My Ufo type story: Lights in the Garden - A true story

[debbierlus]

This is a true story. I am not claiming that I know what I saw, or what it was....Here it is:

I was 12 years old. Sitting in my bedroom looking out the window to the back yard, I noticed two lights about the size of car headlights in my neighbors garden. I didn't think much of it, but I did keep looking because what was weird was that the 'headlights' were very close together. They also were a shade of orange I had never seen on a car. The more I looked, the stranger I thought it was because I couldn't see any source of the lights & it was weird they were in the middle of a garden. Also, they didn't beam the light outward as headlights do. There was absolutely no one outside, & I must have looked at these things for at least five minutes (could have been longer)...

I kept watching. My sister, Kerry, came down the hall (thank god I have a witness, even if no one else ever believes me, I know my sister saw the same thing, so I haven't had to forever question, if this was a hallucination)! I asked her to look at the lights & tell me what she thought they were. She couldn't figure it out either. Then, as we were watching the light, it happened. They began to divide! 2 to 4 to 8. Sequentially, AND they were all different colors. Blue, green, yellow, white, red, & more....AND, they began to circling like mad above the garden & above my neighbors garage. Then, they divided back into themselves, & the light faded out. That was it.

I don't know what they were. Since this happened, so long ago, I have relayed the story many times. Most people haven't believed me. However, I told the story in a college class & the professor came up to me after class & told me that he had a friend who told him a very similiar story about such lights. And, he hadn't believed her! Then, one halloween night, they had a special on t.v. about unusual happenings, & they had an entire segment about these types of balls of light. People described similiar type of things, most people saw the balls travel or hover. Many people saw this type of thing in deserts (I live in Western MA). I have since realized that many, many people have seen these balls of light, often described as ball lightening. However, this phenomenon has never been scientifically proven to be any sort of lightening. It occurs where the weather is fine (it was a crystal clear summer night in early August, not hot, I didn't even have a fan on, when I saw it).

Here is a Wikipedia link I found describing the history of such sightings:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning

I am sure there is a scientific explanation for it, but that does not mean that it includes anything that science currently knows & understands. The thing that has always enraged me about science reaction to these reports is the fact that they ignore very important descriptive aspects from witnesses, dismissing them as inaccurate or 'misseen' to FIT their theory. That is about as unscientific as you can get, if you ask me. They had scientists on the program I watched about these occurrences, & they basically just ignored every detail that would have disproven their theory. I know what I saw that night, my sister knows what she saw that night, & it has never been adequately explained. So, let's just say we don't know because in all things in the heavens & earth, this is about the truest thing that can be said about human understanding of many issues.

[bullimiami]

1. lights in the sky over miami

i was 13 or 14.
my friend donald and i were walking around the block when i looked up and saw stars that i didnt recognize.
5 or 6 in a group. very bright and small. kind of like the 7 sisters but much brighter and sharper.
it was really odd so we stood and watched.
they sat absolutely still for perhaps 5-10 minutes or longer and suddenly they started moving out fast.
within a few seconds they had all gone heading out in various directions.
we were freaked out. called every agency we could think of for maybe an hour.
finally someone told us it was flares.
I may have been a kid but im not an idiot.
it was not flares and it was not stars.
even to this day i look up and see the satellites and stars and always wonder if ill see the unexplainable again.

[debbierlus]

8. Thanks for sharing that!

It is really a shame we can't have a open discussion about these things without negative labeling. It would be really
interesting to know what this is....Whether it is spirtual beings or just a whole phenomenon of nature that we can't explain, it is
all fascinating.

[Annces]

2. interesting

What do the government and scientists really know. They are paid to make you feel stupid.

[rosesaylavee]

3. Not sure if this fits here

but my husband and I encountered a 'whitish ball of light' when traveling in our old Nissan on the by-pass around Toronto in the mid-80s. It happened very quickly but one second we saw a ball of light about the size of a basketball in front of the car and before we could say anything to each other, it came thru the windshield and hit me directly in the chest.... which hurt like hell and took my breath away for a bit.

We literally didn't know what hit us. The day was overcast but not stormy. Whatever it was didn't leave a mark but the pain felt like an electrical shock.

And I agree about most scientists. For the most part, they avoid unknown phenomena rather than explore it thoroughly. That's why Tesla was so amazing and probably so vilified. He had an active curiousity and didn't care what other people thought.

