A Strange Orb Encounter

On page 272 of the interesting new book The Supernatural: A New Vision of the Unexplained by Whitley Strieber and Jeffrey J. Kripal, there is an interesting account by a man named Stuart. Stuart says that when he was in the Big Sur area of California, he once suddenly saw golden orbs emerging from the ground a few feet in front of him. He says they produced a strange effect on him: "They induced in me an overwhelming calm and a peculiar serenity that I hadn't experienced before then, and haven't experienced since."  The orbs then disappeared.  According to Kripal, "such glowing orbs, it turns out, are fairly well-known in the larger Big Sur community."