# Close Encounters-like sighting. Only not **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 15, 2020, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/close-encounters-like-sighting-only-not/923011 "2020-10-15T13:24:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/close-encounters-like-sighting-only-not/923011/11 "2020-10-15T23:09:24Z")
We’ve had threads and threads on this. Here’s my contribution to one from 2015 > [@How loud is a blimp?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-loud-is-a-blimp/712063/32): > > I’m gonna bet the words appear on the right and scroll to the left. They’re very hard to read if presented backwards. wink I saw my first UFO about 4 years ago. I had just walked out of a restaurant into a foggy night with a light drizzle falling. And there in the dark sky out beyond the parking lot was a strange blue-white light in an odd shape, just hanging there. I stopped and stared for a few seconds and couldn’t really figure out what it was. I had that same strange sensation of “T… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/close-encounters-like-sighting-only-not/923011)._