It was the middle of the night and I was eleven years old, sleeping in my top bunk in Southern Ontario, Canada. Our bedroom curtains were usually drawn at night so this was a rare opportunity to see outside. I woke in the night to see what looked to me at the time to be a UFO hovering, motionless outside my window. It was a large, glowing semi-circular shaped object, flat on the bottom side, which almost filled the centre of my sixth floor, westward facing window. It was a deep orange colour in the centre, gradually changing to more yellow near the exterior with no clearly defined visible edge, but the shape was a perfect half moon. I was terrified. I turned my face away toward the wall and considered what to do. I didn't want to run to awaken my parents in case our apartment was occupied by aliens. When I turned back a moment later it was gone. I went back to sleep and when I told my mother the next morning she didn't believe me. She thought I was just telling her a story or something to get attention.

I need as many people to weigh in on this as possible. Please help me understand what I saw. I was not asleep and dreaming, of this I am certain. So what happened?

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