I've been gone months now, still not technically back online.

I'm commandeering this comp to plop this down before time obscures the memory...

OK... it was late July 3rd, 2009.

My wife got the (erroneously) brilliant idea that the fireworks stand up in Walmart's parking lot would be discounting things half price once the date turned to the 4th, to get rid of stock fast.

We got there before midnight only to find no such luck. (D-duh!)

We got along with the chick running the tent as she was just happy that SOMEONE showed up to bring in cash to fulfill her (too) lofty profit goals.

While there, the power died and me and the friend with us ran up the hill to refill/restart her generator.

After that, she got on religion and spent many minutes trying to convince me I "needed Jesus" to be happy while I was trying to convince her you don't need a god to be happy but aaaaaaaaanyway it was getting late and we decided to go.

The next thing that happened was most interesting.

Ghosts and psychic events have been a pretty "present" thing in my life since before I could talk... but UFOs? No.

I saw a strange thing in the sky once or twice but never anything I'd call a UFO.

A few very, very short moments after pulling out of the Coal Township Walmart's parking lot, we started going home on route 61, talking about the chick we just met fresh on our lips and keeping our minds alert.

So, right as we were coming up over the next hill, I saw a motorcycle heading towards the plumbing outlet on the other side of the street.

It had a headlight that was annoying... one of those ones that are mad brighter than the regular oldskool, yellower headlights.

Then I noticed that I heard nothing.

I stopped our friend in mid-sentence, pointed and said, "Now THAT'S cool.. It's like one of those electric motorcycles or something... the ones coming out where there's no engine noise and they sneak up on ya'."

But it was wrong.

We were all looking over at it, yet the back of my head was screaming, "DUDE... that's just a headlight. There is NO CYCLE attached!"

And it was right. It WAS just a ball of light, following the road as a vehicle would and at an intensity only so much larger than an actual headlight.

Not believing my own mind, I just kept watching it, at which point the light flickered a millisecond before returning to normal.

I blurted out, "Ha! Looks like that guy has a loose wire to the headlight lol." However, I did that to keep both my passengers looking in it's direction with me, as it was sinking in that something really funky was going on.

The light passed under the streetlamp in front of the plumbing supply store... I WAS RIGHT. THERE WAS NO MOTORCYCLE BEHIND IT.

We were all so close to it, I actually started turning my neck muscles to get a good look as it as it passed.

I yelled, "Oh my god, look at it, look at it!"

At that moment, with all three of us watching, it instead veered off and when into the woods. No, not down the ravine, just... "into" the trees at the same level the street was, where it then vanished.

I had slowed down prior to this in order to see it better, but resumed the speed limit in silence.

I looked over at the other two and they're just like frozen with astonished faces.

I was then like the chick in Blair Witch Project, going, "Did you just ******* see that?!? DID YOU JUST ******* SEE THAT!?! What the heck DOES that?!?" ...just not as annoying or terrified as her. (lol) It was actually kind of somehow funny, what we just saw.

Unanimously, we all agreed "UFO". Going back to see if the grass or trees had been parted, like if a cycle had gone over it would have been pointless, as the thing, quite clearly, quite closely to our Dodge Caravan, had DEFINITELY not gone downwards but straight into the trees.

(Just to be anal, the time on the clock was 1:26am).

Yeah so... wowza...

Finally a UFO story for me, just at street level.