Sorry this is so long, but if I had related this in a short paragraph, I'd have to leave out some details.

I mentioned this event in a thread that was posted a few weeks ago. I now have all the details, so I definitely want to share this. The topic of the earlier thread was the OP's belief that paranormal or supernatural activity in general is, for whatever reason, on the increase. I believe it is. I have recently witnessed a bunch of strange goings-on, and have heard about others from people who I believe are not lying, attention-seeking, hysterical, or otherwise "suspect".

This "coin incident" is beyond bizarre. Two of my friends witnessed it. One is a casual friend, the other is a close friend whom I've known for 20 years. She's like the voice of reason itself....very level-headed and sensible. She's pursuing a masters degree, and also works at the university she attends.

I went to her office at the university yesterday to visit her and asked her if she'd show me the exact spot where this crazy event happened. We left on her lunch break, and drove down to a beautiful park which is just a couple blocks from the college. It's a large park with bikinghiking paths and picnic tables all around. She said that on Friday, September 16th, she and her friend (the other woman works at the college too) went to the park to eat their lunches. It was a beautiful sunny day. They sat at a picnic table in the direct sun, but near some huge old trees.

After eating, they were sitting there talking about school stuff. The friend said "Oh my God, what the heck is that?", then pointed up and to her right. My friend said she looked up and saw something very, very small, shiny and metallic-looking "literally floating in mid-air" air about 25 feet up. Their first thought was it had to be an insect. There was simply nothing else it could have been. It appeared to be slowly descending, shining as it caught the bright sunlight. As it came into view, she saw it was a small, round silver object . It was descending very, very slowly. She could see it was slowly turning end over end. When it got down to almost eye level, they could see it was a dime! At about chest level, it dropped to the ground. Neither of them would touch it, they were too freaked out.

She said it was like when you flip a coin. It spins in the air. The same movement, but imagine it in super slow motion. It took about 15 seconds, in her estimation, to descend. That's how slow it was falling!
There was no one near them. Absolutely no one. They both looked in the trees. The closest people were 100 feet away or more, walking on the trail. No one had climbed a tree and was sitting up in the branches. Even if there were, how could they make a coin levitate?

She got a flashlight that she keeps in her purse, laid down in the grass and inspected the coin extremely close-up with the light on it. It had landed heads up. The date was 1997. She never touched it though.
She told me today that since it happened, she thinks about this constantly. That's understandable.

I just spoke with her and she said there's no doubt in her mind it was "just some remote-controlled toy or something". She said it couldn't possibly be otherwise. She can't accept the idea that it was supernatural or paranormal. I've read about tiny RC "camera bugs" that some tech company developed. Spy stuff. They can fly and hover. They have wings powered by tiny dc motors to provide the lift needed to fly. I'm not aware of anything that has the type of 'propulsion' it would take to make a small disc move in the manner she saw.

Very interesting! I've never heard anything about floating coins or time and space bending batteries before :O
If it isn't normal, it's paranormal. It couldn't have been RC since the coin would need an antenna and mechanisms to control the coins' movement. These mechanisms would need to be bigger than the coin itself 0.o

There doesn't seem to be a logical explanation for this one. Time to dive into the illogical ones and just start guessing things that I can never prove in million years. I have experienced events similar (but not exactly similar) to Blocula, where I drop an object and it disappears into nothingness. I can't find it, it didn't make a sound to indicate that it even hit the ground. Perhaps someone from a different time dropped a coin and it was lost in the realm of narnia and it decided to return to Earth by floating down :O

I know, it's a longshot, but better than nothing 可笑しいな

Indeed, a, "glitch" in space and time :O

Reminds me of various fortean stories I've read about other slow motion objects. If I remember correctly, there was a story about slow falling rocks or meteors somewhere in the States. Sorry, can't find to that story at the moment.

I think there's a logical explanation to this one, a dime is the lightest US coin in circulation, if the dime fell from a tree it would not display what you saw, but, if this dime fell from an intense height, perhaps an airplane, the dime would after a while start spinning in rhythm with the wind currents, I do believe it is possible, the dime was witnessed while in this rhythm with the wind, it's the most logical explanation, I personally would have put it in my pocket. This is a good one for mythbusters though.

In the wind, dimes tend to tumble down rather than float down gently. If we had the perfect wind that stops the coin from reaching terminal velocity but at the same time, keeps it on a straight path, the observers would have noticed it when it descended down to eye level in front of them. Updrafts that can suspend dimes in mid air would have definitely been noticed throughout the community. Like small pebbles lifting from the ground :O

Originally posted by Razimus
I think there's a logical explanation to this one, a dime is the lightest US coin in circulation, if the dime fell from a tree it would not display what you saw, but, if this dime fell from an intense height, perhaps an airplane, the dime would after a while start spinning in rhythm with the wind currents, I do believe it is possible, the dime was witnessed while in this rhythm with the wind, it's the most logical explanation, I personally would have put it in my pocket. This is a good one for mythbusters though.

Is a spider web strong enough to hold up a dime for a short time? Maybe there was some way for a dime to have been stuck on a web, lifted up by the wind, and then slowly come back down. Spider webs are pretty strong. Just a thought. Either that or it was another odd eddy in the pool of space and time.

I spoke w\ my friend last night and advised her to look at this thread. She said she appreciated the explanations that were offered, but found some of them hilarious. (with no offense meant to anyone)

I'll clarify a couple things:

They were near some trees, but not directly under them. I saw the location. The picnic table was in the open.
There is a large tree about 70-80 feet away. The branches span out into a huge diameter, but even the closest overhanging branch was a good 15 feet away. She said the coin was in "wide open space". There's no chance that a spider was somehow dangling and spinning the coin.

There were no people nearby. She said the closest people were a young couple who were casually walking on the bike path. She said they were about a hundred feet away. I think we can rule out any nearby magicians playing a trick on them,

The idea that a "wind current" was responsible for the coin's movements doesn't seem possible to me.
They saw the coin falling very, very slowly. Imagine looking up in the air, 20 - 25 feet up.
A coin is falling and spinning so slowing it takes about 15 seconds to reach your eye-level. At appx your chest height, the slow falling and end-over-end tumbling stops, the coin seems to become 'normal' and then drops to the ground.

At least my friend seems to be less freaked out or frightened by the event. She seems to have more of a sense of wonder about it now. I guess the high strangeness of it unnerved her terribly. That's why she kept insisting that there had to be a logical explanation.