NSTG8R
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Okay, THIS is going to sound nutty to some people, and as my "first official post" on this forum, it's going to be waaaay off topic. 'General Discussion' seemed like the right catagory....Okay, has anyone observed bright orange balls flying around? o_O I (and many witnesses with me) have about 7 times in the last 5 years.
1st time: Around mid November 2009, I got home from working a 12, and my wife was watching our grandson who was only a couple of months old. I step out the back onto the patio (back of my house points dead south) to burn a cigarette and have a Budlight and immediately notice a bright, and I mean like 5x Venus bright, orange light about 20 deg above the horizon, south southwest. I've been in aviation since I was 18, and 100% of that military jets. I know FAA rules and regs., and ORANGE is NOT a color allowed on anything flying, anywhere on the planet. It wasn't moving at all, and seemed pretty steady in it's intensity. I watched it for a full 10 minutes, went in the house and told the wife to "check this sh*t out!". Grabbed another cig, and we both watched it for another 5 - 10 minutes. It all the sudden started blinking, and fading in and out for around 15 seconds, then, poof, it was gone. We look at each other, and she was expecting me to tell her what it was....I had no idea.
2nd time: Around 2 years later on the 4th of July we (wife and I, our kids (in their 20's) and their friends) were walking to the city park a couple of blocks away to watch the fireworks display. It was dusk, not dark yet, and as we came out of the alley towards the park, the orange ball, identical in color to the one I had witnessed a couple of years ago, was head towards us from the southwest. I yelled at everyone, "Look! It's that orange ball thing!", and all of us watched travel towards us, disappear, and then show up again a half second later heading dead east...VERY bizaar!. Oh...and not a sound.
3rd and 4th time happened on one night, again sitting on our patio with some friends having a couple of beers about a year or so later. My buddy, Charlie, is facing the house, looking north. He gets a wierd look on his face and says, "What the h*ll is that!?". I stood up and turned around to see ANOTHER of these orange balls (and what's freaky, is they're not glarey like stars or planets) heading east to west. All of us observed it or about 20 -25 seconds until we lost it due to the trees. Charlie called his cousin Jim, who lives southwest-ish of us about 10 miles down I-44, and told to to step outside and look up....Jim also saw the "whatever it is". We were still standing around 45 minutes later scanning the sky, when 4 of them in a row came by, going the same direction as the first one, and at the same speed. As they passed, the third one back started blinking, and disappeared just like the first one I ever saw. Here's the freaky thing folks. You can hear a jetliner at 30k feet, it won't be in the direction you're hearing the sound coming from because obviously, light is faster than sound.....these things made ABSOLUTELY no sound at all.
And the last three times were earlier this summer. Twice more with our friends Charlie and his wife Georgia at their house, and once when my cousin from Dallas and her husband came up to visit. Tony, my cousin's husband, was truly freaked out, and spent every night they were here (3) staring up at the sky with a pair of binoculars in hand.
Okay, don't give me the "Chinese lanterns" explanation. We tried that theory....they didn't even come close to the movement or color. So......?
[crickets chirpping...
]
1st time: Around mid November 2009, I got home from working a 12, and my wife was watching our grandson who was only a couple of months old. I step out the back onto the patio (back of my house points dead south) to burn a cigarette and have a Budlight and immediately notice a bright, and I mean like 5x Venus bright, orange light about 20 deg above the horizon, south southwest. I've been in aviation since I was 18, and 100% of that military jets. I know FAA rules and regs., and ORANGE is NOT a color allowed on anything flying, anywhere on the planet. It wasn't moving at all, and seemed pretty steady in it's intensity. I watched it for a full 10 minutes, went in the house and told the wife to "check this sh*t out!". Grabbed another cig, and we both watched it for another 5 - 10 minutes. It all the sudden started blinking, and fading in and out for around 15 seconds, then, poof, it was gone. We look at each other, and she was expecting me to tell her what it was....I had no idea.
2nd time: Around 2 years later on the 4th of July we (wife and I, our kids (in their 20's) and their friends) were walking to the city park a couple of blocks away to watch the fireworks display. It was dusk, not dark yet, and as we came out of the alley towards the park, the orange ball, identical in color to the one I had witnessed a couple of years ago, was head towards us from the southwest. I yelled at everyone, "Look! It's that orange ball thing!", and all of us watched travel towards us, disappear, and then show up again a half second later heading dead east...VERY bizaar!. Oh...and not a sound.
3rd and 4th time happened on one night, again sitting on our patio with some friends having a couple of beers about a year or so later. My buddy, Charlie, is facing the house, looking north. He gets a wierd look on his face and says, "What the h*ll is that!?". I stood up and turned around to see ANOTHER of these orange balls (and what's freaky, is they're not glarey like stars or planets) heading east to west. All of us observed it or about 20 -25 seconds until we lost it due to the trees. Charlie called his cousin Jim, who lives southwest-ish of us about 10 miles down I-44, and told to to step outside and look up....Jim also saw the "whatever it is". We were still standing around 45 minutes later scanning the sky, when 4 of them in a row came by, going the same direction as the first one, and at the same speed. As they passed, the third one back started blinking, and disappeared just like the first one I ever saw. Here's the freaky thing folks. You can hear a jetliner at 30k feet, it won't be in the direction you're hearing the sound coming from because obviously, light is faster than sound.....these things made ABSOLUTELY no sound at all.
And the last three times were earlier this summer. Twice more with our friends Charlie and his wife Georgia at their house, and once when my cousin from Dallas and her husband came up to visit. Tony, my cousin's husband, was truly freaked out, and spent every night they were here (3) staring up at the sky with a pair of binoculars in hand.
Okay, don't give me the "Chinese lanterns" explanation. We tried that theory....they didn't even come close to the movement or color. So......?
[crickets chirpping...
]
