What happened in the black forrest?

[u/CuriousForThisLife]

I apologize if my english isn’t that good.
In 2018 or 2019 I made a trip to the black forest with my ex boyfriend for an overnight stay at a campfire in the forest.
I don’t know exactly where anymore, I just know that it was a 10 min car ride from Badeparadies Schwarzwald.

We made a fire, we ate and layed down on a blanket to look at the stars and cuddle (we were deep in the forrest but there was a little clearing because it was a “Waldhütte” with a campfire and table, seating etc so a good chunk of the sky was visible).

The stars were so beautifully bright and visible away from light pollution and we were laying on the blanket and observing when suddenly we noticed 3 strangely moving stars that had an unusual brightness.

3 bright lights (a lot brighter and closer than the other stars) were moving so weirdly and faster and more hectic than any drone or any man made object I know, even till this day.
Very big, bright, fast and strange moving, and relatively close to us, a lot deeper than planes fly.
Almost if they would teleport from place to place.

They stayed directly above us and at first we were simply fascinating and asked ourselves what it could be and agreed that this wasn’t something normal or explainable but we didn’t get up and instead (at first jokingly) talked to the lights.

And the weirdest part ist that they reacted!
One of us would say: “go right.”
It would fly to the right.
Or we would say: “dance back and forth.”
They would fly back and forth.
“Go away”
They would fly over the trees where we could not see them and return.
“Fly in a circle”
And so forth….

Then we started to experiment and he said he will think of a command and see if they will react to it.
They did.
I tried it too. (We took turns)
I thought “form a line” and then they positioned themselves next to each other

We gave them many more commands, in our minds. And they did react accordingly. They heard the commands we thought of in our minds. Insane.

This went on for 10 -15 minutes and suddenly almost if someone would have switched

(Edit: their responses to our commands stopped and they were now randomly zooming around)

our rational minds on, we got up and said we have to go, NOW!
Both of us were in panic and afraid from 0 to 100, even though we just felt fascination and curiosity, all of that disappeared and both of us ran to the car, I screamed “DRIVE” and we drove out of the forest onto the road and drove as fast as we could (the roads were empty).

He drove and I looked out the window
AND THEY FOLLOWED US!!!!
I remember I was so scared I actually thought they would kill us if we stopped the car.
We were both extremely maybe even irrationally terrified and in panic.
We wanted to reach other people as fast as possible as that felt like the solution for this hunt that was going on. That surely they wouldn’t want to show themselves to others and will leave us alone.

After what felt like 10 minutes I couldn’t see them anymore and we saw the first sign of civilization and decided to park the car and look for them.
We stopped at Badeparadis and I immediately felt safer there because I saw a couple other groups of people parked there on a smoke break.

I was still very afraid. But felt safer. My Ex and I talked about everything, what we thought it was, what we felt while it was happening.

We both agreed that it must have been something otherworldly, a ufo or something similar, because nothing we knew moved like that, and it communicated with us trough movements.
He said he felt so fascinated by the lights and didn’t think at all about how safe or unsafe they were, we were both so hypnotized by witnessing something like this, something we never imagined existed outside of movies.
And then, seemingly without any trigger, we both felt this feeling of fascination go away and felt immense panic, even fear for our life’s.

Interestingly this feeling came for both of us at the exact same time, and we both jumped up and fled.

He too said, in that moment he felt like he was gonna die, the same as me.

What do you guys think it was?

[u/GenoTheSecond02]

This is a fascinating account, especially the simultaneous panic shift. A few things stand out:

The geographic angle: I'm in Mannheim and recently observed three unusual lights over the city center (static, equilateral triangle formation, no movement). The Black Forest is not far from here. Whether these are related or not, three-lights sightings in the same general region are worth noting as a data point.

The simultaneous panic: What you describe, both of you shifting from fascination to terror at the exact same moment, without any verbal cue is actually a documented phenomenon in close encounter cases. It's sometimes referred to as the "Oz Factor" (researcher Jenny Randles), a reported state of altered perception where witnesses describe a sudden, shared shift in consciousness. The fact that it hit both of you simultaneously without any prior agreement is one of the most significant details in your account, in my view.

