January 23, 2005
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A Delaware couple is still mystified by a strange experience with a bright light in the sky, as they claim it followed them at high speed in their car for at least 40 minutes.
The incident happened on Black Friday, the busy shopping day after Thanksgiving, as Teresa Alexander and her husband, residents of Seaford, Del., headed to the Rehoboth Beach area. They were on the road at 4:30 a.m. to get an early start on bargain hunting.
"We were traveling on Route 20 toward Millsboro and I noticed this bright 'star' on the left side of the road above the woods," Alexander told the Delaware Coast Press this week. "My husband commented about how bright it was. I said, 'Yeah, it must be the North Star,' but that didn't make sense because we were traveling southeast."
Alexander said the light then crossed the road to the right.
"It would seem to stop and then accelerate to keep up with us. It was very high in the sky, and all we could see was like a round ball of bright light."
She suddenly became frightened with the object appeared to make a sharp righthand turn as the couple's vehicle turned right on Route 113.
In an online entry Alexander filed with the National UFO Reporting Center, she writes:
"When we came to the 113 junction to make a right, the object was going straight and made a sharp right, like a 90-degree turn to stay with us. This scared me a bit. I said to my husband 'Holy ----, it's seriously following us.'"
They dropped their children off at a relative's home in Millsboro, and then drove on Route 24 toward Long Neck.
"The light still seemed to be following us, but I was relieved that the kids weren't in the car any more," Alexander explained to the paper. "I told my husband to speed up and make sure he was close to other cars because I didn't want us to be alone with that thing. After we had stopped at a red light, my husband started speeding down Route 24 doing about 80 mph and the light kept up with us the whole time."
She says the light then appeared closer to the ground, and its brightness would change.
"It was kind of fluorescent blue," she said. "It would dim and then brighten, and it reminded me of a lighthouse light. It would dissipate and then come back as if it had made a full circle."
In her online entry, she dismisses it was some sort of typical aircraft, saying, "It was too high in the sky to be a helicopter, there was no noise and a normal aircraft would not follow our path to Kmart at about 5:30ish in the morning as it was."
She says when the arrived at the store, the light appeared to hover overhead.
"I don't know if anyone else noticed this since everyone was so preoccupied with getting in line for holiday shopping," she told the Coast Press said. "But I wonder if anyone else traveling the road noticed."
The bizarre incident prompted her to do research on the Internet, and she found a 1999 incident similar to hers in the same town, lasting some 45 minutes, as a light appeared to follow a car to its destination.
The logged entry in the UFO center for that case notes:
[Object] followed vehicle and occupants from home to destination approximately 30 to 40 minutes away. Stopped when vehicle stopped and appeared to hover. There was only one object. It was similar to an egg silver in color with what appeared to be a[n] orange stripe on the side. It would stop when the cars occupants stopped and speed up when they came to wooded areas so that it appeared the object was trying to beat them to the clearing. It was "similar to a blimp but a lot smaller minus the passenger area."
Delaware reportedly averages between five and 10 cases of unidentified flying objects per year.
Alexander told the Coast Press she's not embarrassed at all about reporting the incident.
"I don't worry about what other people think," she said. "I know what my husband and I saw."
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