{"id":5785,"date":"2025-03-25T14:27:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/i-would-like-to-share-a-sighting-i-had-back-in-2016-in-the-ocala-national-forrest-on-my-way-home-from-work-one-night\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T14:27:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:27:59","slug":"i-would-like-to-share-a-sighting-i-had-back-in-2016-in-the-ocala-national-forrest-on-my-way-home-from-work-one-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/i-would-like-to-share-a-sighting-i-had-back-in-2016-in-the-ocala-national-forrest-on-my-way-home-from-work-one-night\/","title":{"rendered":"I would like to share a sighting i had back in 2016 in the Ocala National forrest on my way home from work one night."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to share an incredible experience I had back in December 2016 while driving through the Ocala National Forest after work. <\/p>\n<p>At the time, I was working night shifts at FedEx as a package handler, starting my shift around 11 PM. I lived in Salt Springs, right in the heart of the Ocala National Forest, and would make the drive to the FedEx hub in Ocala. One night, I was fortunate enough to get off work early, and I headed home around 3 AM. <\/p>\n<p>As I drove down Highway 314, something extraordinary happened. Suddenly, my car was enveloped by a bright, pulsating pink and orange light, causing it to stall. The sheer intensity of the light frightened me to the core, leaving me feeling breathless. Then I was hit by an awful smell, reminiscent of burning tires or sulfur. Almost instantaneously, the light shifted to a dark red, and I spotted a diamond-shaped craft hovering directly above my vehicle. I distinctly remember a massive vibration shaking the entire car. Just as I started to take in the details of this craft, it shot away like a bullet and vanished in an instant.<\/p>\n<p>Once the craft was gone, my car lights and radio flickered back to life, and I found myself sitting there, overwhelmed and in tears. Instead of fear, I felt an overwhelming sense of abandonment, which has lingered with me ever since. This experience has profoundly affected my life, and despite sharing it with many people, I often feel like no one believes me. It&#8217;s disheartening, and what troubles me most is that persistent feeling of being left behind. <\/p>\n<p>This is challenging for me to write about. My life has become increasingly difficult since that night, leading me into a dark and unsettling place. I often find myself torn between wishing the event had never happened or wondering if I should have gone with them. It sounds strange, I know, but the impact of that early morning has left me at a loss, struggling to piece my life back together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nI want to share an incredible experience I had back in December 2016 while driving through the Ocala National Forest after work. At the time, I was working night shifts at FedEx as a package handler, starting my shift around 11 PM. I lived in Salt Springs, right in the heart of the Ocala National&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/i-would-like-to-share-a-sighting-i-had-back-in-2016-in-the-ocala-national-forrest-on-my-way-home-from-work-one-night\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;I would like to share a sighting i had back in 2016 in the Ocala National forrest on my way home from work one night.&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}