Date:
1972
Location: Springfield, Virginia, United States
My
best guess is that I was about 7 years old when this happened,
maybe younger. ...When we got to the middle of the wet
street, I looked up and saw something very strange. Hanging
there, just ahead and above me to my right, in the overcast
sky, was a big, round, silver metal orb.
Source:
UFO Evidence
Date
Posted: 3/5/2004 9:48:28 p.m.
Day/Night:
Daytime
Duration: a few minutes
No. of Witnesses: 0
No. of Object(s): Single
Full
Description/Details
"My
best guess is that I was about 7 years old when this happened,
maybe younger. I remember having on short sleeves, and
the street was still wet in places from a recent rain,
late afternoon. We lived on a cul-de-sac in a neighborhood
full of young families with children. My best friend,
another friend of ours, and I were crossing the street
from my house to go over to my best friend's house to
play. When we got to the middle of the wet street, I looked
up and saw something very strange. Hanging there, just
ahead and above me to my right, in the overcast sky, was
a big, round, silver metal orb. Even more strange, there
were yellow/white glowing symbols, almost letter-like,
that were rotating around the middle of the sphere. It
seemed very close by, right around the treetop level of
the tallest trees in our neighborhood, much closer than
anything I had ever seen in the sky. It seemed to be bigger
than a car, but a lot smaller than a house. Stunned, I
called to my friends who had kept on walking. Oddly, they
seemed not to recognize anything strange, nor did they
even look up to where I was pointing, and they continued
on across the street. I was so curious and stayed right
there in the middle of the street to see if I could "read"
what the symbols said, and if I could figure out what
the metal ball was. My only frame of reference for anything
like a message in the sky were blimps with bulb-flashing
messages on the passenger car area, or planes that trailed
a banner behind them. I have always loved reading, letters,
communication, and language, so I was eager to solve what
I thought was a puzzle. Try as I might, none of the symbols
resembled any letters that I knew (there certainly weren't
any "spaces" between any supposed "words"),
and I remember thinking this must be another language
that doesn't use the same letters. I had never seen anything
in the sky shaped and looking like this orb ever before,
and I remember wondering why is this new invention advertising
something right over our street??? It seemed like I stood
there only a few minutes, and then I found myself continuing
on across the street to my best friend's house. Once inside,
my friends annoyingly asked, "Where were you?"
I told them excitedly about what I had seen (including
both of our moms), but I was brushed off by everyone.
Every so often after that, when I headed across to my
best friend's house, I would stop in the center of the
street, and look up to see if the metal orb had come back.
I never saw it again."
Other
Comments
"I
have never forgotten my own strange sighting. Over recent
years, with the availability of the internet, I have looked
to see if anyone has seen something like I reported here.
So far, I haven't found any mention like mine with the
same details in the UFO cateogory during my internet searches,
so perhaps what I saw is identifiable, and someone knows
what it is!"
Reported
Sighting? Yes
Reported To: To my friends, my best-friends mom, and my
own mom
Location: Kentucky
Source:
http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case71.htm