Quinn
Breathtakingly blasphemous.
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Last night I had my first ever honest-to-goodness UFO sighting. Of course when I say UFO, I mean it in the literal sense (flying objects in the sky, which I personally could not identify), not in the "presumed alien spacecraft" sense. And it was friggin' cool!
A little before 12:30am I was walking to my car, and saw what I first thought were about 8 aircraft flying in formation. But after a second I realized they weren't aircraft; they looked too low, and they seemed to be floating rather than being propelled. Also, they were vaguely spherical in shape, orange colored, and glowing. But their light was flickering, as if lit by a flame on the inside -- kind of like giant floating jack-o-lanterns. They were all moving in the same direction, in what seemed to be a straight line, gaining altitude as they moved. They were fairly low in the sky (maybe 25-30 degrees up from the horizon), and initially I could only see them through a fairly small space between two buildings. Then I walked up the block to a wide open parking lot for a better view.
From there I could tell that there were a lot more of them than I initially saw. At one point I counted about 15 in view at one time, but there was a constant stream of them. They all seemed to be originating from a common point (blocked from my view by buildings), from which they floated across the sky and upward, all following the same path. Then when they reached a certain point they seemed to disappear. I couldn't tell if this was because whatever was illuminating them burned out, or because they were going behind a cloud. (Note: At the point where they first came into my view, they were below the clouds.)
I stood watching them for probably about 5 minutes, and I would estimate that in that time I probably saw about 50 of them go by. Then they simply stopped appearing, and the last ones faded from view. During that time I spoke to two other people who saw them. When I first noticed them, I did a double take and said "What the ****?!?", at which point a random guy passing by me on the sidewalk said "I'm glad you see 'em too, 'cuz I thought I was trippin'." (For the record, I was 100% sober during all this.) Then when I got to the parking lot a moment later, the attendant was already intently watching them, and mentioned that he counted about 20 of them. Also, while I was watching, I called a friend in another part of town (who I knew was still up), and told her to go outside and look for them, but she couldn't see them from where she was. Unfortunately, due to all the street lights around, they weren't bright enough to show up on my phone's video camera, though I did try.
So my best guess is that they were some sort of balloons. What kind, and why they were released, and by whom, I have no clue. If I had only seen one or two, I would have guessed they were homemade "big plastic bag + wire frame + candles" balloons, sent up as a prank. But given the number that I saw, that would be one hell of an ambitious prank.
So I'll be looking forward to the local news today, to hopefully find out what they were.
A little before 12:30am I was walking to my car, and saw what I first thought were about 8 aircraft flying in formation. But after a second I realized they weren't aircraft; they looked too low, and they seemed to be floating rather than being propelled. Also, they were vaguely spherical in shape, orange colored, and glowing. But their light was flickering, as if lit by a flame on the inside -- kind of like giant floating jack-o-lanterns. They were all moving in the same direction, in what seemed to be a straight line, gaining altitude as they moved. They were fairly low in the sky (maybe 25-30 degrees up from the horizon), and initially I could only see them through a fairly small space between two buildings. Then I walked up the block to a wide open parking lot for a better view.
From there I could tell that there were a lot more of them than I initially saw. At one point I counted about 15 in view at one time, but there was a constant stream of them. They all seemed to be originating from a common point (blocked from my view by buildings), from which they floated across the sky and upward, all following the same path. Then when they reached a certain point they seemed to disappear. I couldn't tell if this was because whatever was illuminating them burned out, or because they were going behind a cloud. (Note: At the point where they first came into my view, they were below the clouds.)
I stood watching them for probably about 5 minutes, and I would estimate that in that time I probably saw about 50 of them go by. Then they simply stopped appearing, and the last ones faded from view. During that time I spoke to two other people who saw them. When I first noticed them, I did a double take and said "What the ****?!?", at which point a random guy passing by me on the sidewalk said "I'm glad you see 'em too, 'cuz I thought I was trippin'." (For the record, I was 100% sober during all this.) Then when I got to the parking lot a moment later, the attendant was already intently watching them, and mentioned that he counted about 20 of them. Also, while I was watching, I called a friend in another part of town (who I knew was still up), and told her to go outside and look for them, but she couldn't see them from where she was. Unfortunately, due to all the street lights around, they weren't bright enough to show up on my phone's video camera, though I did try.
So my best guess is that they were some sort of balloons. What kind, and why they were released, and by whom, I have no clue. If I had only seen one or two, I would have guessed they were homemade "big plastic bag + wire frame + candles" balloons, sent up as a prank. But given the number that I saw, that would be one hell of an ambitious prank.
So I'll be looking forward to the local news today, to hopefully find out what they were.