But until we change how science is funded, we will probably have the 'fear of vilification' deny important discoveries.

[fasttense]

4. It doesn't sound like ball lightening. I have seen ball lightening

and it didn't change color, or divide. It merely got larger and larger as the clouds around it kept shooting lightening bolts into it. It was bright white. It moved along the edge of the clouds. Finally it burst with a loud crack.
(I'm not referring to your story rosesaylavee. I can see how the ball lightening I saw could have formed lower and traveled along a low cloud or even have gotten detached from a cloud.)

[MrMickeysMom]

5. I've no reason to disbelieve ANY of this...

... which is to agree that I don't know WHAT it is, either. It fits the definition of a UFO.

Isn't it funny how words have implications that the person saying them is a "nut"? This reminds me of how I feel sometimes here about the September 11 dungeon discussion thread. When you try to ask questions and look what you have gathered as widest array resources, somehow you instill the wrath of others who prefer to remain cognitively dissident. They are not "comfortable" or want to be associated as a nut because they seem to have a problem in defining themselves as individuals.

Others aren't concerned about those labels, because they know deep down that they continue to "ask the questions".

That form of intelligence may be more rare, but it is NOT "alien"!

[debbierlus]

27. Well said.

And, I just don't get why people get so defensive over the Sept 11th questioning. There are so many holes in that story, it is
unreal. It is completely logical to question what is impossible & does not make any objective sense about that story. It does not mean we know the answers, it means we question what is not possible to discover the truth.

I think that it is too overwhelming to people to consider the implications of what the truth of that story may mean. I know it took me a few years to be able to seriously question the story & begin to explore the issue. I think many people are becoming open to understanding & learning more about what truly happened that day. We may not know for another twenty years, but I bet it will come out.

[Tracer]

6. My story:

I was a teenager, and one night I was lying on my bed sneaking a cigarette and blowing the smoke out the window.

There were woods at the end of our street and from the right, just over the trees, there appeared a largish glowing orange ball that moved at a moderate pace from right to left, and made an odd buzzing sound as it moved. The thing quite frightened me, since it was so out of place and strange.

I told my mother the next morning, but she laughed and said it was the moon. I tried to tell her otherwise, to no avail.

Years later, I read an account of an engineer in Maine who described the same phenomenon. I kept that newspaper clipping in my wallet for a long time.

[debbierlus]

7. People are quick to think you are lying...

And, anyone who has ever seen anything knows the usual reaction....

But, when you have seen something so interesting, you want to share it. So, I have always
talked about it, & I am glad I have. I have come across a few people through the years whose
faces light up & said 'OMG - I saw something just like that'....

Like I said in the first post, I am so glad that I had my sister with me. I am sure after all
these years, I would probably doubt my own experience, but she saw the same thing, so both of us
weren't hallucinating!

[windoe]

9. Many people assume

light speed is the fastest any being can travel here, because the science we were taught in school taught that. But today's quantum physics explains how matter can 'beam' somewhere faster than light. These theories open possibilities of how other advanced races could travel here. If they are advanced, then so must their science and technology.
The description of these lights sounds to me intelligent, or at least not random natural phenomena.

[Beelzebud]

10. Quantum physics says matter can "beam" somewhere faster than light?

Are you sure about that?

I'm not.

You might be thinking of Quantum Entanglement.

From wikipedia's article on Quantum Entanglement @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement
"Quantum entanglement is a quantum mechanical phenomenon in which the quantum states of two or more objects have to be described with reference to each other, even though the individual objects may be spatially separated. This leads to correlations between observable physical properties of the systems. For example, it is possible to prepare two particles in a single quantum state such that when one is observed to be spin-up, the other one will always be observed to be spin-down and vice versa, this despite the fact that it is impossible to predict, according to quantum mechanics, which set of measurements will be observed. As a result, measurements performed on one system seem to be instantaneously influencing other systems entangled with it. But quantum entanglement does not enable the transmission of classical information faster than the speed of light (see discussion in next section below)."

That is pretty far off from matter "beaming" somewhere faster than light...

[windoe]

12. I'm not a physicist, obviously

and do not mind being corrected. Quantum physics and string theory fascinate me since I am searching for a unified theory. My physicist friend would slam me for that too. I will reread some of my books and find how I came to this conclusion.
I do believe that the ufo disclosure project explains many of the experiences I have been having the past few years. The scientists and physicists there claim that ETs are beaming here somehow, and that we have retroengineered antigravity, zero point energy production, and other advanced technologies that have to do with electromagnetic fields. I respect that this may not be something everyone will choose to explore or honor, but this may well have influenced my worldview.
I am between worlds, the experiences I have definitely had, and the consensual scientific mundane physical world. I strive to find ways to join the 2 together in the most rational, sane way possible.

[intheflow]

11. I also have a W. Mass. UFO story--with a witness.

I was living in Monson at the time. My son was 15 that year. It was night, I think we were coming back from a swim meet. We came down our street, and on top of the hill across from our house was a bright white light over the tree line. Monson is very rural, and so very dark. The area the light was in was undeveloped. We'd lived in our house for a year, and had never seen a light there before. It looked like it could have been a standard light atop a tower (it never moved, though it did blink a few times), but since neither of us had ever seen a tower jutting up over the tree line, we decided to drive over that way to see if we could get a better view. We had to drive about 5 minutes to get to an access road near the area. The light was still shining. We drive up and down that road and never saw an opening in the woods for people to hike into that space, much less bring in enough equipment (generator? tower? truck?) to hoist a light that high, and there were no noises like a generator running--it was very quiet. Still the light shone. Thoroughly creeped out, we went home and never saw the light again after that night.

The light was in an area that had a cliff based with swamp on one side, and as I said, dense forest at the top of the cliff. My son was an avid hiker, and had spent time in those woods, along that access road, but he never saw a path leading to the place where we saw the light. The morning after we saw the light we went to the local diner for breakfast, and other people were talking about it. My son and I still talk about the incident, although it's been 10 years since it happened.

[debbierlus]

13. From what I have gathered, Western MA seems to have a lot of light activity

Of course, I live here, so I hear the tales.

[lovuian]

16. The Truth is out there

Great stories

[lumberjack_jeff]

14. True Story!

[ChrisCat]

15. That's so strange!

I had to get my kids to come and read your post because it sounds so much like my story that I've told them over and over. When I was in grade school, probably second or third grade, I got up and looked out my window to check for my cat that I'd let in every night. Across the road, I could see a light hovering about four feet above the ground. It was about three feet wide and two feet tall and was spinning around horizontally. It didn't seem solid, more like it was a lot of sparks or lights held together in that spinning pattern. I watched it for a while, couldn't figure out what it was, and went back to bed!

I told my parents about it, but they dismissed it as a dream, or maybe the neighbor was burning something.

[Whisp]

17. lights in the sky over prarie Canada.

late 60s early 70s or so.
a speck not so different that what a satellite or a star would be. it was near the moon, as I recall. What was strange is that it was travelling, very quickly, at 90 degree angles. staircase like.

[truedelphi]

19. My evening of the weird sci fi happening

One of my first dates with my first husband occurred during the Pleiedes meteor showers in Mid August.

We were smooching out on the lawn of the big ol farmhouse he lived in. I saw a shooting star and said something to the effect "It's a shame you're looking the other way, the meteors are falling in the sky right behind you."

Before he got time to turn around he asked, "Could they hurt us?" (He had just come back from Vietnam and was still slightly spooked about some things.)

"Nope" I started to say that they were much too far away to do more than look fabulous, when another meteor trailed acros the sky. Suddenly we heard explosions across the neighborhood. BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!

The explosions went on and on - some louder than the others, and not in any particular direction - just like small explosions set off all across a two mile radius.

We grabbed each other and ran for the house and raced into the basement. We could still hear the explosions. He asked me if I thought that maybe some type of laser warfare was occurring. That scared the Be-jesus out of me - I imagined lasers going through the ceiling and straight into the basement and zapping us. Maybe killing us! We paced about absolutely frantic in that dingy place.

We decided that we weren't safer in the basement than anywhere else. We left the house and headed for the highway, just around the corner from where he lived.

There was about twenty people forming a mob, walking along the road, and they looked dazed. They were walking briskly and heading north in direction, and we joined with them.

"What is going on?" "Damned if I know," several people replied.

Then about two blocks down the road, the people leading us turned and said, "Everybody run. Run for your lives."

We turned and joined everyone running away. We ran as if our lives depended on it, and then there was a much bigger explosion than before. However we were all safe.

Then everyone calmed down. The people who had been in the lead now knew something we all needed to know.

And here is where reality joined the scifi horror show we had been part of.

It is embarrassingly simple what had happened. Someone speeding along had driven their car into a telephone pole. That collision had caused TV's in houses across the neighborhood to blow up! And the reason we needed to turn and to run was that the telephone pole's equipment was about to blow up from the fire that the car had started.

But to this day, I can remember the surreal fear I had felt when pacing around in the basement thinking I was about to be a casualty of the world's first laser warfare.

[Art_from_Ark]

34. How can hitting a telephone pole with a car

cause TVs in many different houses to explode?

[Bluestar]

18. Joplin Spook Light

Here is a link to an article about a phenomenon known as the Joplin Spook Light. I have been to the area three times and I saw the light there two times. It is always in the same spot, at the end of a road. The light appears to get brighter as you travel away from it (weird). I have also seen it split from one to two then four balls of light and then integrate back into one ball again.

This phenomenon is well-documented but no one has conclusively figured out what it is. Here is the link:

http://www.legendsofamerica.com/MO-Spooklight.html

[Lorien]

24. I just read the whole thing. Creepy! n/t

[pitohui]

20. an interesting description well told

these are not just seen in the desert, as i have heard of them in rural arkansas from a number of people

[DCKit]

21. Y'all saw lights, I saw a HUGE silver object....

Somewhere over central PA a few years back.

I was somewhere between Baltimore and York, PA on a Greyhound bus and saw something incredibly high, huge and bright in the sky. It was mid-morning on a clear day, and I've never seen Venus that long after sunrise. It was so far away I couldn't even tell what shape it was. However, it was in sight for quite a while from a bus moving at least 65mph and appeared nearly stationary.

Just thought I'd add another type of UFO to the list.

[debbierlus]

26. Thanks for sharing, this has been a really interesting thread

I am glad I shared my story.

[neverforget]

22. About 10 years ago I was outside in Portland, OR in the evening when I looked

up and saw what I thought was a satellite. It was traveling from south to north at a high rate of speed like a satellite would. But as I'm watching it, it suddenly turned east.......at a 90 degree angle.

The other story i have doesn't involve UFO's or anything just something strange. My girlfriend at the time and I were heading out of Billings, Montana on the Molt road to go look at stars. As we pass some of the houses out there and climb the hill to the plateau, we both get this feeling of danger and of a need to turn around NOW at the same time. We both had goosebumps, our hair on our arms were standing up and we were just plain scared even though we had seen nothing, just a feeling of danger. Just thinking about it gives me the creeps. I have no idea what the hell would cause 2 people to get scared at the same time............

[Lorien]

23. Some close friends of mine saw something kind of similar

In Ohio about 14 years ago. He is a well known geologist who refuses to believe in UFOs, and she is a professional writer-both very down to earth people in their late 50's at the time. Together with his mother (visiting from England) they watched one night as a good number of white ovals formed a gigantic circle in the sky (quite high up) with one bright light in the center. The bright light in the center went to each of the surrounding lights in turn and circled it. When it had circled every one, they all pulled in to a cluster in the center of their circle, then exploded outwards, disappearing in all directions. A large number of people in the neighborhood witnessed this event. The following day the local paper carried a story with the headline "Columbus residents treated to spectacular locus mating display." :eyes:

I'm somewhat ashamed to admit that I've had a few sightings myself. I'll only relate one of them here:

My ex-fiance and I were driving through a bad section of town in Columbus, OH at about 7:30 PM on a cool evening in September, 1985. We saw three intensely bright lights hovering about 100 ft above the ground off in the distance in the direction we were heading. My ex, an air force pilot, was intrigued and wanted to figure out what they were. The closer we got, the more confused and alarmed we became. My ex's comments changed from "what the hell IS that?" to "what the F**K!!? OH MY GOD!!" the lights were attached to a MASSIVE craft, nearly the size of a football field. It was gunmetal gray, rectangular, had a small red light on the bottom, the three very bright lights were on one of the short ends, and what appeared to be three large "observation panels" were on the opposite end (we saw them as we drove to the other side of it-he wanted to drive UNDER it, but I flipped out at that suggestion. I just wanted to get away from the thing because it made no sense to me). As we were driving on the busy main road a group of young African American kids-boys about 12-16 years old- ran out in the street in front of us, their eyes fixed on the craft. The craft was hovering above a deserted department store parking lot not 60 yards from the main road. As the boys drew nearer the craft shot upwards and out of sight at a very high speed. It was going so fast that we should have heard twin sonic booms, but it didn't make a sound. I don't know what the thing was. I've certainly never heard of or seen anything like it since. :shrug:

[debbierlus]

25. Why would you be ashamed to admit what you saw?

Just because other people many not necessarily believe you, it doesn't reflect badly on you. Thanks for sharing.

