I know I have been in left field lately but I am gonna ask this question anyway.
Has anyone here ever seen a UFO or what they thought might be a UFO and not reported it or said anything to anyone about it?
I did. In the mid-fifties we lived in the country here in Oklahoma and I can remember one hot summer night I couldn’t sleep so I walked out on the porch. I noticed a row of lights moving over the horizon. The lights seem to move straight across the night sky in formation but didn’t look like any airplanes I had ever seen in my young life. And besides they didn’t make any engine noise. I watched as they drifted across and disappeared over the horizon. For some reason I just stayed mum about it. Until now.
The next morning after seeing these lights I was hiking across an empty field to go fishing and I came upon an object that I didn’t recognize. It seemed to be a large shiny mass of shredded tin foil. Very unearthly looking. I picked it up and looked at it but couldn’t figure out what it was. I stuffed my pockets with some of the stuff and as I continued walking along I began to see lots of it all over the field. It Glittered in the sun like so much silver. I was curious and mystified by what I saw and figured that the “aliens” I had seen the night before had dropped it. Once again for some reason I didn’t say anything to anybody.
And I am glad I didn’t.
Here is one UFO story exposed.
A few days later I learned via our new TV that the airforce had been conducting night-time anti-radar exercises in our area. Apparently they had been flying gliders over our area at night and dropping masses of tin foil in order to find out if they could successfully scramble and fool radar screens for night time glider landings. That’s when I put two and two together. I then realized that what I had seen in the sky and found in the field was courtesy of the USAF.
Since then I have read many UFO stories but thanks to my childhood alien UFO experience I don’t get excited at all.
To tell you the truth…I’ve never seen an unidentified flying object and not told anyone…I pretty much tell everyone I see, since I’m not a terribly secretive person. The most notable time was in 1978. I was with my husband and children and we were riding in a rural area here in Ks. Doing a little something that just happens to be illegal. It was trapping season, and we were out shining trees down in the creeks trying to find raccoons. You shine a bright light in their eyes and they can’t move. You shoot them, and pick them up…sell them for the hide, which was worth about $40 at the time.
Anyway, we were at least 2 miles from anyone’s house. Down in a draw…on a small bridge over a creek. Shining the trees…we could hear lots of noises…like animals running in the leaves. No coons, though. As we drove up (on a very rough road…middle of nowhere) out of the draw, we saw a very bright light above us. Afraid that we had been ‘caught’ by Fish & Game…we moved that car as fast as we could. The bright light followed…very closely behind us…almost chasing us as we drove around the section to the only blacktop road in the area. Once we were on the blacktop…it totally vanished for about 2 miles…then showed up directly behind us again. At one point it seemed to move away from us very fast and disappear again…but alternately followed us and disappeared until we made it to the town we were living in. It made no noise…not a sound.
Curiosity took over…my husband took me and the kids home and picked up his dad and brother. They went back out to the area we first saw it…and just waited. They claimed that they saw it again…but briefly, and it vanished very fast…
A couple of days later, my husband was with his brother, when they encountered a similar light…on the other side of town. Once again, it appeared to chase them into town.
No clue as to what it was. No blinking lights as most planes and such have. No noise…and I don’t know any aircraft that are that completely silent.
It’s been a long time, but I’ll never forget it, and my son remembers it, though he was only 4 at the time.
Can’t say that I’ve ever kept it a secret, though. What would be the point?
Have seen things since in the sky, but never anything that close…or for that long a period of time.
learae
Well, yeah, all I’ll say in public is that we saw a really weird light up in the western sky at sunset one time a few years ago, driving in the car out in the country, coming back from a trip to my mom’s house, but common sense told us, after an extremely spooky 15 minutes (for me, at least) that it was almost certainly a jet with its contrail up there, with the sunlight reflecting off it in some totally new and strange way. (It was a vertical line sort of thingie, not a horizontal jet contrail.)
99.9% sure it was a jet.
.1% think it was a UFO, but UFOs aren’t commonly spotted out in the corn & soybean boondocks on a Sunday afternoon, so I never said anything. I mean, who’m I gonna tell?
I had been sent to bed, and while I laid there, I was looking out the window. Something approached in the sky. It seemed vaguely hat-shaped, and had two bands of bright white lights that flashed in a circular pattern around the base. It shone a weak spot-light around on the ground, flew about a hundred yards to hover over my neighbors house for a few moments, and then zipped away.
I went out into the livingroom, and proclaimed to the adults that I had seen a UFO. They snorted, said I was just trying to stay up late, and to go back to bed.
Some are “explained” before you hit the ground, as another pass reveals something like a bird that somehow looked huge and far away because you’re looking through turbulance in the propwash. I always wait for a third siting before I start patting my chute to check it’s secure “just in case this is the real thing”.
