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Anyone ever seen a UFO? (1 Viewer)

TheIronSheik

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And I know no one reads the first post and will just read the title, but for those that do, when I say "UFO", I mean exactly that: an unidentified flying object.  It doesn't have to mean a spaceship with aliens in it.

I've seen two.

The first one was in Houston.  It was around 10pm and I was driving home from my girl's house.  I was coming from the city and driving north to The Woodlands.  Route took me right by the airport.  I'm driving on the Hardy Toll Road, which at the time, if you drove any time outside of rush hour, was pretty much your own road.  Just you on it.  As I got near the airport, this ball of what looked like fire lights up in the clouds, then drops like a rock.This thing went from the clouds to the ground in just seconds.  I actually pulled my car over and got out to see if I could hear an explosion or see flames on the ground, since I was sure I just saw a plane fall out of the sky.  I even called my GF and asked her to put on the news to see if a plane had just crashed.  None had.  The ball that I saw was whitish-green.  My only thought was that maybe I had seen ball lightning.  Oddly enough, a couple of years later, my mom is telling me about how she was driving through Valley Forge National Park one night and she saw something fall from the sky.  She described the exact same thing I saw.  To a tee.  Since there was no sound and no fire, I'd still think we might both have witnessed ball lightning.  But whatever it was, it was odd.

The second time, I was working in the Anadarko building in The Woodlands.  I was in an office on like the 25th floor and the guy I was with looks out the window and says, "Check that out."  Now, this building at the time was the tallest building for 50 miles.  Next tallest building was 3 stories.  So we had an unobstructed view on this clear blue day.  He points out the window and I see nothing.  But then he has me follow his finger and I see this thing that is nothing more than a spec of a line.  If it was a half a millimeter wide, it was maybe 2 mm long.  But we saw it way on the horizon.  And it was kind of coming towards us.  This thing zipped across the sky and was out of view to the south in a matter of 20 seconds.  It traveled from the western horizon to out of view past us to the south in under half a minute.  We both were like, "What the #### was that?!?"  I think this might have been the Blackbird that we spotted.  But that's just a guess.

I'm fairly certain neither were alien objects, but at the same time, I can only guess what I saw.  Anyone else ever see anything cool that they didn't know what it was? 

 
Yes.

I was on a camping trip away from the city, so the night sky was nice and dark and clear. No clouds.

I look off in the distance, and there is this white lighted "something" flying up and down in the sky. It would go up, down, left, right - just over and over for awhile. We were camping at a campground with other campers nearby, so there were another 10 people who saw this thing.

It probably did this for an hour. 

 
Yes.

I was on a camping trip away from the city, so the night sky was nice and dark and clear. No clouds.

I look off in the distance, and there is this white lighted "something" flying up and down in the sky. It would go up, down, left, right - just over and over for awhile. We were camping at a campground with other campers nearby, so there were another 10 people who saw this thing.

It probably did this for an hour. 
Probably just rings around Uranus.

 
It was definitely not that. 
Yeah.  I've seen "shooting stars" and meteors flying across the sky.  This wasn't that.  This object fell from the clouds and fell straight down.  And it landed on the ground with no fanfare.  

 
Yep. Plenty of times.  But we get a lot of experimental, home built, and antique aircraft around here + the frequent rocket launches. My favorite is the Goodyear blimp. Whenever there is an event in Daytona it launches from our little municipal airport and is always out over the river and beach before heading to Daytona.  It frequently flies low enough over my house that I hear it long before I see it. it make a very unique "whooshing" sound that is always startling no matter how many times it happens.  The occasional total eclipse local to my house caused by the beach banner draggers landing is always a shock as well.

 
Never. I believe they exist. Same with Bigfoot and I'm in the middle of Bigfoot country and have spent a lot of time outdoors.

I used to believe in Bigfoot but doubtful now. UFOs are a near certainty just based on math

 
Nope. If you can travel to Earth from another planet in this or even another galaxy, you are going to have the technology to make yourself invisible. No one has seen an alien spacecraft unless the aliens turned off their cloaking device for their own amusement. 

Now, are we alone? Oh please, that's just arrogance to even think that. Could they visit here? Sure but what life form would even want anything to do with us? We are a mess.

 
When I was very young the family picked up my Dad at the Indianapolis airport. We were driving home, it was dark and very clear out, when I started seeing this bright white light that looked like a shooting star but moving slowly from very high in the sky towards the horizon.

Dad pulled the car over.

The light started to branch out and create this sort of pattern that looked like a tree branch with many small tendrils branching off of the main portion. It continued to grow and eventually faded out. It got quite large. If you extended your arm and hold to the sky it was probably ended up about 3-4 inches in length with the branched portions an of inch or so thick. Larger in the sky and brighter than the moon.

Whole family saw it. We continued drive home guy on the radio said he was getting reports but had no idea. Made some corny alien joke.

The news the next day said the "government" reported it was "a Russian satellite" that had "lost orbit and skid across the atmosphere" or some such nonsense. YEAH RIGHT!

 
lod001 said:
Nope. If you can travel to Earth from another planet in this or even another galaxy, you are going to have the technology to make yourself invisible. No one has seen an alien spacecraft unless the aliens turned off their cloaking device for their own amusement. 

Now, are we alone? Oh please, that's just arrogance to even think that. Could they visit here? Sure but what life form would even want anything to do with us? We are a mess.
Thank you.  I am forwarding this post to a friend who claims to have been probed years ago.  I am going to have to suggest to him that maybe it wasn't aliens.

 
Thought I did once but it was the space shuttle re-entering the atmosphere. Left this massive red fire-looking streak across the sky (not one of the disasters, just a normal return home.)

 
I ran cross country and track in high school. I grew up on a farm. I’d often run late at night (10-11 PM) after I came home from my part time night job, which I worked after school. I ran on gravel roads in the county. I generally had the roads to myself and only occasionally had cars drive past. One winter day, as I was finishing up my run, I came to the top of a steep hill and saw something hovering above the road roughly 3/4 mile ahead of me. The object was about 30 feet off the ground. It was oval with multi colored and slowly changing lights. At this point I was finishing up my run with about a half mile left. I had to run towards the object, then turn onto my driveway, which was about 1/5 mile long. I remember being terrified and running as hard as I could to get home, although I was gassed at this point. The object began moving toward me, with increasing speed as I ran up my driveway. It was flying slowly above a field, although I was moving fast enough for it to pass behind me once it crossed over my driveway. I thought I could reach home before it got to me. It changed direction fairly suddenly from about 70-100 feet away and came directly overhead. Still only about 30 feet above ground. I fell to my knees as it passed over me. I was dead tired from running and shaking out of fear. It passed over me without incident and rose slightly to clear trees near my home.

 
Ron Swanson said:
Yep. Plenty of times.  But we get a lot of experimental, home built, and antique aircraft around here + the frequent rocket launches. My favorite is the Goodyear blimp. Whenever there is an event in Daytona it launches from our little municipal airport and is always out over the river and beach before heading to Daytona.  It frequently flies low enough over my house that I hear it long before I see it. it make a very unique "whooshing" sound that is always startling no matter how many times it happens.  The occasional total eclipse local to my house caused by the beach banner draggers landing is always a shock as well.
you need a pellet gun. 

 
tommyboy said:
Never. I believe they exist. Same with Bigfoot and I'm in the middle of Bigfoot country and have spent a lot of time outdoors.

I used to believe in Bigfoot but doubtful now. UFOs are a near certainty just based on math
If we are talking math, the same issues that suggest the likelihood of life somewhere else in our universe also suggest the extreme unlikelihood of it ever finding its way here.  

