Anyone ever seen a UFO?

[Guaranteed]

I went outside tonight and looked up at the moon. Suddenly from the west I saw this object that at first looked like it might have been a helicopter, but when I looked closer I saw there were a bunch of twinkling lights on it that made it look like it was spinning. It definitely looked circular.
Then the way that it moved- it was moving above the clouds, so it kind of made sense that I couldn't hear anything (although I listened very closely, and usually if there's a helicopter anywhere in the area you can hear at least a faint sound of the rotor blades). It moved very oddly- it seemed to dip a couple of times very quickly. And at first it seemed to be moving fairly slowly...but then it moved over to my east side and from the southeast it made very quick work of getting directly east of me. If the thing was so far away it must have gone at least a mile in a matter of five seconds.
So then on the hope that it would stick around I ran inside and woke up my girlfriend. She came out and didn't see anything. She thought I was nuts. Then I went over to the other side of the house, and I saw a bright light a number of miles off behind the clouds to the north. We couldn't see the object, of course, and we only saw the light moving for my fifteen seconds before it went way behind the clouds and to the horizon.
Anyway, maybe I'm nuts.
But has anyone else seen anything like this? Just wondering- you guys are smart folks and I trust your judgment. You don't believe just anything.

[uhhuh]

1. Once

I saw a perfectly round, faintly pulsating, purple ball gliding through the sky one night. It looked pretty low in the sky, but I couldn't get and idea of how far away it actually was. I thought it was just a party balloon when I caught it out of the corner of my eye, but when I looked directly at it, I knew that wasn't the case.

It was a perfect circle and the purple light coming from it pulsed at regular intervals. It sailed silently through the sky for about 3 minutes, and then just completely vanished. It didn't move away rapidly, it just wasn't there anymore. Through the whole time I was viewing it, I felt really wierd, it was a feeling like you would get if you walked up to a car you thought was yours and you are trying to open it with your key, and the real owner shows up and looks at what your doing. I don't know why I felt that way watching something in the sky, but I did.Strange.

[Guaranteed]

7. Yeah I was questioning my sanity, sort of...

...and I kind of felt guilty. Or, VOYEURISTIC oooo that's a good word. I felt like I was doing or seeing something that I shouldn't be, for whatever reason.
I guess most simply put I felt like weirdo.

[friendofbenn]

2. jimmy carter saw one

what do you think they are? military?

[Guaranteed]

6. Of course Jimmy Carter got attacked...

...by a swimming rabbit ROFL oh man that's just the greatest

[amazona]

22. I'm confident he got "attacked" by a nutria

With all due respect to Mr. Carter, Georgia is not that far from Louisiana, and I don't doubt for a moment that what he saw was the common nutria rat. Since then, they have been occasionally observed in all 48 contiguous states, although their center of operations remains Louisiana. The eye and brain can easily misinterpret unfamiliar animals and objects.

[OldEurope]

3. Me too!

In 1980 we (me, husband and two friends) were travelling through Yugoslavia; one night we couldn´t find a motel or something, not even any small farm, so we put a blanket on the grass rihgt in the middle of nowhere and took the stars as our tent. It was a very warm night without any clouds. Sudddenly there came a small light from south, very very fast. First we thought: a falling star, but it didn´t fall down or burn out. It also could not be a plane or a helicopter, because we should have heard anything. When the light was right above our heads it sudddenly stopped, and i really mean: from one second to the other it stood still. Then made some jumps, with no pattern, but also very quickly, faster than any helicopter could do. At least it flew very fast to the east, where it disappeared behind the horizon.
We were very puzzled, and until now, we simply cannot imagine what sort of plane or balloon or what ever could have moved in such a strange way and without any sound.

[Guaranteed]

8. Yeah...it was exactly that kind of movement...

No real pattern, totally unpredictable, in both direction and speed. I'm beginning to believe.

[Hubert Flottz]

4. I've seen flying saucers many times!

Also skillets, plates, pots, pans, cups and anything and everything else that a woman can hurl in a fit of anger! I've been married all my life!

[Guaranteed]

5. LOL

But seriously this tripped me out. I've always been very sceptical of these UFO wackos. This thing was real, and even though I didn't get the greatest look at it, the way it moved and the basic shape of and lights on it were a helluva trip- I don't think it was anything I'd seen before.
I wouldn't count out something military, though.

[Sick of Bullshit]

10. I would say there's a 99% chance these are military.

There is no other intelligent life in this solar system, and the closest star system, which includes Alpha Centauri, is more than 4 light years away. What's more, it is a double star system which makes it highly unlikely that life could evolve there. At the same time, we have absolutely no idea what the military is cooking up, but whatever secret new flying machines they are creating have to be tested at some time. And night would seem to be the best time, since it would be harder to make out shapes and forms.

[Guaranteed]

16. Yeah it was like 3 in the morning. n/t

[Mountainman]

18. How can you say with certainty that there is no other intelligent life

in this solar system?


I question UFO sightings because there never is any physical evidence. I have only heard people tell their stories but I feel if there are visitors from other places they should have left behind some kind of physical evidence that could be scientifically studied.

