RonRyan85

A UFO means a "UNidentified Flying Object".

YES

NO

JumpinJesus

This has potential to be an interesting thread, but it's a simple yes or no response that won't garner much discussion. Where's your story?

Have you seen one? When? What were the circumstances?

Give us something to work with here.

Can I ask why you chose General Discussion instead of Tilted Paranoia for this thread?

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RonRyan85

Sorry...this Poll is new to me and another poll I had did not get posted.

shesus

OK, Ron, I've got your poll up. Now, you can share your thoughts to guide the discussion.

I've seen unidentified things in the sky. I don't know if they were from another planet or not, which is the general connotation of that phrase. Most likely they were satellites, weather balloons, or jets.

I believe that we have been visited from other planets though. I just haven't had a close encounter.

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We were driving home one night and across a cornfield I saw a light. When I first saw it, I thought it was an abnormally bright star. I know the area well and kept thinking where the hell the light could be coming from. There were no lights in the area, It's just a huge corn field. I noticed the light getting brighter and brighter and pointed it out to my dad and we slowed down and watched it continue to get brighter and brighter until it started looking like huge headlights. It was coming right toward us but slowly did a 90degree turn and went along the road we were driving down. It couldn't have been going more than 25-30mph. We drove down the road and turned down another road and stopped as it passed right over us. It was barely 10-20 foot above the tree line. We could make out the body which was shaped like a large plane but couldn't really make out the wings due to it being so dark.

It's weird because I didn't know a plane of that size could stay in the air at such a slow speed and no idea why it was flying so low/slow in the first place.

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MexicanOnABike

never. But i want to believe. ha!

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JumpinJesus

When I was around 13, we (my brother, sister, and the two neighbor's kids) were sitting on their front lawn after sunset on a Friday night. We lived about an hour north of San Francisco. The closest military installation was Travis Air Force Base about 80 miles to the southeast.

It was summertime. As we were sitting there, I remember the neighbor's son point to the sky and say, "What's that?" As we were looking up, all I could see was what looked like a black blur with no lights streak across the sky. It made little noise aside from a whooshing sound and it couldn't have been more than a few hundred feet up. Seconds later, we heard and saw two fighter jets following. The altitude and noise of the jets brought a few people out onto their porches because that was something that we never experienced. To this day, I have no idea what we witnessed.

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RonRyan85

I have never seen any UFOs but have heard on C2C radio where ART BELL and his late wife saw a huge,silent ,black triangle thing float over them
near their home in Pahrump,Nevada. I believe him. Also many Air Force Officers such as Ex-Astronauts claim they have seen them,filmed them and
when the films were given to the Air Force/CIA ,it was never seen again. I think some UFOs are secret aircraft being tested by the USA and others
are alien spacecraft visiting our planet. I believe something did crash near Roswell,N.M. in July of 1947. The government/CIA know all about the
UFO/Flying Saucers but because there is nothing our Air Force can do , they try to act like all UFOs are just natural phenomena. The evidence is all
the retrieved saucers somewhere in storage and the number of crashed AirForce aircraft and missing airmen.
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Thanks for helping me get it up.
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blahblah454

About 3 years back I was off on my Aunt and Uncles farm in Saskatchewan. There are no air force bases anywhere near (closest is 200km away), and no major airports (closest is about 200km in the opposite direction of the base). Closest town is about 10km away. So its really dark, like no lights anywhere dark, just the stars and moon (thought I can't remember if they were out).

There were about 6 of us outside and we were looking for shooting starts. We saw what looked like a satellite, just larger, and moving about the same speed as the other satellites. It started to grow larger and brighter as it moved across the sky, and by this point we were all watching it. By the time it was roughly half way across the sky it was as large as plane lights appear to be on a commercial flight flying at cruising altitudes. So needless to say, this was incredibly large for what we once mistook as a satellite.

Up until this point the object was flying in a straight path, then it suddently veered off by about 30-45 degrees and picked up incredible speed. The object then flashed very brightly, angled this time in the opposite direction of the previous course change, to bring it about 30-45 degrees in the other direction of its original course, and zipped off very, very fast. The object disappeared from sight due to being too far away in about 1 seconds time.

