Old Town, San Diego. October 13 2018

Taking my usual shortcut through Old Town Park after working a late shift at the diner, I was walking home on a warm summer night. Throughout the walk, I felt watched. I kept turning around to look for movement but did not see anything. I figured it was just my imagination. I was frozen in place, unsure what to do when I saw them. A group of strange, glowing lights hovered in the sky above me.

My life changed in the blink of an eye when I felt a jolt. I woke up on a cold, metal table in a dark room, surrounded by tall, slender beings with almond-shaped eyes. As I tried to speak, the aliens probed and poked me with their strange instruments. My mouth wouldn't move, and I tried to struggle, but I was completely paralyzed. All I could do was lay there and watch them. There was nothing I could do to prevent myself from being taken. I had no idea what they wanted from me, and I didn't know what had caused them to take me.

During the hours that followed, the aliens continued their examination. They took blood and tissue samples and performed strange tests on me. I was nervous and confused, but somehow I managed to remain calm. The aliens freed me, returning me to the park. I had no idea what had happened, and I stumbled home in a daze. I couldn't believe what I had seen. It didn't take long for my family and friends to believe me. They thought that I was crazy or that I was just trying to get attention. But I knew the truth. I had been abducted by aliens, and I thought they would return.

In the following weeks, I spent my time reading everything I could about alien encounters and abduction stories in search of answers to my experiences. My research into the subject led me to discover that I wasn't alone. Countless others have felt the same way, and I wasn't the only one who felt that aliens had chosen me for a particular reason.

The aliens didn't tell me why they took me, nor what they wanted. But I do know that my life will never be the same. I devoted myself to understanding the universe and our place within it.

I won't stop until I find all the answers.