Fireballs in the Sky, Dancing Stars

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17W064 Oak Lane, Bensenville, Illinois
May, 2014

I was a sophomore in high school— this was the first year I did not share a room with my sister as she had left for college. I woke up in the middle of the night to find my nose was bleeding. I sat up and grabbed a tissue and looked out my window to see what I can only describe as three fireballs making their way across the sky above the woods. I cried and watched in awe although I cannot remember how long I watched for. I thought of taking a video on my phone but felt it would take away from such a beautiful experience and was compelled to not record, which I now regret. Once the balls of fire passed over my house, I kept looking up at the sky, and noticed multiple things that looked like stars weave in and out of the sky as if entering portals and coming back out in different spots in the sky. In addition there was a strange “aura” surrounding these moving stars— kind of like how humans visually represent neurons firing in the brain.

Submitted by:
Colette Obermaier