RonRyan85

A UFO means a "UNidentified Flying Object".

YES

NO

JumpinJesus

This has potential to be an interesting thread, but it's a simple yes or no response that won't garner much discussion. Where's your story?

Have you seen one? When? What were the circumstances?

Give us something to work with here.

Can I ask why you chose General Discussion instead of Tilted Paranoia for this thread?

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RonRyan85

Sorry...this Poll is new to me and another poll I had did not get posted.

shesus

OK, Ron, I've got your poll up. Now, you can share your thoughts to guide the discussion.

I've seen unidentified things in the sky. I don't know if they were from another planet or not, which is the general connotation of that phrase. Most likely they were satellites, weather balloons, or jets.

I believe that we have been visited from other planets though. I just haven't had a close encounter.

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cybermike

We were driving home one night and across a cornfield I saw a light. When I first saw it, I thought it was an abnormally bright star. I know the area well and kept thinking where the hell the light could be coming from. There were no lights in the area, It's just a huge corn field. I noticed the light getting brighter and brighter and pointed it out to my dad and we slowed down and watched it continue to get brighter and brighter until it started looking like huge headlights. It was coming right toward us but slowly did a 90degree turn and went along the road we were driving down. It couldn't have been going more than 25-30mph. We drove down the road and turned down another road and stopped as it passed right over us. It was barely 10-20 foot above the tree line. We could make out the body which was shaped like a large plane but couldn't really make out the wings due to it being so dark.

It's weird because I didn't know a plane of that size could stay in the air at such a slow speed and no idea why it was flying so low/slow in the first place.

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MexicanOnABike

never. But i want to believe. ha!

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JumpinJesus

When I was around 13, we (my brother, sister, and the two neighbor's kids) were sitting on their front lawn after sunset on a Friday night. We lived about an hour north of San Francisco. The closest military installation was Travis Air Force Base about 80 miles to the southeast.

It was summertime. As we were sitting there, I remember the neighbor's son point to the sky and say, "What's that?" As we were looking up, all I could see was what looked like a black blur with no lights streak across the sky. It made little noise aside from a whooshing sound and it couldn't have been more than a few hundred feet up. Seconds later, we heard and saw two fighter jets following. The altitude and noise of the jets brought a few people out onto their porches because that was something that we never experienced. To this day, I have no idea what we witnessed.

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RonRyan85

I have never seen any UFOs but have heard on C2C radio where ART BELL and his late wife saw a huge,silent ,black triangle thing float over them
near their home in Pahrump,Nevada. I believe him. Also many Air Force Officers such as Ex-Astronauts claim they have seen them,filmed them and
when the films were given to the Air Force/CIA ,it was never seen again. I think some UFOs are secret aircraft being tested by the USA and others
are alien spacecraft visiting our planet. I believe something did crash near Roswell,N.M. in July of 1947. The government/CIA know all about the
UFO/Flying Saucers but because there is nothing our Air Force can do , they try to act like all UFOs are just natural phenomena. The evidence is all
the retrieved saucers somewhere in storage and the number of crashed AirForce aircraft and missing airmen.
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Thanks for helping me get it up.
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blahblah454

About 3 years back I was off on my Aunt and Uncles farm in Saskatchewan. There are no air force bases anywhere near (closest is 200km away), and no major airports (closest is about 200km in the opposite direction of the base). Closest town is about 10km away. So its really dark, like no lights anywhere dark, just the stars and moon (thought I can't remember if they were out).

There were about 6 of us outside and we were looking for shooting starts. We saw what looked like a satellite, just larger, and moving about the same speed as the other satellites. It started to grow larger and brighter as it moved across the sky, and by this point we were all watching it. By the time it was roughly half way across the sky it was as large as plane lights appear to be on a commercial flight flying at cruising altitudes. So needless to say, this was incredibly large for what we once mistook as a satellite.

Up until this point the object was flying in a straight path, then it suddently veered off by about 30-45 degrees and picked up incredible speed. The object then flashed very brightly, angled this time in the opposite direction of the previous course change, to bring it about 30-45 degrees in the other direction of its original course, and zipped off very, very fast. The object disappeared from sight due to being too far away in about 1 seconds time.

Keep in mind there were several of us who saw this, all completely sober, and ranging in age from roughly 16-50.
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Yea she helps me out with that sometimes too, haha

Just kidding, please don't smite me

genuinegirly

Nope, never seen one. Don't particularly look for them, either. Ever since I was a kid, I have experienced a terrible creepy feeling whenever I have watched a show on close encounters or documentary-type accounts of UFOs, hits me worse than horror flicks. It's odd to me, since I generally love anything to do with space. Perhaps it is the tone and implied cover-up involved. I will never forget the horror I experienced while watching the 1993 film Fire in the Sky, the story about Travis Walton's abduction.

There are some things I hope I will never experience. A close encounter ranks high on the "no!" list.

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shesus

No problem.

The table, blahblah. Get your mind out of the gutter, man.

And I wouldn't smite you, you'd enjoy it too much.