Keep in mind there were several of us who saw this, all completely sober, and ranging in age from roughly 16-50.
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Yea she helps me out with that sometimes too, haha

Just kidding, please don't smite me

genuinegirly

Nope, never seen one. Don't particularly look for them, either. Ever since I was a kid, I have experienced a terrible creepy feeling whenever I have watched a show on close encounters or documentary-type accounts of UFOs, hits me worse than horror flicks. It's odd to me, since I generally love anything to do with space. Perhaps it is the tone and implied cover-up involved. I will never forget the horror I experienced while watching the 1993 film Fire in the Sky, the story about Travis Walton's abduction.

There are some things I hope I will never experience. A close encounter ranks high on the "no!" list.

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shesus

No problem.

The table, blahblah. Get your mind out of the gutter, man.

And I wouldn't smite you, you'd enjoy it too much.

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SSJTWIZTA

When i was smalled i seen two bright orange stationary objects to the south. I went to grab an adult but by the time we got back outside they were gone.

it turns out that reports in Miami of a UFO's bombarded the local emergency lines.

i thought this was odd, because i was near Orlando, the these lights seemed pretty close.

ill never know what they were.

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Sion

I've seen things in the sky that I was unable to identify, so in that sense, then yes, I have seen a UFO.

As for the unspoken question implied...no, I've never seen a object in the sky that I felt was an alien ship. And while I firmly believe that there is intelligent life out there somewhere, I find it hard to believe any of them have ever been here.

I mean, why would they come here? There are billions upon billions of stars in this galaxy alone...and ours is just a tiny, not particularly interesting one in an out of the way corner of the Milky Way many thousands of light years from galactic central point....so again, what would prompt them to come here, abduct hillbillys and give them anal probes? Hardly likely, to my way of thinking. Unless it's the alien version of cow-tipping...

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Arrrrrrngslos: Oh, I dunno...wanna go anal probe some Earthlings?

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ottopilot

Wow ... this is almost exactly what we (myself and a friend) saw one night. We were driving along one of the roads adjacent to General Electric Appliance Park in Louisville, KY. This place is a sprawling complex with it's own zip code and fire department. Across from GE was a farm. We noticed what we thought was plane or helicopter headlights banking toward us slowly in the distance. We slowed down to look, and your description was very similar except the shape seemed more delta-like... the silhouette from beneath was almost like the shape of a steam-iron. There seemed to be both fixed and moving search lights. It passed just above us at tree top level, very slowly and off over the GE plant... then disappeared in the distance. Not a sound. We called the police, airport, and Air National Guard without any confirmation of something "odd" in the sky that night. My friend was a total non-believer until that experience.

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Yeah. I was on a school camping trip in middle school, in Minnesota (mid-1980s), and I snuck off to take a night skinny dip in the lake near our campsite. I was walking down the hill toward the lake-- it was a very clear night, with bright, huge, full moon, and even brighter with the moon reflecting off the lake-- and I stopped short. On the other side of the valley (I use the term valley loosely-- Minnesota's pretty flat), something was hovering. It was a triangular craft, glossy shiny black (except for very bright blue-white lights in its sides, like windows or portholes). No wings, no tails, no visible engines, no projections or protrusions. It was freaking huge. Like, 747 big. It hovered in complete and total silence. I watched it, almost peeing my pants, for maybe five minutes. Then it shot up, vertically, hundreds of feet in seconds, and then shot off at what looked like around a seventy-degree angle, disappearing in just a second or two. When it had vanished, I heard a sound like distant thunder.

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Cernunnos

I've seen objects in the sky that couldn't be identified, but I never genuinely believed them to be extraterrestrial aircraft. The closest would have to be a pulsating light source hovering above the clouds that didn't seem to be moving at any observable speed. This was out in a field on my mother's former boyfriend's property in Kissimmee. No city lights, no airplane, who knows.

Sun Tzu

At night in Phoenix a few years ago, a dark mass that blotted out our visabilty of the sky until it passed over (our meaning 1/3 of my entire block). I couldnt tell what exact shape it was, but the lights suggested it looked like the US Flying Wing (YB-49) but much bigger- about 3/4 of mile long. It also was not flying at a super sonic speed. It was going about the speed of a blimp. The bottom, even though black- looked like a swimming pool waterish quality. It was completely silent.

The military stated it was flares- what an insult, but I understand they had to say something. The questions Im left with are if it was ET in nature why werent there jets scrambling around it while it was hovering over a major metropolitan area? If it was ours, and lying about obviously wanted to keep it secret why fly over a metropolitan area? If it was ours it had to have been the hugest triangular shaped blimp with lights in the world with silent engines, and some kind of anti radar device below it.

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dlish

one night at band camp...

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guyy

When i was working for the sampling & survey group, we used to wash the specimens' memories after our examinations. We'd also send out a memory wash wave around the ship. If you really did see something, you wouldn't remember it.

Later, earthlings.

The_Jazz

Never have and doubt I ever will. Anyone with the ability to travel the stars has better sense than check out this mess.

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JumpinJesus

How do you explain the masses of educated people who love Jerry Springer?

QED....qed.

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The_Jazz

Umm, doesn't that sort of go to prove my point? When the educated regularly decend to the lowest common denominator, it makes you wonder if that first monkey that came down out of the tree shouldn't have been booted right back up it.

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-=Kastor=-

I think most ufo stories are bogus but let me first say that i am a believer. What may be a UFO to a civilian may not be a UFO to a Air force pilot. With knowledge you understand what is real and whats not. As for the lights in the cornfield for example that is creepy and i really dont know what the hell that could of been.

You can never really trust the government sadly =/

Vigilante

I have seen one. I say UFO in the sense of a strange object, rather than unidentified, because it moved erratically and disappeared, and because my friend and I were drawn to the window to look for it in mid-conversation (mid-sentence actually), when the window was across the room and we couldn't even see out of it. It was a very strange event that I cannot explain to this day, and will probably never be able to explain.

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Willravel

I've never seen one, but it'd be really interesting to see one and then guess what the most likely explanation might be based on the evidence. There aren't enough mysteries in life.

Vigilante

Really? Wow, I'm the opposite. I've found alot of answers to the things I'm looking for, but that has created more and deeper mysteries than before, at least for me.

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Xazy

I am afraid if the next thread has to do with probing...

ratbastid

I've seen things in the sky I couldn't identify, but I doubt any of them were of extraterrestrial origin.

I'm pretty torn on the whole "we're not alone" thing. Given the size of the universe, I think it's VERY unlikely that we're the only life out here. But it's also VERY unlikely that any other species out there would be able to make contact with us.

Poppinjay

A book I read about 10 years ago theorized that we were visited about ten thousand years ago. The reasoning is that tools found up until then were extremely primitive, and there seems to be a sudden jump forward in technology. Also, sculptures of delta wing objects were found from that period.

In addition, there is still a missing link in the evolution of humans. The genetic drift skips a beat. There's a theory that the missing link was the introduction of advanced homonids from space (band name!)

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Arandrul

About 5 years ago my dad told me this one time he was fishing with a few buddies on a lake in the forest after dark. A light which could have well been an airplane appeared in the distance and they started going on about how it was flying lower than normal. Then it just Suddenly dropped out of line of sight within the trees.

Later that week in the camp area, one of the forestry workers who worked the night shift swore he saw a light vanish close by the same night as my dads fishing trip. He was cutting trees a few miles off from the lake...

levite

"This one time, at band camp, you wouldn't believe what an alien stuck in me...!"

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Plaid13

Tons of them but... i dont know my insects that well so some of those little critters remain unidentified. As far as a alien in a space ship goes.. nope never seen one. I think everything people see can be explained by something a little more realistic and likely then little gray guys with big black eyes. Mostly things like what people read/see on tv or whatever making them try to make something they dont understand fit into something they do. Vehicles in the air you know cant be man made.... well...the US government spends countless billions on aircraft they would never want anyone to know about. Look at the most advanced aircraft they tell us about now. All of them are based on things they figured out what 20-30 or more years ago? what will they tell us about that they have in 30 years from now? They keep things secret because if no one knows about them no one will be out trying to steal the secrets for them. simple national security. Every country does it in one form or another.

