Light bouncing around a valley. Light changes intensity, brightness, and color. Disappears, reappears different location.
On 9/9/97 at about 9:30 p.m., a friend and myself were watching the most severe thunderstorm to hit our area that summer. Shortly into our weather session, my friend says, "hey, do you see that?". I looked where he was pointing. The object was zipping into this valley about 5 miles away to our wnw. We were located about 10 miles nw of Roseburg OR., USA. The object would be real dim, then brighten intensly, brighter than Venus, but pulsing also, sometimes every color of the rainbow, it seemed. At one point, the light went down out of sight, then a pause, then it came shooting up out of the valley like a squiggly glowing red sperm, then disappear. Then it would reappear from somewhere else, moving a different direction. Keep in mind, a pretty violent thunderstorm is blasting lightning down, rather close to us at times. This object was below the cloud deck. At one point it appeared to come very close to us, I swear, I could makeout some sort of lighted window panes, with a darker one in between. I assumed the object was close at that point, possibly within a few hundred yards. In any case it must have been rather small, perhaps less than 15 meters in size. Well, this went on for about 1.5 hours and we simply weren't watching the lightning anymore, we didn't even care that it was getting within 10 miles of us. Ok your thinking, ball lightning right. No. I would have settled for that, but then something remarkable happened. my friend was looking around for the onject to reappear somewhere else, like it was doing, then I saw it, a perfect white cone of light beaming accross the bottom of the thunderclouds. There was very little thunder, and no rain at our location, and we could hear no aircraft of any kind. This "spotlight" came from the object, which had reappeared again. I yelled to my friend, but it disappeared just then. It happened again, and we both saw it. This time, the object was near us and it beamed that perfect white light right above our heads about 100 feet and "scanned" the hillside right behind us. I have been an amateur astronomer and weather observer for well over 15 years, and I have never witnessed an event like this, in fact I have to say, it has been the most troubling event in my life. I also want to point out, at one time it appeared that the one object went into the valley, then came out with another one attached by, "energy" Something strange out there, and I think these strong storms have an adverse affect on them.
On 9/9/97 at about 9:30 p.m., a friend and myself were watching the most severe thunderstorm to hit our area that summer. Shortly into our weather session, my friend says, "hey, do you see that?". I looked where he was pointing. The object was zipping into this valley about 5 miles away to our wnw. We were located about 10 miles nw of Roseburg OR., USA. The object would be real dim, then brighten intensly, brighter than Venus, but pulsing also, sometimes every color of the rainbow, it seemed. At one point, the light went down out of sight, then a pause, then it came shooting up out of the valley like a squiggly glowing red sperm, then disappear. Then it would reappear from somewhere else, moving a different direction. Keep in mind, a pretty violent thunderstorm is blasting lightning down, rather close to us at times. This object was below the cloud deck. At one point it appeared to come very close to us, I swear, I could makeout some sort of lighted window panes, with a darker one in between. I assumed the object was close at that point, possibly within a few hundred yards. In any case it must have been rather small, perhaps less than 15 meters in size. Well, this went on for about 1.5 hours and we simply weren't watching the lightning anymore, we didn't even care that it was getting within 10 miles of us. Ok your thinking, ball lightning right. No. I would have settled for that, but then something remarkable happened. my friend was looking around for the onject to reappear somewhere else, like it was doing, then I saw it, a perfect white cone of light beaming accross the bottom of the thunderclouds. There was very little thunder, and no rain at our location, and we could hear no aircraft of any kind. This "spotlight" came from the object, which had reappeared again. I yelled to my friend, but it disappeared just then. It happened again, and we both saw it. This time, the object was near us and it beamed that perfect white light right above our heads about 100 feet and "scanned" the hillside right behind us. I have been an amateur astronomer and weather observer for well over 15 years, and I have never witnessed an event like this, in fact I have to say, it has been the most troubling event in my life. I also want to point out, at one time it appeared that the one object went into the valley, then came out with another one attached by, "energy" Something strange out there, and I think these strong storms have an adverse affect on them.
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Roseburg
USA
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43.23
-123.31
light
OR
Occurred : 9/9/1997 21:30 (Entered as : 09/09/97 21:30) Reported: 3/13/1998 23:54 Posted: 1/28/1999 Location: Roseburg, OR Shape: Light Duration: 2 hours Characteristics: The object emitted beams, The object changed color
Light bouncing around a valley. Light changes intensity, brightness, and color. Disappears, reappears different location.