The original post: /r/aliens by /u/NorthernAvo on 2024-09-11 08:24:34.
This took place in 2011, long before the age of drones. I grew up next to nyc, on Long Island. Not all that far from JFK International Airport, right along the south shore of the island. I lived in an apartment building with my family and had a pretty good view to the east, spanning a few miles. One night, I was sitting on my bed playing on my xbox 360. My bed had storage underneath and so it was 3' tall, so I'd sit on the bed, with my foot on the radiator along the bottom of my window. I can't recall whether it was winter, or not, but there was a row of tall trees outside my window, though there was a large gap I could look through and see for miles, and miles east.
So, I'm sitting on my bed, it's 11:30pm and I decided to peek out the window (as I always did, I'd people watch, plane watch, weather watch, whatever). This night I witnessed something very strange, very anomalous, and I wish I had more answers. It was the first of a handful of legitimate sightings I've had. A yellow orb was flying across the sky, pretty high up, very clearly a few miles away. Considering our proximity to the city and the airport(s), I thought I'd been looking at a helicopter or airplane that was flying from south to north. As an aside, I was interested in becoming a pilot at the time and eventually did learn to fly and spent tons of time in airplanes, at airports, and even during that time, I was very familiar with the types of lights an aircraft needed to have on at all times (navigation lights - red - green & beacon, plus landing light in the area because.. airports). This was a solid, solid yellow orb. It didn't generate a glaring light either. It was just a ball.
Anyway, this thing's flying at a normal speed (maybe 200kts) to the north, then turns around on a dime and starts heading south, at the same altitude. It does this a few times, almost as though it were scanning around or something - this is what led me to believe it was a helicopter. Well, midway along one of its northbound "laps" (though, it was never turning, just going back and forth), it suddenly descends to what was absolutely about 100' off the ground, in an instant, then stops immediately. That was the part that blew me away. The G-forces should've killed the pilots, and the speed at which it descended did not make any sense, it was near instantaneous.
The orb then begins doing the same back and forth, north-south motion, again, almost as though it's searching for something. Then, it stopped for about 5 seconds in one spot and immediately ascended what had to have been a few thousand feet (ultimately tens of thousands) in literally less than one second and faded out as it climb vertically, not just out of site, but seemingly off the damn planet.
The reason I've been thinking more about it lately is that I've thinking more about what some individuals have been sharing about the "others"; about how they might not experience time linearly, about how they manipulate our perceptions. Now, I'm not sure I could've made out a body being abducted, but at least would've expected a beam of sorts. I'm wondering now if that might have happened but because I was watching so intently, my perception was manipulated and I didn't see them grab someone.
Just a thought. After this experience, I had two more sightings (years apart) and another few I can't quite put my finger on. The future sightings were just as compelling, I've shared them before on reddit. I'm wondering if that event made them interested in me or something, and so they tried showing me something.
