On a fair night in mid Oct. ,of 2002, I went with two of my co-workers ( Brandon & his uncle Robert) at that time out to a relatively small piece of family owned farmland, located approx. 8-10 miles SSW of Vernon, TX ,.  I went to check a Hog trap that was on that property. I do not often , nor have I since ,baited a hog trap!  However , that is what I had done forseveral days , with scraps from the restaurant that I worked at.

 It was just about midnight when we got out to the farmland, needless to say all of the scraps were gone as usual and the trap had not worked at all ! All three of us had been out of the car , but had gotten back in , and simply were in no big hurry to get anywhere in particular. 

As we sat there chatting , I noticed a light in the distance , it seemed to 
move ,I had thought.I was confused , because it looked like a Security light ,that was whitish/blue, it seemed to be moving , and it was directly North of us , which would have been on my families land ( The plot of and is narrow and long ,running North to South.) 

The property has no Security lights , if I was looking at a person , they would have been trespassing, so I was interested to know what was going on , and I was driving , so we stayed in place and watched.

I noticed Brandon, who was in the passenger seat next to me , was watching this light also, and I ask him if he was looking at it too. He was .

For the next few minutes we sat there and watched , and yes it was defiantly moving slowly South , in our direction. At that time we had no reason to believe , we were looking at , something out of 
the ordinary. I had only a few nights before this , had a bullet ripple through the trees near me, a stray bullet , from someone “Spotlighting”( A type of Illegal hunting practice) nearby, and thought maybe I was looking at some type of similar activity. In any case it was advancing in our general 
direction, so we were going to find out ,hopefully ,what it was.

It continued to advance .  I was surprised to see that it had apparently crossed the road in front of us , as this would have been quite the accomplishment , because of the trees and creek ( Paradise Creek, runs through that property) etc. ,it did not follow the road . It was now on the very same patch of land as we were . It stayed throughout this time low to the ground , and it appeared to be following the creek at one 
point, it was getting very close to us at that time. We could now tell that this was very strange indeed, and we could not ID the source of the light , I was then thinking that it must be some type of lantern or lamp , and was expecting to see a human figure carrying it. That would not be the case. 

I had this impression , because the light  itself  was very strange , in that it seemed to be radiating in all directions, it seemed to diffuse completely , and didn’t illuminate the ground or the surrounding trees. I found this to be odd. Also this diffusion (?) , for lack of a better word made a "Halo" type effect, that I have described , again for lack of a better word , as “Rays “ of 
light.

The creek makes a westwardly bend , and this “light” followed the creek. That was very close to us at that point, we still had no Idea what we were looking at . I was becoming concerned at this point.

Before it had left our property , and entered the adjoining plot of land , it left the path of the creek, gained 10, or 15 feet in altitude( it had previously been as low as three feet from the ground at certain points)moved a short distance to the South , then to the surprise of all three of us, it made a B-line quite quickly straight in our direction.

 The “ light” paused , or parked itself abruptly , approximately at the halfway point from where it started in our direction, above the open grassy area , approximately  20 feet off the ground. As I have not measured the approx. distance , I would estimate that it stopped about 30 yards , to around 40 yards , very close , I could have hit it, if I had wanted to throw a rock at it.

It appeared to be somewhat larger than 1 meter in diameter, with the halo, maybe 1.5 meters .

At this point I ,personally ,was terrified , by the unwanted attention, and at the same time I was fascinated by this , and was staring very hard at this “Ball of light”. It was very beautiful to look at, its total appearance was of a whitish blue, but at this close proximity, I could clearly see that the 
“Rays “ were full of many different “Rainbow” colors. The individual “Rays”, of which there were most likely 1000, or more, constantly moved , or swayed, in a way that reminds me of the “Two Step”. As they moved in this manner , the colors , maybe 2-3 colors per “ Ray”, also changed , or 
moved also , inside the individual “Rays”. The rays themselves were thicker at their bases and tapered to the ends. The center of the light remained whitish blue, and I could not see any surface(s) , or source(s) of the light.

No other noticeable action took place.  I remained transfixed on the object the entire time , even though my friends were yelling at me to drive , and get the heck out of Dodge ! I was unable , and really unwilling to look away ,out of fear , if not intrigue. I was afraid that starting the car , or any 
action by myself or my friends , might provoke a reaction , from this “Ball of light”. 

This standoff , if you will, lasted at least 5 minutes, then it abruptly made another B-line out of the area to the North . 

It was not seen by us again , and we quickly left as well. 

The entire encounter lasted close to 20 minutes.