Strange light...heed help to identify

[kittynh]

the odds of this being an accurate account after all these years is slim...but I could use some help with some suggestions about what this person saw.

the first question I got was this.............................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ......

When I was five years old my family and I were on our way home from Florida, while driving through Illinois I was looking out the back window. To my surprise I saw some round object in the air. I could not see a ship but I remember seeing Hundreds of lights moving around in a circle. The lights changed color to everything in the rainbow, some colors I'm not even sure what they were weird colors. It was as if every light had over 100 colors it changed to. I have not seen anything like that to date. I am not sure what else it could be than a UFO but I'm not going to go as far as that and claim it to be a UFO. What do you suggest

this is what I got when I asked for more information....................................... .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .

I saw somthing in the sky
Question: I would have to say the time was 11:00pm at night to 1:00am in the morning. It was very dark outside, I do not think their were many if any other lights except for a street lamp. I was so shocked I was just in armament to these lights, I did not say a word to my parents until I could no longer see it, and my parents did not see it. To my memory their were no clouds either but being at night It would be hard to see clouds. And I remember that I could not see it any longer after about five minutes, and I can not remember why. It just went away.


anyway, suggestions welcome!

[Admiral]

While this answer won't be helpful, my first reaction was simply that, well, it was the middle of the night for a five-year-old, and so it was probably just a dream.

Just recently on a long car ride I had an incredibly vivid dream that seemed to transition seemlessly with reality- and that was in the middle of the day for an adult. This description is vague enough to have easily been the imaginings of a five-year-old nodding off, probably further distorted by memory (what's your best memory of when you were five?).

My guess was that it had rained earlier, meaining the back window would have been covered with raindrops. A streetlight racing by, refracted through these drops, would certainly have looked like a dance of lights moving around. While an adult would have recognized it, a tired five-year-old certainly could have been impressed enough by it to remember it, and, as skeptics know well, memory can be greatly warped over time, particularly unclear memories from the middle of the night (which is where alien abduction stories come from).

My guess is that the person you're talking to won't like this explanation- he/she wants an explanation that doesn't involve his memory being unclear (people don't like to be told they're not credible witnesses, even though pretty much everyone has a very flawed memory). My guess is that his reaction will be along the lines of "I know what I saw, and it wasn't a dream."

[Gravy]

"I was just in armament to these lights"

Could be a DARPA experiment using children without their knowledge.

Or a dream.

[Loss Leader]

I'm going to go further than saying it was a dream. I think it was a dream inspired by the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. A big circle of lights that could change color reminds me of the spaceship from Close Encounters. A young child who had seen the movie could easily have a similar dream. Or there was no incident in the car - the person is just remembering Close Encounters as if it had actually happened to them.

Find out what year the incident took place.

[Patricio Elicer]

A related note: Carl Sagan on the Betty & Barney Hill Aduction case.

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[EvilBiker]

Snap response:

Raindrops on back window, refracting light coming from passing streetlamp.

[Yeah_Right]

I am not sure what else it could be than a UFO but I'm not going to go as far as that and claim it to be a UFO

Well techinically it was a UFO since you couldn't properly identify it, other than that it's difficult to say. If you had actually seen it in a conscious state, meaning you hadn't dreamt it as others here have suggested, it's hard to even hazard a guess as to what it was. I recall seeing a UFO documentary where small aircraft carrying advertising lights had been mistaken for UFOs. In fact, depending on how one was looking at the plane, it did look like lights supposedly flashing on the edge of a "flying saucer".

I am not saying this is what you saw, since you didn't give any indication of distance, or if you heard any nosie from the object. Or it is enitrely possible that it was a dream.

[kittynh]

thanks, it's so hard to say to someone, "you were 5 years old". that's why I asked if the family had also seen the lights. Late at night, and that is very late for a 5 year old, and I just imagine it could have been anything!

Still, I like to offer a more rational explaination, so they have the thought that perhaps faulty memory, or dream, might be more rational than invader from another planet.

[RemieV]

Yeah_Right... you know that's not Kitty's memory, right?

[Yeah_Right]

Remmie, well my face is red, I read the post rather quickly so I mistakenly assumed it was Kitty's.

[Cuddles]

When I was five years old

I know you want something more substantial, but that really is all there is to it. The poor perception and thinking skills of five-year-olds aside, the chance of anyone remembering reliable details of an event years later is essentially zero. As is the chance of a five-year-old being awake in the middle of the night on a long car journey (it's either asleep or complaining about needing the toilet, looking quietly out the window isn't an option).

[kittynh]

this is the problem. I get these memories and people don't understand, memories lie. Or at the very least they change.

[kittynh]

Yeah!

Well he was very HAPPY with the answer.

And this person nominated me for volunteer of the month (which is a real honor!)

You CAN give a good critical thinking answer to a question, and you know what, people accept it and even nominate you for volunteer of the month.

I give people the straight answer, and they still give me good feedback.

Though I give credit here! I get great answers so I can really give a good truthful (though always respectful) answer.

Yeah!