I don't believe in UFOs, but......

Poodles has tagged me with an interesting MEME about any paranormal events I may have had. This was actually a few days ago now, so everyone is probably well and truly over reading these kinds of stories, but in the interests of playing fair, here goes....

Firstly, "The Rules"

You should post these rules

Recall and relate a time when you experienced a "paranormal event"

Explain it rationally if you can

Inflict this meme on 5 other people

A number of years ago when I was living on a sheep farm in Victoria, I was driving with my mum around dusk on a hot summer's evening. The sky was clear and the air still and my mum and I were heading home after a day of shopping in a town about an hour away. All of a sudden - and it literally happened suddenly - a large, very bright orb of light appeared over in a paddock to our left. It was around 250metres away and around 20metres off the ground. We slowed down to have a look and remarked that it was very early for spotlighters to be out (men who hunt foxes at night to protect their sheep), but as we spoke, the light started moving higher and closer and all the while it was getting brighter. We stopped the car and watched and whilst neither of us mentioned it at the time, we later admitted the hair on the backs of our neck was standing up. It was bizarre; it hovered for probably 30 seconds in place, then started moving higher and further away. Then when it was probably 500metres away, it just vanished. We kept staring at the area, and whilst it was getting darker, we could clearly see that there was nothing there - either on the ground, or in the air. Really, truly freaky stuff. Neither of us believe in UFOs or any type of paranormal activity, but we simply could not explain it then and I still don't know what it was. We discussed the fact that it was too high for a spotlight (usually mounted on a vehicle or held by hand), there were no houses in that area, it was too low for a chopper or plane, wasn't ball lighting - there was definitely something going on. I still don't believe in UFOs, but still, some 25 years later I simply have no explanation for it.

Also, my sister seems to have an ability to know stuff that she just should not/could not know - I suppose you would call her a medium. Whilst she does not see dead people, she claims to speak to them. I say claims because I just can't get with the program and struggle to believe it all. But, somehow she manages to tell my mum things about her childhood that only her long-dead mother would know (like the colour of the dress and shoes my mum wore on her first day at school) and the song that she used to sing to her (my maternal grandmother died when my mother was 9) and myriad other things like that. How to explain it ? Other than suggesting that she has heard these things from my mum before (my mum swears not) I simply don't know. More really, truly freaky stuff that I can explain.

Not sure who else to tag with this, but I'll start with Sarah !