Have you ever seen a UFO?

[darkangel218]

I have, and this has happened relatively recently.

Do you care to share your experiences??

( and before any Science host locks us, just remember: Nikola Tesla was looked upon the same as anyone thinking out of the box nowadays.)

Science and truth are very highly connected. You can't have one without the other.

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[TreasonousBastard]

1. I thought I saw a UFO once, but it was...

airplane landing lights in a very low cloud ceiling.

[darkangel218]

2. That happens.

Until you realized what it was.. It was still a "UFO"

[TreasonousBastard]

3. True-- it is "unidentified" until you identify it...

which, of course, means that if an alien craft does appear-- it's not a UFO.

[darkangel218]

12. Ahahahaha!!

Good point! Lol

[mahina]

4. I did and it was the funniest night of my life.

I'll just say that you can't hike into the Berkely hills to watch the sunrise at night without flashlights, because it's dark. Also, mushrooms.

[dangin]

5. Space shuttle

Cost quite a bit to go a few miles up. The expense for another planet's (organizing economy/government) would make it seem like "hidden fly bys" for no discernible reason are impracticle.

Yes I understand technological advances could reduce costs. Still impracticle.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

6. Well sure.

My eyes aren't that great, so I see plenty of flying objects I'm unable to identify if they're far enough away.

Mostly birds or planes, I'm guessing, with the occasional balloon thrown in.

[TheBlackAdder]

7. An unworldly UFO or a vehicle that was unidentified? As a former pilot, I've seen unique craft.

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The poll should be expanded as to whether the observer believes they were earthly unidentified vessels or vessels from another planet.


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[Shrike47]

8. Do floaters count? I've watched many a flock of non-existent birds.

[kimbutgar]

9. Lake Berryessa, California August 1970

Saw it with some family friends during the night. Woke us up at night, strange sound, lights and the way it shot away. Never seen anything like it since. Was not drunk or stoned.

[demwing]

10. Yes, traveling through the Nevada desert at night

It was very dark, with no lights or civilization for miles in any direction.

Somewhere between Reno and Vegas, a very bright light appeared behind some hills, and partially illuminated the night. The light lasted for several seconds, then pulsed a few times. We thought it might be a fire, but all of a sudden the light went out, and a quick moment later a different light - smaller and less bright - shot up and out from behind the hill, straight up into the night skies. There was no noise associated with the light show.

We had to pull the car over to the side of the road and check with each other to confirm we had all seen the same thing.

This was before cell phone days, so we couldn't call it in. I tried to do some research to see if there was a military base nearby, but found nothing.

I have no idea what we saw, which definitely categorizes the lights as a UFO.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

20. Just north of Las Vegas is Area 51

Lots of strange goings on there, although I don't know of anything that matches your description.

UFOs are often airplanes, lenticular clouds, Venus or rocket launches just after sunset.

And some are just plain unexplainable.

[Kali]

11. there is a big difference between thinking outside of the box

and whacko woo bullshit.

leave the science abuse to the idiot republicans, they are so good at it.

[eppur_se_muova]

13. Third option is a non sequitur -- no direct connection between ...

an object (perceived as "flying" or otherwise) being unidentified, and the possibility of alien life existing anywhere else in the universe.

"Unidentified" means you don't know what it is. This may indicate confusion or a lack of understanding, among many other explanations. I'm leaving this thread unlocked for that reason, as long as the woo content stays low. Probably worth noting that the planet Venus is regularly reported as a UFO when it is at its brightest, as are some of the brighter stars in the sky.

BTW, invoking Tesla as your exemplar only raises a red flag. Tesla was a clever inventor but remarkably unscientific, and his name is invoked by followers of woo as if he were a patron saint. His early successes came at a time when there was much new to be discovered and the field of electricity (no pun) was rife with opportunity. Many of his later experiments involved consumption or transmission (but not production) of enormous amounts of energy -- his laboratory in Colorado Springs frequently caused blackouts in the nearby town. But this has led his "fans" (abbreviation for "fanatics", if you'll recall) to believe, as a matter of faith, that Tesla had discovered new sources of energy. In fact, his "secret source" was the electric grid. His schemes for the distribution of electric power through the atmosphere would have rendered most electronic devices inoperable, if not destroyed them outright, and presented an enormous hazard to health and safety. He may have been visionary, but many of his visions were deeply flawed, and, after his earlier successes, he slipped into obscurity for good reasons, while men with more scientific understanding of the scientific principles of electricity and electromagnetism continued to make steady progress.

[Kali]

16. thanks for a reasoned and reasonable reply

[Ron Obvious]

14. It was an UFO when I saw it...

Spectacular green flames bouncing through the night sky from west to east for over a minute.

It later turned out to be Russian space debris. Of course that's what they said...

[qazplm]

15. definitely believe in alien intelligence

but don't believe they are doing flybys and never seen anything to change that thought.

[bvf]

17. Everyone has seen UFOs.

I challenge anyone who says otherwise to state unequivocally that he or she has always been able to incontrovertibly identify every sky-borne moving object they've ever witnessed.

There won't be any takers of this, certainly.

UFOs do not necessarily equate to spaceships with stereotypical little green men at the helm.

[Sancho]

18. Since Jimmy Carter reported a UFO, I'm on board!

Of course, he was also attacked by a swimming rabbit while fishing, so maybe things get a little exaggerated sometimes.

[BlueJazz]

19. Saw one once and looked at it for about 2 minutes. Hovered right by me. I heard a voice in my head.

Told me to never tel

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[ProfessorGAC]

21. Yep. It Was In The Air. Don't Know What It Was For Sure

Hence UFO. I doubt it was anything other than a meteor entering the atmosphere, but it must have been quite a distance away and perhaps fractured. When it did, it appeared to change direction, then faded out.

I assume it was a natural phenomenon, but i definitely didn't identify it for sure.

Not the UFO that they talk about the alien mystery shows, but truly an unidentified flying object.

[Kaleva]

22. Watched a row of red lights travel across the night sky.

They were traveling west to east and didn't blink or flash. When they were almost directly overhead, the first light went out, then the second and so on till they were all gone. I think there were about 6 lights. Soon, further east in the sky a red light appeared, then the second and so on till all were back. We watched them continue east till they were out of sight.

[darkangel218]

23. I've seen something similar, row of horizontal lights which looked like of plane at first

No blinking, going much faster than a plane would. They were also multicolored and disappeared in a matter of seconds.

[sakabatou]

24. Outside my window (1997 or '98)

I saw something, triangular or rounded wedge in shape slowly move across the sky and then took off like lightning and disappeared.

[darkangel218]

25. I've heard of many similar reports.

Did it make any sound at all?

[sakabatou]

26. Nope

Mostly shadow but I could make it out from what was being blocked from the night sky.

[darkangel218]

27. Wow.. Thats awesome.

I wish I could see one if those UFOs. Imagine the technology those aircrafts posses..simply amazing.

[sakabatou]

28. *nods*

[Laffy Kat]

29. I saw one when I was around five-years-old.

Too young to even know there was such a thing as "UFOs" but have always remembered what it looked like. I was following my sister and her friend as they were walking to a store, stepping across railroad tracks and I looked up and saw a silver and saucer-shaped object. There were small vertical slits around the diameter that I could only identify as windows at the time. It was hovering and completely silent. I swear on my mother's grave. I've never forgotten. It had to be early 60s. But never since.

[darkangel218]

35. I believe you. Thank you for sharing!

There seem to be a lot of sighting of such UFOs who are completely silent. You are very lucky to have seen one in such close proximity.

[Scootaloo]

30. I saw a "thing" flying when I was seven

Looked for all the world like a slowly-flying lollipop. No lights on it, just a thing cruising towards the sunset at about cloud level.

[ZombieHorde]

31. If UFO means "unidentified (by me) flying object," then yes.

If UFO means "alien space craft," then I don't think so. Would be cool though.

[darkangel218]

32. Like someone above said,

If a UFO was identified as an alien space craft, it would no longer be a UFO lol.

[ZombieHorde]

33. Ha! I guess that's true.

I should have read the responses. I'm open minded about these things, and I've seen lights in the sky that seemed strange to me, but I have no idea what they were. I doubt they were aliens, but who knows what I saw?

[darkangel218]

34. True that.

"The truth is out there"!

[Hoyt]

36. An unidentied flying object, yes. Was it a space craft, I doubt it.

Are there space craft out there? Probably, but way out there.

[Binkie The Clown]

37. I saw a huge disk with lights along the edge, rotating slowly.

I was about to run inside and call my friends to come out and see it, but I decided instead to watch it a little while longer.

As it completed it's turn and leveled out, and once the wing was no longer pointing directly at me, I immediately identified it as a large passenger jet coming in for a landing at the airport 5 miles away.

It was night, and I swear that for the first minute or so that I saw it I would have testified under oath that it was a metallic disk with light on its rim, rotating slowly. The illusion was perfect. In retrospect, 55 years later, I'm glad I didn't run in and call my friends out to see it. By that time it would have been gone and I'd have gone through life absolutely convinced that I had seen an alien spacecraft.

Exceptional occurrences always need a second look; a very close and careful second look.

[darkangel218]

40. Thanks for sharing, Binkie.

[MADem]

38. All a UFO is, is a thing in the sky that is unidentified. You don't know to whom it belongs.

It doesn't necessarily have to be "alien."

[darkangel218]

39. Who said "it has to be alien"?

[MADem]

41. The common misperception in everyday vernacular is that a UFO=alien spacecraft.

That's not the case in technical usage, but when someone says "I saw a UFO" they usually aren't talking about an aircraft they were unable to identify, they're talking Little Green Men.

[darkangel218]

42. I believe youre wrong.

Most, if not everyone in this thread knows what UFO* means. But thank you anyways.

[MADem]

43. Yeah, sure--whatever you say!

That's why this thread is about the question: Has anyone seen an aircraft that you were unable to identify? And we're seeing responses about flying disks....

You keep on keeping on, though!

[darkangel218]

44. Flying disks unidentified are still UFOs.

Thrash thread is your friend, if you don't like the subject.

See ya!

[MADem]

45. I love the subject--just don't understand why you're giving me crap.... nt

[darkangel218]

46. I am?

Lol!!! Bye!! ( no one is doing anything, I just told you we knew what UFOs were). I'm not continuing this disruptive subthread). So again, bye!

[MADem]

47. Yeah, you are. Bye to you too, I guess.