Despite what a few would assert, I believe you, that you are telling the truth of what you experience. I too have had a rather significant sighting. We are not lying, and we were not hallucinating, but some will continue to push that meme because of their own agenda if personal or paid.
And I didn’t read books or magazines about them, didn’t think about them, didn’t “believe” or “not believe” in them - the whole UFO topic just wasn’t in my mind at all. Obviously I’d heard of them - this was the late 60s, and I had my own share (big plateful) of family and school problems, and just wasn’t expecting to see them or hoping to or anything of the sort. Went outside at night to take a walk, as it was summer and hot and the evening was nice and cool. Very rural, no lights from town or even any neighbors, it was an old farm, about 15 miles from the CA border.
The weird thing is I just went to a wooden pasture gate and leaned on it and - there the thing was, came pretty fast, just the way it left.
I had another odd experience right around the same time; might have even been that night. Won’t recount it on the thread; it wasn’t shady or icky or anything, just don’t want to put it out there for people to scorn.
And I never saw another one, and that didn’t disappoint me, I don’t look for them. But after that, I know they exist.
“Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?”
I know what I saw - don’t now what it was, but I know what I experienced.