UFO Experiences

[Raggit]

So tonight I was on my way home from work.  I live outside of town in the quiet country side, and so it was the perfect setting for my little experience here.  As I was turning into my lane, I saw a little, orangish light in the western horizon.  At first I thought it was a star, and wondered which one it might be.  Then as I kept watching it, I noticed it was fading in and out.  It wasn't a strobe like is seen on a helicopter or an airliner (which was what I thought it was for a moment, until I realized it was not flashing.) 

I wasn't quite sure WHAT I was looking at, so I had a UFO on my hands.  And what does a space nerd do when he or she spots a flying object that is not readily indentifiable?  Hit the gas and speed up to house as closely as possible, run inside, grab your binoculars and tear back outside into the front yard, of course.  I found the object in my binoculars very quickly and focused in on it. 

Ordinarily, I wouldn't have thought anything about this had it not been for the rythmically fading light and its unusual and slow movements.  The light moved east a little ways, and then would seem to just stop and sit.  Then it might move a little west, and seem to stop.  After a moment, it started moving right towards ME.  At this point, I became a bit unnerved.  It kept getting a little closer and a little closer, and I momentarily thought about Travis Walton.   

I kept reasoning that it was SO not aliens from another planet, but whatever it might be was coming in my direction, and having spent the earlier part of the afternoon reading up on black holes, worm holes, and general outer space stuff, the mindset was just right for me to get a little spooked. 

It got closer (yet still looked just like a little star) and then it started moving to the east/north east.  By this time I had ran back in and dragged out my 10" scope.  It was time for some serious observation!  I could follow it in the little finder scope, but I only caught one or two glimpses of it through the actual main view, and sadly, it was out of focus.  It seemed orangish/white almost when it DID move through my main view, very quickly. 

Shortly after this, it moved far enough east that it was behind the tree tops and I couldn't see it any longer.  So it wasn't a total loss, I took a peek at Mars and then the Moon, and hauled all my stuff back in the house.

What was it?  Probably a fighter jet out doing manuevers and the orange light was it's main engine burn.  There IS an airbase to the south quite a ways.  The reason it seemed to move so slowly was probably because he was REALLY high up, also accounting for why it looked like a star and there were no other apparent details other than the light.  But it was technically a UFO to me for a little while, and it was a fun ending to a rather dull work shift.

So, tell us about YOUR UFO experiences!  Have you ever seen a mysterious flying object you couldn't identify?  Did they suck you up into the ship?  Did they tell you they were here to stop humans from creating the Solarnite bomb?   Do tell.

[m0ds]

Cool! Sounds like something military... and sounds vaguely similar to what I saw on Monday night (see the Roswell thread). So, you're a believer now, huh? jhehehe

[nihilyst]

I live two minutes away from the bus station. Unfortunately, the last bus goes on 19.37, so I have to get on a train after that. The town, in which I live, happens to have no train station, so I have to walk from another town. It's usually late in the evening, and my walk takes me through some fields and a small hill, from where I can see both the town I live and the town, where the train station is.

So I once was on my way home, when something flashed from behind. I took a look around: nothing there, so I walked on. Another flash. First I thought it was some sheet lightning, but there wasn't anything: no clouds in every direction. After it had flashed several times, I sat on a bench on the hill, watched the sky and waited. And there it flashed again. The whole sky flashed without lightning or thunder or anything. Just a very bright flash. Maybe ... I was photographed.

But in fact, I don't know, what that flash was. Seems like aliens are fond of people walking home.

[Ishmael]

The summer of 2006, the Lapaset meeting, we're at the beach, and since I wasn't in the mood for swimming I documented some of the swimming fun, and... http://www.veriloylykauha.net/images/lapaset/lapaset_P1000857.html

I'm also rather good at photographing ghosts...

[Oliwerko]

Wanna know my opinion?
99% of what we see can be reasonably explained (weather abnormalities, army testing airplanes, whatever like that) and 1% is a mystery.

This is what I believe.

Ishmael: Good one, can you post some photos of ghots you mentioned? I like them all. I remember the video from a school building or sth like that when someone/something walked through a hall and no one has seen anything, that really made me think about this...

[shbaz]

Once I was standing on the street minding my own business after a disappointing day at work when I saw a flash.  I didn't know what it was, and I wasn't particularly worried.  There was a guy next to me wearing a brown hat and overcoat that must have seen it too, because he initiated a conversation with me.  He asked me if I wanted a new job with lots of travel opportunities, next thing I knew I was zipping through the galaxy trading baconburgers and pornography.

Weirdest shit that ever happened to me.

