In 1996 walking in Cupertino California around sunset time, just taking a walk with the dog. No agenda, drugs or alcohol with my wife, just walking across the junior hs field when above the horizon I saw a bright light. I turned to follow the light thinking in my mind -- helicopter -- but as it came closer from the foothills -- the 'helicopter' made 0 noise. We stopped and stared as the 'light' stopped about 50 feet away -- it was such a brilliant corona of light, I didn't notice anything else but the quality of the light and that it was stationary. I briefly looked down at the dog, looked up and it was gone. No whoosh, no noise, no blinking -- just gone. "where no man has gone before" was what we said at the time. I wrote a letter detailing what we saw and sent to all my relatives and everyone I knew to let them know. I had a chance to fly a lot in my life in commercial aircraft, helicopters and private planes......this was not any of those...