And it was on this day that a strange thing happened - at that young age of three or four. Before I describe it, I want to make it plain that I know it sounds like a small child's fantasy, like something out of Alice in Wonderland. That doesn't make it any less real. It is more than real. I was very young, but my memory of the incident is now and always has been so clear that there is no question that it happened. I don't know then exactly what was happening to me, I had to accept it the way it was happening. With a child's mind, I didn't ask questions of myself then, the way I do now. But it's important to remember what happened, because it might just possibly be a clue to the results of the tests I've undergone in university laboratories.
In that garden many years ago, it was late afternoon but still light. I had been playing all alone, sometimes dozing and dreaming in the garden during the afternoon. Suddenly there was a very loud, high-pitched ringing in my ears. All other sounds stopped. And it was strange, as if time had suddenly stood still. The trees didn't move in the wind. Something made me look up at the sky. I remember it well. There was a silvery mass of light. And I even remember the first thought that passed through my head: What happened to the sun?
This was not the sun, and I knew it. The light was too close to me. The color was brilliant. I felt as if I had been knocked over backward. There was a sharp pain in my forehead. Then I was knocked out. I lost consciousness completely. I don't know how long I lay there, but when I woke I rushed home and told my mother. She was angry and worried. Deep down, I knew something important had happened.
...As Andrija (Puharich) prepared to go back to the States ahead of the rest of us, he asked me to travel to England to meet some scientists and certain other people who were considering giving financial support to the scientific work (on Uri). Shipi flew with me to London, where we met and talked to some of these people. On out flight back to Germany, an incredible thing happened.
I was sitting on the left side of a Lufthansa jet. Shipi was beside me. My Nikon camera was under his seat. All of a sudden, it rose up and simply stopped in the air in front of me. Shipi and I were both shocked. I took it in my hands and figured that I might be receiving some kind of signal to do something.
I looked out the window but saw nothing but blue sky and white clouds. I decided to point the camera out the window anyway and take some shots. I don't know why I had this urge, because it was rather pointless, really, except on the off-chance that the levitation of the camera meant something.
(Uri Geller claims a photograph of a UFO appeared when the film was developed)
Uri Geller: My Story copyright 1975 by Uri Geller pages 95,6 and 234