Before I get started with today’s blog, I wanted to remind everyone to get out and vote today. This is a non-political blog, so I won’t discuss candidates. I simply wanted to remind you to exercise your constitutional right by voting.
Now that the PSA (Public Service Announcement) is complete, let’s move on to the actual subject of today’s blog: Vanishing UAPs.
I went outdoors last night at about 6:10 PM. It was already dark. As I was about to walk to my car, I saw a flash of light in the southwest sky. It only flashed once before dimming and disappearing, but it caught my attention. I thought it was rather strange and I wondered if I was seeing things. I’ve had flashes of light in one of my eyes before when I suffered a partially detached retina in my left eye, but those flashes came from the side and I saw them only in my left eye. I saw this flash with both eyes before it disappeared.
A few moments later, in the exact same spot in the sky, I saw a bright light kind of in the shape of a triangle. It too dimmed and then disappeared from sight. I kept watching that area in the sky and the triangle appeared again, this time with a steady bright light slightly above it and to the right. Both objects again dimmed and then disappeared. They reappeared and disappeared several times in the minute or two I watched them and each time the light toward the bottom took on a different shape. At first it looked like a small triangle, then it became a larger arc. They didn’t seem to be moving, but rather appeared like they were hovering in the same spot. By this time I was getting excited. I knew these weren’t planes because they were hovering, but they didn’t appear to be helicopters either as they had different shapes and the shape of the larger one kept changing. I wondered if I was seeing UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena).
I quickly dashed into the house to retrieve my phone. My camera would take better photos, but it would take too long to set up. Besides, the cameras on the phones nowadays are pretty good. I hurried back outside to snap some photos, but the objects were gone. Dejected, I thought I had missed them. Needless to say, I was greatly disappointed. I decided to continue watching for a few minutes to see if they would return.
Sure enough, in a few short minutes they appeared again. This time the triangle or arc looked like a quarter moon. The bright light was once again slightly higher and to the right, but they both kept dimming and then brightening again. I was waiting for the best possible moment to snap some pictures, when all of a sudden, they dimmed and then disappeared again before I could get any photos.
I finally figured it out. This was actually the moon in its quarter stage and the planet Mars in the southwest sky. They were appearing, dimming and disappearing as clouds moved quickly in front of them. It was so dark, you couldn’t tell there were clouds. I felt so foolish. I was totally ready to snap some photos of the UAPs and send them to my family thinking I had made an amazing discovery, but they weren’t UAPs at all. Nature had duped me.
Initially, I was only seeing the tip of the quarter moon which looked like a triangle. Then it looked like a larger arc. When the full quarter moon was revealed, I figured out what I was actually seeing. I thought I was gathering proof of UAPs. The only proof I captured was that the moon, Mars and clouds exist. Nature can play games with your mind.
I thought of how these disappearing UAPs were kind of like symptoms of Myasthenia Gravis. They appear one minute, then dim and disappear altogether the next. It makes you wonder if you’re losing your mind. If you discussed your symptoms with anyone, including your doctor, when they weren’t appearing, it became hard for anyone to believe. You knew you were having the symptoms, but how could your doctor or anyone else believe you if they couldn’t see your symptoms for themselves?
I was actually seeing flashes of light in the sky. I didn’t imagine that. They just weren’t what I thought they were. You’re actually experiencing symptoms; you’re not just imagining them. It’s just difficult to convince someone else they were real without them having see them for themselves. That’s why it’s called the “Snowflake Disease”. If I told you I had seen UAPs without any proof to back it up, no one would believe me either.
I would have felt pretty silly if I had plastered my UAP photos on the internet and had someone debunk them as being just the moon and the planet Mars. They seemed so UAPish to me, at least for a while. I think I wanted to see UAPs, so that’s what my mind kept seeing, right up until the point when it became obvious.
Prior to my diagnosis of Myasthenia Gravis, I often kept my symptoms to myself for the very same reason. I didn’t want people to think I was crazy, or worse yet, lying to them about my symptoms. My family eventually saw my symptoms for themselves and so did my doctors. I just needed to be patient until my symptoms could actually be confirmed.
It took years of tests and being called “Suspect for Myasthenia Gravis” before my doctor finally made a confirmed diagnosis. Looking back, I’m glad my doctors didn’t rush into a diagnosis. By taking their time and waiting for better technology before making a confirmed diagnosis, they didn’t make the mistake I made about the UAPs I thought I was seeing. They didn’t jump to conclusions; they followed the facts.
The lesson in this is don’t get frustrated with your doctors if it takes them extended time to make a confirmed diagnosis. Myasthenia Gravis can be difficult to diagnose and it just means your doctors are doing their due diligence by not jumping to conclusions. At the same time, don’t dismiss your symptoms or be afraid to talk about them. They made aid your doctor in making a determination.
Vanishing UAPs, what am I, nuts?
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