Hi everyone. This is my first post on Reddit.

I wanted to share a couple of my experiences with unexplained aircraft.

I've only shared this with my closest friends. I'm a little scared of how others would judge me if I shared it with them. (I have a great deal of social anxiety as it is.) But I hope that by writing these experiences here, I may discover that I'm not alone in this.

When I was a little boy, around 10 or 11, I used to play with wooden sticks outside my parent's house in the back yard. One afternoon after I finished playing I remember sitting down on the ground and looking up at the sky. It was clear, no clouds or anything. But there was this mysterious silver orb suspended in mid-air high above me. I could see the sunlight reflecting off its surface. I figure it must have been metallic. Anyway, I got up to get a better view of it but when I looked up again the orb was much smaller - hardly visible. It must have begun flying higher because it gradually disappeared from sight.

Then in my teens, during my first date with a guy (I'm a gay male), I remember we laid down on the ground and looked up at the night sky. In that moment I saw multiple silver orbs hovering above us. This time they were slowly moving around.

I asked my date if he saw the orbs too and he said he could see something, but that he thought they were just satellites. I remember thinking how silly that must be because to me they did not look at all like satellites. They were clearly silver spheres. Anyway, we decided to go indoors shortly after so I never really did find out what became of those things.

But one thing is for certain, in both instances, I had the feeling that the silver orbs had been watching me during intimate moments.

And even now, I wonder what they were and why they seem to just present themselves in such a manner. I personally think if UFOs are a real thing then the orbs must be some kind of surveillance or monitoring technology.

Either way I think it was those experiences that really sparked my interest in UFOs and extra-terrestrials in general.

Has anyone else experienced something like what happened to me?