Experiencer accounts / first person
Testimony
Sincere, unedited accounts from people who were taken, probed, impregnated, enslaved or simply looked at funny by something that was not a plane.
13 files
Gary wrote back: a forensic analysis of the single letter 'k'
On Valentine's Day 2023, after thirty-two years, Cheryl Mangan received a text message from an unknown number. It said 'k'. She presents her full analysis, the response of the Tuesday group, and her reply. — Cheryl Mangan
A letter from Jaxon: I am not a hybrid, I am just tall
Cheryl Mangan's son writes to the Collective from Brisbane with a polite request, a correction of the record, and one admission he immediately regrets. Published in full, with the photograph he asked us to remove. — Jaxon Mangan
I was taken out of the show ring mid-judging and I still got the ribbon
Tyler B., 16, of Wandoona State School, was leading his steer in the Led Steer class at the 2019 Wandoona Show when he was removed from the ring by a craft and returned forty minutes later. The steer placed second. Tyler has thoughts about that. — Tyler B., 16, Wandoona State School
It was cold and nobody asked: a first-timer's account from the bench next to Cheryl
Dennis P. of Charleville was taken once, in 2019, and has not stopped talking about it. He describes the procedure, the lack of introductions, and the formal complaint he has lodged with the craft. — Dennis P., Charleville
I have been taken forty-seven times and I'd like to speak to a manager
Cheryl Mangan, the Collective's Abductee Liaison Officer, on three decades of repeat visitation, the gradual decline in standards aboard the craft, and what Gary owes her. — Cheryl Mangan
I was the weather balloon: a retired Bureau man comes clean
A former employee of 'the Bureau' describes thirty-one years of launching the balloons that were later used to explain away every sighting from Westall to Wandoona. He has one question about what was in them. Received by post. Published in full. — Former Bureau employee (retired)
I was impregnated by a light in 1989 and my daughter is now a dental hygienist
An anonymous contributor from Toowoomba describes a visitation in the winter of 1989, a pregnancy that followed, and a daughter who has grown up to be, in her mother's words, very good with her hands. Draw your own conclusions. — Anonymous, Toowoomba
I attended the Wandoona Shire council meeting and the mayor blinked sideways
A Concerned Ratepayer reports from the public gallery on the ordinary meeting of 19 November 2013, in which the item on bin collection was followed by an event the ratepayer considers more significant than the item on bin collection. — Concerned Ratepayer
They took me from my own kitchen and they criticised it on the way out
Maureen K. of Dulacca Street, Wandoona, long-suffering neighbour of Cheryl Mangan, on the night she finally got her own visitation, what the beings did with the rangehood, and the renovation that followed. — Maureen K., Wandoona
Eleven days as a slave aboard a craft: the roster, the rocks, the data entry
Graeme T. of Longreach was taken in March 2008 and put to work. He describes the shifts, the supervisor, the sorting of rocks 'by vibe', and the written reference he was given on return, which he has since used. — Graeme T., Longreach
Eleven hours and a ute: my own missing time, in full
The webmaster's personal account of the night of 12 May 2006, when he lost eleven hours, woke face down in the Top Paddock, and was reunited with his vehicle some distance away under circumstances the Collective considers highly significant. — Warren Doolan
It followed me to Ceduna and waited while I had a pie
The truck driver known only as Macca gives his own account of the black triangle that sat over the Eyre Highway for forty minutes in January 2001, and then, according to Macca, kept him company for another three hundred kilometres. — Macca
The Min Min lights paced our ute for eleven kilometres, and one of them nodded
Cheryl Mangan's account of the night of 30 September 1998 on the Boulia–Winton road, when two amber orbs kept station off the tailgate, stopped when the ute stopped, and acknowledged a wave. — Cheryl Mangan