2012-08-07 - Meridian, ID - Other

Shape changing object slowly rotating clockwise with tentacle like arms with bright orange light on one side.

Initially seen an orange light approaching from the north. The light stopped then began moving again but also began to fade in and out, after which a dark outline could be seen in the glow of the city lights. I could see a clockwise rotation of the craft which was roughly circular, but had tentacle like extensions and seem to change shape. I could hear no sound from it. It stopped almost directly overhead and ,at fist length, it was the size of a walnut. The outline of the object suddenly began to get much larger and quickly became as large as a basketball at fist length. At this point I felt as though my life were in danger and I sprinted for my front door ( I had initially went out to get my mail and spotted it at the mailbox )as I was sure it was going to hit the ground or stop directly above me.

After making it in the house I waited a few seconds then began looking out the windows to see where the object was. I couldn't see anything so I ( slowly ) went back outside to see what happened. Nothing was around but I quickly spotted the same orange light back to the north roughly were I had spotted it originally. At this point I decided to run back into the house and obtain my binoculars.

Luckily it was still there and I was able to view it. The objects orange light was emitting from the outer edge and looked like some sort of thrust, being bright at the source, then fading outward, not flickering like a flame, but more like light. It slowly rotated around the outside but did not appear to affect its direction. I could not make out any specific surface detail but their were things protruding from it. I watched it as long as I could for about a minute before I lost sight of it. I don't know it this was a second object or the same one I spotted originally.