My Mom's Encounter With a UFO

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I live near an air force base, so there are many UFO sightings in my home area. Usually we chalk them up to the military testing out new secret aircraft. However, there have been a few instances that have left me wondering. One such incident that comes to mind didn't happen to me, but my mom when I was little. One night she got up to check on us kids and then went to the kitchen to get a drink of water, and she noticed through the window that there was a bright light shining down the street like the headlights from a semi-truck. She said it lit the entire street up, and there was a loud roar, like the sound of an engine, so she thought maybe the garbage collectors were out early. But nothing ever came down the street. And then the electricity started flickering -- not just in our house, but the porch lights of neighboring houses (which she could see out the window) were flickering too at the same time. She said even the hum of the refrigerator started flickering in this strange pattern. The roaring from outside got louder as whatever it was passed overhead, and then the flickering stopped. She was too afraid to go outside and see what was out there. I always got chills as a kid when my mom told us about this. I still get chills thinking about it. She still seems creeped out when she relays it to the rest of us, so I can tell she's not just telling some tall tale to scare us. Was it aliens? Or the military testing out some new aircraft? I guess we'll never know. **Thanks to @jstory07 for her post on aliens for inspiring this discussion: