As the evening progressed, most of the group decided to sit cross legged in a circle on the driveway at the back of the house. The conversation was flowing freely and unabated until it was interrupted by a scream that seemed to emanate from the air itself and every place at once. Chill bumps suddenly and unexpectedly took the place of the warm night air caressing their skin. At this exact same time someone yelled that there was a glowing, white Orb the size of a basketball emerging from a seven foot tall line of bushes that ran down the left side of the driveway not more than 20 feet away. One young lady then sprang to her feet and declared with some conviction that the scream was that of a "witch," and then ran into the house to tell those few who were not outside sitting on the driveway. By this time everyone in the circle was standing. Bryan and two other men ran into the basement a few feet away and returned a few seconds later with weapons…a blow torch and two large automotive wrenches. By this time the Orb had slowly floated through the air about 5 feet off the deck into the back yard some 40 feet from where it had first been seen. Not knowing if the glowing Orb was a friendly, Bryan and the two men began to converge on the Orb using military tactics…one left, one right, and one in the middle. The Orb seemed to sense the presence of the three and began to veer left into the neighbor's yard. Whether using intelligence or instincts, it slowly maneuvered through an array of trees and seemed to be using the trees as a buffer to separate itself from the three. A few moments later the Orb stopped. The three continued their advance on the glowing Orb until they were about ten feet away from it when it suddenly vanished right before their eyes. The "witches scream" ceased at this time as well; its blood curdling cry no more.

Needless to say everyone became a bit apprehensive during and after the experience. The emotional impact on one soldier was more telling than with the others. He had vanquished himself psychologically, and overcome by the experience retreated to the house. Upon leaving, the soldier stated loudly, “I didn’t sign up for this!” On the surface this might seem a little strange for soldiers to feel any kind of fear after having fought a vicious enemy in a war and having to soon face him again in the future, but not really. In my extensive, hands on research of the paranormal, I have periodically been involved in cases where the bravest and strongest of people fall prey to the fear of a ghost, a Bigfoot, UFOs, aliens (ET's), etc. I believe that this fear is based on the belief system of each individual. The majority of the population's belief system is based on what supposedly learned men of science and religion tell us as what is real and not real. Not many people dispute religious leaders when they tell us that we must fear God and the Devil, and that aliens are demons, and that by messing around with any aspects of the paranormal it will surely carry us to the gates of Hell. On the other hand, scientist's state emphatically that anything in the paranormal realm is not real; that those who claim to see or have contact with such things are either lying, delusional or they are just plain mistaken about what they experienced…as in misidentifying a star, the moon, a plane as a UFO.

The brave soldiers at the cookout had been trained to fight a physical and tangible enemy who cannot suddenly materialize and disappear into thin air as if on a whim. What the group experienced that night falls into the category of the paranormal…something unknown was real and tangible and did materialize and disappeared on a whim.

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