Subject: Strange Light in Oregon
From: Miss Teddy
Date: Tue, July 4, 2006 7:22 pm
To: Report UFO Sightings

First of all, I don't believe in aliens. I'm just stating that right-off-the-bat. But my family and I recently saw something that we couldn't explain, and I thought I'd share my bizarre experience and see if it was at all similar to anyone else's.

I live in Oregon, and, a couple weeks ago, my father, mother, little brother and I were headed home from a late-night trip to the grocery store. It was, maybe, 10:30-ish when we pulled into the drive, which is pretty late for my quiet little town, so the neighborhood was entirely silent and deserted. Anyway, I was the first to unload an arm of plastic grocery bags from the trunk and, as I was walking toward the back door, all of a sudden, my seven-year-old brother shouts, "Look, a firefly!"

Which was strange, because, I mean, I'd never heard of fireflies in Oregon. I thought maybe he was just trying to make me double back, so I ignored him. But my mom said something like, "Oh, look at that, it is a firefly," so I turned around, and saw all three members of my family just standing there at the back of the car looking up at the sky above our garage. As I set the bags down and walked over to look, too, my dad started shaking his head and was all, "Um, I'm pretty sure that isn't a firefly, you guys."

And he was right. Like, it was really, really far away. We live at one side of this wide valley, and whatever this bobbing yellow light was, it was definitely way over on the opposite side. And it wasn't just bobbing around, either. It was, like ... God, it's hard to describe. It moved like a damn bug. It was obviously traveling from the North end of the valley to the South (my family was standing facing East), but it wobbled around so much. It would be kind of moving to the right one second at this gradual pace (like a commercial airplane) and then it would speed up all of a sudden and whiz back over to the left and then sort of stop moving altogether and just bop up and down.

I asked my dad what it could possibly be -- maybe a blimp? -- because his dad was a pilot in the Navy for years during WWII and is an expert, but he said no, because blimps can't change direction and altitude and stuff as fast as this thing we were watching could.

We stared at it for a good five minutes or so, as our ice cream and frozen food slowly melted in their bags, and ever-so-slowly it eventually faded out of sight as it traveled over the far mountains to the South. We talked about it a lot after, and decided it was definitely not a plane, blimp, satellite, or jet. It also wasn't a car driving the twisty mountain roads on the opposite side of the valley, because we'd seen it hovering high above the mountain ridge (which is usually easy to make out because of the lights from the city below).

At any rate, since we couldn't discern what it was, we labeled it a UFO. And I'm not saying it was a UFO from outer space or anything, because, as I said before, I don't believe in aliens, but it was certainly "unidentifiable." I watch for it sometimes, thinking maybe, if I saw it again, I'd be able to figure out what it was. My brother, however, is convinced it was aliens. (And my parents just don't really care.) So I guess you can choose for yourself who'll you'll side with.