If you saw strange orange orbs in the Albany sky Tuesday night, you are not alone.

The spectral scene left at least two previously skeptical women wondering if we are not alone in the universe.

Both contacted the Democrat-Herald separately Wednesday and told nearly identical stories of what they saw.

“You always hear about stuff like that but you never expect to see it yourself,” said Kim Enyart, who was dropping off her niece at about 10 p.m. near Waverly Drive and Queen Avenue S.E. when she noticed at least eight glowing orange balls travelling across the night sky.

“From where I was they looked ping pong ball-sized, or golf balls,” she said.

She wasn’t sure how high in the sky the orbs were but thought it may be comparable to a low-flying plane about to land.

She said she went for her binoculars but the orbs started disappearing, first one then another.

“I like to look at the stars,” she said. “I get out my binoculars all the time. I’ve never seen anything like this.”

Had she been at home in southeast Albany’s Del Rio neighborhood, she would have grabbed her video camera and recorded the glowing globes.

She said the light was pulsing but not blinking, almost like the sun.

“It was something totally different,” Enyart said.“They were not from this earth.”

She said while the three-minute experience was “spooky,” it was also “spectacular.”

Kiela Nicholls-McCoy described a remarkably similar scene outside her Geary Street S.E. apartment. She wasn’t sure of the time, but estimated it happened between 9:30 p.m. and 10:10 p.m. Tuesday.

Nicholls-McCoy was standing outside her apartment saying goodbye to a visiting friend when she looked up into the sky to see about seven to 10 yellowish lights hovering.

“They appeared to be heading south but also up,” she said. “I thought this is the craziest think I have ever seen.”

She said each orb was equally spaced from the next and they were traveling at the same speed.

“I thought it was amazing,” she said. “It was really cool, but I wanted to know what was behind it.”

Just what those orbs were was unknown.

A Linn County 911 center dispatcher reviewed the logs and said the center had received no calls about objects in the sky during that time frame.

Dan Miltenberger at the Albany Municipal Airport hadn’t heard anything either.

A call to the Oregon National Guard was not returned in time for this story.