[The_Colonel]

What caught my eye was her claim about events when she was 4 years old. Just doesn't seem old enough for the memories and their interpretations to be reliable. I had 2 close encounters with UFO when I was 7-8 years old. Very vivid memories which I believed were 100% true until my thirties.

[Out_of_Characte]

The claim that you cannot have x memories before a certain year is completely false. although unrelyable, children that have certain experiences can remember them.

I would go as far as to say we completely underestimate what children understand and remember because we're the ones that chose to forget.

[Auracle]

A few days ago I thought I had uncovered a really bad memory from my childhood that I had buried. I realized a few minutes later that at one point I had dreamed the event and it never actually happened.

Conceivably the first part could happen without the second.

Frankly, I don't think we should ever give any credence to allegations that have absolutely no evidence. The road is too rocky. Most people have at least one person that dislikes them. The people that kind of attitude would affect generally have many. All it takes is one person willing to lie .

[ChrisCinelli]

What changed in you 30s?

[replwoacause]

What kind of encounters? What does close mean? As in…you saw one flying or one landed near you? Or you boarded it?