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- Mary Geest, CO-SYSOP "The Darkside" 314-298-7486
-
- This sighting occurred about nine years ago...So I have forgotten
- the exact date and time. My mother and I to our knowledge are the only
- ones to see this since we did not inquire about the area to see if any
- one else saw it. It was shortly after sunset and a storm was comming
- in from the ocean when we saw something we knew wasn't a plane.
- We were sitting on the porch of our summer home on Edisto Island,
- S. Carolina, when my mother noticed this bright round object. At first
- she mistook it for the moon, but on closer observation we realised it
- couldn't be since it was very cloudy out and it moved around. I myself
- only saw it for a short time, but mom had viewed it considerably
- longer. This object was huge, I can only guess at it's size, something
- like 200-300 feet accross. I knew it was low to the ground because I
- could make out the outline of trees behind it and it appeared to be
- coming out or above the woods.
- It was a bright gold in color like "spun gold". It looked similar
- to a plate or saucer standing on it's rim. It had no lights as far as
- we could notice and made no sound. It did move in several directions,
- after a few moments we lost sight of it. We thought maybe it could
- have been a form of "ball Lighting" since a storm was approaching or
- even a weather balloon but isn't a weather balloon silver or white
- in color and as I understand "Ball Lightening" is very rare and
- never that big.....
- I would be interested on comments as to what this may or could have
- been. Especially from anyone in the scientific community....
-
- Mary Geest 3/27/89