Two friends were hiking and camping in the Lost Creek Wilderness Area in Colorado. On the first night, a large, bright beam of light descends on them. Since then they still question what had occurred.
The following account was forwarded to me by my friends Cam & Kyle at Expanded Perspectives:
"On June 3rd or maybe 4th 2011, I was camping with a good friend of mine. We had hiked approximately 12 miles into the Lost Creek Wilderness Area following the Colorado trail from where section four starts at Wellington Lake Road. We reached what is referred to as “the meadow” and decided to set up camp for the night.
The elevation gain had been significant, and we were beaten. Well, I was beat because I wasn’t in the greatest shape for backpacking in the backcountry. We got camp set up, gathered firewood, and ate our dinners of dehydrated Mountain House food. As it got darker, we got the fire going and were standing around talking. The sky was super dark, and the only sounds around were from the campfire and our own voices. I remember that I could see more stars than I ever had before. The light pollution was incredibly low.
My friend and I were working for an aerospace company and started talking about the satellites we had been building and wondered if we could see any satellites in the super dark sky. We didn’t have to wait long. We were able to see one after another. We could see so many, that eventually, the novelty of it wore off. We stopped watching the sky and were facing each other talking about regular life, when out of nowhere, we were completely encircled by an intense beam of light. This light formed a perfectly circular pattern on the ground. Part of the beam was in the trees next to us. But because of the pattern, the light had to have a point of origin directly above us. There was no oval in the beam pattern as if the beam came from a side. It was perfectly centered on us. This beam was probably 10-20 yards in diameter. It was incredibly bright. It was a cool white color, like a 5600k LED light. There was no diffusion of light at the perimeter, it was incredibly defined.
My friend and I were completely illuminated and were staring right at each other. We just kind of froze. The beam lasted about two to three seconds. I immediately retrieved my cell phone from my pocket and checked the time. I felt like I should in case we had “missing time.” The time was about what it should have been, somewhere in the 2:00 AM hour. I do not believe we had any missing time. I asked my friend if he had seen the light, I wanted to confirm that what I had just seen was in fact there and not because I was suffering from a sudden brain aneurysm. He in fact confirmed that yes, the intense spotlight that I had witnessed was real and that he had seen it too.
We immediately began trying to explain what had just happened. We yelled out in the darkness, “Hello?”, there was no response. We scanned the woods and meadow as best we could by flashlight and could see no one. We both knew that the light came from above. We knew that it didn’t come from a flashlight from the side. I think we were just trying to make ourselves feel better about what had happened.
Now, during this entire encounter, it had been quiet out there. Just the fire and our voices. No other people, no vehicles, there wasn’t even any air traffic. It was just completely, dead quiet. In later years I have wondered if perhaps this was a directed beam from a personal drone. I can quickly dismiss this as once again there was no noise whatsoever. Also, during this timeframe, drones weren’t nearly as popular or common as they are today. Anyhow, we continued trying to ease our nerves by coming up with explanations that could never be. The best I could come up with is that a Bolide had entered the atmosphere and had a trajectory directly above us heading perfectly straight down towards us. Yes, this was an absurd explanation, but I could not, and can not explain what this light had been from. I am still completely baffled by this.
There are times I will message my friend out of nowhere and ask him if he remembers this event. He clearly does remember and responds with something like, “Oh, you mean that night we got probed? Of course, I remember.” The probe talk is in jest, but we clearly encountered something that night. I will forever wonder what illuminated us so incredibly brightly that dark, quiet night. I would love to know, but maybe, it’s better that I don’t."
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