Have You Seen a UFO?

[QueenOfCalifornia]

I am serious here... How many of you have seen a UFO? Where? When?

I have 2 UFO sighting stories. One was in the late '60's on a beach in California - we were camping in a state park, RV's, campers and trailers etc... At LEAST 200 people saw this UFO. It was triangular and hovered over the Pacific Ocean less than 100 yards away at about 80 feet above the water. It was right after sunset so there was still quite a bit of light. The UFO looked like it was made from a brushed steel and there were lights on it. It was not particularly large - about the size of one of those smaller school buses. It made no sound. It was totally still for about a minute and then sped off so fast that no one could keep track of where it went. Then it appeared further on the horizon and came toward us at about the speed of a fast airplane and then stopped again. It moved slowly along the beach and then disappeared into the water.

The second incident was when I was about 18 - I was driving to Phoenix from San Diego - I was with a girlfriend. We had a group of amber lights follow us for many miles through the desert. They were just one light to begin with and then they separated into 6 lights that flew in spirals around a central light. They flew very fast but were quite a ways away from us.

[Pierre.Suave]

1. yes

everythng that flies that I am unable to identify is a UFO, or Unidentified Flying Object...

[QueenOfCalifornia]

7. How many things is that?

How many things are there flying that you can't identify?

I have been able to classify everything I have ever seen flying except for the two things I described. My children were able to look into the sky and identify everything as either a bird or a man made machine by the time they were 3 or 4. We do not have bats here. What exactly are you seeing that has you wondering?

[CGowen]

8. same here, I tried to observe the ISS and it worked, I tried to see an Iridium flash but I'm lazy

http://www.heavens-above.com/

[MrCoffee]

2. not a UFO per se, but i saw the Marfa Lights

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marfa_lights

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. Yes.

A few years back I saw a strange, bright light on the horizon. Too wet to have been a wild fire, so I went on a drive to investigate. After the clouds cleared up, it turned out it was the moon.

[amitten]

4. Yes, about 6 months ago. I was in a parking lot at night, waiting

to pick someone up from work.

The building is in an area where the night sky isn't blotted out by city light. It was a clear night and I could see a lot of stars, so I was staring at them. It was maybe 10:00 or so.
From behind a group of trees in the distance, I saw an orange orb float silently up. The light it emitted wasn't electric...it was a type of light I haven't seen before. If I had to guess, I'd say it was the size of maybe a Volkswagen bug.
Just as I noticed it and was trying to come to terms with it, it shot straight up into the clouds an an incredible speed, with no sound at all. If airplanes could go that fast, you'd probably make it from New York to L.A. in less than an hour.

I've had plenty of friends/family who have also observed aircraft (not "phenomena", but actual aircraft) that is clearly not anything from this planet. UFO's are real--and smart, perfectly sane people all over the world have observed them. We're not seeking attention...we just saw something that freaked us out, with good reason.

UFO deniers, especially the snarky ones, are a bunch of closed-minded poo-heads who apparently think that anyone who has seen something they haven't is a nutjob. *I* think that people who pass judgment on something they've never seen are nutjobs...but that's just me!

[Dukkha]

6. nut jobs are people who claim God tells them to invade other countries

that is by definition schizophrenia.

my UFO story is 1988 out in a field in Delaware, OH. A triangular light formation that suddenly vanished. There a lots of other "nut jobs" who's had UFO encounters like astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Frank Borman and President Jimmy Carter.

[amitten]

13. Agreed!

No one I know who's seen a UFO is even slightly off their rocker.

There's stuff out there, it's not from Earth, and it's flying around guided by some kind of intelligent life. And thousands of people have seen the stuff, and they are not crazy.

And I'll believe what I choose to based on my own experience, until someone out there can prove me wrong. And that doesn't make me crazy...it makes me perfectly normal.

[BridgeTheGap]

5. In 1979, camping just outside Yellowstone NP in Idaho

There were 3 of us on a long road/camping trip. Before bedding down each night, we would watch for satelites, which were fairly easy to spot. We were tracking what we thought was a satelite when it suddenly blinked several different colors and went off at a right angle at a very high rate of speed.
We all looked at each other for confirmation of what we had just seen. No idea of what it was but there was no sound or vapor trail.

[livetohike]

9. Twice - once in 1965 in Western PA and then in 1981

while camping on the beach at Ocracoke Island, NC. The 1965 incident didn't scare me - I was 13 and just thought it was cool. Years later, I read about Kecksburg, PA and realized I may have seen that UFO. I recorded it in my diary (which I still have).

The 1981 incident was a WTF moment, in which my friend and I lost time....and my vision was "cured" for about 48 hours. Others on the beach saw what we saw. It seems like it happened yesterday.

[SteppingRazor]

10. No, and you and those other 200 witnesses are clearly demented.

:evilgrin:



Kidding aside, no, I've never seen a UFO, and I don't believe we are being visited by beings from another planet.

[MrCoffee]

11. maybe not currently, but the ancient astronauts did build the pyramids

[SteppingRazor]

12. Well, yes, there is that.

They also built UFO landing strips in South America, and had something to do with every other primitive human achievement, from Easter Island to Stonehenge.


(You know, I've always thought that, more than anything else. Such crackpot theories are kind of sad -- must we really sell our ancestors so short? Why did they need some sort of divine intervention for their longest-lasting works? Why not have a little faith in human ingenuity?)

[amitten]

16. They've proved how Stonhenge was fairly easily man-made.

I saw it on a show the other night...using very primitive machines, the Stonhenge stones were erected not by UFO's but by ordinary intelligent humans.

That said, I have witnessed and do believe in UFO's. But they're not here to build monuments. I'm not sure what they're doing, but they're out there.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

14. I suppose I am in good company

I had dinner with Carl Sagen and we talked at length about space travel and the possibility of extraterrestrial life. He was absolutly convinced that not only did beings exist but that not believing was what was astounding. He was vey compelling.

I am convinced that there are parallel universes in which travel between them is possible. I am not alone. Ask Steven Hawking.

[SteppingRazor]

15. Carl Sagan believed in life on other planets, yes. But did he believe that life was visiting Earth?

Also, the Hawking thing. I've read Black Holes and Baby Universes. Yes, Hawking believes matter could be transferred through a black hole, but since that matter would be broken down into its individual atoms in the process, such travel would probably not be advisable.

On edit: Like Sagan, I also believe that life on other planets, given the vastness of the universe, is not only possible but probable. But it's a huge leap from "Yes, there is life on other planets" to "There is life on other planets that pops by Earth every now and again." The vastness of space that gives rise to a large probability of the existence of alien life is the very same thing that makes it unlikely that such life has arrived on Earth.