Ned writes:
Some years later with friends we saw a real UFO. We were in the mountains in the middle of BC. A very bright slightly orange object moved from the zenith to the horizon. Much, much brighter than Venus.
Several years ago I saw something like this. While driving down the road near where I live, I saw what appeared to be an orange glowing "ball" moving around in the sky.
To eliminate the obvious right away, it wasn't the sun. It happened around sunset and the sun was going down on the opposite side of the sky at the time. Further, it was moving too fast and actually changed direction several times.
It was too big to be a star, too small to be the moon, didn't look like any kind of aircraft that I'm familiar with and, in any case, was moving far too oddly to be any of the above. In fact, I might have thought it was a meteor except for the way it moved and the fact that it didn't appear to "streak" across the sky, if you get my meaning, but just appear as a spherical object.
To be clear, I don't believe it was an alien craft. But, even now, I truly have no idea what it
was. Whatever it was, it seemed completely real. I don't believe it was a trick of the light or a reflection on the windshield or anything like that. It seemed to have a genuine physical "substance" to it. It appeared to be an absolutely true-to-life physical object of some kind up there in the sky.
All I know is that I had never seen anything like it. In fact, I was so mesmerized by it, and so busy trying to keep my eyes on it as it flew up and out of sight, that I almost steered the car off the road.
Anyway, that's the story of my "close encounter," if anyone is interested. Beats the hell out of me what it was, but it sure was cool. Anyone have any idea what I saw that day? Because, to this day, I have
no idea what it could have been.