Just to show that it’s not just nutters who claim to see UFOs: I once saw a UFO 
I wish I’d had my camera with me, because it looked amazing.
The best explanation I have is that I saw an illuminated blimp of some kind. Although (obviously) it wasn’t carrying any advertising so probably a deliberate hoax.
I’ve been meaning to ask this but this is a good a place as any.
My dad told me a story from when he was young. He grew up on a farm and he said he was out in the early hours of the morning on a dark, but not pitch-black, night one time when the sky and countryside around him quickly but gradually lit up until it was a bright as day time, this lasted for perhaps ten seconds at the most before fading away. He says he looked up and the entire sky was glowing but he couldn’t see anything in it, it was a uniform glow.
Neither I nor he thinks there was anything supernatural or otherwise mysterious in his experience but we’d like to know what it could have been.
I’ve heard of Iridium Flares but this was before such satellites existed.
Thanks!
Might’ve been a meteorite burning its way down through the atmosphere? Dunno. When and where, exactly, did this happen?
I’ll speak to him to get more details and post them here when I get them, only thing I can say is that he lives in Northern Ireland and this was probably the 1950’s or 1960’s.
Obviously, it was the Hidden Folk. People see those Lucky Charms ads and forget that leprechauns and the Sidhe are very real and very dangerous.
When I was a kid, my family was attending a local high school football game. It was a cloudy night, although it wasn’t dark and stormy. The sky very suddenly lit up very brightly by an object that was traveling from south to north; scared hell out of everyone. There was even talk of canceling the foot ball game, and that bordered on heresy in Texas: High School Football was sacred. Conjecture and rumor ran rampant; people were expecting an invasion of some sort–WW2 hadn’t been over all that long. In fact, it was a meteorite that either hit the earth or exploded somewhere over Oklahoma; my memory is a little short on that. It was very freaky and it was the only close up view of a meteorite I’ve ever had.
IIRC, we actually heard the thing as it passed by but I can’t swear to that. It has been a long time since it happened.
I remember seeing something like that. It was in the 90s, maybe 10 PM on a summer night.
The sky flashed a couple of times like lightening, bright like it was real close, but there wasn’t a cloud in the sky, nor thunder.