This is my first thread, so I apologize in advance for any errors I might commit, and the fact that I have no visual evidence to support the details.
I merely want to share an incident that occurred on March 21, 2011 to myself and my husband here in SC.
Since the Japan quake, I've been keeping an eye on the MSM, but have been sorely disappointed by the lack of coverage of what I consider the
potentially most significant disaster the world has been exposed to. It would seem that Uncle Sam extending his central facial feature into Middle
Eastern tribal warfare is far and away more important than educating a concerned populace upon effective methods to cope with global radiation,
therefore I've found that more and more I've been relying upon ATS to obtain information. I've discovered that quite often MSM breaking news is
already old news to the sharp-eyed alert ATSers, but as with any resource, I evaluate the info, do my own research, shift through the facts and
eliminate the garbage before forming an opinion.
Thus to the point...I had been reading the thread about the strange rumbling noises when my husband comes home from work and makes a comment about
hearing an odd sound and wanted me to step outside to determine if I heard it as well. Before I could, the grandbaby playing with the puppies caused a
messy distraction that needed cleaning up, so it was some time before I could re-direct my attention. My husband who had been in and out a few more
times, kept talking about this noise, describing it as a very low rumbling, almost like thunder far in the distance. He actually said he "felt" it
more than heard it. I responded with a comment about the ATS thread, which really peaked his curiosity, and away he went again.
As I was putting away the broom and dustpan, he comes charging into the house excited over something he had just seen. Nothing would satisfy until I
went outside as he described what he had seen. Rising from a point on the western horizon, an object that displayed red, green and blue blinking
lights in apparent sequence had streaked eastward through the sky at what he considered a phenomenally rapid rate before simply disappearing.
I think it appropriate to state a few observations at this point. Though I did not witness the object he saw, it was a clear evening with no clouds.
We live on 60 acres in a rural area, so ground illumination interference is minimal. With exception of the treeline bordering the hay meadows, our
view of the horizon is relatively unimpeded for 360 degrees. Also my husband, having been formerly in the aviation industry, is familiar with
aircraft, their associated sounds, and identifying characteristics. Having grown up in upstate NY, he has seen the aurora borealis before and as a
huinting and fishing enthusiast, he has seen his share of meteorites and shooting stars. He has never posited any belief in UFOs or ETs, so he's not
one to look up and wave them on down. With no reason to pull a prank or lie to me, I have to say with a reasonable amount of assurance, he saw
something he wasn't familiar with.
Back to the event....We were standing in the yard scanning the skies. We are familiar with the usual flight paths over our property, so we can usually
spot conventional aircraft without any difficulty. Darkness had completely fallen and stars were plainly discernible. It was approximately 8:50 pm
EDT. Just two nights previous, the 19th, we had been outside observing the Supermoon and the constellations, and Orion was visible in the SSW sky. The
20th we had rain and heavily overcast conditions, so no moon sighting, but the 21st was clear once again. Orion was well above the SW horizon once
more. I notice Orion more since it's one of the few constellations I can easily pick out. I had been looking at it before momentarily glancing at the
heavens to the south. As I looked back to Orion, I noticed an extremely bright white light that had not been there a split nanosecond before. My first
thought was "Where did THAT star come from?" Wanting to ascertain I was seeing something out of the norm, I called out to my husband, "Look...left
side of Orion's Belt...What's that light?...Wasn't there a sec ago...wasn't there Friday night, either."
As my husband directed his attention where I indicated, the well defined stationary light which was (from our perspective) a pencil's width above
Orion's Belt and slightly to the left of Altinak, the left most star, began to move rapidly to the right. Maintaining the same apparent width above
the reference points, the light proceeded past Alnilham (the Belt's center star) before it's color altered to a brilliantly uniform golden hue and
increased in brightness. As the object came into line with and above Mintaka (the Belt's right-most star) it simply disappeared. It did not go behind
a cloud. It did not re-appear in another part of the sky, either on it's anticipated trajectory or anywhere else. It just vanished.
As we stood there we our mouths agape, a meteorite came arcing into view and burned up in the exact same spot where the UFO had been seen first.
Needless to say, I was astounded. Not only had I and my husband just witnessed something we couldn't easily explain, but also that whatever the
object may have been, appeared to have taken evasive action to avoid collision with another object. I've never seen a meteorite that early in the
evening before and beyond that fact, it was rather distinctive in that it had a definite similar golden hue to that of the object moving away from it,
which caused me to wonder if it had any connection with the object's altered color, as in a reflection off it's surface.
By no means am I declaring this an unexplainable event. I'm sure there are several logical reasons to define what we saw, although for me, I will
probably to continue to think of it as my first UFO experience. I just wished to let fellow ATS members know that had I not been reading some very
interesting threads, I might have missed a very cool anomaly in the skies.
So thanks to all you dedicated posters who keep the info flowing. You've literally opened up the universe for this lil' ol' ATS newcomer.