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hundred metres of road that we’d apparently covered in under a second,
with no memory of having done so. That was impossible.
Another unexplainable thing was that when I say the light
‘disappeared’, it wasn’t like someone turned it off, it was as if someone
turned me off. After a bright light has been shone into your eyes at night
and then turned off, you can’t see for several minutes afterwards. You just
see red and orange, or whatever, in front of your eyes. But I could see
perfectly after the light had gone: there were no after-effects, no period of
readjustment. My eyes seemed to have been instantaneously dark-adjusted
once again.
It takes over twenty minutes for the human eye to become readjusted
to darkness again. No exceptions. Where was I when that happened?
Without knowing anything about the ‘missing time’ phenomenon
associated with UFO encounters at the time, I still believed that I had lost
something, somewhere. Yet, superficially, things appeared normal.
Something had happened, and yet nothing had happened. Someone who
wasn’t paying much attention would have missed the jump, and even
someone who was paying attention might have observed these oddities
and dismissed them. Drivers have been known to doze off and be unable to
recall whole sections of road that they’ve driven over — this doesn’t mean
that anything particularly strange has been going on.
Only I wasn’t driving: Andrew was.
I repeated my question because I hadn’t got an answer. ‘Weren’t we
going to see a UFO, Andrew?’
‘I think so.’
We were both sluggish, confused and disoriented. Yet only a second
or so before he was as animated as I was, concentrating intensely on the
light ahead. I looked at Andrew and he seemed somewhat dazed and
distant. He was still driving slowly.
‘Then what happened to it?’ I asked.
‘We must have turned a corner or something.’ That was the best he
could come up with.
I just stared at him. ‘I feel as if I’ve had a blackout.’ This was the best
I could come up with, but it didn’t begin to describe how strange the
feeling was. ‘If we just turned a corner, how come I didn’t see it? This is
really weird. I feel like I’ve been unconscious.’