Mysterious Orbs, Triangular Lights & The Doors of Perception

I had a strange experience the other night. I was standing in a dark football field of a local highschool & was trying to match up stars & constellations to my Google Sky Map app on my phone. At around 1:00 AM, directly overhead, I saw what looked like just another distant star, but it was moving rapidly across the sky. I quickly got out another app that I had, called Space Junk, that actively tracks the movements of satellites across the sky in real time, but didn't see any that matched that trajectory. Just then, it let out a huge burst of pure white light that lit everything up almost like daylight for just a moment. It was like someone with a dimmer switch had turned a light up to full blast suddenly & then turned it down just the same.

I've never seen anything like it. I mean, of course, it could've been anything, although, I'm not sure what really. It seems that if it was a meteor or satellite or something that it would've left a streak or burned up in the earth's atmosphere. The light was very contained though, more like an orb of light or something, that just continued to move into the distance.

This got me thinking. Maybe completely fantastical things are happening all around us all the time, but we lack the perception to see them.

I was suddenly reminded of something I saw a few years ago that was truly bizarre. It was around 2008 or so, while I was living in Venice Beach, CA. I used to walk along the oceans edge everynight in the dark. One night I saw a spectacular display of movement over the water by 3 reddish lights that were in a perfect triangular formation. The lights would periodically change position as if rotating around the edge of something. Then, whatever it was, started swooping down rapidly to near the surface of the ocean, stopping on a dime for a second or two, and then immediately shooting back up into the sky. It did this 3 or four times, over the course of about 5 to 10 minutes, before it shot off like a light over the mountains to the North.

The beach was very dark & I was walking by people in the shadows, just strolling along the waters edge, and I couldn't believe that no one else had seen this. So, the next night I decided I was going to go out to the same spot, at about the same time, and see if it returned. I sat there for about 20 - 30 minutes & then sure enough, in the exact same place in the sky, the lights appeared again as if just switching on. It did virtually the same exact thing. The lights rotated. It swooped down to the water and shot back up into the same position in the sky a few times. Then, it sped off rapidly over the mountains. All of this without a sound to be heard. I went out for a third night, but it was nowhere to be found.

I've told this story to people quite a few times over the years and they always respond with the same thing. "If UFOs are really out there, cruising the earth all the time, how come I've never seen one?" My answer is always the same. "Well, you have to be looking...and I'm ALWAYS looking!" I also like to mention that what I saw was simply "unidentified", which by nature makes it a UFO. What it was...is another question, but I think the more in tune and aware we allow ourselves to become with our surroundings in our lives, the more magic we will begin to see all around us everyday! :)