I work with some former Air Force guys and he said that almost all pilots have a UFO story to tell.
However the thing is they have to be careful about it. Ex. Lets say an Air force fighter pilot is flying along and sees a UFO. While he might (emphasis MIGHT)get on the radio and ask if their are any other aircraft in his area or mention it to ground control, he doesnt really follow up too much with the report. Why? He said it could hurt their career or from getting a security clearance.
So basically they end up keeping most stories to themselves. Some are quite interesting about strange craft buzzing their planes or doing seemingly impossible maneuvers and which may or may not show up on radar.
Remember UFO means “Unidentified Flying Object”. It doesn’t mean alien spacecraft.
Do you all agree with this? Do you think most pilots have a UFO story or 2 but tend to keep them to themselves?
It is notoriously difficult to make accurate estimates of speed, distance, or size for airborn objects (or apparent objects) leading to observations of behavior that seems unworldly. This has been noticed since the beginning of the aviation era; some pilots have even observed sea vessels “floating” in mid-sky, cloud-like objects moving at blinding speeds, and ball lightning or glowing objects behaving in seemingly controlled evasive flight. The reality is that this is a combination of inversion layers in the atmosphere reflecting images (the same phenomena that causes ‘water’ to appear to desert hikers), a lack of perspective or scale, and pilot overload or hallucination-like states due to sensory deprivation (also happens to divers in caves or turbid water). A pilot may not wish to report these phenomena too frequently not because they’ll be taken for cranks but because such reporting requires filing written after action reports and being interviewed, as well as the perception that the pilot may not be reliable under stress or may be prone to hallucination.
From my experience flying into clouds and near lightning storms for atmospheric physics research it is very easy to become disoriented and see things that aren’t there. On one occasion, flying in tandom with a second aircraft, we lost sight of the lead aircraft in clouds, and I ‘found’ it visually four or five times off the right side until it reappeared on the left (where it was supposed to be). Note that this aircraft had a brilliant red stripe on the white fuselage and a large instrument pod hanging off the wing. My brain was getting images of clouds and filling in the aircraft where none was.
Pilots are just as susceptible to optical illusions, wishful thinking, lack of critical thinking etc as anyone else. There’s no doubt that lots of people, including pilots, see literal UFOs. Whether they put it down to aliens or something more mundane is down to their own personal biases.
I have seen a UFO. I would like to say it was ball lightning but that seems unlikely. Obviously I’m not then going to suggest it was aliens. If I think ball lightning was unlikely then aliens would be so much more unlikely as to be disregarded. I don’t know what it was, it was a glow of light coming from inside a towering cumulus cloud. If someone else saw it they might think aliens are more likely than ball lightning, but that’s because they have no clue.
Right, I think the problem is when we talk about UFO’s people always assume aliens when what we are really talking about is unexplained phenomena. If people would talk about it more maybe we would have better understanding.
I think pilots like to tell stories. The lights they can’t identify become UFOs and take on interesting characteristics. Each pilot has to make his experience more mysterious and amazing than the other pilot’s story. Once someone takes it too seriously the UFOs revert back to unexplained lights.
Nowadays, everybody had a camera in their hands all the time. So where are all the photos and videos of the UFOs and aliens, that were so commonly seen before there were phone-cams??
They’re being digitally altered by The Sasquatch Obfuscationist Network, a underground group of rarely seen hominids who have conspired to hack cell phones and obscure images of Bigfeet, Ooofos, Beta Reticulians, Hollow Earth creatures, et cetera, and replace them with pictures of Taylor Swift. They have nothing to do with the Moon landing hoax, however…that’s all NASA and Henry Kissinger.
There’s always the possibly apocryphal story about the airline pilot that took evasive action because “a large plane” was coming right at him. Turned out it was Venus. So pilots, like the rest of us, make mistakes.
Plus I’m sure a lot of the “We’ve all seen them!” talk is just the equivalent of “we’re in this secret club that you are not in”.
Had to do a maneuver one time sort of quick & I had a real believer of "that nothing could happen that was so far acceptable as impossible.
Anyway, he was so scared that he clamped his eyes shut & just screamed. I wish I could have done that. Seemed a reasonable thing to do.
We did not die that day and he asked what happened so I told him what I did. He said that it was impossible and that I was lying.
Not to be fair he was not a pilot much less a frequent passenger in small airplanes. He had enough correct information that he was dangerous. he he he
Sometimes I would wish I had someone along or awake or whatever to have support for what happened, was seen, was heard or whatever. Then I think of that guy and realize that that type will absolutely deny that it happened. Even with physical proof that something did happen, ( they have a broken bone, bruise etc. ) they will not accept what they experienced. Not necessarily in airplanes but other stuff as well.
“This is not true.” is the last thing that will go through their mind as they die. A total waste of time to trey to understand the world around us with people like this.
This is one danger of message boards like this, both sides are sure that they are always right and there is no physical way for them both to re-experience the event together so no information other than distrust is accomplished. IMO. Bawahahahah
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