UFOs

A bit off topic, but....
While I\'m sitting here trying to figure out how I mixed this shade of green I\'m watching a program on ABC about UFOs. I start thinking about a night on late October of 2004 I was in a two man car, doing a tac patrol. Were sitting blacked out in a parking lot of one of the local businesses when I\'m looking up in the sky and see 3 red lights that look like they\'re forming a triangle. I watch it a bit and tell my partner to watch it. Well we watch it for about five minutes and I get on the radio and call another car over. We end up watching this thing travel from North to South across the sky, and at the end no one knows what we saw. I spent 13 years in the military and seen plenty of fixed and rotary wing aircraft fly in formation. What I saw that night looked like nothing I\'ve ever seen before. Well I get ahold of dispatch who told me the comm center was being flooded by calls about this object in the sky, so thank goodness it wasn\'t three coppers seeing things after breathing car exhaust. Later I find out the FAA was contacted and they reported to military or civilian aircraft were in that flight corridor at the reported time. It made the local papers a couple days later, and to this day I still don\'t know for sure what I saw that night.
So anybody else see anything funky like that?
 
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douglasgreen

Guest
Yes lots......but I used to live in Suffolk,U.K.I find telling people just draws strange stares unless they\'ve seen them too!;)
 

supervike

Super Moderator
First off...

I really wanted to watch that show on ABC tonight, but the damn local station pre-empted it.

I\'ve seen plenty of \'strange lights\', nothing to detailed or close. But I remember one year right near new years eve, we were at a party and one of our old school buddies came over...

He was very excited and very scared. He was always a farm boy and very honest. He told how this \'triangle\' object, that made no noise had followed him and his wife on this gravel road near his parents house. It just hovered 50 feet above the ground but was big enough to cover the entire road and both ditches.

They frantically went into his parents house and called law enforcement. At this point they were very freaked out and started loading shotguns. Silently the thing drifted away. About 25 minutes later not only did the sheriff arrive, but also national guardsmen in helicopters. I am not sure that they ever answered what the heck it was.

Had the story come from anyone else, I would\'ve never believed it.
 

Nelson

New member
Originally posted by supervike
Had the story come from anyone else, I would\'ve never believed it.
But as it came from a scared and excited farmboy, it seemed entirely plausible.....

:p :D

Sounds interesting, though....national guard and all. My friend\'s dad has a bunch of movies on his computer about conspiracies/area 51/that town whut had all the aliens- Roswell, and we watch \'em pretty regularly. Kinda creepy....I remember being terrified of aliens for years after watching a documentary when I was five. Come to think of it, documentaries have never done me any good. I was simultaneously terrified of cavemen, after watching a CBC special.

I\'m still holding out for the time when a U.F.O appears over a major city, instead of rural america. ;)
 

Evil Dave

New member
Ok, this is a weird story, but....
Quite a few years ago (at least 18) me and a buddy were out camping.
We had a fire going and were talking when we saw some lights in the sky in a triangular pattern. they moved to fast and at angles too strange to be a plane, so we watched them for a little while and shrugged it off.
We went to bed in the tent and slept all night.
When we woke up that morning I could see blue sky.
Someone or something had cut a slit in the tent from top of the wall to the floor.
The edges were cleanly cut as with a razor.
Freaked us out and it still gives me chills thinking about it.
 

supervike

Super Moderator
hey...good point!

Originally posted by Nelson
But as it came from a scared and excited farmboy, it seemed entirely plausible.....

:p :D

He also said Elvis and Bigfoot stole his perpetual energy machine....Are you saying he might not be trustworthy??lol
 

green stuff

Active member
Has anybody ever wondered why these stories only come from western civilization and have only been brought up since the \'50s?

Another case for Sculder and Mully :p.
 
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Sturmhalo

Guest
Ah... another mystery of the modern world. Do they exist, don\'t they exist? Meh!

Where would TV stations be if it weren\'t for wobbly handed, over excited folks with video cameras?!

Aah... the squares!
 

Shawn R. L.

