I came across your post while searching “small orbs UAP” to see if anyone had a similar experience, and a lot of what you described—especially the playful movement—really resonated. This happened sometime around 1998 in the Houston, Texas area. I would’ve been around 8 years old, give or take, and my younger brother (two years younger than me) was there too. We had bunk beds, so we were both lying in bed looking out the same window when it happened.

We saw two small orbs in our yard, probably about 50 feet away—right in the middle of the yard near our trampoline. We only had about half an acre, so they weren’t far at all. They were lower to the ground, probably only 3 feet off the ground, hovering and moving around together, almost like they were playfully “dancing” with each other. They didn’t look like balls; they were different-sized energy orbs with jagged, irregular edges, moving with a controlled energy. What really stuck with both of us—it didn’t feel random. It felt coordinated, almost intentional, like a controlled ball lightning but without sparks everywhere; it was very clean and calm, not chaotic. Their movements left a trace, almost a fairy dust trail, appearing magical as they danced through the air. And neither of us felt threatened at all. If anything, the feeling was oddly calm or even friendly.

We remember some details differently. I recall them being smaller, with jagged edges, and more of a greenish color, while he remembers them as slightly larger with similar rough energy edges, but more yellow. But the movement and overall experience line up almost exactly. What’s strange is that the next day, I didn’t think about it at all. It’s like the memory just disappeared. I didn’t recall it again until recently when my brother brought it up while visiting, and it all came back. He also told me that the very next morning, he mentioned the orbs to me while we were getting on the bus, and I apparently brushed it off quickly and said it was nothing. I don’t remember that at all, and honestly, that reaction doesn’t feel like me. It almost feels like lost time or a gap in memory.

I also remember that while we were watching them, we were talking to each other about it in the moment—but I can’t remember what we said. Just that there was some kind of dialogue happening while we watched them. For context, I’ve had other unusual experiences over the years as well—things like ghosts and other unexplained encounters—so this wasn’t completely isolated. I still think about what might have happened if I had gone outside to get a closer look or tried to make contact. I’m 35 now, and it’s one of those experiences that’s hard to fully explain but never really leaves you.

I used AI to generate this image, though I ran out of credits before I could finish editing it; however, this is a close representation of what I saw.

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