Evelyn's Close Encounter Story
About the landing: It's the northernmost edge of a long city
park. At the time of landing, the stars no longer shine, nor are the clouds lit
by bright city lights as they were an hour earlier. In the sky, the very pale
night sky, about 2:00 High, a pale white moon is hanging low a good distance
from the treetops. Those trees on the (your) left side, are a cluster of
magnolias say very dark and lushly grown. There is a barely discernable
sidewalk slicing down, like a small hour hand pointed to 8:00. Closer to the
viewer is an ordinary concrete park bench with wooden "horizontal"
slats of wood. We were both standing
once the saucer appeared on the grass, not half a block down the park the
cluster of big magnolias are clustered and only the right side of it was clear
of overhead branches. I was 17 and my sister was 23. She could stand an inch
taller -- maybe wearing wedgies ("platform" shoes). I'd pointed the
saucer out to her in the sky, watched the dark round circle descending overhead
while she had gone ahead to sit on the bench. It was such a nice evening, she
thought, we could wait outside the apartment building for our parents to come
home from a late even shopping. I'd seen
it coming lower, but when I got to where she was sitting, I was aghast to see
it already touched down, tucked under the trees. I figure either they'd shot me
with a ray cause there seems a missing time which could have been more than a
minute long...or either, I might have been able to watch the whole thing but
had enough of my memory erased that the touch-down simply was erased from my
brain. I may never know. This is the sister who died last November...The two
girls will be maybe 1/2 a head top distance between their heights. The younger
could be profile. Might show the eldest mostly full-face, eyes wide! They both
have long dark hair -- that should help show they are (in fact, highly resembling)
sisters. The taller sister could have her arm in front of the younger, in a
guarding pose. A leg should be stepping backward. The saucer is over a double
roads width from the bench, mostly tucked under the shadow of tree branches,
tightly. You can see the green vaguely on the upper contours of the trees. The
moon light is so bright... The saucer's dome is visible but not lit...I don't
know offhand how to make that show well, but you are an artist, too, the point
is, the moonlight was so bright, it was nearly light as day, you could think
the green grass was lightly blanketed with ice or snow. Farthest left, there
are two separate brick buildings with concrete archway entrances on either side
of an alley (but parking spaces shouldn't be available to eyesight from this
distance). The saucer is tri-legged, not too high; the vehicle's belly isn't
flat on the round should be obvious There are similar trees on the far right
side, looking smaller to indicate the wide grassy spread from the magnolia
cluster . The saucer was opening on the
side under the trees. The whole thing was little more than half way into the
cover of tree branches. It didn't gleam or glow but did look like aluminum and
maybe the length of a school bus I will be interested in seeing this. Oh, we
wore straight dark skirts a ways below the knees back then, and light
short-sleeved sweaters that just pull down a few inches beneath, the natural
clinch of the waist -- we also often wore corsets to pull the waist in, back
then. Early 1950's fashion (Neither had big boobs).