My UFO Encounter
Baltimore, Maryland — Late 1990s
Thanks for visiting my website. My UFO journey officially began in the late 90's. I grew up in the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland and had never really given extraterrestrial life a whole lot of thought, outside of ET and other science fiction movies. That would all change in one 5-minute encounter with three amber orbs.
It's funny how the mind can singe certain memories onto your brain like a hot iron while leaving out some of the surrounding detail. I don't remember the exact day of my sighting. This has bothered me because I want to be completely factual in my description — not only of the event but of the facts leading up to it. My rationale for not remembering the date is that adrenaline played a huge role in searing the encounter into my memory, and that level of adrenaline simply wasn't present before it happened.
I was 19 when I had the sighting that would change my understanding of our place in the universe. I was driving a 1994 Jeep Grand Cherokee on a residential street, making my way home — approximately 6 miles from this location — when a low-flying light caught my attention through the front windshield. I slowed and lowered my head toward the dashboard for a better view. Directly above me, roughly 50 feet up, were three red-amber orbs. I immediately pulled to the curb, got out of the Jeep, and stood there, completely amazed.
The three orbs drifted over the homes on the left side of the street and slightly lowered in altitude, giving me an even better view. These were swirling amber orbs of light — and strangely, the light had no halo or glow around them like most lights do. The light was fully contained within each sphere. The orbs moved around each other as if playing a game of tag. I have never experienced anything so shocking.
That image of the pine tree on the left of three glowing red orbs and the night sky in the background is seared on my mind like a photograph.
Standing there in amazement, I noticed a man getting groceries out of his car about 40 feet to my right. I wanted to call out to him, but I didn't. I've always wished I had, just to have another witness — but I was so shocked in that moment I could only think about keeping my eyes on them. As the orbs moved around each other they were also slowly moving down the street.
I got back in my vehicle to chase them. I stopped at the curve and witnessed the orbs turn right and dip low through a field. It was a cutout for powerlines with pine trees on both sides. I don't remember there being powerlines at the time, just the cutout for them. At their lowest point they were about 3 or 4 feet off the ground, meandering through the field. At the end of the field were more pines, they changed their angle upward, and rose up over the trees. I watched them until they were distant specs, with the full moon as the backdrop. The whole event was truly otherworldly. There was no sound. They moved with such grace and effortlessness that I never thought for a second it was something manmade. I knew I had witnessed something not from this world — something truly incredible.
My uncle was staying with us when I came home that night, still in shock. I put my hands up to mimic the orbs' strange motions and he instantly said, "And they were flying around each other, doing strange movements — yeah, I've seen that before." He'd encountered them multiple times as a long-haul truck driver. He wasn't the type to gossip or talk about random things. Apparently an alien craft wasn't noteworthy either.
Years later I learned my father had a similar encounter in the 1970s, about 8 miles from my own sighting. He also recalled a night from my childhood when he came home frantic: a blinding spotlight had descended on his truck with no sound and no rotor wash. He drove to a nearby gas station to get a witness. When they ran back outside together, the light was gone.
There's something strange going on. My sighting sparked a deep desire to understand what those orbs were — and hearing my father recount his own encounter only deepened it. Recent UFO incidents in the news give me hope we'll find answers, though none of those sightings were nearly as beautiful and awe-inspiring as what I experienced. It's why I built this website and continue putting time into gathering reports and analyzing the data.
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