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Case 112248: Dustin [last name withheld] initially saw the “star-like” object as a “blurry line” and as it approached, he could see a bright red orb and preceded by what Dustin called its “bow-shock (a semi-circle of misty air around the front, but not connected to the object)”. He then called his wife Heather to then watch the orb turn toward the north of Middlesex, North Carolina. There was no sound or apparent emissions. The object was 50° above the horizon and heading toward an airplane in the distance. The observation lasted 2 minutes.
Dustin’s drawing of what he called a “star-like” object and its shock wave appear left.
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My fireball story goes back 1965. I was 7 years old at the time and the space race was going strong. My parents were hosting a PTA bar-b-que in their back yard with other teachers and faculty. It was a clear summer day in Chico California. A tremendous roar drowned out the party music as a humongous flameing fireball flew painfully slow across the sky about 1000 feet up. It was so slow I thought it would fall out of the sky. It was being followed a few minutes later by 2 F-104 starfighters. I watched in amazement as it made a sweeping turn…And flew away. It was being intelligently controlled. The military obviously knew about it. I hounded my dad to call the airport tower to see if they saw it…as it was headed their way. He knew one of the tower employees from the Elks club…And they had only seen the two jets peel away and head south back to Beale Air Force base. So after this object turned it had to of ascended into the sky..otherwise the airport tower employees would have seen it as well as the jets. I don’t know what it was..but I do know what it wasn’t. It wasn’t a rocket booster..plane..balloon..satillete..comet (way to slow) or a bolide ( they don’t change course and fly up and away) …swamp gas..Venus..or a blimp. Absolutely nothing on the news or newspapers about it. This incident got me interested in UFOs and astronomy both of which I’m still looking for answers. I’m a semi-professional backyard astronomer and see late night /early morning UAPs all the time. 4:00a.m. Till sunrise is primetime. But the more I research ufos for answers…I end up with more questions.
Around the 2:30 mark there are a few videos that document a nearly identical phenomenon. The title of the video is ball lightning but I don’t know if that’s true. Is this what you saw? It’s eerily similar to the drawing from the account above.
https://youtu.be/pn1spmoZyOI
Absolutely not. It was probably the size of a half doller at arms length. As I said being chased by two jets. Jets don’t chase ball lightening.
My second fireball sighting took place at the exact same location only 45 years later. My wife and I bought my parents lovely home and raised put two sons there. One clear but cold October day we were both watching the S.F.Giants playing a great game on t.v.. I went out to get firewood to stoke the fire and for some reason looked up just in time to see a fireball about the size of a quarter held at arms length glide in and stop over out roofline maybe a hundred feet up in the air. It just hovered there motionless. I dropped the wood and dashed inside calling my wife to come outside while grabbing the camera off the counter which I had just charged up. When we ran outside..I was fummbleing with the camera and pointing at it as it hovered there. What stuck me most was it’s “flames”. It was bright iridescent orange with a yellowish flames around the edges. But as we both looked at it we both thought the flames looked animated or cartoonish….something you would see on a kids cartoon show. Like they were hand drawn by a animation artist. And as I’m snapping away with the camera this orb or fireball rolls into two identical flameing orbs…then one shot off in the blink of an eye and disappeared to the west..followed by the second one 5 seconds later. They were gone and we were stunned and speechless. It kind of freaked my wife out. I don’t know what it was. It wasn’t a physical craft…at least in our known knowledge of physics. It was intelligently controlled as it split into two and changed course and flew away. It seemed to put on a demonstration for us…It was a single UAP for me alone but changed into two when it was my wife and I. It was very close and silent without exhaust or emmisions. It wasn’t a drone or ball lightning..or Venus..or a balloon. It was real. Unfortunately my photos only show a streak of orange..not much detail…possibly my fault for being so excited. On a interesting side note..at the time I was working graveyard at work. I got off at 4:00a.m. I used to see so much stuff flying around from 4:00a.m. to sunrise I kept that camera charged at all times in my pickup. It had 5 or 6 very good photos of ufos on it. One in particular..a brilliant white light that glided over our home at 4:30a.m. I thought it was a small plane in Till there was no sound. So for shits and giggles I flashed S.O.S. at it. Then it slowed to a crawl lighting up our driveway. silently. I got some photos that show the driveway lit up by something but no craft…even though I know it was in the viewfinder at the time. I felt like a bug being observed under a magnifying glass. So that camera had a great collection on it. Someone broke into my pickup and took it one night. Took only that. Lots of other more valuable thing to take..but only the camera..no forced entry..somehow unlocked the doors on a 2012 Toyota Tundra…with alarm. I always thought that was odd. Maybe NSA..or CIA..or M.I.B.s. Who knows.
USA government agencies and/or international agencies do not have the capabilities to explain what are behind these unknowns. It matters only if these claimed “experts” or scientists who are indulged with these can present a specimen or specimens that one/anyone can explain of such existence that can hard hit stone to bleed advance sciences and can make reference that one is so stupid and remain a moron who can still not understand there are beings with advanced capabilities who exist sharing the environment.
