A Boy Who Had Pigeon Chest

Richard Contreras
At the age of ten, I fell in love with an anime show called "Fooly Cooly"; the main character, Naota, encounters a female alien from outer space, and there is a symbol that would appear on his forehead whenever creatures from other dimensions would expand through his frontal lobe. (http://www.roblox.com/Atomsk-item?id=7500014)

Later, at the age of twelve, I saw what I can now only deem as an extraterrestrial craft near a set of mountains, and, I was not the only one to see it; so I know for a fact, it was not a figment of my imagnation. Ironically, the place where I saw the silver cigar-shapped craft, was exactly adjacent to a naval base. The event I witnessed is not uncommon in my area; I live among a region where UFO and USO sightings have been prominent for many decades. (http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread561341/pg1)

After that apparent viewing of a UFO, I soon began developing a chest deformity, in which the cartilage connecting the ribs to the sternum grew rapidly, seemingly overnight. There are two forms of this condition: pectus carinatum and pectus excavatum. Pectus carinatum is the outward protrusion of the sternum, causing the rest of the rigcage to resemble a pigeon's chest. Pectus exavatum is when the growth of the cartilage grows inward, creating a sunken look. I unfortunately had both types at the same time, but the carinatum was the most severe. (http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/pectus+carinatum)

I underwent a five hour operation, at the UCLA Medical Center, in July of 2006. A thin metal bar was then inserted across my sternum, along with 27 wires tied at different angles to help support my ribcage. The lingering assumption of death hung over me for the following week after the surgery; my lungs were slowly collapsing, and the ability to breathe was increasingly difficult. I experienced the most horrible pain in that cold hospital room, a pain I would not even wish upon my worse enemy.

There is now a permanent scar on my chest that is eerily similar to Naota's symbol he would bear on his forehead, except my symbol is not finished: It's an upside down "Y" with a horizontal slash mark on the right side, which was from the second surgery to remove the metal bar. I realized this strange coincidence a year ago, and after discovering that notion, I then witnessed another unknown craft, above those same mountains towards the east.

Published by Richard Contreras

Richard is 19 years old and a resident of Oxnard, California. Currently a freshman at a local community college, he is studying a variety of subjects pertaining to music, philosophy, and oceanography. Richar...  View profile

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