A Photo With A View

Imagination is sometimes like a dream or a waking moment, a bit of inspiration to guide us. It's like an idea that suddenly appears in our mind, a utility in reach, an embedded notion. We think it or we visualize it. Sometimes we might capture it by a drawing, a painting, a piece of writing, or a song.

About two and half months ago I had started on what would be a series of musical streaming albums as part of my Versification Project, taking poems and turning them into lyrics. I am still excited about it. Dedicated as I usually am on a creative project (which is always), I was up late at night working on it. Lifting my eyes from my work for a moment I looked up to think and gazed out the window. There was a bright light dot suspended in the sky. I stood up to look closer out the window of the door. It was an amazingly warm autumn and it felt like a summer evening.

Some kind of star? I wondered. Yet, stars are usually much higher in the sky and tinier, as part of an array of other stars. This shining thing stood out because it was obviously lower in the sky. Planes need to be in motion to propel, they do not stay stationary. It seemed far too high in the sky to be a helicopter. I've seen helicopters and planes and this did not seem to be either, clearly.

I would like to think that it was some kind of new star but was it? It shone very brightly. I grabbed my phone to capture this moment and took a video of it as well as a picture. The video is a little shaky but that is from my hand, I have a phone that has an underwater camera and is shatterproof (you can practically drop it from a roof and it won't break), it weighs a ton and after a few minutes is heavy. I did not take my eyes off it and it barely moved. I watched it for a full 15 minutes. Then the strangest thing happened. The bright light turned into an orb, a greyish-round emanation replaced the bright spot and I was able to capture that on the video. I set the phone down and turned to look back out the window and the shining thing was gone. I don't imbibe in anything really and though I was tired it was most definitely not my imagination and I have the camera picture and video to prove it. I would post the video of it here but it has to be a YouTube video to post on a Vocal story so when I get to that I will update this story with it so you can see it.

I mentioned it to someone the next day and he and his girlfriend saw the same thing he said about a week prior.

Then I forgot about it.

On December 14th it was back. Around 9:30 pm for whatever reason I happened to look out the window and it was further to the west. It stayed for about 30 minutes then left, again I missed the departure.

I don't really believe in aliens. I think that there used to be life on other planets long ago but none that we know of are inhabitable so it must be very long time ago and we essentially have nothing but theories. I also question that it was a star or it would be there all the time wouldn't it, and it's not.

Interestingly, with the recent social media posts on the California fires there have been other posts about strange phenomena. When something "apocolyptic" in nature happens people tend to post on anything surrounding the topic. Surprise, there were several other posts showing pictures just like mine, exactly like the photos here. These were in the United States who saw them in their city centre, the parks, highways, and one woman said there was one over her house for a couple weeks.

It is easy to dismiss the unexplainable as imagination. But I certainly didn't conjur that shining object because there it is for you to see.

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