The yellow Palo Verde trees were in bloom and I stayed out there to see the sunset before I walked back to the road. By the time I hiked back in, it was dark.

My transistor radio kept me company as I tried to remember where the turn-off parking lot was. After I tuned my radio off suddenly there appeared in front of me about 10 feet away, two bright red lights suspended in the air, they were about the size of softballs.

They burned brightly for a minute and blinked out. I was stunned and fearful. Just when I had decided that they were some kind of tail lights from the highway in the distance, they reappeared, burning like round cherry red sparklers about four feet off the ground.

After they went out again, I stood and waited to see what would happen next. When they turned back on, there were three of them in a triangle. They remained stationary for a moment and then rotated clockwise, returning to their triangular formation. They disappeared again and I waited patiently for whatever was going to occur next. The last time I saw them they burned bright white and seemed larger, and there were just two of them.

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