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In reply to the discussion: Have you ever seen a UFO? [View all]Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)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.