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, reading Tom DeLonge's Sekret Machines, I encountered the TR-3B Astra — and recognized what I had seen. I don't know what it was. I haven't stopped wondering.