# UFOs You've Seen **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 12, 1999, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufos-youve-seen/11977 "1999-12-12T11:17:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 1999, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufos-youve-seen/11977/1 "1999-12-12T11:17:00Z")
I don’t mean this to be a debate on whether UFOs are alien craft, top secret military craft, or other, that’s Great Debates stuff; rather, just a list of unkown flying things people have seen, whether it’s mundane or incredible. I’ve seen about three in my life, and I consider myself fairly knowledgeable on recognizing things in the sky. The one I’ll mention is the first one I saw, about 7 1/2 years ago. I was driving through a neighborhood on a cloudy night, and through the windshield I saw a green light fly by. It appeared as about half the size of a full moon, no definite shape (it appeared to be behind the clouds), though I only saw it about 1/4 of a second. I can conjecture a few things it may have been: 1. Alien or military craft, of course. 2. Some form of ball lightning (I’ve never seen ball lightning, so I wouldn’t recognize it, and it was storming). 3. It was about the same color as the lights on my car stereo, so it may have been a reflection (don’t know why the reflection would move, though, since I, the windshield, and the stereo were all motionless with respect to each other). 4. A meteor–probably the most likely, but since it seemed to be behind the clouds, it was hard to tell. OK, so mine was perhaps a little mundane; what things have y’all seen? ---
**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 1999, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufos-youve-seen/11977/2 "1999-12-12T11:21:00Z")
BTW, 2 should read it was NOT storming, so I don’t think 2 would be the case. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 1999, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufos-youve-seen/11977/3 "1999-12-12T14:04:00Z")
Once I saw this big silvery round thing, and it was really bright, and it even looked like it had a face on it! It took 12 hours to move across the sky 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 1999, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufos-youve-seen/11977/4 "1999-12-12T14:40:00Z")
Gee, this one is easy. How many people have ever looked up in the sky, seen something, and not known exectly what it was? I would say, everybody not struck by blindness! U.F.O.-Unidentified Flying Object. “Hey Bob, what’s that up there?” “I don’t know.” “Damn, we better call Art Bell!” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 1999, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufos-youve-seen/11977/5 "1999-12-12T14:52:00Z")
Once, I was almost fooled. I was 12, & living in Waukesha Wisconsin. Middle 1970’s. It was snowing like hell (no suprise in Wis.) & we were waiting outside for the school bus. Suddenly, I saw a large, round, silvery thing come drifting over the top of the hill. It made no sound & seemed to change shape as it drifted through the sky. We all thought it was a UFO. Just over that hill was the Waukesha County Airport. The strong winter winds & near blizzard conditions wre reason enough to launch a weather balloon. They sent up a second one after the first got stuck in a tree. We watched them from inside the bus as it drove past the airport. * * * Save The Endangered Jackalope! Send Cash Now! If You Do This, I Will Use The Cash To Save Any Jackalope That I Happen To Find! Send Cash Now! Before It’s Too Late! My Bills, I Mean **The Jackalope’s Bills** Are Due The 15th Of The Month! _This has been a message from the Illuminated Committee To Save The Jackalope. Fnord._ ---
**Author:** ![TheNerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TheNerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheNerd)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 1999, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufos-youve-seen/11977/6 "1999-12-12T21:31:00Z")
I too have seen a bright green meteor (well, I assume). This was in Dallas. It streaked across the sky, and the whole thing was over in less than half a second. But it was certainly bright enough that you didn’t have to be looking for it to see it. This was more than 7 years ago though, more like 12. Both of my parents saw it as well. ---
**Author:** ![MrKnowItAll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrknowitall/32/87_2.png) [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 1999, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufos-youve-seen/11977/7 "1999-12-13T03:28:00Z")
I once saw what looked like an illuminated disk hovering in the sky while I was driving late one night. I wasn’t the only one, several people had pulled off the road to watch it. It was blue on the top and the bottom, and there was a yellow band around the outer edge which appeared to have windows or portholes along it. Being a skeptic, I really wanted to know what it was. I continued driving toward it and finally I was close enough and it had turned to a different angle. It was a “Blockbuster” blimp. From a distance the letters in “Blockbuster” had looked like a row of windows. I was mildly disappointed, but at the same time a little smug. It was an “unidentified flying object” to me, but only for about 5 to 10 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 1999, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufos-youve-seen/11977/8 "1999-12-13T05:07:00Z")
I once looked up in broad daylight and saw what looked like a wingless, glass, silent flying object flying high in the sky. However, I knew what it was, even though it didn’t look like what it was. It was silent because I was in a car. It was wingless because of the angle it was on. It was ‘glass’ just because of the illusion the sunlight glinting off it created. It was an aeroplane. 🙂 _(sorry, I mean airplane)_ * * * -PIGEONMAN- Hero For A New Millennium! [The Legend Of PigeonMan](http://www.hotkey.net.au/~guanolad/pigeonman/) - updates every Wed & Sat. If I can be bothered. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 1999, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufos-youve-seen/11977/9 "1999-12-13T22:39:00Z")
Sorry, never seen anything. I watched some video footage on a TV program ‘the best UFO’s ever filmed’. It didn’t impress me. One woman said ‘Can’t you see the aliens looking out of the portholes?!’ (The ‘UFO’ was literally a speck in the sky) There’s no evidence that the Loch Ness Monster exists and the Bermuda Triangle doesn’t have any special record of ship/ plane disappearence either…