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**soipguibbom** · 09-21-2012, 03:59 PM

Tuesday, July 3rd this year in southern France. We had just put the kids to bed, we came out on the terrace at about 20 past ten. We were five adults present, four of which have university degrees in various natural sciences.
The evening was absolutely wonderful, not a breeze, the stars were out and the full moon was climbing the horizon. This was in Provence. For those of you familiar with the landscape, you know that it consists of hills/small mountains and valleys. This particular village was at the foot of a hill. The terrace was facing south/south-west, with a good view over a river.
For some odd reason we were discussing things that frightened us when we were children, and a lady mentioned she had been terrified of UFOs after a friend had told spooky stories about them when she was about 8 or so. So none of us believed it when she suddenly pointed up at the sky and said "Look, a UFO!" But we turned around, and actually saw a rather large-ish ball of orange light coming from over the hill on our immediate right (west). We can't say for sure the size of this thing, since there was no sound to assist us in judging the distance. And since we don't know the distance, we can't know the size of it. It moved very quickly (less than 15 seconds) across about two thirds of the sky, before it sort of stopped and hovered towards our left (east). Then it made some moves round and about (at this point in time my husband managed to flick out his mobile and start filming). It wandered sort of aimlessly about the sky for a while (about half a minute or so), before it took off and disapperead into space...

The strangest thing about this is to be in the company of four other adults, intelligent and educated people, and no one was able to explain what we had just seen. That is a very bizarre feeling... It's like my youngest daughter of 3 years who points to things with a very puzzled look on her face saying "what's that?" In her case, us adults will normally explain to her about the thing in question. In our case, we had no idea whatsoever as to what we were witnessing. It's one of the strangest feelings I've had in my adult life... It made me feel like a little girl again and I sort of wanted to ask my dad what this was (he seems to be able to answer any question I ever had). But he wasn't there and when I told him, he couldn't explain it either...

Very strange. And kind of cool :-)

09-21-2012, 03:59 PM	#17
soipguibbom Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 542 Senior Member	Tuesday, July 3rd this year in southern France. We had just put the kids to bed, we came out on the terrace at about 20 past ten. We were five adults present, four of which have university degrees in various natural sciences. The evening was absolutely wonderful, not a breeze, the stars were out and the full moon was climbing the horizon. This was in Provence. For those of you familiar with the landscape, you know that it consists of hills/small mountains and valleys. This particular village was at the foot of a hill. The terrace was facing south/south-west, with a good view over a river. For some odd reason we were discussing things that frightened us when we were children, and a lady mentioned she had been terrified of UFOs after a friend had told spooky stories about them when she was about 8 or so. So none of us believed it when she suddenly pointed up at the sky and said "Look, a UFO!" But we turned around, and actually saw a rather large-ish ball of orange light coming from over the hill on our immediate right (west). We can't say for sure the size of this thing, since there was no sound to assist us in judging the distance. And since we don't know the distance, we can't know the size of it. It moved very quickly (less than 15 seconds) across about two thirds of the sky, before it sort of stopped and hovered towards our left (east). Then it made some moves round and about (at this point in time my husband managed to flick out his mobile and start filming). It wandered sort of aimlessly about the sky for a while (about half a minute or so), before it took off and disapperead into space... The strangest thing about this is to be in the company of four other adults, intelligent and educated people, and no one was able to explain what we had just seen. That is a very bizarre feeling... It's like my youngest daughter of 3 years who points to things with a very puzzled look on her face saying "what's that?" In her case, us adults will normally explain to her about the thing in question. In our case, we had no idea whatsoever as to what we were witnessing. It's one of the strangest feelings I've had in my adult life... It made me feel like a little girl again and I sort of wanted to ask my dad what this was (he seems to be able to answer any question I ever had). But he wasn't there and when I told him, he couldn't explain it either... Very strange. And kind of cool :-)
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