"Investigator Mike Lucas recently put the Singular Fortean Society in contact with a woman in Kenosha, Wisconsin, who said that she awoke one late summer night in 2009 to find a “charcoal-colored cloud shape” emanating an “amber light” near the ceiling of her bedroom.
The woman agreed to the use of her first name, Jane, in this article.
"It was probably late summer 2009. It was a long time ago, and it only happened that one time. Other things have happened in that house, but this is the one thing I can’t categorize," Jane said in a phone interview with investigator Tobias Wayland. "It was in the middle of the night. I was woken up. I don’t typically wake up at night. I can’t say that it was a noise or anything that woke me up. I just woke up."
I’m a very pragmatic, practical, logical person, and what I saw in the room, I couldn’t put any reason to it. At the foot of the bed, near the ceiling, there’s a corner wall there with built-in dressers and next to the built-in dressers there’s a window that had a window air conditioner in it. There were little cracks of light on both sides of where the window air conditioner fits into the window.
So, up in that corner, on the ceiling, there was an object that, I would say, was probably four feet wide by two or three feet tall, sitting near the top of the ceiling. It was a charcoal-colored cloud shape, but it wasn’t cloud-like. Cloud-shaped meaning it had puffiness around it, but it looked solid, a solid charcoal color. Inside of it, there looked like there was an amber light, kind of trying to emanate from the inside out. You could see gradations of this amber light from the inside to the outside of the charcoal cloud.
If I had a shoe or something that I could have thrown at it, I swear it would have bounced off, because that’s how solid it looked. But the amber light from the inside, that’s what got me.
Immediately I thought, "I’m dreaming. I must have woken up during a dream and that’s still part of my dream. Okay, I’ll just close my eyes and when I wake up it will be gone."
I closed my eyes and I couldn’t go back to sleep. I peeked up and it was still there. I’m rubbing my eyes, pinching myself. I’m awake.
I’m one hundred percent awake and I’m looking at this thing going, "I don’t know what that is."
So, I turned over, and maybe 20 minutes later I thought it’s going to fade away because clearly if it’s not part of a dream it must be a hallucination. 20 minutes go by, I turn over, it’s still there. It’s not moving. There’s nothing about it that’s mobile or foggy or anything. It’s just hanging there solid.
Eventually, I must have fallen asleep, because the next morning it wasn’t there. I wasn’t afraid."
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I once saw something like this floating in the sky over some rocky hills in the Arizona desert. Since it was floating, I considered it to be a "UFO", except that it wasn't a space ship and defied categorization. Some weird stuff around sometimes
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(Emily Wayland / Singular Fortean Society)
"Investigator Mike Lucas recently put the Singular Fortean Society in contact with a woman in Kenosha, Wisconsin, who said that she awoke one late summer night in 2009 to find a “charcoal-colored cloud shape” emanating an “amber light” near the ceiling of her bedroom.
The woman agreed to the use of her first name, Jane, in this article.
"It was probably late summer 2009. It was a long time ago, and it only happened that one time. Other things have happened in that house, but this is the one thing I can’t categorize," Jane said in a phone interview with investigator Tobias Wayland. "It was in the middle of the night. I was woken up. I don’t typically wake up at night. I can’t say that it was a noise or anything that woke me up. I just woke up."
I’m a very pragmatic, practical, logical person, and what I saw in the room, I couldn’t put any reason to it. At the foot of the bed, near the ceiling, there’s a corner wall there with built-in dressers and next to the built-in dressers there’s a window that had a window air conditioner in it. There were little cracks of light on both sides of where the window air conditioner fits into the window.
So, up in that corner, on the ceiling, there was an object that, I would say, was probably four feet wide by two or three feet tall, sitting near the top of the ceiling. It was a charcoal-colored cloud shape, but it wasn’t cloud-like. Cloud-shaped meaning it had puffiness around it, but it looked solid, a solid charcoal color. Inside of it, there looked like there was an amber light, kind of trying to emanate from the inside out. You could see gradations of this amber light from the inside to the outside of the charcoal cloud.
If I had a shoe or something that I could have thrown at it, I swear it would have bounced off, because that’s how solid it looked. But the amber light from the inside, that’s what got me.
Immediately I thought, "I’m dreaming. I must have woken up during a dream and that’s still part of my dream. Okay, I’ll just close my eyes and when I wake up it will be gone."
I closed my eyes and I couldn’t go back to sleep. I peeked up and it was still there. I’m rubbing my eyes, pinching myself. I’m awake.
I’m one hundred percent awake and I’m looking at this thing going, "I don’t know what that is."
So, I turned over, and maybe 20 minutes later I thought it’s going to fade away because clearly if it’s not part of a dream it must be a hallucination. 20 minutes go by, I turn over, it’s still there. It’s not moving. There’s nothing about it that’s mobile or foggy or anything. It’s just hanging there solid.
Eventually, I must have fallen asleep, because the next morning it wasn’t there. I wasn’t afraid."
I once saw something like this floating in the sky over some rocky hills in the Arizona desert. Since it was floating, I considered it to be a "UFO", except that it wasn't a space ship and defied categorization. Some weird stuff around sometimes