Clarklake, Michigan (8-11-2007)
From The Black Vault Encyclopedia Project
Witness Testimony
At about 1:45 pm EST the power flickered in my Clarklake, MI (Jackson County) home. After a moment of thinking what possibly could've made my power momentary interruption, I instinctively, without prior thought, grabbed my camera and went outdoors to photograph the daturas in my garden. I am a semi-professional designer and amateur photographer and have been recently posting photos in a Flickr.com account.
As I began to set up my SLR-type Sony Cybershot DSC-H5, I saw a flash in the NW skies, toward Jackson, MI (it is now about five minutes after the power flicker). I set the camera to auto and 'burst' two series of five photographs. Immediately I viewed them through the camera's 3-inch lighted view screen and saw one image with a definite black dot in front of a small cloud. At that point I went indoors and downloaded the images onto my computer and found that there were at least two objects, one definitely metallic and disc-shaped, flitting about the skies.
I seem to have been missing about an hour's time while outdoors between the power interruption and photos.
I thought that the photos were taken around 2 pm. I recall that when the power was interrupted, I looked at the battery-operated clock on the bathroom wall it was about 1:45 pm or so. I went outdoor right afterward and began to photograph my garden's flowers. I don't feel that I was out more than ten or fifteen minutes. When I looked at the computer clock and saw that it was well past three. I became very confused and slightly agitated. I looked at the digital photos and they were all stamped with times after 3 pm.
There is no way that I was outdoors for an hour or so... The 'segueway' was seamless...I do not recall the 'jump cut'...like when a movie is edited back together after snapping. You're in one place or whatever and suddenly you're somewhere else or doing something or you're just standing or sitting and completely confused. I don't recall any of that happening.
Maybe the flashes of light I saw in the sky were some sort of indication of the 'experience' being underway or ending?
Wow...
-- Anonymous Witness
Credits
Special thanks to MUFON and UFO Casebook