[Raggit]

Whee, I saw another strange thing tonight.  Strangely enough, in the same place.  It was a white, flashing light over the hills.  Now, it really looked like the strobe at the top of a cell tower or something.  There wasn't a tower there yesterday, however.  I had a hard time telling if it was moving or not, seeing as it was seemingly so far away.  So I thought, what the heck, I'm bored and I'm already in the car, so I started driving down an old gravel road leading back into these woodsy, hilled areas. 

As I made my way along the road, I would catch glimpses of it, and it seemed to be at a different elevation than before.  At first, it was visible above the tallest hill visible from my house.  And now, it almost looked like it was flashing through the trees in the field behind them.  Then winding further on down the road, it seemed to be ABOVE the hills again. 

Eventually I got bored with my little pursuit and turned around and came home. 

What was it?  Very probable that it's a new cell tower that's gone up.  I'll look tomorrow morning and see if I can see it.  Otherwise, I really dunno what it was.  Not a fixed-wing airplane because it was too stationary, but perhaps a helicopter.

Anyway, just wanted to relate my newest "adventure" while I eat and before I get a shower and go to sleep or play computer games or something. 

P.S.

For those who don't know, I'm not taking my "encounters" seriously.  I just thought this would be a fun thread, what with the Roswell thread and all.   

[Gamer_V]

So I was in my base, telling the research departments what to do, when suddenly the geoscape showed an attack in London. The city missions were the hardest, and I knew even before our team got there the civilian death toll would be enormous. I ordered the team to go there immediatly.

We arrived on the scene at 1am. The night missions were the most dangerous. The tank rolled out of the airplane first. It was newly developed and this was its first field mission. Unfortunetely also it's last, as an alien hidden on the roof shot its rocket launcher. The rest of the team split up in 2 teams of 4. One of the teams entered the building on which the alien had fired its rocket launcher, the other team was supposed to secure the nearby gas station. The first few turns were relatively quiet. The second team ran into company first. It was an ugly grey creature with a simple laser weapon. Sergeant Lasagna doubted no moment and fired his rifle. The alien grunt dropped dead on the floor. They still had to be careful, those weak grunts always traveled in packs.



Wait .. this thread is not about x-com?

[Ishmael]

Ishmael: Good one, can you post some photos of ghots you mentioned?

No, because a) the people in the photos also probably wouldn't want said photos on the internet and b) I'm not at all sure if I even have them anymore.

[Sylpher]

I have never had a personal experience with a UFO, otherwordly or not. I did, however, grow up in the same town where a famous UFO story took place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Walton This man claims to have been abducted by aliens and a movie was made about it. For the record, I do not believe him, but it is a fun bit of local lore to pass around. I have also camped many, many times in the woods where this supposedly took place, and I am alien free.

Maybe...

[Raggit]

Sylpher, I've actually seen the movie on Travis Walton, "Fire in the Sky."  It was a pretty good movie, if not a tad cheesy occasionally.  (I just think the script needed a little more clean-up/refining/whatever.)

Typically, I would write off Walton's experience as just another crazy UFO abductee making stuff up, but he had witnesses who all had the same story and who all passed polygraph tests, some of them more than once.  I don't know what to think.  Do they actually know the exact spot in the woods where it happened? 

[m0ds]

For those who don't know, I'm not taking my "encounters" seriously.

So using telescopes, watching frantically for 30 minutes AND following lights in your car isn't taking it seriously? You douche!!!

[Raggit]

m0ds, after a brief but non-thorough scan through my previous posts, I don't see where I indicated watching for thirty minutes.  The first one was exciting because I didn't really know what it was I was looking at until a little later. 

The second one was less exciting because it was characteristic of a blinking strobe light atop a cell tower, not unusual.  (Which, btw, it IS a new cell tower.)

However, I was interested (obviously) in them when I first saw them because they I hadn't seen a military jet manuevering at night nor was I aware of a new tower to the west of here.

My statement was, "For those who don't know, I'm not taking my "encounters" seriously.  I just thought this would be a fun thread, what with the Roswell thread and all."  Meaning, "For those who don't know, I'm not saying that I've actually seen alien space craft, because there is a reasonable conclusion to both my stories, but feel free to share any interesting stories about UFOs you've seen." 

you pee-pee head!!!!!    

[Sylpher]

Sylpher, I've actually seen the movie on Travis Walton, "Fire in the Sky."  It was a pretty good movie, if not a tad cheesy occasionally.  (I just think the script needed a little more clean-up/refining/whatever.)

Typically, I would write off Walton's experience as just another crazy UFO abductee making stuff up, but he had witnesses who all had the same story and who all passed polygraph tests, some of them more than once.  I don't know what to think.  Do they actually know the exact spot in the woods where it happened? 

The movie was fun, but it changed his story quite a bit, plus the area they filmed it in looks very little like the areas it took place. Such things are to be expected, though. He wrote a book and has a website if you are curious about his account of things.

