Glowing Sphere, Extremely fast and silent. Didn't cast any light from the craft.
Context: I was a 21 year old enlisted soldier taking part in the U.S. Army Special Forces Forces and selection program. We conduct different physical events to select candidates for the green berets. This event is called land navigation. You have to traverse accross a large plot of terrain in cover of darkness with a rucksack, rifle, map, compass, protractor, food and water all by yourself. The objective is to find these point on a map, 6-15 miles apart, Lastly, I KNOW what differnt aircrafts look and sound like both at night and during the day. I jumped out of them for a living both at night and day.
It's 2.am and I just began my trek to my first point maybe 2 hours ago. They set us out on this objective during zero moon illumination to make it more challenging for candidates. I'm sure that I was close to my first point which was my furthest at 8 miles or something because I could barely make out another candidate in the near distance so I just though "He might be going to the same point"( we have to wear these orange vests around our rucksacks for our own safety so if you're around 20 feet from someone, even in the dark you can kind of make it out.) He then went through some trees so I was trying to catch up by running but I was tired and stopped to catch my breath and rest my back from the 50lbs ruck sack. I leaned downward to give my lower back a break then leaned up to readjust my rucksack and I noticed some type of white-lit marble in the night sky. Remember, there is no light anywhere, except the stars. So I'm try to gather what it was but I couldn't gauge the distance or the size because the light didn't cast on anything at all.
Like normally when you have a light shining from a helicopter for example, you can tell the size and how far away it is by the direction of the spot light being cast or the front lights of the aircraft. So this non-light casting bright sphere was so smoothly flying towards me and it struck me as odd by how smooth it was moving towards me. Again, I'm use to C-130, C-17, blackhawks, Chinooks.... So I know this is weird. But because it didn't cast a light, I did realize how much closer it was than I thought and couldn't make out the size. Currently my mental state is the same as anyone who has been doing cardo for over and hour, very alert, constantly hydrating with my canteens so I know I'm in my right mind. This whole scenario maybe lasted 10 seconds so far.
But then I realized I suddenly could hear myself say "what is that?" and the surrounding calm breeze. Normally it's pure chaos when an aircraft lands. So now I'm trying to rationalize, Maybe its a drone? ...No?
As it was about to be over head, but may above the treeline, suddenly it sped up and turned like how you would roll a marble on a bed sheet or something. it made like a hooked curve-like turn but very fast and without tilting or anything. like a fast ball rolling it's way through the sky. That freaked me out. ALL aircraft tilt as far as I know and drones have a very mechanical movement when they turn. So now I'm awake.
The nail in the coffin came when this thing turned and increased speeds to something I have never even seen again after that day. Remember, It's the darkest night of the month. I can see this non light-casting ball speed off past the horizon and tree line and cover the distance I just came from in under 10 seconds. I started freaking out trying to look and see if any other candidates were around so I quickly sprinted to where I thought I saw the other guy went and found them, because only 5 minutes had passed since I saw him. tried to tell someone and realized I sounded like an idiot. I kept thinking "What do we(The army) have that can do that??! I have never seen that" I asked around the camp with a hundred or so others. Some of which were more veteran than me nd they just kind of shrugged and looked at me like I was delirious. And unfortunately, these people also have to NOT vote to send you home as well. So I kept quiet ever since.
But the physics I saw and the physics I was used to as an experienced airborne soldier completely in his right mind and not giving a crap about aliens, knew that this was TOO different. And there was NO way, it wasn't extraterrestrial.
Context: I was a 21 year old enlisted soldier taking part in the U.S. Army Special Forces Forces and selection program. We conduct different physical events to select candidates for the green berets. This event is called land navigation. You have to traverse accross a large plot of terrain in cover of darkness with a rucksack, rifle, map, compass, protractor, food and water all by yourself. The objective is to find these point on a map, 6-15 miles apart, Lastly, I KNOW what differnt aircrafts look and sound like both at night and during the day. I jumped out of them for a living both at night and day.
It's 2.am and I just began my trek to my first point maybe 2 hours ago. They set us out on this objective during zero moon illumination to make it more challenging for candidates. I'm sure that I was close to my first point which was my furthest at 8 miles or something because I could barely make out another candidate in the near distance so I just though "He might be going to the same point"( we have to wear these orange vests around our rucksacks for our own safety so if you're around 20 feet from someone, even in the dark you can kind of make it out.) He then went through some trees so I was trying to catch up by running but I was tired and stopped to catch my breath and rest my back from the 50lbs ruck sack. I leaned downward to give my lower back a break then leaned up to readjust my rucksack and I noticed some type of white-lit marble in the night sky. Remember, there is no light anywhere, except the stars. So I'm try to gather what it was but I couldn't gauge the distance or the size because the light didn't cast on anything at all.
Like normally when you have a light shining from a helicopter for example, you can tell the size and how far away it is by the direction of the spot light being cast or the front lights of the aircraft. So this non-light casting bright sphere was so smoothly flying towards me and it struck me as odd by how smooth it was moving towards me. Again, I'm use to C-130, C-17, blackhawks, Chinooks.... So I know this is weird. But because it didn't cast a light, I did realize how much closer it was than I thought and couldn't make out the size. Currently my mental state is the same as anyone who has been doing cardo for over and hour, very alert, constantly hydrating with my canteens so I know I'm in my right mind. This whole scenario maybe lasted 10 seconds so far.
But then I realized I suddenly could hear myself say "what is that?" and the surrounding calm breeze. Normally it's pure chaos when an aircraft lands. So now I'm trying to rationalize, Maybe its a drone? ...No?
As it was about to be over head, but may above the treeline, suddenly it sped up and turned like how you would roll a marble on a bed sheet or something. it made like a hooked curve-like turn but very fast and without tilting or anything. like a fast ball rolling it's way through the sky. That freaked me out. ALL aircraft tilt as far as I know and drones have a very mechanical movement when they turn. So now I'm awake.
The nail in the coffin came when this thing turned and increased speeds to something I have never even seen again after that day. Remember, It's the darkest night of the month. I can see this non light-casting ball speed off past the horizon and tree line and cover the distance I just came from in under 10 seconds. I started freaking out trying to look and see if any other candidates were around so I quickly sprinted to where I thought I saw the other guy went and found them, because only 5 minutes had passed since I saw him. tried to tell someone and realized I sounded like an idiot. I kept thinking "What do we(The army) have that can do that??! I have never seen that" I asked around the camp with a hundred or so others. Some of which were more veteran than me nd they just kind of shrugged and looked at me like I was delirious. And unfortunately, these people also have to NOT vote to send you home as well. So I kept quiet ever since.
But the physics I saw and the physics I was used to as an experienced airborne soldier completely in his right mind and not giving a crap about aliens, knew that this was TOO different. And there was NO way, it wasn't extraterrestrial.
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Camp Mackall
USA
40 second or less
40 second or less
sphere
NC
Occurred : 2/15/2013 03:00 (Entered as : 02/15/2013 3:00 AM) Reported: 8/11/2022 5:08:29 AM 05:08 Posted: 9/9/2022 Location: Camp Mackall, NC Shape: Sphere Duration: 40 second or less Characteristics: There were lights on the object
Glowing Sphere, Extremely fast and silent. Didn't cast any light from the craft.