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Atheist and skeptic, so I can't jump to conclusions, but I watched a sphere of light move alongside me in my car while I was driving next to the Willamette river in West Salem, Oregon. It moved and stopped with more precision than I've ever seen from a drone and stayed about 50-some feet in the air above the river. I moved my head around consistently to ensure it wasn't a reflection on my windshield. My friend had told me about his "alien experience" that sounded shockingly the same, also in West Salem, but a good year before this. He claims to have seen multiple and was just standing outside for a cigarette.
Sounds like ball lightning
It was a good sustained 15 to 20 seconds, and the lumen it projected didn't really fluctuate. It was more in the yellow than white spectrum as well. Makes sense for my initial description, but it doesn't make sense for the Willamette Valley, the color, and pattern of movement. Not that I have a better explanation, but I've spent my whole professional life as a food QA auditor and lab tech, so I'm used to just reporting things I've seen and not reading into them.
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