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I debated posting this, since I'm not sure what really happened.

Last night around 8pm I took the dogs out for a quick walk. It was a clear sky and a cool night. I could smell the last of the fall flowers in the air. I decided to take the dogs to the little patch of woods behind the condos across the parking lot.

The dogs were sniffing the brush and there was traffic on the adjacent corner. That's when a very bright light whizzed by,at tree top level. It was almost comet-like in shape. I only saw it for maybe 1 second and it evaporated. The distance it traveled was maybe 50-60 feet.

The light was a very bright white, possibly 1 foot in diameter, but not larger. As I said, it was tree top height which is about 20 feet in this patch of woods. There was no noise. Traffic didn't stop. The dogs didn't react to the light. I wasn't even sure of what I saw until a few moments after the event.

I spent last night considering possible explanations. The most plausible that I could think of:

My mind made it up/optical illusion.

Ball lightning.

Strange reflection of headlights off of the inside of my glasses.

Possible arcing of electricity off of the nearby power lines.

But it was a weird occurrence and I thought I'd share it.
 
Any chance it was a meteor? Of course for that it would have to be much higher than tree-top level, but could its apparent height have been a trick of perspective? I ask because occasionally I've seen bright meteors that looked like what you describe.
 
I thought of that too, but I don't know if it would fit...doesn't a meteor glow throughout it's descent? Wouldn't something have hit the ground somewhere? But honestly I don't know and anything is possible.
 
The meteors I've seen only lasted a second or two. I've never seen one that shoots clear across the sky and makes the news (hope to someday!). Once I saw a very bright one that I thought for sure would be reported, but there was nothing. I guess most people don't pay much attention to the sky. I do when I'm outside -- I like looking at stars anyway and if there's anything weird up there I won't see it if I don't look...
 
I actually saw somtehing similar to that one evening. My wife and I were sitting out and what I thought at the time must have been a meteor or a shooting star seem to come right over the tree tops. Then it was as if it went into "warp" drive and was just gone. However, I'm pretty sure it simply burned up in the atmosphere or something. I had the same "trick" of optical "illusion?" It honestly seemed right above the tree top but I know it had to be much higher. I put it off as a shooting star at the time. Ya know it's kind of odd. Some skeptics like to say that most people "invent" wild stories for mundane events. While I'm sure that happens I'm also sure the opposite happens as well. I know that my mind/brain/thoughts immediately turn to the most common or "rational" explanation I can find. Then I either break it down and tell myself I "know" what it was or I "file" it away and just kind of go on my way. I sometime think we are not "ready" for actual contact with an "other" be it alien,spirtual or whatever.
 
NTS said:
Any chance it was a meteor? Of course for that it would have to be much higher than tree-top level, but could its apparent height have been a trick of perspective? I ask because occasionally I've seen bright meteors that looked like what you describe.
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I had a large meteor go over my head about 1000 ft up and it made plenty of sound. It was crackling and snapping a bit like bacon frying.
 
I never heard a sound from a meteor, just seen them as quick streaks or flares of light, so presumably they were very high or far away. That one must have been really close to you. Did anyone try to find a meteorite?
 
Okay, I think I figured out what happened...

It seems that light from one car's headlights reflected just right off of the rear view mirror of a turning car, this light then reflected off of the inside of my glasses. When the turning car could no longer reflect the light, it disappeared.

I've replicated this event closely enough to convince myself that it is very, very likely that this was the cause.
 
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