When I was young, I lived in a small town of about 2,000 people, far from any major city. It wasn’t super deep country, aka, the boondocks, but there was a horse and cow pasture behind our house, a corn and soybean field to the right, and, on the other side of a narrow gravel road, a hay field in front of our house. Almost every night, there was a wonderful view of the stars, especially compared to the city I live in now where I’m lucky to see the handful of stars I can.
For years, my best friend and I loved looking at the stars, identifying the constellations, staying up past midnight to watch meteor showers and, with the help of his low-powered telescope, go planet hunting. I still remember the first time I could see Saturn’s rings in that telescope; it was faint but unmistakable and thrilling. Eventually we got pretty good at picking out the planets from Mercury to Saturn with the naked eye.
Around the age of 14 during one evening of star-gazing, we both, near simultaneously noticed something out of place. It looked like a plain white star, but brighter, like Venus, but we knew it wasn’t Venus. We stared, pointed and asked each other, “What’s that?” Neither of us knew; it just seemed off. Maybe it was an airplane at just the right angle, but it didn’t waver or have an accompanying red flashing light we were used to seeing on airplanes.
Then in a blink, it darted with unnatural speed. Our eyes only caught the faintest of a streak to hint in which direction it had went. We snapped our heads to the other side of the sky and caught sight of it again. Then it darted again and again, as if trying to run away from our sight. Then it darted back to nearly the same position we first found it, and it paused for a few seconds. Suddenly, at a speed even faster than before, it appeared to shoot straight up and out of sight in less than a blink of an eye.
We scoured the sky, trying to find it again and failed. Instead, we were left wondering what we just saw. At first we thought maybe a firefly, but fireflies were green-yellow, flashed and didn’t fly all that fast nor in straight lines. Could it have been a helicopter? We doubted it. At the angles it took when it darted, at the speed it must have been, we couldn’t imagine a machine or pilot who could survive such fast starts and sudden stops. Maybe it was a satellite; we’ve spotted many satellites over the years as they are easy to notice, moving among the seemingly stationary stars. But we had never see a satellite start or stop moving is such a drastic way.
It is difficult for me to describe exactly how fast it moved; we could barely keep up with it. Besides, there was no noise and the white light remained steady. We eventually had to admit to ourselves that it was a UFO (unidentified flying object), as in it was an object that appeared to fly and we couldn’t identify it.
To this day, I cannot explain what we saw. Throughout my entire life, I’ve never seen an airplane, helicopter or even a drone move like that light did. And if it was some kind of secret military craft, I still can’t imagine a human surviving the G-forces that must have been present at those speeds.
So, yes, UFOs are real, and no one can make me believe otherwise. I’m not talking about otherworldly visitors or spacecraft; there was no indication of that. It was simply a point of light that acted intelligent and unlike anything I’ve seen since.
The term UAP (unidentified aerial phenomenon) doesn’t bother me because I have no idea what it was we saw, and it was absolutely phenomenal. I struggle to not speculate as I wish to keep an open mind in the case I stumble upon a potential answer. I would love an answer but, to this day, have found none that match what that light did.
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