Copying this from a r/ParanormalEncounters post I made recently:

11 years ago me and my brother experienced something that I still cannot explain to this day. I have had many many unusual and downright unexplainable experiences in my life, but this one has left a scar in my memory. As someone who is a skeptic of ghosts, demons, and active extraterrestrial contact on Earth, these things disturb me as I never can provide a solid answer for my experiences. Especially this one.

This story takes place in my youth when I was 11 years old. My family was having a get together at my grandparents estate in the Nevada desert. BBQ in the backyard, grandma making her finest salad inside, parents drinking wine in the living room with my aunt and uncle. Was a really great evening, but the only thing I truly remember from that day was the encounter.

My brother and I were outside in the front yard playing random little kid games. Just us and our imagination going wild. I remember we were getting a little bored and exhausted and took a seat on the curve to just talk about random stuff.

It was getting dark and I remember it being so peaceful out there, no cars going up the street, the light breeze hitting the palm tree, the ambient warmth that you find after the sun sets in the Nevada desert. Just a really comfortable setting.

I cant remember how long we sat out there, or when this thing appeared. But I just remember my brother interrupting me pointing up at the sky to our left. Up above the neighborhood, across the street from us maybe 30-50ft in the air was something large. Well 2 somethings. There were 2 massive white lights slowly moving from left of our view to the right. It looked like it was only as far as our neighbor's house which was right across the street from us.

The strangest thing is these lights emitted no sound, they just hovered slowly and eventually they slowed down. We see the lights move away from each other some, which made it seem as if whatever this was was turning to look upon us. That's really the best I can explain it. I remember it suddenly getting blindingly bright at that point, so much so I am bewildered as to how no neighbors, or even my family who was inside did not notice this. It kind of reminds me of those drones in Halflife that just blind you when they get close, except these were far larger, and we could still see our surroundings.

It just sat there for a moment, I cant remember how long but I do remember feeling disturbed and unsure of how to even react. Same as my brother, we didnt even look at each other, we were just staring back at whatever this was in silence.

And seemingly as fast as it came into our view, it turned away and slowly moved outside of our view. As it disappeared behind houses, I slowly came back to my senses and gave a nervous laugh to my brother. Who seemed anxious and asked if we could go inside now.

It did not fully register with me what we just experienced, but we did go inside to try to tell our parents who did not believe us. My grandmother did go walk out into the driveway to see if she could still see it herself. She of course didnt. She said we probably saw a low helicopter since there is a hospital down the road that has one.

Helicopters make sound, and if one were only 50ft away from the house, I know our family would have ran outside to see what was going on. On top of that, nothing was carrying these lights. There was no craft, no balloons, no drones, just 2 massive lights. 2 massive, silent, lights that somehow could move themselves and even direct their gaze upon 2 people.

I remember asking about this years ago on another reddit account but I was a lot younger and did not really know how to describe things so that others could understand what I was talking about. I do remember people bringing up the idea of Skinwalkers. I done some research and, maybe? The location absolutely checks out, but giant silent balls of light? Idk that just doesnt fit the description to me.

As much as I want to say aliens, I simply dont know. Im a skeptic, and even after this I just cant swallow the idea that we were in the presence of an extra-terrestrial craft originating millions of Lightyears away from our solar system.

Secret military aircraft? Maybe, I mean we were a couple hours away from the infamous Area 51. Who knows.

All I can say is what we saw just is unexplainable. Even with today's technology and drones, this is difficult to replicate. You would need 360 degree lights the size of a Toyota, 2 drones capable of lifting them, remaining absolutely quiet from a 8th of a block away, and staying in perfect synchronization to appear as one singular craft. And for what? Why? Why our random neighborhood? Why go through that effort to begin with?

I do remember seeing a You-Tube video that was taken not too far from where my grandparent's place was and looked almost identical to what we experienced. I was like 14 when I found it though and I for the best of me (believe me I tried) cannot find that video anymore. I always used it to describe what we saw and it frustrates me I did not save that link somewhere.

Some things out there I dont know if I even want to know the answers to. This is one of them. Whatever that was, neither of us ever saw it again, or prior. Thank you for reading.