Thanks for taking my call. I've thought about whether to share this for a while now. And I know how it sounds, I really do. But what's been happening to me, I need you to understand that I'm not making this up. I've seen it with my own eyes, over and over again. My name's Patricia. I live in Sedona, been here about six years now. I moved here from Chicago because I needed a change, you know? Somewhere with clean air, open skies. Somewhere peaceful. And it was peaceful. For the first three years, everything was perfect. That's the thing. It was completely normal until it wasn't. It started in March of 2019. March 14th, actually. I remember because it was my birthday. I was driving home from work around five thirty in the evening, and I noticed this cloud formation following my car. I don't mean it was drifting in the same direction. I mean it was following me. Every turn I made, every time I changed lanes, this cloud stayed directly above my vehicle. Maybe two hundred feet up, moving at exactly my speed.
Now, I'm not someone who jumps to conclusions. I spent twenty years working as a lab technician in Chicago. I understand atmospheric conditions, I understand how clouds form and move. This wasn't normal. This wasn't wind patterns or coincidence. This cloud was tracking me. It followed me all the way home. When I pulled into my driveway and got out of the car, I stood there looking up at it for maybe ten minutes. The sun was setting behind the red rocks, and this cloud was just hanging there, directly overhead. Perfectly still now that I'd stopped moving. It was a cumulus formation, pretty standard looking. White, fluffy, maybe thirty feet across. But there was something wrong about the edges. They kept shifting, folding in on themselves, like something was moving inside the cloud mass. I went inside and tried to forget about it. Told myself I was being ridiculous. But when I looked out my window an hour later, the cloud was still there. Same position, same size, floating above my house in the dark. And that's when I started to realize this wasn't going to stop.
The next morning, it was gone. I felt relieved, thought maybe I'd imagined the whole thing or misunderstood what I was seeing. But when I left for work at 7 AM, the moment I stepped outside, a cloud appeared. Same type, same size, same position overhead. It followed me to my car. It followed me down the highway. It followed me to the parking lot at work. This went on for two weeks. Every single day, whenever I was outside, the cloud would appear within a few minutes and stay with me. My coworkers started noticing. One of them, Janet, she said to me, 'Patricia, have you noticed there's always a cloud over the building when you're here?' I played it off like I hadn't noticed, but inside I was terrified. Because I knew it wasn't over the building. It was over me. And that's the thing. Nobody else seemed to think it was strange. Then things started changing. The cloud started changing.
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