NUFORC Sighting 125212

Occurred: 2002-10-01 23:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2016-01-11 08:09 Pacific
Duration: 60 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Duluth, MN, USA

Shape: Orb


A large bright orb that changed size N.E. of Duluth Air National Guard

1/11/2016 This is the first time I have told my story to any form of public media.

In the fall of 2002, (I do not remember the the actual day, exact time, or month) I brought our german shepherd pup Greta outside to do her business. It was approximately 10 or 11 o'clock in the evening and the night sky was clear. We went out to the front yard and as I usually do, I look up at the stars, always in awe. I remember thinking to myself God who or what are we when I noticed a large bright white "star" in the northeast over my house. I always gaze up at the Milky Way so I kind of know how it looks everytime. I asked myself "is this the North Star or maybe a planet I have'nt noticed before?" At that point I looked down to ((dog's name deleted)) and gave her the command "hurry up" so she would do what she needed to do. I looked back up at the object and after a couple seconds it shrunk down in size and moved right or up and disappeared. I was and still am in shock. I still cannot believe what I saw but I know I did see it. If you held your thumb and forefinger 1 inch apart and held it up to the night sky, then you would have the distance this thing traveled before it vanished. This was large enough that I thought it may have been a planet, but after it reduced in size it looked like any other small, very distant star.

I immediately went in when ((dog's name deleted)) was finished and told my wife and our 2 boys. They just smiled and thought it was pretty amazing. Now I do not know if there is a connection or not but both ((dog's name deleted)) and myself became ill over the next few months. She started scratching all the time so much that she was losing large patches of fur. The vet treated her for mange but was unsuccessful. Even though the blood test did not show any mange he gave her an amount of medicine he normally would give a horse because she did'nt respond to the normal antibiotic dose. That didn't work either so he made an appointment for her to see a pet skin specialist that came up from the Twin Cities. We never made that appointment because Greta was killed on the highway just days before she was to see the doctor. This was in February of 2003.

Concurrently with ((dog's name deleted)) suffering with her condition I started scratching a spot on my left arm. It was a small white spot that itched terribly and I had to scratch it extremely hard to even make it bleed meaning it seemed like that little white spot was very tough, hard to dig out with my fingernail. Well I went to the doctor who of course did'nt know what it was, and she burned it out by freezeing it. Things got worse because I was feeling an aching of sorts deep in my upper spine area. At the time I was driving long-haul big rigs and it became harder and harder to go back out every Sunday. By July of that year I was totally disabled and could not work anymore. That doctor put me on Lortabs for pain but did not know what was wrong. The lortabs were not working and that doctor failed me not knowing what to do so I sought out a doctor who specialised in pain control. His diagnosis was Chronic Myofascial Pain Syndrome. I underwent many tests, seen numerous specialist! s and took many different painkillers and other medications. The only thing that kept me alive and still true today are the opioids.

In the last couple years my neck has been curving downward and that led to an appointment to see a rhuematologist. He looked me over and said I have psoriatic spondylitis. Wow. It seems my neck bones are fusing together. I now take Enbrel shots weekly at home but that is about 60-70% effective so I still need the narcotics because I am so stiff and hurts too much when I move around. I have no clue if Greta's and my disease was a result of the "light" in the sky, but I don't know what that thing was and the timing of everything does make me suspicious. I just wish I had a video camera at the time because I've never heard anyone describe any light orb that behaved the way that one did.

I bought a video camera asap after that experience and incredibly, I seen another light orb in 2012. Unfortunately, I never became proficient with it and the video is shaky, zooming in and out. At one point I had to pull out and focus at the moon and then reacquire the orb, which I did, before it moved slowly and disappeared like the other one. I have placed the clip on Youtube. I now have a better camera so I hope to do better if I ever see another UFO.

Finally, I would like to point out that neither of the objects made any noise or had flashing lights. And I find it interesting that we live about 5 miles from an international airport and a Air National Gaurd base and I heard no guard jets take flight on those evenings.

Thanks for reading.

Posted 2016-01-14

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