1992-06-15 - Montvale, VA - Sphere

Summary : amber,orange ufo spotted in bedford county,virginia near "closed" airforce base.

i and my brother in law were speaking outside one night.my brother in law was sitting in his car waiting for his cigarette lighter in his car to heat up.the drive way faced out over the mountains nearby.as i waited for the lighter,i noticed a shimmering "star",it caught my eye because it looked abnormal to other stars i have seen like that.i still didnt think much of it,until it suddenly,within less than a second, grew from the pin size shape it was to the size of a dime in the sky and turned a bright orange color.the edge of the sphere were a darker orange color which made it appear to be perfectly round.it hung in that position making no sound at all for about 1 minute. on the adjacent mountain there was a party going on with a live band that night,,since it was so quiet on our mountain you could hear the band playing from mountain top to mountain top. after about a minute the object jetted off to the right,behind the other mountiain top,which by air was no more than 5 or 6 miles away if that.when we could no longer see it,the bands music stopped and all talking on the other mountain stopped.all we could hear were several dogs barking frantically. it scared us to death.for the next few nights we looked towards the same place at the same time every night,but we never saw it again. later on i learned an interesting fact,while doing landscaping in the area.the area we saw the light in was directly over an "old" airforce base. this area in bedford county up until the last few years was used by airforce pilots as a test run to try and fly below radar postioned on nearby mountains. i wish i knew more,, Tim