Georgia father and son run after 'orange UFO orb' as they're taking out the trash

A father and son in Georgia chased an 'orange UFO orb' after they spotted the mysterious light floating through the sky while taking out the trash.

Shortly after 6:30 pm Thursday evening, a beaming orange glow in the distant night sky stopped the anonymous father in his tracks outside of his home in Central Georgia.

'Was taking out the trash and looked up and noticed something bright orange headed overhead through the pines,' he shared to Reddit.

'Still scratching our heads on what we saw.' 

Confused, he pointed out the peculiar luminous hue to his son, who was chatting and laughing alongside his father about music.     

The pair simultaneously stared up at it for several minutes before ultimately deciding to film what they were seeing.

The father then proceeded to share the captured video to 'The UFO Reddit' - a forum for UFO discussions where people can talk about sightings, experiences, news and investigations - to get some insight on the inexplicable phenomenon.

'Not sure what my son and I just witnessed,' he wrote.

'I've seen similar sightings by myself before but this was the first time I was able to film something I witnessed while being in company of another person.'

The 58-second video, which has since accumulated more than 2,000 shares and 500 comments, captured the distant orb gliding through the winter night sky.

Through the tops of the massive pine trees surrounding the area, the shining circle seemed to coast through the gray skies above - moving slightly upwards or downwards while on its path.

As the father followed the orb while filming, he finally reached an area where there was no abundance of trees blocking his view.

But the mysterious orange glow seemed to vanish suddenly. 

'When I first observed it the light was huge, but it was way off, like a 1/2 mile,' the father wrote under the posted video.

'As it got closer, it seemed to dim but stayed the same luminous lighting. As I walked further to capture it, I thought what if it was trying to evade me.'

'Near the end of the video, it seems as if it elevates or lessened its luminosity,' he added.

'Still not sure if it disappeared or went behind the clouds, either way I’m unsure of what I saw.'

Reddit users flocked to the comments to discuss their own theories with many suggesting that it could be a plane.

'Had the sun recently set?' one commenter asked. 'When it is dark on the ground, planes in the air can still be lit up by the sun and they will appear to reflect that orangish light back to the ground.'

Another chimed in, adding: 'Usually I'm a sucker for a good orb post but this looks like a plane that's moving through some low clouds. Looks like it's making a turn and the fog it's moving through is creating an illusion of varying velocity but it looks like it's a plane making a turn.'

The father responded to a few of the hundreds of suggestions, noting how at first, he also thought it may have been an aircraft. 

'It had no sound, and we noticed that it wasn’t something we notice normally as planes and other air craft fly over,' he answered.

'I first thought that it could be a plane, but like I said, we never heard a sound neither could see the lights of normal aircraft that we see regularly,' he added.

'For added context, it was around 6:41pm when I looked at the time on my device right after recording.'

He continued to explain that his home is located a mile away from an airport, so it wasn't uncommon to hear the sounds of planes in the sky.

'I can hear helicopters, private planes at the altitude that this was at,' the father wrote in the Reddit thread.

'This was something different. It made zero sound as it approached.'

Another user proceeded to ask him how he felt after the fact - specifically wondering if he's felt any 'weird energy' after the sighting.

'Been a weird one since high school,' he humorously responded. 

'So other than the other weird stuff that happens from time to time, I think I’m good. If something does happen to be extra weird, I’ll update.'

The video is the most recent in a long line of mysterious sightings that have been captured over the last several weeks. 

Additionally, the Georgia sighting came less than a week after another perplexing light was captured hovering over the skies of New Jersey.

Emerged footage, which was filmed near Atlantic City on December 22, showed what appeared to be a UFO lingering above before suddenly accelerating away at speeds unattainable by human craft - leaving onlookers lost for words.

In the short 13-second clip shared to social media, a white light can be seen blinking in the sky before abruptly vanishing as family members are heard discussing what they just witnessed. 

'It just vanished!' one said. 'I just watched it through the telescope.'

A US military witness with over 25 years of experience also revealed his own late night encounter with a UFO that lit up his campsite and 'made absolutely no noise.'

The campsite UFO, according to the military witness who requested anonymity, hovered as close as 100 yards above him along the tree-line on October 21: 'The entire area lit up brighter than the brightest full moon I’ve ever seen,' he reported. 

'I knew it wasn’t the moon because I had already located the moon prior,' the trained observer noted of this 20–30 foot UFO. '[The moon] was a dimly lit waning gibbous.'

The career military man, who reported this episode to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), added: 'I observed it for at least a minute before fear took over and I sank back down into the bed of my truck and into my sleeping bag.'