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A Close Encounter with an Orb - El Paso, Texas
Report: 1702
January 4, 1980
In early 1980 I was driving to work taking the back road that stopped before the railroad tracks. It was pitch black at night around 11:30 pm. When I stopped at the stop sign before turning right, I noticed a bright round light hovering over the tracks. I thought at first it was the trains headlight, but it was too high up about 50 ft. I sat there starring at it when I saw it start to move slowly. I then flashed my headlights and it stopped moving. So I started to turn right and noticed it started moving too. So I stopped and it stopped, I again started moving and it started moving. I stopped again and it stopped. My heart was racing so I took off down the road fast and it started moving with me. I was driving by warehouses and buildings and it was behind the buildings so I sped up until I saw it in-between the buildings and at that point I saw flashing lights on the bottom of the light orb. I could not see anything but the bright orb and I remember not seeing the ground light up underneath. All I could see was a bright light following me and acknowledging that it knew I was watching it. But when I saw flashing lights under the orb I knew it had to be a craft of some kind. I also had rolled down my window to see if I could hear it but it was dead silent and that was confusing to me at the time. After seeing it between the buildings I drove as fast as I can to get another look in-between the buildings but as I reached the end of the road at the stop light it was gone. And I have been looking up at the night sky ever since. I remember that night in vivid detail.