So awhile back I shared a few of my own UAP stories and since UAPs haven’t stopped being interesting, I thought I’d share another one that has stuck with me over the years. This one is significant because it was also seen by other people as well as myself. To date, I still don’t know what it was we saw.
This was not an object but instead a very bright unusual light. This happened around 9:00 p.m. on January first, either 1994 or 95. We had had a mild winter so far and there was no snow on the ground. I was taking my daughter and baby granddaughter home after they had spent the day with me for my birthday. We were headed east down Southern Avenue in Muskegon, when suddenly an extremely bright blue light lit up the entire sky all around us as well as the inside of the car. It was as bright as day. Startled, I thought that there must be a police car behind me, shining his spotlight on us. It was that bright. I stepped on the brakes and looked in the rearview mirror. There was no one behind us and no one else on the street. As I looked out the front window, the sky lit up again. I kept driving. Then it happened a third time about 15-20 seconds later. The light did not flash, like lightning. It was slow and steady, lasting about 4-5 seconds each time and there was no sound at all. This all had me really puzzled. As I came to a stop at the intersection of Southern and Division, I scanned the sky to see where the light was coming from but couldn’t really tell, as this street has a lot of large trees lining it.
We were both shaken by this, not knowing what this was. Neither one of us had ever seen anything like it before. On the way back home, I was anxious because my youngest daughter, who was 13 at the time, was at home alone. The drive usually took about 40-45 minutes round trip. Thankfully she was fine and was still up watching T.V. when I got home. It was around 9:40 by that time. Having heard about the alien abduction and missing time phenomenon, I had also checked the clock on the dashboard before getting out of the car, to make sure that I had not experienced any missing time. Everything seemed to be good in that respect also.
When I got to work the next day, I mentioned the incident to a co-worker. She said she had also seen it as she and her family were going home from the movies and described it in much the same way as I did. They would have been going north on Grand Haven Rd towards their house in Muskegon, which wasn’t too far from where I lived. She said the light was seen to the left of their car, which would have been in the direction of our neighborhood, toward the west.
I tried to find a rational explanation for the lights and questioned if it had been a search light. A search light is basically a beam of light that moves around and originates from a specific location on land. Most people have seen them. They were a common thing in the 60s and 70s, although they are not used much anymore. This light was not a beam, didn’t move at all and lit up everything, not just certain spots. I’m also quite sure it was not lightning as the light was slow and steady. There was also no thunder or rumbling noises at all. And it was the middle of winter.
Of note, our airport is near Grand Haven road so I wondered if an airplane could have been the source, though I don’t know of any plane lights that could light up the inside of a car as bright as day seven miles away, which is approximately how far the airport is from Southern Avenue.
This sighting has to be one of the most inexplicable ones I have encountered to this day. Over the years I have researched this in order to find an answer but still haven’t found one, though I am quite certain it was not a search light, lightning or airplane lights. Of course because of my UFO investigator background with MUFON, I knew there were other possibilities, like a meteor or meteorite. When someone reported a UFO, I had reliable resources available to rule out weather anomalies as well as meteors, bolides or fireballs and I recall checking those databases to see if anyone reported anything similar on that night. The weather on both dates were similar, temps 21 and 27, and cloudy both nights. Nothing that would explain the light. A check for an astronomical source showed no meteors, bolides or fireballs on either January 1, 1994 or January 1, 1995. As it had been a number of years since I had originally researched my sighting, I wanted to confirm my findings and a recent check of the N.A.S.A. database confirmed this for both of those dates.
So what could be the source of an intensely bright blue light that has the ability to illuminate everything in its path, yet is localized? Let me know if you’ve ever experienced anything like this or if you have any ideas on what it could have been. I know it still has me stumped, definitely have not forgotten it.
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