Thanks Joe, for that clarification. I understand what was happening now.
The strange thing, from my perspective, about your strange experiences is that they are relatively 'mundane' in their details:
Just a question, if strange experiences need to have strange details? I admit, it certainly helps. But, wasn't there a lady, way back, who, what was it... lived near an air force base with planes flying over her house all the time and she didn't think there was anything odd about anything? Do I have that story straight or am I mixing stories? The C's commented on this in the early transcripts, I think. I read about it in one of the Wave books. In my case, am I going the opposite blowing things out of proportion, looking for weirdness where there isn't any? Or did I notice something that I could've easily tossed aside and forgotten about, like that lady? I ask this semi-rhetorically while trying to stay open to these three events being blown out of proportion by me.
Or maybe you discovered a new species
or maybe it
was a strange phenomenon!
Thanks, Oxajil.
Discovering a new species would be really cool, I can't lie about that one. But all I have is a story, some drawings and a photo of a place that doesn't exist anymore. I don't think that's enough to get my name in Nature magazine. (hmm. or is it?)
Either they were under the dirt or used some camouflage or got away without you noticing.
There was no loose dirt around for them to hide under. It was lawn. But it brings up the idea of being
able to dig which is, imo, not likely because of their feet. They had no toes, claws or hooves. It's like their legs were... like an inflated tube sock. Plus the location of their legs on their bodies, I think, would make it difficult to dig. Too much 'overhang' on both ends. And if they could dig, their feet were so small that it would take them a such a long time to make a hole. Add the position of their eyes to this and they would be digging by feel.
The camouflage idea is interesting. I had not thought of that, so it could've been the way they 'escaped', because I was seconds quick to search for them after the 'rustling' ended. However, if they had this ability, why would they use their camo when they were already under cover? When they first emerged, they were their off-white colour which never changed the whole time when they were completely exposed. I would think they would use such an ability during this time because they really stood out against the dark grey branches and brown fenceline. Also, when I was searching for them, if they were still there, why didn't they scatter to get out of harms way? Which the obvious answer is, they were already gone. And that gets me to the problem of, where did they go? There was nowhere for them to go that I would not have seen them. Like I said, I moved leaves and sticks, and looked in the neighbours yard thinking they might have gone under the fence. If they stayed in their 'formation' (which, as I think about it, they seemed to try and do) the 'group volume' was about 22" x 8". That's a sizable cream-coloured rectangle walking around. Tongue-in-cheek, 'invisible' is the greatest camo, but then why wouldn't they use it when exposed. Perhaps they didn't feel threatened or they didn't have a camo ability.
Something I had never thought about before was, how did they breathe? Two of them exerted more energy then the others, and for the little one, it was a bit of a scramble. But I never saw a change in their shape like the opening of a mouth to facilitate heavier breathing. I could also see no nostrils which makes me think they were very small or perhaps of a shape like a slit, but this might assume that they have lungs, which means they are not insects since insects don't have lungs, they have a
system of spiricales and tracheae. I suppose these spiricals could exist all over their bodies facilitating the gas exchange because when the creatures were not moving, they stood stock still. I could not see any 'breathing' motion (or any motion at all when they were not moving). This supports the idea that they were insects.
Something else I thought about, which others may have already thought about, was they were identical to each other. The two adults were of one same size and all the little ones were of another same size, to my eyes. There was also no colour difference between them, that I could detect. There was no external markings that could distinguish one from another, that I could spot. I hesitate to use the word 'clone' but they kinda were.
These times are stressfull enough. I don't need to add to them. I am glad a new perspective was brought in because I'm not sure if I would have thought about these things otherwise.