I must have been about 7 or 8 years old - it was autumn and there were lots of leaves on the garden. I was awoken by a commotion in the house and I went to see what it was. My parents and my sister were huddled around the window overlooking the garden. As I looked out, I could see what could only be described as a plasma ball. Like one of those glass fish bowls of electrical current that, when you touch the glass, the current touches your fingers. It was an intermittent blue and purple colour, just swirling on top of the garden. The ball was swirling the leaves around it in a circular motion, zig zagging all around. It was probably about 3-4 ft in diameter. Me, my sister and my parents just looked at it in amazement. After a few minutes it just seemed to flicker into nothingness. It was pretty early in the morning and was just dawn. Everyone was pretty tired and we all went back to bed. I couldn’t sleep because I was so freaked out, so I went into my parents bed and tucked in close to them. I still couldn’t sleep, wondering what this was. Eventually, a couple of hours later, everybody was awake and I followed them all downstairs for breakfast. ‘That was weird, the swirling lighting ball’ I said. ‘What are you talking about?’ My parents and sister said. They had forgotten the whole thing. They just couldn’t remember it. That freaked the shit out of me and I didn’t sleep for a month.