One summer morning in 1969, a ten-year-old girl named Janet was bicycling with four of her friends along the side streets near her home in Tarzana, California. Little did she know, her life was about to change forever. Looking up, she noticed an odd-looking, gray, saucer-shaped craft hovering over a grove of trees at the top of a long steep driveway. She called out to her friends and all watched the object with excitement. None of them had really heard of UFOs, but raced up to the top of the driveway to get a closer look. By the time they got to the top, it was gone. Seeing the steep driveway, they enjoyed a quick pedal-free ride down. It was so much fun, they spent the next hour pushing their bikes up the driveway and racing down. Tired, they decided to return home to rest and eat some snacks. Janet, however, decided she would push her bike back up one more time so she could race down the driveway, speed past her friends and beat them home. It was to be a fateful decision.

Reaching the top of the driveway, Janet noticed a boy on a bike emerging from the grove of trees. He wore a red shirt and blue jeans, and seemed to be having trouble riding his bicycle. As he approached, Janet was shocked to see that the boy did not look normal. He had an oversized bald head, large dark wrap-around eyes, a tiny nose and mouth, really long hands and feet, and only four fingers on each hand. The boy drove right up to her and stopped. Janet could hardly believe her eyes. Something was very wrong. She wondered, could the boy be handicapped or deformed? Then he reached out and touched her shoulder, and speaking telepathically, said, “Don’t be afraid.” Janet found herself paralyzed. Fear overwhelmed her as she realized that this boy could not be human. Unable to move, she felt his eyes penetrating into her mind.

Suddenly, the boy was gone and Janet found herself alone. Terrified, she raced home as fast as she could to warn the other kids about the “monster boy.” To her shock, she found her friends already at home sitting on the couch and watching TV. Still very afraid, she tried to tell them and warn them about the monster boy she had seen. They didn’t believe her and asked her where she had been for the last two hours. Janet was puzzled. She thought no more than five minutes had passed. She raced to tell the adults, and they accused her of making up stories. Janet was devastated and frightened. At the time, she had never heard of UFOs and aliens. She thought that some sort of monster was loose in the neighborhood. But nobody believed her.

Janet kept the experience to herself. But she began to wonder about some other odd incidents that had occurred around this time. One year earlier, she had been playing outside with her friend when she saw a strange shadowy black figure watching them. She ran to tell her friend’s mother, and was accused of having a vivid imagination. One evening around that time, her bedroom (which faced the back of the house) filled up with an eerie blue light. She got up to investigate, and that’s all she remembered. Unable to explain these events, and frightened by them, she decided to just forget about the and go on with her life.

A few years later, Janet’s parents moved to a new house in Woodland Hills, California. To their shock, the house was badly haunted. Everyone one in the family began to experience activity: doors opening and closing, lights going on and off, phantom footsteps, objects moving or disappearing, apparitions, cold spots and more. After a few years of this, they contacted parapsychologist, Thelma Moss, who came over to investigate. She told them they had a poltergeist and that Janet was the cause of the activity. Once again, Janet found herself the odd one out.

Years passed, and Janet met a man, fell in love, got married and moved out of the house. She was glad to be on her own and away from the haunted house. But one year later, Janet was by the pool with her husband and friends when she suddenly felt breathless and faint. She was rushed to the hospital and diagnosed with a cerebral aneurysm. Janet, her family and the doctors were shocked. During this time, Janet had an apparent near-death experience. Thankfully, she quickly began to recover. She was sent home. Shortly later, she was visited by a mysterious man who nurtured her back to full health. Later, going back for more tests, doctors were utterly baffled to discover that they could find no trace of her illness. They told her that this had never happened before, and that they did not know how to explain it.

In 1985, Janet and her husband were driving home from a friend’s house in a remote desert area in Canyon Country, California. Without warning, the car engine died. Janet’s husband went to go get help, leaving Janet alone in the car with her sister’s two infant children. Janet became unaccountably overcome with fear that someone or something was coming to get her. The next thing she knew, it was hours later and they were on the freeway heading home. It took her awhile to realize that she had experienced missing time.

Shortly later, she discovered she was pregnant. She gave birth to a healthy baby girl. Unfortunately, her marriage didn’t work out. She got a divorce and moved back home with her mother, who had been diagnosed with dementia and heart disease and was failing rapidly. Caring for her infant daughter and her ill mother overwhelmed Janet. It was then she had an amazing face-to-face encounter with an angelic being.

Still, high strangeness plagued her. A weird object in her cheek started bothering her. She developed chemical sensitivity and other problems. She heard weird beeping tones in her head. Then, one night in 2005 she was driving through the deserts near Victorville, California when a UFO swooped down over her car, scaring the daylights out of her. She arrived home and was hocked to find it was hours earlier than it should be. The had other instances of “added time,” but had dismissed them. This time, it was undeniable.

The encounter proved to be a wake-up call. Shortly later, she was watching TV and was shocked to see images of gray aliens on the television. Her mind flashed back to age ten when she had a face-to-face encounter with “the monster boy.” It wasn’t a boy at all, she realized. It was a gray alien!

Janet decided to take action. She went to an oral surgeon and had strange object in her cheek removed. Both she and her surgeon were baffled to find it was a metallic “foreign body” of some kind. Then Janet found a hypnotherapist and had hypnotic regression. She was taken back to age ten when she saw the “monster boy.” This time she recalled being taken to cloudy white place where she saw two other gray ETs. They had a message for her which she still has not been able to remember.

Moving to Texas in 2016, she had two onboard UFO encounters in a row. In one she sat in chair in a white room as three or four grays looked down her throat. Shortly later, she had another onboard encounter where she sat in the same chair and was approached by a gray with a strange medical instrument. Following this, her medical problems began to clear up, and she also experienced direct telepathic communications with the grays, who helped guide her and answered various questions.

Today, Janet has come to accept the fact that she is a UFO contactee. She reports many more psychic events including OBEs, premonitions, mediumship ability and more. She had her ancestry done and learned some shocking things about her genetic history. Overall she feels her experiences have been positive. And she hopes that one day she gets to meet the gray alien boy again.

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