 100 feet above the ground.

Ufocus NZ comment: Continuing effects:

The area of bushes and undergrowth below where the light/object hovered is burnt and dying.

21 days after the experience, the witness was still experiencing noises she describes as being like “radio static and cicadas around my head – but not actually in my ears – but rather like two inches from my head – like surround sound!”

The witness has had never-before-experienced problems with speaking and writing – especially pronouncing complex or long words.

She has bouts of ‘grogginess’ and fatigue.