OK, so last night I saw a bright neon green translucent ball of light that pretty much freaked me out. I started searching the internet to try and find an explanation for what I saw and my search brought me to this discussion. So, while it’s fresh in my head, I will describe what happened last night and hopefully someone out there might know what the heck happened.

Just for the record, I don’t believe in ghosts, and while I don’t think we are alone in this universe, I am the kind of person that is very skeptical when I hear UFO stories. I also never hallucinate, have never experienced anything traumatizing, and I have a very straight-forward and logical type of personality. Honestly, I don’t think that what happened was real, I think it was all in my head, but I am very intrigued by it and I am wondering what could have triggered it. Anyway, here is my story…

I got home from work yesterday around 5pm completely exhausted. I ended up going to bed around 7pm, which is very early for me, but again, I was exhausted. This was on a Saturday night and I live in a townhome in a metropolitan area, so there was still plenty of activity outside as I was falling asleep. But I live alone and I was here alone all night. I just moved here about 2 weeks ago, and I am new to the area. My bedroom is on the 2nd floor, and my bed is centered on a window, which the blinds were closed last night as they usually are. I know I fell asleep pretty fast because I don’t remember lying in bed for very long.

At about 10:40pm (the clock in the kitchen said 10:41 when I ended up going downstairs) I was woken up by something, more of a feeling of a presence. My eyes shot open and I saw a bright neon green ball of light floating right in front of my face (like the color of a green glow-stick). It seemed translucent, almost as if it were just a ball of gas. It was so close to my face that it’s hard to tell how big it was, but I think it was somewhere between the size of a softball to a basketball. It seemed almost to be kind of fuzzy, but that may be just because my eyes didn’t have a chance to focus in on it. I was lying on my stomach, with my head on my pillow facing to the left, and my hands under my pillow. The “orb” (not sure if it was an orb but that’s what I’m going to call it for now) was hovering about an inch above my sheets, almost perfectly level with my head, as if it were someone else’s head that was lying next to me. The green glow was emanating from the orb, as my white sheets under it were being illuminated with the green light, as well as the entire room, but the brightest concentration of its reflected light was just under it on my white sheets. I can even remember seeing the shadow on the wall it created of the lamp that is next to my bed, which was behind the orb.

I’ve read other people’s accounts that described orbs that move up and down and left to right. I didn’t have time to tell if this one was moving, because at almost the exact instant that I saw it, I reflexively swung at it with my pillow. My left hand, which was already under my pillow, grabbed the pillow and swung it at the orb extremely hard and fast as I turned and moved my head away from the orb all in one motion. You can imagine this by picturing yourself waking up to a wasp or a bee buzzing in front of your face, I swatted it away instinctively and moved my face away as if to avoid getting “stung” by it.

Now this is the interesting part. I remember seeing the orb dissipate just as the pillow was heading for it. It was like slow-motion as it was happening. First it turned from a homogenous hazy ball to a sparkly cluster of stars, which each then expanded outward as it grew dimmer, completely disappearing just as the pillow would have been impacting it. At this time I remember hearing a loud pop, almost like a balloon getting popped or a small firecracker exploding.

The next thing I knew I was standing outside my room in my hallway, heart racing and full of adrenaline. I was standing there with the feeling of being prepared to fight for my life. Thinking back to this really makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up!

As I eased back into my room and turned on the light, I noticed that feathers had exploded out of my pillow. I still can’t figure out what my pillow could have hit to make it explode. I don’t have a head board on my bed yet (still haven’t unpacked it yet) and the night stand and lamp were un-touched. The closest solid object the pillow could have hit would be the window, but the blinds were shut and they seem undisturbed. All I know is I swung that pillow so hard that my arm has been extremely sore all day; I feel like I pulled a muscle around my tricep area.

I ended up going down stairs to sleep on the couch, which is when I found out that it was only 10:41pm. I got a glass of water and remember feeling very hot and sweaty, even though I know it was cold in my house. I fell back asleep OK and woke up around 8am the next morning and everything was normal except for the feather mess.

Sorry for making you read all that but I wanted to make sure I covered all of the details while they are still fresh in my mind. If anyone has any feedback that can help me figure this out it will be much appreciated. I’m going to set up a camera tonight see if I catch anything interesting on video. If I don’t figure anything out in the next couple of weeks I’m just going to write it off as a weird dream combined with a muscle spasm in my arm, lol.