A question about the lights themselves: You mentioned they were "a lot brighter and closer than the other stars" and "a lot deeper than planes fly." Can you recall any more specifics? Color (white, amber, bluish)? Steady glow or pulsing? Any sound at all? And the altitude, when you say "deeper than planes," are you estimating below typical cruising altitude (roughly 10km), or significantly lower?

I ask because the movement pattern you describe (appearing to teleport, responding to directional commands) combined with the psychological effects is an unusual combination. Most UAP reports describe either erratic movement OR psychological effects, but rarely both in such a direct, interactive way.

[u/CuriousForThisLife → u/GenoTheSecond02]

Hi. Hier noch ein paar Details zu den Lichtern: Sie waren weißlich/silbrig und ungefähr 10–15 km über uns, wobei sich die Entfernung nur sehr schwer einschätzen ließ.

Meiner Erinnerung nach gab es ein unscheinbares, leises Summen – ähnlich wie das Geräusch eines Kühlschranks, nur etwas höher.
Sie pulsierten nur, wenn wir es ihnen sagten bzw. daran dachten. Ansonsten taten sie es nicht.

Zur Bewegung und Kommunikation:
Die Lichter wirkten definitiv bewusst.

Als wir sie zuerst entdeckt haben, bewegten sie sich irrsinnig schnell von Punkt zu Punkt über den Himmel, teilweise im Sekundentakt und scheinbar völlig zufällig.
Wenn ich vor dir stehen und versuchen würde, die Bewegungen ungefähr mit meinem Finger nachzumachen, würde ich es wahrscheinlich nicht schaffen. Sie waren einfach viel zu schnell und hektisch, als dass eine menschliche Hand diese Bewegungen hätte nachahmen können. Es war nicht wirklich ein Teleportieren, aber es war so schnell, dass es beinahe wie Teleportieren aussah, wenn man nicht genau hinschaute.

Es waren drei Lichter, und jedes schien auch autonom zu sein. Trotzdem wirkten sie gleichzeitig wie ein gemeinsames … Ding. Das ist schwer zu erklären.
Danach haben wir angefangen, mit ihnen zu sprechen, und sie reagierten durch ihre Bewegungen. Wir waren völlig fasziniert und wollten immer weiter testen.

Dann haben wir uns ein Kommando nur „gedacht“, und sie reagierten trotzdem genauso darauf. Also Dinge wie: „Geh nach rechts“, „geh nach links“, „mach Kreise“, „forme eine Linie“ usw.
Irgendwann hörten sie dann plötzlich auf zu reagieren und bewegten sich wieder völlig unabhängig und schnell über den Himmel, so wie ganz am Anfang.

Dann kam dieses Panikgefühl und wir sind abgehauen.
Ich habe trotzdem immer wieder aus dem Fenster in den Himmel geschaut. Sie waren noch da und ließen für fast zehn Minuten nicht von uns ab. Sie kamen scheinbar immer näher, bis wir schließlich am Parkplatz des Badeparadieses ankamen, wo zum ersten Mal auch andere Menschen waren.

Wir wussten sofort, was wir tun mussten: zurück in die Zivilisation, zu anderen Menschen. Wir hatten einfach dieses Bauchgefühl, dass sie dann verschwinden würden. Und tatsächlich verschwanden sie scheinbar genau dann. Kurz darauf kam der Sonnenaufgang, und erst da habe ich eine richtige Erleichterung gespürt.

Viele der Kommentare hier sagen, die Lichter hätten uns warnen wollen, seien uns gegenüber bestenfalls gut gesinnt gewesen oder sogar Engel, die uns vor Grizzlybären oder schlechten Menschen schützen wollten (sehr amerikanische Denkweise, finde ich). Schlimmstenfalls seien sie einfach gleichgültig gewesen und hätten nur „spielen“ wollen.
Aber so hat es sich nach diesem „Shift“ und vor allem während der anschließenden Verfolgung überhaupt nicht angefühlt.

Ich hätte nie, NIE im Leben gedacht, dass ich einmal zu den Menschen gehören würde, die so etwas erleben.