Shortly after checking my vitals, the nurse left. While lying in the bed alone, I suddenly became disappointed, very disappointed and sad. I do not know why, as I was happy to look forward to leaving the hospital and going home, but I felt sincerely disappointed that I could not go back to the large round room with the aliens. I felt and still do feel an attachment to them. And for some strange reason I feel I am related to these strange beings. I saw a part of my life I never knew existed until that moment. Yet as brief as that moment was, it was as real as me as sitting her in front of this computer.

I was in this recovery room for some length of time and my wife was brought in. I don't know how long I was there before I was let go, but at some point the staff wheeled me out to the front of the hospital in a wheel chair. My wife was out front in the car waiting for me, and we then went home. I do not remember what the nurse looked like, only that she was female. I have no idea what the room looked like, how big it was, or how many people were in the recovery room. If I was to go back to the same room I would not recognize the room, or remember being there.

Everyone dreams, me no exception, and I have had many strange, weird and unusual dreams, many in Technicolor, and many so real they sometimes wake me up. But never in my life have I been able to put details to my dreams. My dreams, like most peoples, are vague and fuzzy and I can never remember them. Perhaps on a rare occasion I might think of one small part, but certainly no details of any kind. Yet, this image I witnessed was so real and detailed and I could not understand where this scene came from or why I was shown it.

I had this tumor in my neck for many years. This fatty tissue tumor as it was called is not malignant, it did not hurt, and it really could not be seen. It was slightly smaller than a ping pong ball, but my doctor at Kaiser Permanente said he believed it was getting larger. He referred me to a Head and Neck surgeon, who wanted to get a biopsy of the tumor. The biopsy showed the tumor was benign, and nothing to worry about but the surgeon said it should be removed, so I agreed and the date of December 21, 2007 was scheduled and it was removed with no problems.

That day turned out to be the turning point in my life. At that time I did not realize such a day could and would suddenly arrive after 60 years. December 21, 2007 was the day I became aware. It was a day that changed my life forever, and whether the change was good or bad still remains to be seen.

Moving ahead ten days later to December 31, 2007, its New Years Eve, finally 2008 is arriving, and what will this year bring, I wondered to myself. My employer let us off work early that afternoon, so I came home and my wife and I had discussed going out somewhere to celebrate the New Year, but finally ended up going to a Mexican restaurant for dinner.

After an uneventful dinner, we arrived home about 7:00pm, and decided to watch a movie from our DVD collection. I don't remember what the movie was, but it's irrelevant anyway. The movie ended shortly before 10pm, and after taking care of the bathroom duties, we both felt very tired and turned off the lights. The time was now 10:05pm, and one of the biggest abduction events of my life, our life, was only minutes away. We lay in bed for about five minutes and wished each other a Happy New Year, as 2008 was less than two hours away. We have not stayed up to see the New Year in many years, as sleep has become more important than seeing a new year arrive. In fact staying up to 10:00 pm is an event by itself, as this is very uncommon for us to stay up this late anymore. Since the next day was a Federal Holiday we could sleep in beyond our usual 4:30am alarm time.

At 10:10pm the lights went out, and as I lay in bed looking forward to good night's sleep something I had never seen before happened, and it totally blew my mind. A very bright white flash of light suddenly filled the bedroom. The light was much brighter than a clear day with all the windows open and all of the lights on. This bright flash of light was so bright, no manmade lighting could possibly duplicate this brightness in any room in any house ever built or ever will be built.

This was my first experience with such a bright flash of light, but one I would later learn and be very familiar with. Without thinking I immediately yelled out; "What the Hell Was That"

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