UAP Close Encounter

Approximately June of 2015 around midnight, I was sitting on the back patio of my home in Brookline Mo. just between Springfield and Republic Mo. I was listening to music on my IPhone. I began to feel I was being watched. My home was situated on 15 acres and occasionally there are poachers in the area. I also had a problem with a few large coyotes. So my old Infantry sense was tingling. I considered going back inside to arm myself but decided against it. I got up out of the chair and crouched down and took out my earphones. Trying to see if I could hear or spot anyone or anything skylined against the horizon. I looked and listened for about 2-3 minutes. Didn’t see or hear anything but fireflies and a mildly breezy wind. Decided I was just being paranoid.

Put my earphones back in and sat back in my chair. Still felt a bit uneasy, so I was scanning the area visually. Looked down at my Iphone at Facebook, I think. Maybe changing a song? Can’t quit recall.

When I looked back up, about 15 feet away and maybe 12-15 off the ground I see a silver colored spherical object about beach ball size. It was moving very slowly from my left to right. My first reaction was “that’s weird, how is a balloon moving like that?” Then my next thought, that instantly flooded me with adrenaline was, “That’s no balloon! It’s too windy for it to be moving so slowly!” I jumped up out of my chair, then the object lit up with a white light that didn’t seem to really light up the area around it. It then started blinking on and off. This lasted about 10-12 seconds. While I was standing there, mouth agape; I thought “Is it trying to fool my into thinking it’s a firefly? It seemed to be blinking with about the cadence of the fireflies.

I now started to become a bit nervous because I was certain it saw me standing there looking at it. I thought, “If I had a rifle I’d shoot”. Suddenly there was a larger burst of light and it moved so fast all I could see was a streak of light. I thought for a second, it was gone but as I turned I realized it had moved from my twelve o’clock at about 10-12 ft AGL to my 7 o’clock high about 10 ft behind and above me. I thought “What are you doing dummy!?”, you have a camera in your hand!” The sphere instantly moved in a streak of light in less than a second to the intersection of State Hwy FF and the James River Freeway. About two miles as the UFO flies from my yard. It sat there blinking in the distance for about another 5 seconds then just seemed to disappear.

At no time did it make any noise of any kind. It was completely silent. It freaked me out. My military experience began at the age of 14 with Squadron 107 of the Civil Air Patrol. Later I became an Infantryman in the US Army., where I spent 5yrs and 8 months on active duty. in the 187th, 121st and 327th Infantry Regiments. I was medically separated in June of 1995, due to injuries sustained in a parachute accident that occurred on June 6th 1993. I have been a huge aviation junkie since I was a little kid. Self taught and trained as an aircraft observer by my time in CAP and the Army. I can say without a doubt that whatever aircraft I saw was beyond the capabilities of anything I have ever seen or read about. Nevermind the fact it seemed to me, like it could read my thoughts.