Well take this for what it's worth. I was out at my farm couple of years ago, around 2 a.m. my friends who were visiting turned in for the night. I wasn't ready to follow so I took a walk. I was born and raised on this place, know every inch of it, and most likely every creature on it. Was a beautiful cloudless night, stars out everywhere.
I decided to take a short cut across a field to get back to camp. Half way down the field I noticed what looked like a fog bank rolling in. Odd as it wasn't something normal for the time of the year, and it wasn't rolling just across the ground, it had to be an easy couple hundred feet high. Like a blanket had been drawn across the sky. I then noticed something else. Not a sound. The woods around my place are not quiet at night. Between the frogs down at the pond and the owls, the insects, and rest of the night animals, it's louder then during the day. But not then, it was dead silence, heck I could hear the stream that feeds the pond and it was a couple hundred feet away.
I'm pondering all this when I see a glow in the sky/cloud. First took it as either a plane headed to the Pittsburgh airport or another plane that was trying to find the local airport that was already closed for the night. Not a first for either around there. Passed it off and started to head back down the field. Looked back up to see if I could tell whether it was a commercial flight or a civilian craft up there.
I stopped dead in my tracks as it was neither. What I saw still gives me the willies to this day. In the cloud that had rolled in, maybe 50 to 100 feet above the tree line was 5 lights arranged to form a cross pattern. A center lamp with another on each side, and another pair one above and one below it. They looked like each were 5 feet across in diameter. And no engine or jet or heli sound, just silence.
The lights didn't move, not getting any closer or further away, nor gaining or loosing altitude. Couldn't see anything except the lights, no form as to what was supporting them. Then it really got weird. The lights started to rotate, first the horizontal row would spin slowly then they would stop and the vertical row would spin. And they would repeat, but in the opposite direction. As they spun around I could see the light reflecting off the cloud but nothing in front or behind them. Was like the lights were self supporting. This went on for maybe 10 to 15 minutes, lights dancing and not a sound.
They stopped and all but the center one went out, followed by the center one starting to gain altitude and dimming as it did. Just as it broke through the cloud top it went out. I could not see any form in the clear sky above the cloud, was like what ever had been there had just vanished.
Then the cloud just started to move off and break up, and as it did the sounds of the animals started coming back. And it was back to normal, clear sky and stars shining bright.
No clue as to what it was to this day. I've been around aircraft most of my life, fixed wing, heli, gliders, even a couple of blimps, and have never seen a craft with lamps like that mounted on it, nor one that could plant itself in the sky and not make a sound. And to have the woods go dead quiet I've never experienced that in 50+ years. And while I may be a straw brain, I don't drink.
Do think it really was Die Nazi Glocke?
