Stalked By an Intelligent Fireball. MUFON Case #132516

Not all UFO cases involve a Flying Saucer, or the usual little gray aliens.

 

Sometimes we come across cases where it’s hard to define whether the UFO was a vehicle, or the being itself.  This is one of those.  It’s a historical case, the witness was a pre-teen when it occurred.  In interview, the witness became emotional, it had truly made an impact on him, to where, as an adult, he decided to put in a MUFON sighting report.

His account, word for word, is as follows.

Witness Statement:

I was 11 years old walking home from school and suddenly had this feeling I was being watched. For reasons unknown to me, I was compelled to look up at the sky. I noticed a white, bright dot that looked like a star, even though it was a sunny, cloudy day. It didn’t look like it was moving at all.

Couldn’t figure out what it was, shrugged it off and kept walking. But every so often, I’d turn and look back at it. Every time I’d check on it, it looked like it was getting larger. Eventually, I realized it wasn’t getting larger, it was getting closer!

By the time it got down near street level, I started running at a full sprint up my street. I suspected it was following me, but I wasn’t exactly sure. The thought terrified me.

When I got to our driveway, I made a 90 degree turn to the left and started running downhill (the driveway was about 300 feet long). I made a right turn at the bottom and at the same time, glanced back. I saw this thing make the exact same 90 degree turn that I just made at the top of the driveway!!!

At this point, I was in fear for my life. Because now I knew that this thing had intelligence and was definitely following me! I ran through a corridor and then up an exterior staircase toward our back door. Sometimes this door would be locked and I was praying and hoping that would be unlocked. Luckily, I opened that door with ease.

I ran in, but just stood there holding the door open. I was curious if this thing was still coming. I felt a bit safer since I was in the house now. Sure enough, it rounded the corner and started floating up the staircase towards me. I wanted to get a good look at it for as long as I could stand it.

When this thing was up high, it looked like a bright, white dot. But up close, it looked very orange and bright. Like a ball of firey plasma or something. Kind of like a beach ball sized sun. It emitted no heat and no sound. I could not detect the presence of a vehicle or craft inside of it. And I couldn’t picture any type of tiny being inside there controlling it. It gave me the impression that it was like a drone of some kind.

I waited until it got very close to me before I slammed the door shut. I’d say it was within 6 feet of me, I got extremely close to it. I wasn’t sure if it was going to come through the door or not, so I ran upstairs.

I didn’t have the guts to look out the window towards it, instead I ran to a window on the opposite side just to look out and see if I could see anything.  Nothing.  After a few minutes, I got the courage to go look where I last saw it. Again, nothing. I never saw it float away or anything after that.  I immediately felt kinda depressed for some reason. Or maybe disappointed is a better word. An empty feeling.

I wanted to tell my family, but didn’t know how to describe it. I just started saying “the sun was following me”. They couldn’t tell I was traumatized; no one took me seriously. I quickly realized how crazy it was and I pretty much never talked about it again.

I was not into sci-fi stuff as a kid. My idea of a UFO would have been a shiny disc or something.  I had no way to reconcile this experience for myself. I think over the years I slowly convinced myself that I must’ve been recollecting a dream instead of reality.

Now with the internet and all the recent talk about UFOs, I got curious about it again. I’ve since learned about many other instances of people seeing these “fireballs” in the sky. Now I’m starting to not feel so crazy. Because like I said, if I wanted to imagine a UFO back then, it would’ve been a shiny metallic disc. I don’t see how I could ever imagine this fireball looking thing.

I’ve since learned that fireballs were seen in the sky just before Betty and Barney Hill got abducted. That made my jaw drop! Maybe this thing was like a scout, or maybe it was trying to abduct me. I often wonder what would’ve happened if I didn’t slam the door on it. I just wish it didn’t keep coming towards me, I gave it a chance. Couldn’t it t tell I was terrified?

I’ve also pondered whether or not it was a physical object. Maybe it was an angel or demon? I don’t know. But from all the reports I’ve read, I’ve never found anyone that got as close to one as I did.  When I read stories about “foo fighters”, I feel like there’s a lot of similarity.

Thanks for reading my story! I would totally be willing to do a lie detector test or hypnosis. This event is 100% true, as crazy as it sounds.

 

The other thing that has always baffled me about it is that it happened during the middle of the day, but our street was empty. I can’t believe no one else saw it! So frustrating!

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Witness Interview:

Interview 8/2/23

“I was walking home from school, going to visit my grandmother, back in 1983.  I saw a bright white light in the sky, behind me.  I’d read that sometimes you could see Venus ‘naked eye’, soi figured that was what I saw, and kept walking.  A few minutes later, I felt the weird feeling of being watched, so I turned around and looked back.  The light had gotten brighter.  It was weird, it looked like a second tiny sun in the sky.  I thought it had just gotten brighter or bigger and walked up the hill (it’s a hilly area in Glendale, where my family, and my grandmother lived).  I looked over my shoulder yet again, and this time you could see the object as a circle, and it wasn’t getting bigger, it was getting closer.”

“It seemed as though my noticing it somehow drew its attention to me!

So now I started to run up the hill, though I didn’t know what I was running from.  I knew about UFOs, but I didn’t make that connection with this… Object.  I thought of UFOs as Flying Saucers, you know, not little intelligent sun-like objects.”

“I kept running, looking over my shoulder now and then.  It seemed to accelerate after me, now you could really see the shape of it.  Maybe 4 feet across.  It was fiery looking, like when you play with a Tesla coil.  And it was maybe 200 feet away from me, and closing in.

So I made a big effort to run up that hill, I was scared!  But intrigued as well.  What the hell Is this?

When I finally got to where my grandmother lived, it was a two story, and you’d have to go down a steep driveway, turn, then go through a walled-in corridor with a stairway, which led to the front door of the house.

The fireball was less than 40 feet away from me, as I huffed up the stairs, sweating scared, and out of breath.  If the door had been locked, I’m not sure what would’ve happened- and honestly, I didn’t know if a door could protect me from whatever this ‘Thing’ was.  All I knew was, I was being pursued by a big flying ball of fire.

All I know is, it had to be under intelligent control, it had to make two 90-degree intentional turns to get through the walled-in corridor, and up the stairs, yet that’s what this object did: It traced my exact steps.”

“Thank God the front door was open, I went inside, but curiosity got the best of me, so I stood there, my hand gripped on the door, so I could shut it suddenly, but I let the ball of fire get within 8 feet from me, before I slammed the door shut.”

“I was just feeling scared at that point, I didn’t think a door could stop something like I was seeing.  It was 4 feet across, and the light it emitted was a golden-orange color.  It had a surface to itself, as though the golden fires were contained in a 4-foot crystal ball:  Damndest thing I’ve ever seen.  Anyway, I ran up to my grandmother’s room, and got my courage up to where I peeked out the window, but the ball of fire was no longer there.”

Since this happened, I’d read about the fireballs that Betty and Barney Hill had seen, before they were abducted.  I also have read about the Foo Fighters that tracked our planes back in World War ll.  I have often wondered if what I saw was something like that.  It came out of the sky, and acted like a physical object, not some ghostly paranormal thing.  I could feel heat coming off of it when it was 8 feet away from me.”

“I told my family, and a couple of friends that I had been ‘followed home by a little sun’.  I didn’t know how else to describe it.  It wasn’t ball lightening, as it was under intelligent control!  Ball Lightening doesn’t target and follow a person.”

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Field Investigator’s Disposition and Conclusion:

Witness was matter of fact about his experience and showed the levels of emotion during our 2 long interviews, that impressed me.  I ‘cold called’ the witness a second time, then a third time, and asked him to recount certain details, which he recounted from memory, in detail.

There is no known natural object that behaves in the manner described by the witness.  It appears this was a physical object, not supernatural, as the witness described feeling intense heat coming off of it at closest approach.

Disposition: Unknown: Other.

Earl Grey Anderson

MUFON State Director of Southern California