Yet I do believe there must be other intelligent life because in my mind the odds of there being other life far outweighs the odds that there isn't.

[amazona]

23. read "Rare Earth"

While we know that simple, single-celled bacteria is almost certainly abundant throughout the universe, they make an excellent case that multi-celled life is extremely rare and potentially unique. All the more reason to take care of what we have...

[Guaranteed]

9. Does anyone know if any military helicopters have lights....

....on the ends of the rotor blades?

[Don_G]

13. Heat From The Ends Of The Rotor Blades

That's the parts moving the fastest through air and they do heat up quite a bit from friction. If they've been flying a while I would guess that the tips can glow red from the heat.

[XNASA]

14. Sometimes reflective tape is used on the blades.

I was in an H-3 Squadron, and though it was long ago, I seem to recall that small pieces of reflective tape were sometimes placed at various points on the blades, for different reasons.

Mostly to be able to check the blade position when it was on the deck, but spinnin. Wouldn't want anyone to get their head chopped off because they couldn't tell where the blade arc was.

[Superfly]

11. Not seen, but...good story

When I was a Fire Direction Officer in my Artillery battalion, we were condunting night missions near Yakima Washington (heavy UFO activity).

At around midnight, we received a call from the FAA telling us to cease firing because they said that we nearly shot an airliner down.

We asked what altitude the airliner was flying and consulted our artillery firing tables. The highest we were shooting that evening was about 4000 feet and the airliner was at about 25,000 feet.

The pilot reported an illuminated object passing nearby the plane and assumed it was caused by us, since he was flying over an MOA. Kind of spooky.

OH yeah, you can really see aurora borealis very well with night vision equipment. just thought you'd like to know that.

[XNASA]

12. Imperial Beach, CA 1976

Two friends and I were walking down the beach and we saw a spherical object with a faint glow and small lights around it's "beltline".

We were amazed, but had the presence of mind to not discuss it before we went back to my apartment so that we could each make a sketch of what we saw.

All three sketches were the same.

Spooky, huh?

[wyldwolf]

15. Yes... really...

When my dad was cop back in the 70s, the family was driving home from a social gathering across town. It was dusk and we saw fast moving lights - with AF Jets in pursuite (we lived in an area with a major AF base.)

My dad immediately phoned in to the communictions dept (he was the head of that) at City Hall and they said the AF base had been tracking the objects across the southeast. The had moved across the entire southeast in 8 minutes...

[GregW]

17. I thought so

A huge thunderstorm was rolling up the Brisbane Valley, I went outside to watch the lightening, and was amazed at a blinding white light just hanging under the low clouds. It wasn't a helicopter, just a light, hanging in the air.

After about four minutes it moved slightly, and I realized it was a light plane flying under the storm heading exactly toward me with the landing lights on.

:eyes:

[tsakshaug]

19. Well by definition

If it is in the sky and you don't know what it is....then it is an Unidentified Flying Object. So yes.
Just a few questions many have brought up about UFOs. If they are superior intellegence, why have they not made contact. Heck it would not be difficult to take over our broadcasting equipment and blast a message to everyone. Why do they land and take people out of the backwoods and do experiments with them. If they could take anyone, why people with no teeth?

[Guaranteed]

20. Maybe they want to...

...take the least credible people. LOL I dunno man.

[amazona]

21. yes, I've seen something like this...

...was it perfectly round? I have seen some weather balloons that are perfectly round and would really make you stop and think if you didn't know they were coming. Your description does sound like a balloon to me. They are silent and can be quite eerie if they are high up.

I have also seen light reflection off the bellies of migrating geese, which looks like a formation of oval-shaped (not circular) saucers flying in a V. That is not what you saw, but it is just an example of something that really looks nifty and which at first I thought was a UFO. However, geese are not silent, either, and when I heard them "talking," I snapped to a realization of what I was seeing.

Where do you live? Some areas have a lot more UFO activity than others. I'm a bit chicken, I try to avoid areas that are experiencing too much activity, but maybe one day I will get up my nerve and see the real thing!

[geebensis]

24. Saw something similar that almost had me believing...

At dusk one night, driving down a beach road, I saw what fit most flying saucer descriptions to a "T". It was huge, hovering silently, and had multi-colored lights.

From a distance the only thing that made sense was "flying saucer". It definitely wasn't an airplane, helicopter, or "weather balloon". It was seriously creepy.

But a couple miles down the road I was close enough to see what it really was: The Metlife blimp, heading back down to Miami. If I hadn't been driving and gotten close enough to make out what it was I would still be mystified by it today.

It is really easy to misinterpret something in the night sky. It is very difficult to accurately judge size, speed, and distance of an aircraft at night. Think about it: if you just estimate one thing wrong (size, speed, or distance) it can skew your judgement of the other two enough that your brain determines that the object you see is doing something "impossible" and could therefore be a (cue X-Files music) UFO.

[ronnykmarshall]

25. Seen one?

How the hell do you think I got here in the first place??

Seen a UFO!! How funny. Now ask me if I've DRIVEN one!