Randy Bell’s experiences and frequent UFO sightings started with a close encounter in 2007, but why did they continue in just the way they have? There are thousands and thousands of close encounter witnesses, but very few who are able to photograph UFOs on a regular basis. Randy reveals what makes him different from most of us, and also opens up about a childhood experience that will be eerily familiar to many close encounter witnesses, especially those of us who had ‘secret school’ contact as children. Randy’s story is strange and powerful…and yet also one that so many of us share in both broad strokes and details.
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I have not added a journal entry in months. The reason is that I have been at a loss about what to say. But I’m going to try, at least to put down a few paragraphs about what’s been happening to me. Outwardly, I’ve been living my life, writing, working on this website, interacting with friends, all the usual things.

Inwardly, though, something has changed and is still changing. My difficulty is that it’s so very hard to put into words. Also, as time goes on, I get more and more reticent. I don’t think I’m becoming a hermit, but it’s a struggle not to do what I have seen so many close encounter witnesses do, which is to turn entirely toward their experience and close the door on the outside world.
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In December of 2007, I had a brief sighting of a UFO outside our bedroom window. It was at low altitude and moving with stately ease into rushing storm clouds. The object was brightly lit, at low altitude, and disappeared into the clouds before I could get a picture. This sighting was accompanied by the most complicated close encounter experience I’ve ever had, which seemed to be in some way a response to my novel 2012, which was about parallel universes.
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