Gello. This happened in March of 2018. I'm a data analyst, I work with systems and numbers all day, so I'm not someone who jumps to conclusions. I'm calling because what happened to me that night, and what the medical scans showed afterward, I think people need to hear about it. I was driving back from El Paso. I'd been visiting my sister for the weekend, and I left around 10 PM because I had work the next morning. It's about a 90-mile drive, mostly Highway 54 through empty desert. I've made that drive hundreds of times. At that hour, you might see one or two other cars the whole way. The night was clear. No clouds, temperature probably in the low 60s. I had the radio on, windows cracked a bit. Just a normal drive home through the desert.
I was maybe 40 miles from Alamogordo when I first noticed the light. It was off to my left, to the west, maybe a few miles out. At first I thought it was a plane, but it wasn't moving like a plane. It was just hovering there, this bright white light, completely stationary. I slowed down a bit, watching it. The highway was completely empty, I was the only car out there. I pulled over onto the shoulder, put the car in park, just to get a better look. The light was still there, not moving, just hanging in the sky. Then it started getting brighter. Not gradually, but suddenly, like someone had turned up a dimmer switch all at once. And it started moving. Not across the sky, but toward me. Directly toward me. I remember thinking I should probably get back on the road, but I was just watching it. Fascinated, I guess. It was moving fast now, covering that distance in seconds.
The light got close enough that I could see it wasn't just a light, there was structure behind it. Metallic, reflecting the starlight. Triangular shape, maybe 50 feet across. Silent. Completely silent. It stopped directly above my car. Maybe 100 feet up. And that's when it happened. I couldn't move. Not like I was scared and frozen, I mean I physically could not move any part of my body. My hands were on the steering wheel and they just stayed there. I tried to turn my head and nothing happened. I couldn't even blink. I could breathe, shallow, automatic breaths, but I couldn't control it. And here's the strange part. I wasn't afraid. I should have been terrified, right? But I felt nothing. Completely calm. Like my brain had just turned off the part that processes fear. I was aware of what was happening, I was conscious, but I felt like I was watching it happen to someone else.
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