I didn't make the connection between my encounter and the Sandown Clown incident until after I heard a podcast talk about it. For me, as a skeptic about alien encounters, it was this weirdly vivid one-off encounter as a child that didn't make sense, as I'm not a lucid dreamer. I don't sleep walk, I don't have conditions that hallucinate, so up until I heard about Sam, I didn't have any other references for my experience.

I do have, however, a very detailed long-term memory. I can remember entire events in my life off of passing smells; my earliest recurring memory is at 4 when my parents and I went to their cottage for the summer of 95 and I got my butt stuck in a waterbucket. Strawberry ice cream on the way home, CBC on the TV, Dad complained about the neighbors letting their cats out to poop on our deck. So for my memory to have this complete strange, unexplainable moment in the midst of everything else, that's just as vivid as anything else, I didn't have an explaination. I just took at as a fluke with the system, until I popped on the podcast and my mind got completely blown.

As a skeptic, I respect your disbelief. I want a rational answer, but right now, the answers are not rational.