{"id":4892,"date":"2025-03-11T17:42:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T17:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/a-first-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T17:42:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T17:42:37","slug":"a-first-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/a-first-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A First Encounter<\/p>\n<p>Last night, as my girlfriend and I were driving through Wisconsin, she glanced up and asked what that bright object in the sky was. At first, I thought it might be Venus. But she quickly pointed out that there were no other stars visible and that this object was unusually bright. Intrigued, I kept watching it while she focused on driving. <\/p>\n<p>We tried to pull over to snap a picture or record a video, but every spot we stopped at was too illuminated, which made it difficult for my phone to capture anything clearly. Now I completely understand why so many pictures come out blurry!<\/p>\n<p>The object didn\u2019t blink, and there were no red or green lights like those of typical aircraft. Once we finally stopped the car and could keep our eyes on it, I noticed that it appeared to be moving slowly away from us as it began to fade from view. It was clearly too high up to be a drone and far too stationary to be a helicopter, not to mention it lacked any aviation lights.<\/p>\n<p>I was really hoping to spot one of those orbs\u2014maybe I just did!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nA First Encounter Last night, as my girlfriend and I were driving through Wisconsin, she glanced up and asked what that bright object in the sky was. At first, I thought it might be Venus. But she quickly pointed out that there were no other stars visible and that this object was unusually bright. Intrigued,&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/a-first-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;A first&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}