Several years ago I saw something strange and Im still so confused.

I don’t know what is relevant to this story so I’ll try to be as detailed as possible.

So several years ago when I was still a student in a boarding school just outside Nairobi, kenya i witnessed something strange.

It was 4am and I had just left my dorm room to wake a friend up in another dorm block. On normal days we’d wake up at 5am but we had exams coming up so that’s why I woke up an hour earlier.

I had a quick shower and walked over to pick up my friend from her dorm.

Now we didn’t have any street lights on our campus and we were far from the closest town (5km). So the area was pretty dark with exceptions of the lights emanating from the individual dorm building entrances.

Her dorm was around a 3 minute walk. Between her dorm and mine, there wasn’t much but a path lined by a short hedge and some trees here and there.

Now around a minute away from her dorm (now in view), i saw something. A bright blinding ball of light roughly the size of a volley ball shot from behind me. I froze. I felt like this thing was watching me. It made no sound at all and somehow it didn’t illuminate the area around it as much for the amount of light it produced. It stayed motionless around a metre and a half above and infront of me.

I remember standing there and wondering what on earth that was. I was frozen and I had this terrible sense of dread and I felt paralysed. Anyway I remember telling myself to look away and run. But before I could do anything it kind of just started hovering around zapped away so fast i feel like if id blinked id have thought it disappeared.

Suddenly I wasn’t so scared anymore so I looked around behind the tree to see if I could still spot it but it was gone.

Anyway I bolted to my friends dorm but by the time I got there some people were already awake. And what was supposed to be a 3 minute walk had now been around 25-30 minutes. I dont think I spent that much time staring at that thing.

I’ve always wondered what that was and over the years I saw some wild theories on the internet. I stumbled upon something called a lightning ball? Which had the closest resemblance to what i witnessed but im unsure if it’s an actual phenomenon.

Anyway i decided to ask reddit. Has anyone heard of or experienced something similar?

Is there something that could logically explain what i experienced that morning?

Thank you all in advance