At the risk of being thought a "Kook", or stupid...I'll relate a personal story of mine for anyone interested to ponder over. Before I relate what happened that night...first some small background on myself.
I'm 46, married, 4 children and I am a martial arts enthusiast, having trained in various styles of arts for around 15+ years. I consider myself...a "realist" and not given to fancy, or in "blowing" things out of proportion...I'm about as "conservative" as they come in my thoughts about almost everything discussed.
This story is not to try and make anyone here believe in anything at all...just something for you to think upon...draw your own conclusions.
I used to hunt and fish quite a bit in the 1980's, but haven't done much of that since being married and raising children...not much time.
My best friend at the time and myself, left for our regular hunting area and campsite early on a Friday afternoon just after we got off work. Our intent was to get up to our area, setup our camp, and then try and scout out a likely area in which to place our deer stands for the next mornings hunt. This was to be our first hunt of the new season...so we were ready to get going.
On the way, we decided to stop and get something to eat...which unfortunately ( slow service ) put us up to our area about 90 minutes later than we had originally planned. We hastily threw up camp, and then went to an area we both new fairly well from previous hunts...hoping to find some fresh signs of deer, and put up our tree stands.
It was almost dark, by the time we left camp, but we had some pretty powerful flashlights, and we were confident of knowing the area, so we were not too flustered. Before I go any further...we were not, or had not had anything to drink in the way of adult beverages...nor were either of us into drugs of any sort whatsoever.
Corby and myself got up to where we wanted to be, and got out of our truck to hastily do what we needed to get done. We had walked roughly about maybe a quarter of a mile from the truck ( by now it was almost true dark ), and the path we were on and the terrain was as follows...I can still see it in my minds eye today...this night was that vivid to me.
We were walking south, with Corby on my left hand side...to his left was a ditch that went down about 15-20 feet deep...and was perhaps about 40 yards wide...before coming back up and leveling out into a field of short pine trees on the other side.
I was using my flashlight on the right hand side of the road, looking for tracks...when Corby just smacked me in the shoulder and said, " Holy *%$^* Steve, LOOK" as he pulled on my sleeve. I looked past him to the left where he was looking and over the pine trees on the other side was this...glowing ORANGE BALL ( I have no other way to describe it ) about 20-25 feet around...or so I am guessing its hard to actually say. This thing made NO NOISE...not a whisper...and as we watched it hover there it suddenly went to the right...so fast I could barely keep track of it...then it did what for all intents is impossible...it did a right angle...not a curve...a complete right angle...like completely horizontal and then straight up...at what had to be an insane amount of speed until it was lost from sight...in about 2 seconds. There was no air disturbance of any kind, nor a sonic boom, but this thing moved faster than anything I've ever seen...and from a dead stop.
Now...this is the creepy part...we were already a bit unnerved but we considered the thing gone, and we still had to hunt the next day. So...we started to search for deer sign again...even though we were feeling more than a bit weird...heck that's an understatement. You know that feeling, that you get when you just "know" someone is watching you...well I got that feeling all of a sudden...the hair was literally standing up on my neck...so I glanced behind me. That thing was back, and it was just "observing" us...hovering there above the tree line again.
Well...we didn't wait around any longer...I can't remember what we said, as we ran like scared out of our minds children for our truck, but I'm sure that it would require LOTS of censoring.
Was it an alien spacecraft? A true UFO? I'm not saying that...I have no idea at all what it was...just that it scared the daylights out of 2 grown and fairly rational men. I do know, that it was not a helicopter, nor any type of aircraft that I can even contemplate. It was not a weather balloon, nor was it some stupid air reflections off of something, this thing did behavior...that defies anything I personally know of that we use for flight. The G's alone would smash a pilot flat dead, doing the right angle at the speed that it did, unless it were something unmanned. Even at that, this "ball / sphere" had no observable flight control surfaces I could see...NONE. I freely admit, that I did not have a great deal of time to study ( too busy running the second time ) whatever this thing was, but to my eye...NONE and it generated no noise ( nothing )...how is that even possible? Draw your own conclusions...make your own hypothesis...I am neither a Physics person, nor a mathematician...but to this day I still think of that night and that very strange thing we saw.
