Published: 12:33 PM 2/16/2010

Mississippi - 12-23-10

I went outside for a cigarette on the back patio. It was a crystal clear, blue sky and no clouds, stars or moon in sight.

While I was looking up and around in the sky, I sighted what appeared to be, (I found out later for sure), a classic orange glowing orb.

It appeared totally out of place in both size, color, placement, and brightness.

it appeared much larger than the passing jet that my wife and I saw pass in front of it, that, is between us and the object.

It hung about 45 degrees looking south from Clinton, MS, for about 10 minutes, by which time my wife had grown bored with it, and in a blink it was gone from sight. Just gone.