LadyRavenHeart
20th October 2017, 13:22
This took place during the month of November, approximately 5 years ago, but remains indelibly etched in my memory, hopefully forever.
It was a cloudless evening with a full, bright moon and the weather was perfect by our coastal standards. I was already in bed and chatting to an friend who was living in Northern Africa at the time on a work contract. At some point in the conversation he asked me about the weather and I said I would go out and have a look. I opened the sliding patio door, unlocked the gate and went out onto our back patio, which overlooks the valley behind our house, with a stunning view of our bay and small island off our coastline.
As I stepped out into the night air, my first thought was that it was strange that I had not heard any neighbourhood dogs barking for a couple of hours. My second realisation was that the night air was absolutely quiet. No chirping crickets, frogs or birds. For a place know as the "windy city", the all present wind was absent - not something that happens often at all.
My friend asked if I could see the stars, as he had just told me how beautiful the night sky was where he was (in a jungle). I looked up to my right (to the west) and amongst the stars was a strangely uniform "formation" of lights. I looked away, expecting to look back and see nothing but stars. But there it was again. As this was happening, I was giving my friend a running account of what I was seeing. I doubt I was making much sense at the time - I was astounded and excited, amused, shocked and a little apprehensive all at the same time. My friend had always known me as an extremely realistic, critical thinker - and at that moment, to him I must have sounded like a babbling idiot. At one point I tried to take photos with my cellphone, but nothing showed in the review pane (either during or after the encounter).
I remember saying over and over - "oh my word .... wow ... oh my gosh ... you've got to see this!" The "lights" were bright. much brighter than the stars, but with a slightly golden glowing halo around each of them. In total (I counted out loud to my friend) - there were sixteen of them! In between my babbling I stood in silence, just watching and wondering what I was really seeing. My friend had to keep asking if I was okay.
Over the next approximately 20 minutes, I watched in total awe, as the lights moved in perfect synchronicity, slowly moving around each other and re-positioning themselves. After each display of aerobatics, they reformed into a perfect, what I can only refer to as a cube-like structure. 4 deep, 4 wide, 4 high.
I was almost afraid to look away, but when I did and looked over to the east, I observed a single similarly golden halo-ed light. Much larger than the rest and considerably brighter. This one, however, was completely stationary. I did sense though that it was in some way communicating with the "fleet" to my right, and was in control of their movements.
All of this happened in total silence, apart of course from my now whispered words of amazement to my friend, who only wanted to know from me if I felt threatened in anyway. I definitely did not, at all. He then said I should hang up and "enjoy the show". Only afterwards did this strike me as odd - as he was also somewhat of a realist and it was not the reaction I expected of him. Sadly though, some time after this experience he stopped talking to me and I can only assume that he may have written me off as some kind of nutjob.
As I continued to watch, the fleet again arranged themselves into a perfectly formed cube and one by one, from the top layer down "flew" off at a sharp angle (away from my view) and disappeared.
As they left, I felt almost instantly melancholic, willing them to stay, but soon there was just an open patch of starry sky.When I looked to my left again, the "mother" light was gone.
Within seconds, the crickets, night birds, frogs and dogs commenced their usual noisy cacophony and a light breeze fluttered the trees in the yard next door.
I have never witnessed anything similar before, nor do I feel that I will live long enough to witness it again. The local media carried a few one line reports of people in the area having seen a few random lights that night, but nothing near to what I saw. (As a side note, at the time I was on no medication and I do not drink). :-)
I do, however, still feel extremely fortunate to have had this experience, and similarly blessed to have found a community of people to share the experience with. :heart:
It was a cloudless evening with a full, bright moon and the weather was perfect by our coastal standards. I was already in bed and chatting to an friend who was living in Northern Africa at the time on a work contract. At some point in the conversation he asked me about the weather and I said I would go out and have a look. I opened the sliding patio door, unlocked the gate and went out onto our back patio, which overlooks the valley behind our house, with a stunning view of our bay and small island off our coastline.
As I stepped out into the night air, my first thought was that it was strange that I had not heard any neighbourhood dogs barking for a couple of hours. My second realisation was that the night air was absolutely quiet. No chirping crickets, frogs or birds. For a place know as the "windy city", the all present wind was absent - not something that happens often at all.
My friend asked if I could see the stars, as he had just told me how beautiful the night sky was where he was (in a jungle). I looked up to my right (to the west) and amongst the stars was a strangely uniform "formation" of lights. I looked away, expecting to look back and see nothing but stars. But there it was again. As this was happening, I was giving my friend a running account of what I was seeing. I doubt I was making much sense at the time - I was astounded and excited, amused, shocked and a little apprehensive all at the same time. My friend had always known me as an extremely realistic, critical thinker - and at that moment, to him I must have sounded like a babbling idiot. At one point I tried to take photos with my cellphone, but nothing showed in the review pane (either during or after the encounter).
I remember saying over and over - "oh my word .... wow ... oh my gosh ... you've got to see this!" The "lights" were bright. much brighter than the stars, but with a slightly golden glowing halo around each of them. In total (I counted out loud to my friend) - there were sixteen of them! In between my babbling I stood in silence, just watching and wondering what I was really seeing. My friend had to keep asking if I was okay.
Over the next approximately 20 minutes, I watched in total awe, as the lights moved in perfect synchronicity, slowly moving around each other and re-positioning themselves. After each display of aerobatics, they reformed into a perfect, what I can only refer to as a cube-like structure. 4 deep, 4 wide, 4 high.
I was almost afraid to look away, but when I did and looked over to the east, I observed a single similarly golden halo-ed light. Much larger than the rest and considerably brighter. This one, however, was completely stationary. I did sense though that it was in some way communicating with the "fleet" to my right, and was in control of their movements.
All of this happened in total silence, apart of course from my now whispered words of amazement to my friend, who only wanted to know from me if I felt threatened in anyway. I definitely did not, at all. He then said I should hang up and "enjoy the show". Only afterwards did this strike me as odd - as he was also somewhat of a realist and it was not the reaction I expected of him. Sadly though, some time after this experience he stopped talking to me and I can only assume that he may have written me off as some kind of nutjob.
As I continued to watch, the fleet again arranged themselves into a perfectly formed cube and one by one, from the top layer down "flew" off at a sharp angle (away from my view) and disappeared.
As they left, I felt almost instantly melancholic, willing them to stay, but soon there was just an open patch of starry sky.When I looked to my left again, the "mother" light was gone.
Within seconds, the crickets, night birds, frogs and dogs commenced their usual noisy cacophony and a light breeze fluttered the trees in the yard next door.
I have never witnessed anything similar before, nor do I feel that I will live long enough to witness it again. The local media carried a few one line reports of people in the area having seen a few random lights that night, but nothing near to what I saw. (As a side note, at the time I was on no medication and I do not drink). :-)
I do, however, still feel extremely fortunate to have had this experience, and similarly blessed to have found a community of people to share the experience with. :heart: