Newbie : First Post - Possible Validation

I have been attempting to have OBEs for a couple of years now. I have, just in the past couple of months, started to make some headway. I think that this was probably the result of a new book that I had bought that showed me some new techniques. While I have had a few successes, I always seemed to have one issue or another. First of all, I always seemed to be blind when I started and sometimes for the whole duration. Second of all, I either lacked full lucidity or lacked a full sense of presence as if I was really somewhere (versus a lucid dream). Because of this, I could never be sure that I wasn't just having interesting lucid dreams that I thought were OBEs. I also have, thus far, not had my vision return while still in the vicinity of my body. I definitely hadn't achieved the Holy Grail of OBEs where I had validated my experience by observing something during the projection and then confirming it after.  I do believe in the integrity of some of the people that have studied this (including Robert Monroe) but, I will always be an open-minded skeptic until I see the evidence for myself.  After all, they could all be as mad as a hatter.   I guess that means if & when I do totally believe, I will join the Mad-Hatter's Club.

I did, for the first time, receive possible validation two mornings ago while I was house-sitting. I say “possible” because after the experience, doubt started to creep in about the chances of just getting things right by chance.

This was my experience:

I had been attempting OBEs in the morning after waking up as that seems to be the best time. I did maybe about ten attempts with varying degrees of success. Each time that I was finally able to get vision, I was far away from my body. I did have some very interesting short “trips”. On my last attempt, at floating up out of my body, I lost all control. It was like it happened in fast forward. I swooped up out of my body, shot through the bedroom wall out of the front of the house, and flew really fast for a short distance before coming to a stop at a white hatchback vehicle in front of a fence. Then, it was over and I was back in my body. The strange thing was it felt more like I saw a quick video from the point-of-view of this experience and less like I was really moving in space. So, I was blown away when I found this to be exactly what was across the street. I know that I had not been in any position before to have seen this with my sub-conscience. Still, such a fantastical thing has my brain trying to come up with possible alternative explanations.