NUFORC Sighting 167490

Occurred: 1997-10-01 21:45 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2022-04-18 14:17 Pacific
Duration: 5 to 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Deltona, FL, USA
Location details: Sitting outside in front of my house with a friend.

Shape: Cigar
Characteristics: Emitted beams, Electrical or magnetic effects

Cigar shaped, light blue to white, with beam of same color light.

This is difficult for me. My friend who witnessed with me is now a Marine and we talk about this sighting a lot, still. We were sitting near the sidewalk indian style on the driveway talking. Suddenly a very bright light lite the area and made it hard to even see his face 3 feet away. At that very moment both of us looked to the ground around us and noticed a perfect circle of light about 5 feet in diameter on the ground around us, absolutely dead still, with a perfect edge to it. Within a few seconds, this light wiggled slightly, and started to slowly move away and across the neighbors yard. We stood up and watched as it went along about 50 feet and stopped. This circle of light on the ground was from a beam of light coming from above, we noticed. This is where it gets very strange. The light starting from the ground started to recede into the sky. You could see the circle part that was on the ground move upward slowly. Like there was a bottom to the light!!! We watched as it went all the way up into a vehicle of some type, almost looked like a 4 foot halogen tube light in the sky... Like the color of a modern standard led tube bulb. We watched in awe, asking each other what we are looking at. It stayed there stationary for about 5 minutes. All of a sudden we heard and seen it leave at an amazing speed, directly away from us. Literally sounded like a light saber turning on... I know that sounds funny, but that's the only way to describe it. This is also the only time we heard anything. It zipped away, or possibly disappeared, but seemed like it moved away. That's how quickly it went from us. At that very same time 2 street lights went out. That not strange I guess but it was perfect timing. I still dream about this night on at least a monthly basis. What still gets me is the unmoving light around us, and the way it started to move. The craft seemed to be far away and Massive. Thank you for listening.

Posted 2022-04-22