The light speed barrier, coupled with the difficulty of detection at sufficient confidence to justify launching a ship large enough to sustain generations for a decades-long interstellar flight just to get there and say “hi” is enough to convince me that nothing actually here in our solar system was deliberately sent here from another.

 
Why they always catch me drinking Fanta with a white tee shirt when they probe is a matter I'd like to have probed, thank you very much. 

 
You're assuming travel at or below the speed of light. What if time is malleable and travel could be instantaneous

 
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You're assuming travel at or below the speed of light. What if time is malleable and travel could be instantaneous
I guess I put the probability that our grasp of the fundamental laws of the universe is that deficient at far below the probability of extraterrestrial life or generation ships.

Granted I could end up completely wrong in that belief, but I will hold it until I see any shred of evidence that travel can exceed light speed in effect without infinite energy expenditure (regardless of how that travel is actually accomplished - bend space, stretch time, etc.).

 
No.

But a classmate from HS, and all around solid dude, has spent his life documenting the phenomena.

Has at least one doc movie and I think has been working on another. Iirc, he spoke to lots of pilots- commercial and military- all over the world for most of the info.

 
I guess I put the probability that our grasp of the fundamental laws of the universe is that deficient at far below the probability of extraterrestrial life or generation ships.

Granted I could end up completely wrong in that belief, but I will hold it until I see any shred of evidence that travel can exceed light speed in effect without infinite energy expenditure (regardless of how that travel is actually accomplished - bend space, stretch time, etc.).
i would assume we are basically toddlers in the brains/physics dept considering modern civilization is about 13,000 years old and most of our understanding of the universe has occurred in the last 100 years or so, which is a blip of cosmic time.

In fact, I'm certain of our ignorance as a species of space, time, physics, the universe, energy etc.    We just got a ship out of the heliosphere and it was launched 30 + years ago with the equivalent of a Commodore 64 computing power

 
On a serious note, I believe that methods to cheat the light speed limit most likely exist (folding space, etc.). 

Further, the next hard part is making it work without killing living travelers and destroying equipment. (Like traveling thru a wormhole.) 

I highly enjoy the speculation. 👍

 
I have been in a car twice with someone who thought they were seeing a UFO. The first time the UFO was confirmed as a weather balloon. The second time the UFO was an Army flare with a parachute slowly drifting to the ground. Both individuals were 100% certain they were seeing a UFO. The first individual came to his senses, the second still insists it was a UFO.

 
Ron Swanson said:
Man, we thought you were a Houston dude.  Now we find out you really lived in The Woodlands.  Sheesh. South Dallas at best.
I lived in The Woodlands when I worked downtown.  Then I worked in The Woodlands and lived in The Galleria.  I just couldn't get it figured out.  I lived off of Post Oak.  

 
I ran cross country and track in high school. I grew up on a farm. I’d often run late at night (10-11 PM) after I came home from my part time night job, which I worked after school. I ran on gravel roads in the county. I generally had the roads to myself and only occasionally had cars drive past. One winter day, as I was finishing up my run, I came to the top of a steep hill and saw something hovering above the road roughly 3/4 mile ahead of me. The object was about 30 feet off the ground. It was oval with multi colored and slowly changing lights. At this point I was finishing up my run with about a half mile left. I had to run towards the object, then turn onto my driveway, which was about 1/5 mile long. I remember being terrified and running as hard as I could to get home, although I was gassed at this point. The object began moving toward me, with increasing speed as I ran up my driveway. It was flying slowly above a field, although I was moving fast enough for it to pass behind me once it crossed over my driveway. I thought I could reach home before it got to me. It changed direction fairly suddenly from about 70-100 feet away and came directly overhead. Still only about 30 feet above ground. I fell to my knees as it passed over me. I was dead tired from running and shaking out of fear. It passed over me without incident and rose slightly to clear trees near my home.
Is this a true story?  This sounds like something out of a 1950's alien movie.

 

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