Strange Journey Of Man Who Saw A UFO

By Joanne Kimberlin
Terrell Copeland became “Case no. 58105” on The History Channel’s UFO Hunters series. There, on national TV, host Bill Birnes declared the Suffolk man to be a hybrid a product of intergalactic breeding who is being prepped for direct contact with his alien relatives.

“That’s heavy,” Copeland says. “It’s not surprising to me, though. After all that’s happened these last couple of years, it could be true.”

Yes, life has gotten even weirder for Copeland, now 26, since the former Marine became one of several locals who told the story of seeing UFOs over Hampton Roads in Suffolk, Virginia. Back then, Copeland reported that he’d witnessed a massive triangle-shaped craft hovering over a Suffolk shopping center late one night in 2005.

Copeland now says that close encounter was followed by another sighting last year that he videotaped, an orb of bouncing light that pulses different colors.

Copeland put the video online, and it wasn’t long before a mysterious man knocked on his apartment door. Copeland said the man identified himself as a military contractor and began asking personal questions, ultimately asking if Copeland “was ready for the truth” and stating that the government has a “personal relationship with ET.”

After that, Copeland said, he began experiencing what’s known in UFO circles as missing time - minutes or hours that unaccountably vanish - and episodes of temporary paralysis, when he was awake and aware but couldn’t move.

His story wound up drawing the attention of the UFO Hunters team. TV types showed up in Suffolk in November, and Copeland became part of an episode called Alien Contact, which first aired in April. On the episode, Copeland’s video was compared with one taken at Lake Erie by Michael Hill of Cleveland, who said he has not only had multiple UFO encounters but also has been abducted by their occupants. The team called in an expert, but the images were too fuzzy.

Next, Copeland and Hill were ferried to Massachusetts General Hospital for testing, where it was discovered that both have elevated levels of the enzyme creatine kinase, normally associated with muscle injury.

Mere coincidence? Show host Birnes speculated otherwise. Perhaps the men’s mutual condition is the result of extraterrestrial contacts that have altered their physiology. Or perhaps they’ve had numerous encounters because they themselves are unique.

“I’ve got a funny feeling,” Birnes told Copeland during the episode, “that you are being recruited and there is a branch of the government that you’re being recruited for - that somehow, some way, you are a hybrid between an ET and humans.”

That announcement startled Birnes’ sidekick Pat Uskert, who pulled his boss outside: “How can you conclude that the guy’s a hybrid?” Uskert asked Birnes. “I mean, don’t you think you’re going off the deep end a little bit?”

In the end, the show concluded that there wasn’t enough evidence to prove much of anything.

So where does all that leave Copeland? Waiting for ET. “I truly believe that’s what all of this is leading to - a meeting with a biological entity,” he said.

In the meantime, Copeland gets up before dawn most days and heads to work in a warehouse. Nights find him at his computer, chatting with a host of new acquaintances who have tracked him through the Internet. Many tell him they’ve had similar experiences

The show has earned Copeland a little more respect at home: “I was at a low point before this. I had decided to just stop talking about it. I was losing friends. Family members thought I was losing my mind. But when you’ve been on TV, it’s like, well, maybe he’s got something to say.”

What did Copeland’s mother think about her son being branded as an alien hybrid on a national television show?

“I expected her to lose it,” he said, “but she didn’t. She said there was always something strange about me.”

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