Appearance / Description of Object(s)

round with three lights on the bottom, the center light seemed to be the light we were taken back down to the ground with. It was dark and I was young but it seems it was metallic and had small slots or windows around the edge.

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

directly across the road in a corn field.

Description of Area / Surroundings

rural area. Small farm town. Two-lane highway passed by our house with corn feilds around us.

Full Description & Details

I was about 8 or 9 and lived in a smaill town in Iowa. I awoke to this high pitch sound that was driving me crazy. I yelled for my Dad and he cam upstairs to see what I was so upset about. No one else in the house could hear it. We lay across my bed looking out the window at these strange lights moving back and forth across the corn field. Suddenly these lights lifted into the air and disappeared. Dad said he didn't know what it was and instructed me to go back to sleep. A few hours later I was waken by lights shining into my room. This wasn't too unusual as my brothers had to pass through my room to go down stairs when ever they use the restroom. I remeber yelling at them to turn off the light several times. I also remember hearing small feet walking up the stairs.

This is where things get strange. I continues to complain about the light and kept asking who I thought was my brothers to turn it off. A voice answered "we can't turn it off" I turned from facing the wall to these thin creatures standing around my bed. I was so scared that I wet the bed. This seemed to disturb them and they asked why I did that.

I can remeber several of them walking between my brothers room and my room and in a room we refered to as the "Junk room." I had a jar filled with cattails and they were interested in that. They were interested in a mirror hanging next to my bulliten board and the things on the bulletin board.

My next memory is one of my brothers and I are in this place that I do not recognize and it appears that we are on an examination table of some sort. I'm not sure where my brother was taken. The only reason I know he is there is because I can hear him screaming bloody murder. I begin to cry and want to go to him but am not allowed. These creatures ask me why I am crying and I tell them I am worroed about my brother and that I didn't want them to take his brain. They though this was funny and told me they were not taking his brain. It seems that the "Dr.'s" are different from the thin creatures. They are shorter and meaner. They had assigned one of the thin ones as a type of guardian and it was allowing me to touch it and look into its eyes. I was very interested in its eyes. The shorter ones would not let me touch it and became quit angry when I tried.

From here I can remember running across the back yard behind my brother asking him over and over what was going on. He was just inteested in getting into the house and did not want to take the time to answer my questions. We were both petrified.

The next morning I was the first to get up. I walked down stairs fully expecting to see mom in her usual place in the kitchen, but she wasn't there. The back doors stood open which I found to be strange. At first I thought maybe she had started laundry early and was hanging clothes on the line, but when I looked outside she wasn't there. I went back into the house and quietly walked to my parens room. Mom was still sleeping, this was unusal. My mother was always up at the crack of dawn. I became frightened and ran back upstairs to my room and coward under the covers.

Eventually everyone got up and as we were eating our breakfast my brother suddenly for no reason got a bloody nose. It was very bad and mom rush him into the bathroom to take care of it but it wouldn't stop bleeding. as she is cleaning him up a small piece of metal falls from his nose. We were put on trial from mom and dad because they thought one of us had put something up his nose.

Too this day if I were to ask my brother what happen in Rippey he gets very upset and says he doesn't want to talk about it. If I ask him if I am right to think that something happened there he gets even more upset and tells me that I know it did so quit pestering him about it.

I'm still not sure. Sometimes I get extremely angry about the thought of someone coming into our home and removing my brother and I and doing things to us that made him scream in pain. I do not remember too many details about the entire experience. It has taken me my entire life to remember what I have.

I have a wierd scare on the inside of my leg that neither parent could explain. I have a small lump on the inside of my left foot that neither parent could ever explain. And I have had so many problems with my reproductive system. I had surgey in 2004 and the doctor found my fallopian tubes completely bent backwards and twisited. I don't know if any of this has anything to do with the night but it leaves me to wonder.

Witness Background

I am now in my mid-forties and spent time in the Army. I am currently a socialwork/Theology major and planning on attending seminary once I am done.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I was only a child when this sighting occured. Since that time I have become almost obsessive about learning as much as I can about others that may have had the same experieince.

Other Comments

It wasn't until I was in my early twenties that I started remebering bits and pieces of that night. I was shopping and The book Communion had just been released. As I wlked past the book stand I saw this picture on the cover identical to pictures my brother would draw when we were younger. It literally stopped me in my tracks. I bought the book.

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