I Saw the Thing Crash. Then I Lost Hours | Beyond Black Budget

Added: 2026-06-04

[00:00:16]I appreciate you talking to me. The way I see it, something came down from the sky. There's some folks out there who say it was one of ours. Others say it wasn't.

[00:00:24]>> I didn't want to say it out loud at first. I figured maybe I was just rattled. But it didn't start with the explosion. It started before that. I was sitting there jotting some notes on the clipboard. I saw the thing fly over the ridge and crashed.

[00:00:40]But something else happened. Felt like a distress signal in my head.

[00:00:51]It was like pressure right here. Not a headache, not pain exactly. More like something pushing in. Then everything went quiet >> and then it changed. The pressure turned into control. It wasn't a voice, but something was in my head, pushing, steering. I could feel it trying to take over.

[00:01:08]Then the explosion happened.

[00:01:15]It stopped. Whatever had hold of me, it let go.

[00:01:21]It must have taken me an hour to walk back to my truck.

[00:01:26]Thing is, I felt like I was standing there for minutes. Turns out it was hours.

[00:01:31]I don't know where that time went.