A powerfully built man who served in the US military in Afghanistan and Kuwait, and also ran anti-terrorism missions against Islamic State, Al Qaeda and Lebanese militants Hezbollah, Luis Elizondo doesn’t seem like the type to scare easily.

However, even he admits his ‘blood ran cold’ when his children reported seeing a green, glowing orb hovering in the air near them inside their family home in Maryland outside Washington DC.

The three-dimensional ball was ‘translucent and suffused with an eerie green light’ and ‘behaved as if guided by some intelligence’, stopping dead still in the air before drifting off down a hallway and disappearing. Elizondo says on another occasion he saw the same thing – a glowing green object, the size of a basketball and with ‘soft edges that weren’t defined’ floating slowly from their kitchen to his bedroom door just below ceiling height before disappearing into a wall.

His wife, Jenn, also saw it for the full ten seconds it appeared – a fact that gave him huge relief given ‘she was an immense sceptic on all this’.

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