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Had that same feeling years ago. Went out to a dark place to see the stars. Ended up seeing a light jumping around on the horizon. Then there was a bright white
by sockgrant 8y ago
Had that same feeling years ago. Went out to a dark place to see the stars. Ended up seeing a light jumping around on the horizon. Then there was a bright white flash that lit up the whole field and forest, but not like lightning. No shadows, no source of light. There wasn't a cloud in the sky, no thunder. It wasn't lightning.
Pretty scared, I kept watching the jumping light on the horizon. A few minutes later the white flash again. I ran back to my car.
I had the same ridiculous thoughts as you. "what if they know I saw?"
It freaked me out for a long time. The way the light was moving.... Too fast to see the movement even, it was here, then there. I watched it bounce around for at least a full half hour, it wasn't a satellite or a meteor.
- mrleinad 8y agoSaw a similar light when I was a child, my brothers saw it too. But this one was right above our heads in the sky, and there was no flash when it disappeared. Bounced from one place to another, and it was really far away, so we are talking hundreds of kilometers in a second. Never forgot about it.
- sockgrant 8y agoDang. That's scary. While I was watching I started out in awe feeling like "holy crap, I'm looking at a UFO!" But after staring at it for a long time and then having the white flashes I quickly changed to "oh fuck, I'm near a UFO". I was with someone, they were very scared, too.
- mrleinad 8y agoWas about 10 years old, and the thing was just a bit brighter than the stars. Wasn't scary, it was exciting to see at the moment.
- chris1993 8y agoSimilar lights in the Australian desert appear related to inversion layers refracting headlights over the horizon (http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s818193.htm http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s818193.htm)
- midrus 8y agoThat's what the Men in Black would say.
- jmts 8y agoOr in this case (if you check the researcher's surname), the Ministry of Magic.
- sockgrant 8y agoInteresting. I suppose that's possible. It was a single light and it was changing colors. Its movement tended to stay within a specific range. Do you have any thoughts on the white flashes? They were the scary part. Everything was perfectly daytime for a split second, and there was no fading of the light like with lightning. It was immediately all white then immediately dark again. It creeps me out thinking about it. The light on the horizon seemed 50 miles away, but the flash was right on us, extremely bright, and blanketed everything evenly.
- LyndsySimon 8y agoCheck out "Iridium flares" - they sound a lot like you've described, including coming in pairs.
- cr1895 8y agoSounds like the Marfa lights in the west Texas high desert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marfa_lights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marfa_lights