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POSSIBLE ABDUCTION CASE
Case Study #6
Name: Sharon Courtney (Used With Permission)
Location: Fountain, Colorado
Maritial Status: Married, Housewife, Mother
Mrs. Courtney contacted me after a friend told her about the SOAAR website. Sharon is originally from Mexico. I asked if she was aware that Mexico is a hotbed for UFO sightings and she replied that she did know that and that her father has seen UFOs there.( Sharon Phelps from SOAAR is going to check into her fathers sightings) Sharon wanted to relay an incident that happened to her back in November of 2002. After talking to Sharon I think that she could be an abductee. I would like to find more incidents to make the case more concrete. Sharon has given me permission to use her name, picture and drawing for this report. She said that she would like to come to Ohio for a regression.
Sharon told me that she and her husband had a home in Monterey, California in 2002. They would travel from Los Angles to their home every week. This was a routine trip and they always left Los Angles around 8 PM every time. The trip was an all night journey. They would always arrive in Monterey at 12 noon the next day. The trip is around 325 miles. Note: (the journey should not take this long so I'm confused about the time frame). Basically Sharon said that in November of 2002 they arrived a few hours early in Monterey. She saw a light in the road that looked like a train light but even though she was driving very fast the light stayed the same distance in front of her which was about 2 car lengths. Her husband was asleep at the time. This went on for several minutes and then the light disappeared and she said that she drove into a fog. She had to slow down during the rest of the journey because of the fog. When they arrived at their home in Monterey Sharon states that it was a few hours too early for them to arrive there.
I asked Sharon if she had had any other strange experiences and she told me that when she was around 13, living in Mexico she had become very frightened while in the living room with her parents. She had wanted to go to the kitchen to get a glass of water but asked her mother to go with her. She did not know why she was so scared to go. Her father told her she was being silly and to go on in the kitchen. When she went into the kitchen she states that she saw a blonde woman very tall standing by the refrigerator. The woman was as tall as the refrigerator. She had some type of net over her hair and was wearing red shorts and red top that was made together. Sharon was very frightened because she said this woman was the first Caucasian she had ever met. The woman's said to her mentally that she had been waiting for Sharon. Sharon ran back into the living and told her parents that there was some lady in the kitchen. Her parents went into the kitchen to check but the woman was gone. ( What Sharon described to me sounded like a Nordic) Sharon sent me a picture that was taken recently in Colorado Springs by her husband. The photo shows a round white ball of light behind her as she stands on a rock. Sharon said it was not the sun or moon and the photo was taken around 4 PM. It was very cloudy that day. She does not know what it was. She had her camera lens cleaned later thinking something got on the lens. However it does not look like dirt to me. Sean Feeney, UFO researcher and member of MUFON has analyzed the photo and said that he does not believe it to be the sun or moon or any type of flying craft. He does not know what it could be. So I have listed this photo as an UNKNOWN.
Donnie Blessing
Southern Ohio Section Director MUFON
Director SOAAR
Sean,
The lady who sent me this pictures says nothing was in the sky behind her a few seconds before the picture was taken. She says it was 4 PM and cloudy. She says she never saw the moon or sun. She also told me that she took her camera to a shop to be cleaned afterwards just to make sure that it wasn't debris on the lens. The photo was taken in Colorado Springs, Colorado. What do you think it is?
Unknown spot found on photo:
Donnie,
It's not an astronomical object. It appears more like a reflection of light from an earthly source, but from the pictures I can't ascertain what that source could be. There's nothing inherently reflective contained in the pictures unless there was some crystalline structures in the rock. It doesn't appear to be an airplane or other man-made flying object because of the roundness of the object. The camera was also focused to infinity (the clouds appear detailed), so that rules out a flying object anywhere between the subject and the clouds in the background being out of focus.
Enlarged Image of the Anomaly
108% Embossed (At -135 Degrees, 10px Height) Version
Edges Only Version
Edges Only Version With Enhanced Glow
Solarized Version
Upper Contour Traced Version
For comparison, I've also included two images of flares and two images of supposed "orbs," one that I photographed using a 35mm at the E-town cemetery and one that SPIRIT photographed at another cemetery in KY. The object does not appear to resemble any of these except for the flares, but your photographer saw nothing when taking the photograph, which would lend more towards a reflection or refraction of some sort.
Close-Flying Flares
Spread-Out Flares
E-Town Cemetary Orb
KY Cemetary Orb
I also considered the "discs" that the STS-75 (NASA) film showed when analyzing the photo. If you look in the bottom left of the edge versions, you can see a slight curvature inward similar to the "cut out" of the anomaly on the STS-75 video, though less defined. However, the STS-75 anomaly is more similar to many images of "ghost orbs" than it is to the anomaly in this photograph due to the hole in the center of the object. Orbs like that have well defined features whereas this photo shows a smooth, solid anomaly. Here's a well defined orb photograph side-by-side with the STS-75 anomaly and this anomaly for comparison.
Defined Orb |
STS-75 Orb |
Enlarged Image of the Anomaly |