Have any of you seen a true-blue U.F.O. that you believe was extraterrestrial?

[Decoy of Fenris]

55. My old man and I saw one, and coincidentally, it was truly blue.

We were watching some MST3K together in our living room late one night and I saw a -bright-, moving blue light reflected off a map case on the opposite wall. My father and I both jump at the same time, look at one another, exchange a few confused utterances, then bolt to the windows.


A bright blue light, far brighter than anything else in the area, was crossing our lawn from right to left, maybe twenty yards from the windows. Our exterior lights clearly illuminated the ground it was hovering over, but the light wasn't being carried or reflected by anything; the light was floating independently, levelly, and at a constant pace. After about thirty, forty five seconds of movement, the light stopped, hovered in place for about a second, and then was just -gone- with no trace. It didn't even seem as if the light went "out" for there was no brief afterglow or anything; it was just gone without even a residual afterimage superimposed on our vision. After this, my dad and I went out, scoured the ground and the landscape for clues, but came up empty. There were no footprints of any kind, no scorch marks (we though it may have been ball lightning, even though the skies were clear) or tracks, no broken foliage leading away from the nearby hedgerow, nothing.

A few things we found funny about that encounter; The blue light, as bright as it was, didn't actually cast blue "light". The blue wasn't represented in the visible spectrum on any surface other than the map case it was reflected on, so it seemed as if the light wasn't truly a visible emission but rather something unidentifiable. Secondly, when we returned inside, the television was on a different channel; not unexplainable, as in our haste to get a better line of sight on the object, we may have bumped/knocked the remote or something. Still a bit odd though. Thirdly, our dog apparently didn't see anything at all out of place. He looked out the windows with us, but he either didn't see the object or didn't find it particularly interesting.