The witnesses and polygraphs tell me that is likely they saw something, however there is a large list of strange things you can see out in the woods before you get to aliens and flying saucers. The mind has to make some sense out of things so we go with what makes the most sense to us.

I'm not sure if they know the exact spot it took place. I've had different people tell me for sure it took place RIGHT AROUND HERE! You know how that goes. I've camped in enough different places up there that I wouldn't be surprised if I slept in the exact spot it supposedly happend.

My personal stance on such things is that there are usually hundreds of things you should take into consideration before the fantastical, but people often skip that step and go straight to item 1001 in the list.

[monkey0506]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Walton This man claims to have been abducted by aliens and a movie was made about it. For the record, I do not believe him, but it is a fun bit of local lore to pass around. I have also camped many, many times in the woods where this supposedly took place, and I am alien free.

I've seen part of the movie. I find the actual story much more intriguing though.

Thanks for the link. I spent probably somewhere around 3 hours just reading up on Walton, UFOs, Greys, the Starchild skull and so much more. Rather engaging stuff.

I've never personally had any experience with these matters, though I am a "believer".

[m0ds]

Old thread, but can't find the main one I posted in last time, but just to say I saw another UFO last night, wooo! It's so weird though, because I spent a couple of hours yesterday checking out all the NASA footage on UFO's, checking the videos of space flight conversations and also normal aeroplane black box recordings. Everything those pilots/astronauts say and see seem to be exactly the same object(s) I've been seeing. So anyway, I went to work last night and let it mull over in my mind that what I'd seen previously was definitely what was being shown in these videos. On leaving work, I decided to take a glimpse at the sky, and un-naturally, on cue - one of them passed over me, directly east to west, covered the whole sky in a matter of seconds. When I got home AFTER that, I found another YouTube video in which a pilot recorded an object, moving directly east to west, travelling roughly a mile a second. On reporting it, he was told man made craft ie satellites never follow an east-west path. This proved to me I had definitely seen the UFO. So I've seen one travel directly south to north, and last night directly east to west. Mad! So, if you're ready to believe, I advise you believe what we've seen on NASA missions. THESE are the real UFO's...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7IzXHsym7k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0jpUPLqLhA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dhoW0mi9oc

A lot of people believe these are "ice" particles but watching these videos you'll notice the UFO's change direction, not somethng an ice particle would generally do! Anyway, if you're into this these are the things you'll discover from the videos; UFO's are generally massive, anything from a hundred feet in length, sometimes reaching up to 2 or 3km in size. Known speeds can be up to a mile per second (the ones I've seen were travelling at such a speed). UFO's seem to like thunderstorms, and congregate above storm clouds perhaps to gain energy. UFO's often "tag along" with man made craft, observing, but never threatening.

So now I'm totally convinced UFO's exist. And I urge you people to check your sky once a night, eventually you too will see these dim objects darting about

[evenwolf]

I definitely believe in Unidentified Flying Objects.       I just don't believe in flying saucers..


The first video appears to be dust particles between the camera and the outside pane of glass.  Or it could be debris that appears to be in motion due to the movement of the vessel. 

The "large glowing orb" that appears at 3:30 in the second video is supposedly 1.5 miles wide.     Whose estimate is that exactly?   NASA or the guy who made the video?

[m0ds]

Hehehe cool, thanks for taking a look. In the first video, there is no special shutter speed, so it would be impossible for the camera to pick up dust particles. You'll also notice the object that enters the frame at 8 seconds bottom middle changes its direction moments later. In the second video its the fact it just materialises at 3:27 which is odd, in another video theres a shot of the same looking craft dematerlialising. If they're clouds why do they move over a storm and then stop and hold position? Finally in the third video, it's the tether experiment from many years ago, definitely the strangest video of all three. The tether, which was about 12 miles long, broke off from whatever it was supposed to be attatched too, and became swarmed by UFO's.

Anyway who knows! Thanks for the interest evenwolf!

[evenwolf]

I'm a skeptic.    I've never really sat around in space so I can't say how dust or water molecules move around in a moving craft.  But for the change of directions all I see is an object moving in an arc.    I don't see a drastic change of directions.

I'm holding firm that the first video shows something closer than what appears.   Condensation from the vessel, being left behind (hence why it fades into the distance).

I did edit my post.    Probably not static dust clouds like I said.  But I need to know whose information says that the light is 1.5 miles across?   That light is the strangest thing in the video by far, so that fact is important.

[m0ds]

It could be a guess, but thats why you need to watch the third video, or instead, this one; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gh_OD2-gQY .. In the third video the tether acts like a ruler and from that they were able to predict a measurement. The craft in the second video looks identical to that in this third video (or the one above), so same sorts of sizes I'd assume... does that help?

ps; one of the most recent UFO sightings by multiple people is the one over Guenrsey, said to be a mile wide... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQLNblZNDEA