Close Encounter

So we're sitting out front of the van and it's getting late in the afternoon. I've been watching jets fly across the blue sky leaving fluffy contrails in their wake. Jake is on Facebook next to me.

I see a jet high in the sky directly overhead, when from nowhere, a silver orb appears below it and starts to climb vertical towards the plane. I tell Jake to look and we both watch as this ball of light, in bright daylight, move toward the plane. Suddenly, the totally circular ball of silver, accelerates away upwards as the jet fly's East. The UFO glowing against an azure blue sky just blinks away.

We both know what we saw, no idea what it was, but one thing is certain, it wasn't ball lightning. It was silver and had direction. Jake, who is the biggest cynic in the world, now has something to think about. Me, for a brief moment, I felt like Richard Dreyfuss.