The Lighted Sphere

On June 5th, 2009, right before 10:00 PM, my uncle and I were standing outside of my grandmother’s house in Corpus Christi, Texas when we saw a lighted circular object, appearing as a sphere, almost like a perfect moon, right above our next door neighbor’s house. We estimated that the sphere was about 100-150 feet (45-46 meters) above our neighbor’s house, and it appeared to be 50-75 feet (15-23 meters) in diameter. My uncle saw it first and pointed it out to me. When I turned around to see it, the lighted sphere sat stationary for a while before it started to move westward, shimmer, and descend before vanishing.

The whole sequence took between 6-8 seconds. We had never seen anything like the glowing object before or since that night. I told my uncle that we should report it to the local news station because the ten o’clock news was about to start. But we decided not to because we thought that no one would believe us since we had no proof.

After witnessing the lighted sphere in the night sky, we tried to reason out what we saw. We thought it might be some kind of holographic light or spotlight, but it seemed that there was no source from below emitting light. The light was self-contained and internal to the sphere. It seemed separate from everything around it.

We speculated that the lighted sphere was an experimental government aircraft since the Naval Air Station (NAS) Corpus Christi was about five miles away from where we lived. We also thought that it might have been ball lighting, but there were no clouds in the sky when the sphere appeared, no dispersal of energy, and no sound. The sphere appeared, shimmered, and disappeared soundlessly.

We were a little rattled by what we saw, and we planned to stay awake for most of the night just in case it came back. Unfortunately, we both fell asleep before midnight and did not wake up until the next morning. Over the next few days following our sighting, we paid close attention to the newspaper and the local ten o’clock news to see if anyone reported seeing anything similar, but nothing was.