Erwin Lohre & Wife Experience UFO
Erwin Lohre, an artist and former military pilot, was sleeping at his family home in Braunschweig, northcentral Germany. At around 12:30 a.m., he awoke with a stabbing pain in the area of his spine.I at once took a painkilling tablet and lay down again, he recounted to Dr. Peter Hattwig, a UFO investigator.
Meanwhile, my wife had also awakened simultaneously, Erwin continued.
We heard a clear humming sound coming from the sky. After 3 or 4 seconds this noise, which seemed metallic, as though produced by a centrifugal force, grew louder, and then, through the bedroom window, we saw a bright round shining object stationary at a height of some 33' or so above the birch trees to the East. There was a full Moon at the time.
But despite that, our bedroom and terrace outside was lit by something even more powerful than the moonlight, a bluish/white color like neon lighting.
At the same time we both felt a strange metallic sort of taste on our tongues.
Up till then I had scarcely given a moment’s thought to UFOs, but it was now quite clear to me that I was looking at an unknown flying object.
And I said to my wife: Look! See what it is. They are going to land here.
Being a former fighter pilot myself, I wanted of course to see what was going on. But when I tried to stand up, I found that I could not move, and for my wife it was just the same.
Also our kittens, which sleep on the foot of the bed, were both sitting there, both upright, and looking as though they had turned to stone.
Meanwhile, our bedroom window was being bathed, on and off, in a bright yellow beam of light apparently coming down from above.
I didn’t get frightened because I was so completely spellbound. If anything, my feeling was rather one of annoyance because I was immobilized and unable to get to the window.
But afterwards, my wife had a thorough fit of the shakes.
The eerie apparition lasted altogether about 40 seconds or so, and then the vivid light ended abruptly.
Then, some 30 or 40 seconds later, we saw the UFO fly over our bedroom window in a westerly direction and vanish.
Simultaneously the paralysis ended for both of us. My wife was too upset to be able to sleep anymore, and so was I.
Then, about 30 minutes later, we heard the same sound again, coming from the other direction.
Our bedroom has windows on 2 sides, and so we got a full view of the UFO for the first time.
From a distance of about 1,000', we watched it flying straight towards us. Again we heard the same sounds as before, and for about 6 seconds or so we could see its shape absolutely clearly.
The craft was shimmering with all the colors of the rainbow, the cupola was a bright, shining silver. The underside had 3 colored apertures and a central light.
Then, just as the disk, which I estimated to be about 33' wide, was nearly right over us, something quite unbelievable happened. It simply dissolved into thin air, between ⅒ of a second and another, and it was gone, without any transition.
Lohre reported the encounter to a local newspaper.
After the newspaper had published the report, he said, 25 people contacted me, including one whole bowling team that had been traveling home at the time. Unfortunately, none of them was prepared to go public as eyewitnesses.
Dr. Hattwig asked Herr Lohre if he had the impression that the craft was seeking him personally.
To which Lohre replied:
Absolutely. For it was hovering there right beside my bedroom window, as though they knew exactly where I was. It is true that my wife and I were both paralyzed, but unlike me she felt no pain in the spine.
The day after the incident, a number of peculiar developments occurred.
At 4:00 p.m., recounted Lohre, my wife and daughter and I, who were all in different rooms at the time, saw a light like a photo flash in front of our TV sets, accompanied by a crackling sound.
Then, an hour later, phenomenal discharges came from the TV sets downstairs. Furthermore, we found that our computer had acted up. We never found any reason for that, and it has never happened again.
Then, at about 10:00 p.m., a tremendous banging started up inside our wardrobe, as though somebody was shut in there.
But despite all our efforts and searching, we could find absolutely no reason for the noise.
And every time we opened the wardrobe, the noise stopped. On and off the eerie happenings went on for a further 8 weeks, and disturbed us badly.
After the encounter, Lohre said, I had constant pain in the spine, and, a week later, using a mirror, I discovered on my spine, at the level of the buttocks, 2 red marks, about 1" apart.
I went to see a doctor, who then found 2 black spots below the skin.
He applied an ointment, and he referred me for a CAT, Computer Tomography, scan. But before I was able to go there 2 little black lens shaped things came out of my back. I put them away very carefully, to show them to the doctor, but by the second day following they had simply evaporated.
Dr. Hattwig asked Lohre what was his explanation for the little black things and, Herr Lohre had no explanation.
Dr. Hattwig asked:
Have you ever heard anything about UFO abductions?.
Lohre eyed Hattwig with an unbelieving look. As he was to admit to him later, such an idea was utterly new to him, and up till then he had never heard of anything of the sort.
But later on Lohre replied:
I did indeed read about it later on, and I did play around for a while with the idea of undergoing hypnosis, but so far I haven’t taken that step.
This was a wise decision on Lohre’s part because regression hypnosis is known to be very unreliable.