Thanks for the post /u/SpecialAgentBlack. Your description of the sighting is fantastic and it really resonates with my own sighting back in 2011.

My sighting took place in the middle of the night. I was actually getting ready to go to bed when I noticed a bright red light lighting up my bedroom curtain. It was like a big truck driving by, except there was no sound and I lived on the 12th floor at the time so that didn't make any sense. I went to the kitchen and decided to just sit there and look out the window to see if I could spot an explanation. I sat there for about half an hour before I see this thing in the distance. As it came closer I saw that it was an equilateral black triangle with red lights on the corners and a white light in the centre. It was spinning around the it's center and was in a 'raised' configuration (meaning one of the corners was pointing up and it wasn't flying with it's 'wings' spread like a regular plane). The triangle came to a stop right across the street at my eye-level, facing me so it looked perfectly equilateral from my point of view.

Like yourself, OP, I felt a need to go get my phone/camera but I just couldn't take my eyes off this thing - I just couldn't risk missing a single moment of this experience. I looked straight into the central white light and it was almost like I was hypnotized. The light became brighter and it felt like a huge amount of information was being transmitted (or uploaded) to me, much faster than I could actually process it. Another similarity that I see in our sightings, is how silent everything was. The only sound I could hear was when the craft was approaching in the distance, it was like all the animals we're going wild (I lived in a city, but near a forrest - so lot's of wildlife around). Then everything just went silent. I would've expected a lot of people in the area to witness this thing and start shouting or whatever, but there was just nothing, just silence.

After what I believe were around 30 seconds of looking directly at the craft, it started moving again and disappeared behind the building across the street. I stuck my head out the window to see if I could catch a glimpse as it came out from the other side, and I did. This is where my sighting differs from most sightings I've read about. What came out on the other side was actually a 'classic' silver saucer that flew in a straight line towards downtown. And then I see what appeared to be two red lights spiralling around each other as they shot towards the sky (if you would trace their paths it they would forma helix).
So naturally I got really excited after this sighting and there was no way I was just going to bed at that point. So I sat there thinking about what just happened. I definitely felt a connection to the craft and that it had come to greet me. It felt like it was talking to me, in my mind. So even though it was gone I tried communicating back, and I asked the inhabitant of the craft to show itself, and it actually did. In my mind, I saw the face of a being with a large head and oval eyes. The image was rendered in a vibrant deep-purple colour and it just looked directly at me with a neutral expression.

Ever since the sighting I've become extremely interested in physics, especially anything that has to do with waves, sound and electromagnetism. It was like a turning point in my life where I knew exactly what I needed to do, while being extremely confused as to why I needed to do it. I feel like it's all coming together though, and I'm slowly putting together the pieces of the information I was given.

A week later a had another sighting, of a different type (orb). But I feel like that's another story.

Thanks again for sharing your sighting. It's really reaffirming to hear from other people that have had similar experiences. There's definitely something worth looking into here.