I experienced something (after seeing something) in the Adirondacks

I am not telling you I saw or was visited by aliens, you will have to draw your own conclusions, but this will always stick with me.

For background, I own a Skywatcher Esprit telescope (very high end for the average person, but astronomy holds a special place in my heart) and about 6 years ago in the fall I brought it on an extended stay in the Adirondacks.

One night I had it hooked up to a monitor as I like making long exposure time lapses of constellations. While I was setting it up I noticed on my monitor what I thought was a satellite (light fluttering, moving fast as hell, too high to be a plane). I then was manually tracking it on the telescope, trying to get a better look at it and more in focus; until I noticed the light on it shut off, and it stopped moving entirely.

With the light now off, it looked like a piece of glistening metal rice, simply hovering in the same position in the night sky. It then dropped like it was falling out of the sky until it was out of focus/view.

I was absolutely enamored and kept looking for it the next hour or so before packing it in.

At a loss, I left my telescope and monitor on the covered porch (it's more like a sunroom, I can close the shudders on it to protect my equipment).

That night though I could not shake the feeling of being watched in my cabin, I even closed the curtains from paranoia.

Around midnight, I awoke to what seemed like an absolutely torrential wind lasting about 5-6 seconds. I panicked thinking about my equipment and ran outside, only to see it exactly where it was, intact and all.

I soon noticed after my panic something was very off though, all of the dried leaves and brush around the dirt driveway and near the porch was entirely cleared out, as if someone took a leaf blower to the dirt driveway and front yard area, even dirt from my driveway wound up in the yard.

All of the other brush and dead leaves surrounding my cabin were untouched and undisturbed.

The practical side of me thinks it could've been a weird random gust, but that still leaves so many unanswered questions.

Submitted December 28, 2021 at 12:02AM by jakefrommyspace https://ift.tt/3sE11Tx