OK, so it is so freakin wierd that you posted this, because the reason I came to the site today was to report what I thought might have been a UFO sighting that I experienced last night!

About three months ago my neighbor was telling me of a few strange UFO experiences that she's had in the last 12 years living on my street. We live on a street that has a huge baseball diamond/park/field directly adjacent to our houses.So one side of the street has all of our houses on it, & the other side across the street is all the park - no houses. My whole block, from one stop sign to the next is about 30 houses long. The park is the same length, with one baseball diamond on one end & another baseball diamond on the far end as well. In between the diamonds is flat field & on the other side of the far baseball diamond is a park for tots & kids.

We are very close w/our neighbors to the right of us. We cook out in the yards together all the time, throw horse shoes, play basketball, our kids are the exact same ages as thier kids so we spend alot of time together. Well one night after cooking out & playiong together we all sat around for a bonfire. This is when Joy decided to tell us of the UFO activity that she witnessed in my backyard (before we moved in) & in the field across the street. She said that she witnessed w/her own eyes, a UFO hovering over my backyard. She said that she stared at it for a sec then ran into the house to get Tim (her husband), & when she returned, it was gone.

Then she said that not too long after that she witnessesd a glowing white light across the street over the field that looked orb-like.She said it disappeared as quickly as it came.

Now about two months ago, one month after joy shared this w/us, I was sitting on my porch waiting to go pick up Spencer from school. As I was sitting there, I saw something that I can't explain. It was this huge tail type thing flying through the sky. Only it wasn't really the sky, it was more the air that is just about head level to an average sized man. It came from the corner of my street, just alongside of the park. It just came flying down the street, turning right at the stop sign, crossing the street & flying up ionto a neighbor's tree. I could still see the tail rippling in the air as it flew up into the tree & got lost in the leaves.

Now I know what you're thinking, "What the heck does she mean by "
'tail thing'"! I'm sorry but that's the best way I know how to describe what I saw. It was just this long "thing" that rippled as it moved, like a wave. It was about three feet in length & as far as I could see, it didn't seem to have a body. It reminded me of an eel. It moved like an eel. But as it turned right at the stop sign, I thought I might have seen translucent wings! I immediately called my husband Karl out onto the porch w/me to explain what I had just seen. At first he looked at me like I was crazy, but after seeing how passionate & serious my reaction was to this "thing", he started to take me a little more seriously. He offered to go check it out, but I wouldn't let him, I guess I was a little scared. I mean to see an apparition or some form of spirit, that I can handle & I am prepared for. But to see something in broad daylight that I can't even put a name to, or try to describe w/out sounding like a fool, this I was not prepared for.Nor was I prepared to let my husband go nosin around to try to find something that I couldn't even describe! So instead I sat on the porch for the next hour & a half waiting for this thing to come flying back out of the tree. It never did.

I was tempted a few times to bring this up to Joy, but quickly decided against it, I guess in fear that I wouldn't be believed. But then again last night I experienced something that I just can't get over no matter how much I try to forget it.

Yesterday we spent the whole day w/the neighbors. We hung out in the yards, watched the kids swim, cooked out, threw some shoes. It was a great day. Later that evening, we were getting ready to pack it in for the night, as we drug our trash cans out to the curb for the next morning, Karl & I were standing at the curb talking. I was facing the field & he had his back to it. I would say it was that point of the evening where it was certianly past dusk, but not quite dark yet. As I like to refer to it, it was 'purple' out.

So we're just standing there chit-chatting (facing eachother), when all of a sudden I see this glowing white ball thing fly from over our heads & directly behind Karl. As it flew away, it sort of swooped down like the arc of a smile (not a frown). As it came up from it's arc, it disappeared! I quickly yelled out "Did you just see that?!" Karl had no idea what I was talking about. I assumed that since I hadn't seen it until it was just passed karl's head flying away from us, that he had seen it before I did. It seemed to be comming from behind me. But Karl said he saw nothing behind me or above my head. I was flabbergasted!!! I couldn't believe what I had just seen. I heard Tim giggle from his porch & realized that they hadn't gone in yet. I quickly left Karl standing by the side of the road & ran over to Tim & Joy's porch to ask them if they had seen what I had just seen. The answer was no. But They listened with enthusiastic ears.

When I described what I had just seen, Joy said that it sounded very close to what she had witnessed in the field. The wierdest part was when I was explaining to her what the air around it looked like. I was trying find a word that would accurately describe the atmospheric disturbance on both sides of this thing as it swooped down behind Karl. I used the word 'wake', like you would see in the water behind a boat.I kept saying over & over again "you could literally see the air moving as it flew!!!" She jumped in & said " Did the air look like a heatwave?", Then I knew that she knew exactly what I was talking about!

Between her description & mine this is the best I can do... as it swooped, it cut the air so that it looked just like the wake behind a boat, except that the air seemed to change around it to almost a water looking substance, like a heatwave looks above a very hot street! Now the 'thing' itself was about baseball size, & very bright white. As it swooped by it had a bit of a light blue tail of light streaming behind it. As it came up from it's arc & accended back into the air behind Karl, it just disappeared much like a firefly does when they blink off, except this thing more faded to 'off' rather than blinked. BTW I'm POSITIVE this was waaaay too big to be a firefly, & it wasn't green & it was really fast. Also I have never known of a firefly to disturb the atmosphere around it! It was crazy, & the thing that was bugging me the most was that nobody saw it but me!

I have no idea what that was that I saw last night or that day that I saw the rippley 'tail/eel thing' fly into the tree. What I do know is that something wierd is definately going on here across the street at our field! If either of these things sound familiar to anyone, please share! I don't really know if these two things would fall under UFO's or Cryptozoology, but if anyone knows of something that looks like a brown flying eel or a white orb that arcs & cuts the air like a boat, please let me know.

I just read the above paragraph & realized what a fool I sound like!!! Oh well. It is what it is I guess.