I think suppressing the evidence of these visitations is paramount. The fact that they have been visiting for thousands of years possibly tinkering with mankind’s development is reason enough. Acquisition of the technology is a bonus however it could take hundreds of years before we could recreate the materials or understand the physics of such craft. But these non craft are the strange ones. They must be interdeminsional…bordering on paranormal. Perhaps they are one and the same.
I live two blocks from the beach in a New Jersey shore town. I have been walking on the boardwalk daily for years.
Six weeks ago during my ordinary daily walk, I noticed unusual activity in the night sky just over the water. Objects were moving slowly and hovering for long periods of time, about a 1/2 mile from the shore line
. Since then, I’ve been keeping a journal of my nightly observations. I watch as the lights get brighter and dimmer during the course of the night. I have video recordings of their movements. I have taken photographs, but the objects rarely appear like what I actually see with my naked eye. They look like rapidly spinning orange balls of fire. One came and hovered over me about 50 feet. It seemed to respond to the music, blinking on and off. Then, as quickly as it came, it sped out into the ocean.
On January 4, while taking my daily walk, I saw three lights hovering over the surf. From left to right, they were green, orange and orange. It followed me along the water, the length of the boardwalk and back. My fiancé witnessed it with me. The next day, January 5 ,2021, I brought a friend, she witnessed the same. It had followed us from one end of the boar walk and back. We drove to another part of the beach a mile away, and it was there hovering over the surf when we got there.
After my walk I drove to Dick’s Sporting Goods and purchased a pair of 10x 42mm binoculars. I returned to the beach to observe the object and what I saw was startling.
The object was orange in color and shaped like a woman’s bracelet surrounded with lights instead of jewels. In between the lights there seemed to be empty spaces or a black bands. Although the ocean waves were rough over the past two days, the object remained eerily steady.
I plan to go back tomorrow, weather permitting, for more observations.
The questions I asked myself were: Could it be a drone? Well, it certainly looks like one. A large one. Is it manned or unmanned? I can’t tell. Is it extraterrestrial? I have no evidence to support that, but I do know that what I have been seeing is extraordinary.
Angela S. Wow thats really strange. In answer to your questions let’s think about this and maybe we can narrow down an answer. If it was a commercial drone…the kind you get at the big box stores…most only fly 30 minutes or so until they need a recharge. They sound like weed wackers in the air…kind of noisy. You sighting was much longer. A lot have small led lights on them…one even looks like a flying saucer. If it was a military drone…why would it be flying over the beach and flashing with music? Over a period of weeks.? Knowing the military one of their drones would cost millions..not a weekend toy for the troops. Depending on the size of the lights..probably not manned. Is it extraterrestrial? My first fireball sighting I belive was a craft since it changed direction and altitude. But the second fireball sighting was more like what your seeing. What are they? I can only guess..so here goes. After researching them as much as possible I have come to these conclusions. 1. They are intelligently controlled..sometimes playful. 2. They seem to boarder on the paranormal. Are they ghosts? Not in the haunted house sense…research fairy lights..the Marfa lights…etc.etc. There is a story of a little girl on a swing set who saw one and tried to touch it. It telepathically told her..” we mean you no harm but do not touch us or you could die ” Another story about a hunters dogs who chased some into the brush. He found them later…liquefied in a black puddle. I think these are light beings…or energy beings..intelligent…maybe from space..maybe from a different dimension. I watched one on my property the size of a baseball bob and weave around a grove of oak trees for hours…like it was looking for something. I don’t think they are evil or mean us harm…but I’m sure the indigenous people thought they were evil spirits. Like me..you probably have more questions than answers. Research them. How lucky you and your friends got to see them. Keep looking up. 🙂
I went through a 5 yr period where I could just look up and see a UAP, although I hardly see anything nowadays. My sighting is the same as MMillers. I was taking the trash out early one evening, maybe 7:00 pm in 2016. Something caused me to look up and what I saw amazed me. A perfectly round sphere, orange in color that appeared to be on fire inside flying along about Cessna speed. I would estimate it to be 800 to 1000 feet off the ground and maybe the size of a VW bug. The weird thing was the burning inside, it looked like looking down into a round bbq grill with red hot charcoal turning from orange to yellow to black. I remember seeing it for only a few seconds like it knew I was looking and went out. Another weird thing was when it extinguished its flame, or what ever it was, it was like it flew through a waterfall. It started going out in front and a straight line traveled through it until it disappeared, like it went through a wall of water. It made no sound. I witnessed this in Apache Junction, Az. Rob
It’s very possible it was phasing into another dimension or realm. We just moved to our new house here in Florence Oregon. One evening I was out starwatching and I saw the exact same thing as you . I watched it glide silently over our roofline about 500 feet up. Mine didn’t disappear like yours but just sailed out of sight. Maybe if people went outside and looked up at the sky instead of t.v. they might be amazed. 🙂
