The encounter occurred in the afternoon at a residence located within the Croom Forest in central Florida. At the time, three people—my mother and two brothers—were inside the house.
They noticed something moving low over the residence.
At first, it registered visually rather than audibly. A shadow passed over the house, large enough to draw their attention upward. In that area, low-flying fighter jets were common. The house sat deep within a state forest, and military aircraft frequently flew nap-of-the-earth training routes overhead. Those jets were always fast, loud, and unmistakable.
This was different.
According to my family, the object was moving slowly and made no discernible sound.
At some point after noticing it, all three of them were outside—but none of them remembered deciding to go there or how they got there.
Later, when they tried to recall the event, each person remembered being in a different location on the property. One recalled standing on the back porch. Another remembered being somewhere in the backyard. The third remembered being farther back on the five-acre property, near the forest line, in a circular clearing.
That clearing had always stood out to me. It could have been a natural low area where grass grew differently, but it carried an uneasy feeling. Even before I knew about this encounter, I had always thought of it as a potential landing area.
I was not home when this happened.
My family spoke about the incident only once. They did not speculate about what the object was, only that it moved slowly, silently, and cast a shadow over the house. They said they did not know how they ended up outside.
No time frame was ever established for how long the event lasted, only that there was missing time and incomplete memory.
The subject was never brought up again.
This account is based on a single family discussion recalled by the submitter. The witness was not present during the event but reports consistent elements shared by three individuals: a low, silent aerial object, a shadow cast over the residence, displacement across the property, and missing memory related to how they exited the house. The location was rural forestland with frequent military aircraft activity, which the witnesses distinguished from this event.
