I was sitting on my front porch, smoking a cigarette as I often do, when my eyes caught an unusually bright blue light in the night sky—an intense, glowing orb unlike any star I’ve ever seen. It hovered quietly above Knoxville, Tennessee, maintaining a steady altitude but swaying gently side to side as if balancing itself. This wasn’t a natural light: it gleamed with a vivid blue, almost like LED illumination, pulsating from a perfect circular shape.
As I observed it over the span of more than an hour, its position shifted subtly but remained near the same spot. Soon, my wife stepped outside and noticed another light a couple of miles away. Glimpsed through my camera lens, this second light was composed of hundreds of tiny, multicolored points of light, with blue as the dominant hue.
In my life, I’ve glimpsed other strange aerial shapes—a swift oval and a cone—both speeding through the sky in a blur. But these two new, hovering orbs unsettled me deeply. Their stillness and deliberate spacing gave off a strategic aura, as if they were silently watching from above. Had I been able to elevate my viewpoint, I fear I might have discovered more lights aligned in an eerie formation.
Despite the length of the encounter, these luminous circles have not broken formation. Sadly, I only managed to capture the images on my camera; my phone’s zoom simply couldn’t reach their altitude. And that’s saying something, considering just six days prior, I’d been able to zoom in sharply on a FEMA cargo carrier landing nearby from 15,000 feet.
This hour-long phenomenon of glowing blue circles hovering silently in the Knoxville sky remains unexplained, stirring both awe and unease. What are these mysterious orbs? Watch the skies with me—the story might just be unfolding.