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SSJTWIZTA

When i was smalled i seen two bright orange stationary objects to the south. I went to grab an adult but by the time we got back outside they were gone.

it turns out that reports in Miami of a UFO's bombarded the local emergency lines.

i thought this was odd, because i was near Orlando, the these lights seemed pretty close.

ill never know what they were.

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Sion

I've seen things in the sky that I was unable to identify, so in that sense, then yes, I have seen a UFO.

As for the unspoken question implied...no, I've never seen a object in the sky that I felt was an alien ship. And while I firmly believe that there is intelligent life out there somewhere, I find it hard to believe any of them have ever been here.

I mean, why would they come here? There are billions upon billions of stars in this galaxy alone...and ours is just a tiny, not particularly interesting one in an out of the way corner of the Milky Way many thousands of light years from galactic central point....so again, what would prompt them to come here, abduct hillbillys and give them anal probes? Hardly likely, to my way of thinking. Unless it's the alien version of cow-tipping...

Nggghtyeei: Hey Arrrrrngslos, whatcha wanna do tonight?
Arrrrrrngslos: Oh, I dunno...wanna go anal probe some Earthlings?

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ottopilot

Wow ... this is almost exactly what we (myself and a friend) saw one night. We were driving along one of the roads adjacent to General Electric Appliance Park in Louisville, KY. This place is a sprawling complex with it's own zip code and fire department. Across from GE was a farm. We noticed what we thought was plane or helicopter headlights banking toward us slowly in the distance. We slowed down to look, and your description was very similar except the shape seemed more delta-like... the silhouette from beneath was almost like the shape of a steam-iron. There seemed to be both fixed and moving search lights. It passed just above us at tree top level, very slowly and off over the GE plant... then disappeared in the distance. Not a sound. We called the police, airport, and Air National Guard without any confirmation of something "odd" in the sky that night. My friend was a total non-believer until that experience.

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levite

Yeah. I was on a school camping trip in middle school, in Minnesota (mid-1980s), and I snuck off to take a night skinny dip in the lake near our campsite. I was walking down the hill toward the lake-- it was a very clear night, with bright, huge, full moon, and even brighter with the moon reflecting off the lake-- and I stopped short. On the other side of the valley (I use the term valley loosely-- Minnesota's pretty flat), something was hovering. It was a triangular craft, glossy shiny black (except for very bright blue-white lights in its sides, like windows or portholes). No wings, no tails, no visible engines, no projections or protrusions. It was freaking huge. Like, 747 big. It hovered in complete and total silence. I watched it, almost peeing my pants, for maybe five minutes. Then it shot up, vertically, hundreds of feet in seconds, and then shot off at what looked like around a seventy-degree angle, disappearing in just a second or two. When it had vanished, I heard a sound like distant thunder.

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Cernunnos

I've seen objects in the sky that couldn't be identified, but I never genuinely believed them to be extraterrestrial aircraft. The closest would have to be a pulsating light source hovering above the clouds that didn't seem to be moving at any observable speed. This was out in a field on my mother's former boyfriend's property in Kissimmee. No city lights, no airplane, who knows.

Sun Tzu

At night in Phoenix a few years ago, a dark mass that blotted out our visabilty of the sky until it passed over (our meaning 1/3 of my entire block). I couldnt tell what exact shape it was, but the lights suggested it looked like the US Flying Wing (YB-49) but much bigger- about 3/4 of mile long. It also was not flying at a super sonic speed. It was going about the speed of a blimp. The bottom, even though black- looked like a swimming pool waterish quality. It was completely silent.

The military stated it was flares- what an insult, but I understand they had to say something. The questions Im left with are if it was ET in nature why werent there jets scrambling around it while it was hovering over a major metropolitan area? If it was ours, and lying about obviously wanted to keep it secret why fly over a metropolitan area? If it was ours it had to have been the hugest triangular shaped blimp with lights in the world with silent engines, and some kind of anti radar device below it.

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dlish

one night at band camp...

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guyy

When i was working for the sampling & survey group, we used to wash the specimens' memories after our examinations. We'd also send out a memory wash wave around the ship. If you really did see something, you wouldn't remember it.

Later, earthlings.

The_Jazz

Never have and doubt I ever will. Anyone with the ability to travel the stars has better sense than check out this mess.

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JumpinJesus

How do you explain the masses of educated people who love Jerry Springer?

QED....qed.

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The_Jazz

Umm, doesn't that sort of go to prove my point? When the educated regularly decend to the lowest common denominator, it makes you wonder if that first monkey that came down out of the tree shouldn't have been booted right back up it.

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-=Kastor=-

I think most ufo stories are bogus but let me first say that i am a believer. What may be a UFO to a civilian may not be a UFO to a Air force pilot. With knowledge you understand what is real and whats not. As for the lights in the cornfield for example that is creepy and i really dont know what the hell that could of been.

You can never really trust the government sadly =/

luciferase75

I have seen one. I say UFO in the sense of a strange object, rather than unidentified, because it moved erratically and disappeared, and because my friend and I were drawn to the window to look for it in mid-conversation (mid-sentence actually), when the window was across the room and we couldn't even see out of it. It was a very strange event that I cannot explain to this day, and will probably never be able to explain.

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