The locust mating is too funny! :)

[Lorien]

28. I'm ashamed to admit how many sightings I've had

One in 1969 when I was four; the whole neighborhood saw it too: a silver cigar shaped craft that would sit still, then zip vertically,or horizontally, or diagonally, then come to a dead stop again. It was being hounded by three military aircraft and it eventually zipped straight up and was gone.I was too young to know WHY the adults were all so upset by what was happening, but I had nightmares for years about a little silver cloud that moved unnaturally and frightened everyone after that event.

The second I've already mentioned.

The third was when I was alone, taking a midnight walk around the lake in the center of my apartment complex. It was a cloudless night, but I felt a strong double "tap" (I felt like someone just said "HELLO") on the top of my head and looked up to see if there was a rain cloud over head, but instead I saw three blue oval shaped craft high up and floating along in a perfect line. They formed a triangle, another line, another triangle, then another line, then started flying madly around one another like minnows disturbed in a shallow pool-then the formed their perfect line again and zipped off. Oddly enough, I had refused to believe in UFOs until this sighting. I called every agency in town searching for an explanation and even made a complaint to the police about pilots "hot dogging it" over a populated area, but I never found a suitable explanation for what I had seen.

The forth was pretty mundane. I was driving through a semi-rural area with a friend-a professional physicist with a military background- and I noticed a blue oval craft headed towards us off to my far left. I didn't think much of it at first because we were so close to a small corporate airport, but it was the same shade of blue as the three craft that I had seen less than a year earlier. My friend was talking and as it grew closer I pointed to it and said "um, what's that"?? He went silent as we watched it casually fly low across the road right in front of us; seed pod shaped, glowing light blue with a pale yellow line running through it. There was quite a bit of traffic on the road, so I'm sure many people saw it. My friend said "Well, I guess that's a UFO". It was weird, We didn't say anything after it had flown away over the cow pastures and the tops of the trees, but after it had passed my friend couldn't STOP talking about it. How it had a "non-ballistic flight method" (??) and how it didn't match anything he had seen during his military experience. I was just shaking my head and thinking "why me"? I'm a hardcore skeptic about just about everything, so why have I been cursed with seeing so many of these things? It's getting to the point where if someone tells me that they have never seen a UFO I find it hard to believe them!

[truedelphi]

29. That is one intense tale. It hovers over a department store

And then takes off a lightning speeds. Talk about a major blue light special.

[Lorien]

30. Lol! It was an empty Rinks

The Reagan era; obviously the Rinks corporation didn't get enough of what "trickled down" from the top 1%. And here we are, 22 years later, revisiting the same idiotic policies. If those were extraterrestrials inside there, I wish that they would come back and bitch slap a few of the people in charge!

[truedelphi]

33. Amazing anomaly - the comet P17/Holmes

Don't mistake this for a UFO.
It is visible in the northeastern sky.
"This comet is different. Comet Holmes was transformed overnight into the superstar of the solar system Oct. 23, when it somehow became unglued. It shed its contents at nearly 1,000 m.p.h. and created a debris cloud that is now almost 100 times the size of Earth, said Mark Hammergren, an astronomer at Chicago's Adler Planetarium."

[snooper2]

31. 2 kids were playing with this in the garden, got mad, threw it in air

[plcdude]

32. we need

a forum for unexplained events.

[Canuckistanian]

35. I saw something weird once

I was in a camp in northern Ontario and saw some lights, some flashing, some spinning on what I assumed to be some craft. And it was moving slowly DOWN into a heavily wooded area. It looked to be about a mile or two away from me by my estimation.

The ODD thing about it was that there was no noise from the lights' direction. No engine noise at all.

It was absolutely still and quiet.