Manitoba, Canada - 2002

June of 2002 found me heading back to my hometown in Manitoba after being away for 14 years, except to visit. I had close friends that never left there and so I found it time to go back to be with them.

The summer was full of catch up and seeing old faces, laughing and enjoying all my friend's company. One of my best friends was hanging out at a lake that was not far from my MIBs encounter and I started to go out there fairly frequently. That is where my encounters began again.

It was August of 2002. The entire summer had been a hot one, and August wasn't any different. Disregarding the heat, two friends and I decided to go out onto the lake and do some fishing on the boat.

We had being trolling on the west side of the lake when we decided to pull up our lines and head across to the east side to a point that jutted out, it was directly south of the campsite.

We were having a good time, all three of us talking and laughing. My two friends inside the boat as I was standing on the front nose of the boat. We had shut down the engine and were just casting out as we let the wind drift us along.

After a few minutes, I was still casting out when suddenly there was a strong gust of air. Knowing it was mostly sunny I thought that there was a cloud that may have caused the wind. I reeled in and then looked up.

I was very shocked and surprised about what I saw above me. There in the sky approximately 250 to 400 feet in the air was a silver disc craft. My mind started to try to make sense of what I was looking at.

I went through all that I could think of: the moon, a balloon, a reflection of some sort, and so on. None of what I could think of was what I was looking at above me.

It was then that I yelled to my two friends, looking at them and then back up at the craft. I stood there my mouth wide open and not believing my eyes. I looked back at my friends and I yelled again, "Look up there, there is a silver disc!"

I don't even know if they heard me as they seemed to be almost intoxicated or drugged as they fell all around the boat. I yelled again at them and they seemed incoherent to what I was saying.

The strangest thing about them falling about the boat was that it appeared to me to be happening in slow motion. They were falling slower and moving slower than what was normal.

I looked back up at the craft. I was feeling very strange from what I think was the energy of the craft. I stood there watching and forgetting about my friends, and focusing on the silver disc right above us.

I watched it for a short while longer as it sat there. There were no markings, no sounds, and no lights to it. It did not make any sense to me - ALL of it seemed so out of this world.

The craft then started to move slowly for two to three seconds and then in an instant shot off straight up and disappeared into the blue sky. The speed was very fast. It could travel many miles in one tenth of a second.

I stood there for a few seconds, still in shock, and still trying to grasp what had just happened. I looked at my friends who seemed to be coming out of a different state, and they looked almost confused. I tried to talk to them about what had happened, but they either do not know or they refused to speak of it. It was a quiet ride back to shore.

The encounter was now over but the effects were still there for me. For the next month I fell ill and lost appetite. I began to lose hair as never before, and my teeth started to loosen. I was feeling very ill.

The effects I was enduring was what I thought to be a type of radiation sickness, and I very quickly realized that, being directly under the craft had caused the effects.

I was sure I was going to die, and felt that I could not go to a doctor and tell him as I would be seen as crazy. So, quietly I sat with my secret and said nothing to anyone, enduring the pain, agony and fear of what was happening.

For a month I tried to make sense of what had happened with the silver disc. Maybe it was me that was in the energy from the craft and it was not my friends falling in slow motion, but the time I was in was not in sync with them instead.

That would explain their not appearing to have ill effects from the encounter. Whatever the case, I was more ill than I had ever been.

It was some time that passed, at least a month or maybe two, and the effects began to subside slowly until I was as close to back to normal, well, as close to normal as I will ever be again. I now know better than to find myself under one of those craft.

It was then, after I started to feel better that I began my search for the truth to UFOs and ET.

Little did I know that after all events up to this point it was only the beginning of things to come, leading up to the present days.

Todd