Orange Sphere

I was 20 years old and a friend of mine and I had hitched hike out to another friend of ours house who live outside Ferndale Montana as I didn't have a car at the time. It was fifteen miles from the were from Kalispell Montana.
It was an overcast evening in the early fall and by the time we got out to my friends house it was starting to get quite dark outside and as we walked up the dirt road in the woods we noticed that the dogs were not barking which was actually pretty odd as we could always here them bark as we approached the driveway. we kept walking up the road and Rob says to me "its too quite" thinking nothing of it kind of chuckled to myself saying "yeah" and lit a cigarette. we walked up on the porch and just as I began to knock on the door I actually felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up before that time I only thought this was a form of expression but its not this actually happened I stopped just before my hand made contact with the door and I looked over at Rob and Rob looked at me and I could see the expression on his face and knew instantly he felt the same way I was feeling. At the same time we slowly turned around and there before us not anymore then 2 feet above the pine trees was a huge orange sphere glowing like molten metal as big as a house and completely silent! I remember being so scared my nose began to tingle and I felt tears welling up in my eyes after that I must have zoned out for a long time I don't know exactly how long we hand been standing there 20 minutes? an hour? two hours? I don't really know but I came out of what seemed to me like a trance like state and I no longer was smoking the cigarette I had lit was what seemed to be a few minutes before that, I had the lighter from my pocket and was holding it out towards this Orange Sphere flicking it I didn't even know I was doing it! my friend Rob must have came to his senses just then too because at that same moment he grabbed my arm and says in a harsh whisper too me "KNOCK IT OFF!!" I looked at Rob and could see the fear in his eyes he looked like he was going to cry and I felt the same I told him "we cant just stand here" and that we needed to find cover! realizing our friend whom we came to see was not home and there was no place to go. In the driveway was my friends old Subaru brat with no windows we bolted for the car and each jumped in a door Rob on the drivers side and me on the passengers side we sat there for a while and watched this thing which seemed to us to have a feeling of malevolence about it. it sat there motionless for a long time and then through the overcast clouds we heard a small airplane thinking surly when it gets close enough its gonna see this thing! as the plane got closer the Sphere seemed to shrink in size down to the size of a flashlight I though to myself how is that possible? as the plane passed out of site it seemed to just zip right back to its original size and I really studied it this time it was a solid object for sure! I though to my self I could throw a rock and hit it and the noise that it would make would probably sound like a loud DONGG! sound. like if I were to take a rock and throw it at a battleship was what I pictured in my head. It was solid! I could see it. I knew it wasn't a trick of the eye it was there!! We watched it not knowing what to do or where to go for probably another 10 minutes right after this a huge beam of light came off it and hit the ground and started a sweeping motion back and forth as if it were looking for something at that point I was so scared I could barley move The feeling could only be described as horrifying as I realized something must be down here on the ground not far from us I said "Rob we gotta get inside that house!"
he looked at me and says to me "on the count of 3. 1.2.3 and we jumped out leaving the car doors open and bolted for the door with all my might I kicked the front door in and we bolted inside I took one of the kitchen chairs and propped it against the door handle I called the police in Kalispell first thing and told them my name and how old I was that I had not been drinking or doing drugs and that I wanted to report a U.F.O and would someone please come out here and see this thing, the police officer just laughed and said I can give you a 1-800 number to call and report U.F.Os if you would like? I hung up the phone in frustration I was feeling pretty helpless and looking out the window could see that thing still out there like it was looking for something I'm guessing it must have been about 3 in the morning and was exhausted Rob and I both fell asleep on the kitchen floor when I woke up the sun was out and the was no sign of that thing out side but looking out the window and seeing the car doors still open gave me a very unsettling feeling about the events that happened just hours before. I finally was able to track down my friend using his house phone and explaining to him what happened that night even now I don't think he trusts me about what happened as if maybe we were up to no good and trying to steal from him or something of that nature.
about a month after that I became obsessed with U.F.Os being a non-believer previously I was now fully obsessed. My sleep patterns had changed I couldn't sleep at night almost out of fear and would stay up reading about U.F.O reports and abduction stories trying to weed out what was was most likely a real one from someones just made up bullshit. Then it happened one night I was laying in bed and had fallen a sleep when I recall waking up with these shadowy figures around my bed home alone and was terrified thinking this has got to be a dream but I knew it wasn't I was fully awake and I couldn't move I couldn't scream and then I don't recall what happened because I must have blacked out I woke up in my bed and it was morning. I told Rob about this and he looked at me once again with a terrified look and said " shut up I don't want to ever talk about this again!"
Ive tried to get him to talk to me but he just wont at least not about that night or if he had the same experience with the so called "shadow people" I guess I will never know. I do know what happened to me was real.