Date: July 15, 2012

Location: Grand Haven, Michigan

This happened a long time ago, but I was encouraged to report it in the hopes of somebody else having the same experience. I just think about it every day and I still haven’t received an explanation. In July 2012 I was just driving down Beacon Boulevard in grand Haven, Michigan, which is the main drag through grand Haven that eventually brings you through Holland and Grand Rapids, etc. I was stopped at a red light with my girlfriend and I noticed what appeared to be, at first anyway, a bubble. Like a bubble a child blew that got caught in the wind and made it all the way to the car. But as it approached, it definitely wasn’t a bubble. It had a similar iridescent sheen to it. but there was also some kind of faint electricity going on inside of it. Through its skin. Or membrane. Im not sure if it was electricity or something else but electricity is the closest thing I can compare it to.

The orb was about the size of a softball. Perhaps a little smaller. One thing to note here is how it moved. Upon first glance it did remind me of a bubble in the wind. But as it came closer to the car there was nothing erratic about it. It moved in perfectly straight lines as if it were following some kind of connect the dot puzzle I couldn’t see. I noticed it about 15 feet out to my 10 o’clock. As an approach closer, every 5 feet or so it would move in four or five different straight lines. Not as if it was being blown around in an I noticed it about 15 feet out to my 10 o’clock. As an approach closer, every 5 feet or so it would move in four or five different straight lines. Not as if it was being blown around in a wind stream of some kind. But as if it was being controlledto meet certain way points in the air. We were both looking at this thing at the red light. As it got closer and closer, I was just in a bit of an to meet certain way points in the air. We were both looking at this thing at the red light. As it got closer and closer, I was just in a bit of a astonished state trying to figure out what it was we were looking at. It came up to the windshield Stopped for about three seconds, which is when I got the better view of it and could see the electrical or plasma like activity through the iridescent membrane. This wasn’t a toy. Definitely wasn’t a bubble. It wasn’t light. It was organic. Or at least organic in the sense that it was a real object. Then rose up and darted off over my car at which point a sort of snapped out of it, and realize people were honking behind me because I was sitting at a green light at that point. I was so amazed I didn’t realize the light had turned. My girlfriend looked at me And simply asked “what was that”? She looked just as bewilders as I felt.

Anyway, I went down a rabbit hole after that for about a year. Just reading about orbs and what people think orbs are through culture and everything. I have no idea what that thing was, but it was definitely real and it changed me on a fundamental level. I wonder if any of the other cars saw the thing. I wonder if my ex thinks about it at all. I think about it every day. Even if it wasn’t something other than an atmospheric anomaly that we don’t quite understand, that would be really cool to learn it’s what that was. I’ve ruled out ball lightning because of the conditions. But all this recent talk about plasmoids in the atmosphere and things like that has me pondering about it more lately. This experience is not recent. But it’s still very fresh in my mind.
Feel free to reach out to me if you have any insights or similar experiences. Thanks.