But no, it’s always an IFO Identified Flying Object before I land.
I’ve never seen a UFO, but the whole thing is interesting as hell to me. One of the most fascinating theories I’ve heard proposed to explain the phenomena is the Earth/Tectonic Stress Hypothesis. Apparently, when tectonic plates shift, the intense friction, pressure, etc. releases balls and patterns of light into the air (okay…that was an extremely dumbed down description, but I’m a little fuzzy on the details). Accordingly, electromagnetic energy radiates from these irritated fissures in the earth, energy which may also explain the “missing time” episodes that sometimes accompany sightings, along with the disruption of electrical devices witnesses often experience. It’s all very simple. Too simple, actually, but it’s worth mentioning (and, of course, it doesn’t explain the sightings of metallic objects).
It was hovering over the city, about 11 in the evening. I am sure it was a UFO because it was Object, it was Flying, and it was Unidentified.
I didn’t tell anyone, because I was sure it was not an alien spacecraft, but it sure did look cool. Anyway, if I had told anyone, they wouldn’t have thought I was claiming to have seen an alien spacecraft, they would have thought I was kidding. That would have been a pain. Mention “UFO” and the X-Files jokes start flowing like water.
Anyway, later on I was walking down the street, and somebody pointed to it. It had turned from a circle into an ellipse. The person said, “Hey, they got the Goodyear Blimp all lighted up from the inside”. At that point it became an IFO, and I had a story I could actually tell about. (Not sure it was really Goodyear, though. I think it might have been some other blimp since Goodyears tend to be lit on the outside.)
I have never seen a UFO, never seen a ghost, never seen anything ‘unexplainable’, therefore I have begun to doubt the sanity of those who claim they have.
Somebody show me a friggin UFO already.
I find it hilarious that the stereotypical UFO is a disc shaped onject with bands of glowing lights, etc.
I have nothing wrong with the disc shape, hell I’ll even let you have the mettalic color…but what I don’t get, and I frankly don’t see how anyone does…
That being, why in the hell would these “aliens” fly through space from millions of miles away without any need for outer lights for navigation and then suddenly they arrive wherever they’re going and light up like christmas trees hovering aimlessly over the ground…
I mean logically here…why in the hell would aliens spend however long it takes to get here to spend 6 hours hovering over downtown wherever lit up like a Christmas tree, and then suddenly vanish…yeah…that makes sense!
aha, what makes you sure the govt wasn’t covering up for something they thought might not be of this earth? Did you perform chemical experiments on the stuff you found to determine the various physical and chemical qualities it had?
I myself have a bit of trouble with the idea of a UFO. I mean, if you identify it as a UFO, then you know what it is, right? or am I just being nitpicky?
SkySlash . . . I’ve always thought it amusing that the aliens seem like they’re only interested in greusomely discecting cattle and giving hillbilly abductees anal probes. I mean, how much do they really need to know about cow innards and the human rectum?
I don’t know what I saw. It probably has a simple explanation, but I remember as a kid being awestruck that I had seen such a thing. I sort of felt honored, and it sparked an interest in science that I carry to this day. I don’t believe in UFOs, really. Not only the logistics of travelling the infinate distances of space, but if there were a super-intelligent alien race out there, they would want to stay away from us, as primitive and war-like as we are.
I got in trouble for pointing out a UFO once. I was the passenger in a car, and called out “Isn’t that a UFO?”. Turned out:
A)It was just an airplane
B)I didn’t recognize it because I didn’t have my contacts in that day
AND C) we missed our turn-off because the driver was scanning for UFO’s.
Nowadays, I keep my contacts in and my mouth shut.
When I was ten, playing street baseball with my pal Billy Harvey, we both stopped when this weird thing appeared in the sky. It was a shiny metallic gold, shaped like a barbell, but hovering vertically. It was waaayyy up, airplane level, but then came closer in an incongruous way. We looked for a long time, and then it zipped off: again, didn’t match anything in our experience.
This was in Long Island, NY, in the seventies. I really have no idea what it was. A weather balloon? Nope, it moved too quickly. And the barbell shape isn’t the usual saucer motif. I don’t know, and rarely bring it up. So here’s another mystification.
Summer of 65, in the valley of the raisins, my cousin and I saw what I believe to be a UFO. It was shining and very bright. As children we knew better than to tell anyone. As an adult my cousin totally denies ever seeing it.
I think I’ve heard of the barbell shape in conjunction with alien craft. FWIW.
Also, I’ve been told that pilots sometimes see things that can’t be identified even after the third look. But of course they don’t report it, because that would translate as “I want to quit my job and commit myself”.
