The house that I grew up in had this long, it has an open field and it had a long road that was directly in front of the house.

And there was a highway a mile or so away.

This is Rachel. That's not her real name.

I looked out my bedroom window and I saw a

light and it kind of looked like it had flashed. This was late one summer evening in 1977 or 78,

way out in the country north of San Antonio, Texas. Rachel was 11 or 12 years old. She thought maybe

there had been an accident or something, but she couldn't tell.

So she got her brother and went outside.

He's five years older.

Then the light started coming toward them.

And we realized it wasn't police lights at all, but we didn't know what it was.

And it came then about 75 yards from where we were, and it was completely silent.

She recalls it was oval-shaped and floating maybe a couple of hundred feet in the air.

This thing hovered so close to us, like, definitely not stars.

This was some kind of something that was hovering near us.

It was like the whole thing was lit up, and I couldn't see a structure other than the light.

Rachel thinks it was the size of a car, but again, it was hard to tell.

Definitely not a flashlight, or an airplane or something like that.

We stood there for maybe 10 seconds, and it just hovered there and then scooted off, like zoomed off really fast.

And we just kind of turned and looked at each other.

Like, what did we just see?

Rachel and her brother have talked about it occasionally since.

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