Around 4am one morning in 2004, near Long Beach, CA, I watched a large black triangular craft move silently across the sky directly above me for about five minutes before it disappeared from view. No sound. No running lights. No frame of reference for what it was. I searched for other sightings the next morning and found nothing. It stayed an open question for years.

About seven years later I came across Bashar, and in one of his channelings he described their craft as black and triangular. Years later, Tom DeLonge's Sekret Machines offered a different layer of confirmation — introducing the TR-3B Astra and the possibility that what I saw may have been extraterrestrial, human-made, or both — that ET technology may have been back-engineered and is quietly in use. The question shifted from whether these things are real to something more unsettling: who's flying them.