New member
If you really think about the term \'unidentified flying object\', it could be ANYTHING. If it\'s flying and I cant identify it then according to the term it\'s a UFO. Mabey my neitghbor throws a pan of lasagna across the fence and I dont know that\'s what it is. Something is seen, we dont know what it is, IT\'S ALIENS!!! I am not sure one way or the other weather \"they\" exist or not. I just think some of the knee-jerk reaction to idintify something as a UFO-alien-ET diminishes the real quest.
 

Itchy

New member
Well... when i was a kid (about 10 to 13 years ago) i\'d be playing in my backyard and i\'d see a tube shaped metal/white thing floating and bobbing in the air toward the north. Always toward the north. It\'d show up about once every 3 weeks... about how long it took me to forget to be on the look out for it, then i\'d get the feeling i was being watched and i\'d look up and there it was. It was probably around 3000 feet, looked roughly the size of a jet. Then one night on tv there was a story of these campers who were ubducted and all that and i\'ve been DEATHLY afraid of aliens ever since... i know i shouldn\'t be, but i am.

Aliens, the way i see it. They exist... there\'s just NO WAY IN HECK we\'re it out in this infinitely huge world. They\'ve been checking us out for a while. If they wanted to hurt us they would have a long time ago... they\'ve obviously got the better technology.

i know, i know... put my tin foil hat back on, but that\'s how i see it.
 

Chrispy

Active member
I swear I have an alien implant or something.. there\'s a hard lump near my left temple theat moves with the skin.. so far I\'ve never had any problems (besides the obvious) and I\'ve never gotten an x-ray taken, but it may just be... :p
 

Chrispy

Active member
Originally posted by douglasgreen
....I have a hard lump near my...(never mind);)

Dude, get that biopsied.. even if it\'s upposed to be there.. Kinda like the \"Wtf is up in Wales thread\", right now.. :p
 
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donga666

Guest
Two stories for the price of one:

First, while near Glastonbury in the South West UK. I was camping with my parents and there was a \'craft\' travelling in parallel to the horizon. It looked like the classic \'cigar\' shaped UFO. It also looked like highly polished chrome. My Dad saw it too, he spent 16 years in the RAF and it baffled him too. It was travelling VERY fast, too fast for even a military jet and there was no sound at all.

Two, while backpacking in Australia, we were driving through the Kimberlies in Western Australia. It was on a desert road we stopped for a \'rest\' at one of the view points. And travelling along was what looked like a silver triangle. There were 4 people in the car who all saw it and a group of Swiss tourists watching it. No one could work out what it was.

But occasions were on clear sunny days with little or no cloud. Odd! They both could have been aircraft, but they looked wrong and were travelling VERY VERY fast. Having been brought up on or near RAF bases I have a good idea how and at what speed modern jets travel at.

But who knows ???

Andy
 

Itchy

New member
donga666

That sounds exactly like what i saw when i was little! But it\'d stop and just sit there NOT MOVING AT ALL for a minute or two. Cigar shaped... i guess that\'s a better word that tube... i\'ll start useing it :D

Oh, and i also grew up and still do live 7 miles from an air force base... Just yesterday an F-22 with an F-16 chase plane flew right over the show at work. They were SCREAMING at tree top level... probably trying to scare the local school kiddieslol
 

Itchy

New member
Yeah, but i haven\'t seen the UFO things for a long time...

Yeah, the jets made the ground shack and everyone came out to watch them... they were bookin\' it over town. Probably took the 45 seconds to clear the valley, then the climbed up and banked over toward the base. Maybe they were chasing UFOs? lol
 
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ZeCorto

Guest
wtf are UFOs doing anyway?
If they want to be seen, let them pop by and say hello. If they don\'t, then why can SOME people see them? After all, they have the technology to travel through deep space and be invisible to radar so why are they sometimes (selectively) visible to people?
I just can\'t believe that some alien race would travel light-years just to baffle a few humans and take holiday pictures. I\'m not saying aliens do not exist, just that when they come, they will drop in for a beer or else they will come so secretly that NO-ONE will see them.
Who said that the the proof that there was intelligent life out there is that they don\'t make the mistake of coming down here?
 
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