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In reply to the discussion: Have you ever seen a UFO? [View all]Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)it made the local papers the next day and people from all over the county reported having see the same fast-moving dazzlingly brilliant red lights in the sky at the same time, and in the same direction that I did. This was in the 1970s.
In the 1960s, when I was in high school, I saw what I was sure was a metallic, rotating disk floating slowly above the skating rink were I was with some friends. I was about to run inside and get my friends to come out and look at it, but then I decided to watch it a little longer. That's when I realized it was a large military plane making an approach to the National Guard air base. It was angled with the wings pointed straight at my line of site, so they were invisible to me. If I hadn't stayed to verify what I was seeing, I'd be convinced to this day that I had seen a real flying saucer. That's why I was skeptical of what I saw years later, and ready to dismiss it.
On edit: a couple years ago I was taking some pictures of birds. I was looking up at the high tension electrical towers when "something" went by, way too slow to be a meteor, and way to fast to be an airplane. It was nothing more that a dot of light in the clear blue day ligjht sky, and I followed it from overhead, where I first spotted it, to the horizon. It gave me a creepy feeling for some reason. I won't claim it was a UFO, though. Just a bright light moving very fast.