However that being said... I do believe in alien life on other planets. But only because the universe is so absurdly vast and old. If By some odd chance they do get here to explore... why would they look so much like us? why would they be basicly the same size as us? The universe is filled with planets of all shapes and sizes I would think if there was a advanced life form somewhere else other then earth just the benifit of the doubt would say they would be on a totally different scale then we are. maybe the size of insects? or possibly larger then a house. If i see some short skinny thing with funky looking eyes and a different color skin... im going to guess hes most likely a short little asian guy or a kid.

People need to realize the mind is a very complex thing and it is nowhere near perfect. it will can and does play tricks on you all the time. Keep in mind people are not built to do well in the dark. Our eyes do not work that well in the dark ever look at a pile of junk in your closet and swear it looked just like a person standing there just to turn on the light and see it was just some clothes or a box or whatever. Your mind tries to rationalize what you see the best it can. Just how things work. Even the most simple things can be perceived as something totally different thanks to your minds ability to basicly auto correct what you see or hear. Most of the time it corrects it self and gets things right but sometimes that old coat in the closet is some freak waiting to kill you sometimes its a alien. Seeing shouldnt always be believing.

QuasiMondo

Yes, I have.


I later learned that it was a Toyota Prius.

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newtx

Probably a good one for "believe it or not" but I am from Mississippi and I have never seen a UFO.

MSD

I'm disappointed. Up to this point in each of your stories, it was sounding a lot like Iridium Flares and I thought I could give you some closure, but once they start moving at angles, I don't know.

If anyone is interested in seeing them, there's tracking info where you can put in your location and get a chart of the next ones you'll see in the area on this page
Heavens-Above Home Page

Sun Tzu

Thanks for the second link- defnitate collectable link

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Johnny Rotten

Nope, never have. I would like to, preferably with corroboration.

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Tully Mars

Yes, twice. Both times while flying.

Once while flying with an instructor on a flight from Kelso, Wa to Spokane, Wa. We witnessed a series of four small bright lights. At one point one of the lights was keeping pace and altitude directly to our left while the other three seemingly danced and changed position in front of our windshield. The lights changed colors repeatedly. With an absence of any comparable objects in view, judging the size or distance of these lights was not possible. This "event" occurred during the day, in clear skies (VFR) just east of the crater of Mt. St. Helen's at approx. at 9500ft. I'd guess these lights stayed in our field of vision for roughly 5-8 mins. after which they disappeared behind Mt. Rainier.

The other event occurred while flying alone at night. Another flight originating out of Kelso, Wa; this time en route to a small airfield in Idaho. Approaching Baker, Or I decided to see how far away the pilot initiated runway lights could be lit up. At, according to my calculations, 75 miles out I began keying the mike with the proper designated frequency for Baker. It was a completely clear calm night. About every 30sec. or so I keyed the mike and saw nothing in the general direction of the airport. After about the fourth or fifth time. I noticed a large lighted object below and north of me. It was round but not perfectly round. I assumed it was on the ground, maybe a high school football field. I looked at my clip board and couldn't find any towns in that general area. I decided to detour and see what it was. As I changed course heading north it appeared to gain altitude and disappeared quickly into the night sky. I'd say I first noticed these lights at 9500ft and had descended to 7500 ft. when I lost sight of them. I changed course back to south east and within moments could see the lights of Baker. I keyed the mike again and baker went dark. The rest of the flight to Idaho was without incident.

I have no idea what either any of these light were. Both times nothing in the plane seemed out of place, all of the equipment appeared to be working normally.

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Zeraph

Many times. Most of them turned out to be explained. The other few were probably meteors.

tommy thompson

I've wanted from the first time I found out about 'UFO'S' as a kid, wanting to see one, talk to them, etc. Longing to meet or even see one of these beings. To date, I have not.

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