In the late summer of 2014, my husband and I were enjoying a relaxing afternoon in our apartment watching TV.

It was rare that our days off coincided so we were content

just being on the same sofa together. I got up to retrieve something from the kitchen,

but when I walked back into the living room, I witnessed something that I will never forget,

and I couldn't make up even if I wanted to six or seven feet away from the sofa

and four feet off the ground a glowing orb appeared out of thin air right in front of me

I blink several times thinking it was dust on my contact lens or something in my head but it

remained it was smaller than a

cantaloupe, but bigger than a grapefruit, maybe six or seven inches in diameter, and it had the

most unusual but beautiful, soft, bluish purple luminescence to it. It was semi-transparent and appeared to be hollow in the center. It reminded me of a giant soap bubble, but the nearest bathroom was around the corner and down the hall, much too far for a bubble that size to travel without popping. I remember how Puzzled I was trying to figure out how it was being illuminated.

Was it lit from the inside?

No, from one of my lamps?

No again.

It was late in the afternoon and the only light source was our open window.

This sounds strange, but it seemed like the surface or the skin of this orb was radiating

its own light. All of a sudden I felt very calm and for some reason I knew that it was benign.

It hung in the air, barely moving as I stood in place and watched it. I wanted to get my husband's attention who was glued to the

TV and I wanted to say something, but I was fixated and under the spell of whatever this was.

I was in all, and I didn't care to speak or look away or even move. Even though I had the urge to reach out and touch it,

I was worried it would disappear at the slightest disturbance. Mentally, I was begging my husband

to look over in my direction to concur with what I was seeing, if not also have the chance

to see something truly awesome, but to no avail.

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