That reminds me of an event my mother says she saw when I was really young, some six months old or so in our house in Utah - which we moved out of when I was eight or nine months old or thereabouts, so I have no recollection of this. She says that she was holding me one evening when suddenly a vivid and bright rainbow-coloured ball of light softly floated into the room, about the size of a grapefruit, stopped a few inches from my head, and faded away. She had no clue what it was but remained calm (and awestruck).

Nothing like that has happened since.


But for something I personally saw: It was one Sunday morning on our way back from church when I was six or seven, we were driving along the local rural roads and passed some oaks to our right which gave way to a large clearing, and I saw two or three people in high-visibility vests and hardhats standing around a ribbon of purple lightning that went up out of sight.

It did not disappear but just... Stood there. It moved, but it neither disappeared nor made any noise. Nobody else in the car saw it. I didn't say anything as I was at the age where simultaneously nothing really surprised me but I still had childlike wonder, so I just thought something like "ok so that's something lightning can do, that's cool"

But of course now that I'm older, I know lightning shouldn't do that, so I haven't the faintest clue what I saw. I really want to say it was a dream as that's the most logical explanation, but I cannot truthfully say that because everything else that day that followed and preceded the lightning thing went on like normal. Another odd thing is that the clearing was so familiar and so present - like I feel that I can place it on a map, but I do not know where it was or if that clearing even existed, and have never seen that clearing again.