UFO's

[ladyrowan]

I was just listening to a phone-in programme where several people were on the line reporting something they were watching, all just north of London, and it got me thinking - Have you ever seen a UFO?

I saw one a few years ago, on my way home from a night out with friends. It was about 2.30am, and contrary to popular opinion in my village, I was not drunk or high 8O

We turned into our village and saw a bright red light hovering in the sky above the woods on the other side of the village. We drove through the village out into the fields and got out the car to watch. After a while it started slowly moving straight up and then suddenly shot up and out of site. It had made no noise.
It was not a plane, a helicopter, a flare, or a firework - all these have been suggested.
We were so excited about this, and asked around to see if anyone else had seen anything. Two other people also saw it; unfortunately both of them like a drink or 20 most evenings, so no-one believed them, and they all think i'm a bit weird so didn't believe me either! Then we found someone who had seen something land in that area a few days earlier. He told us where it was BEFORE we told him where we'd seen the lights. But he's quite partial to a bit of happy-baccy, so again no-one believed him!!
I then decided to ask further afield and phoned the local paper. They treated me like i was an absolute idiot!
I gave up then, but i know what i saw had no earthly explanation, and am quite sure it was a craft from another planet.

BB

[Niamh]

Incredible.
I've never seen one, but I do believe that this planet has been visited by extraterrestrials.

My boyfriend saw a UFO when he was visiting Arizona a few years ago. He did a few paintings of what he saw, and they're incredible. I truly believe he saw something that was not of this world!

[evilslinkycat]

I have seen a few UFO type things while I lived in Northern Va, up by DC.
Anyway this was years ago in the mid 80's....
I was out on the front porch one night,not doing much of anything, I happened to look up and there it was. Right above the tree line. It was a big triangle shaped 'thing' with a gren light on each of the points. It seemed to be landing, not at an angle but verticaly. It was huge...and I saw that more then once. UFO, somesort of nifty plane I don't know...

Also a few months later i saw three bright white lights over in the same area. One large, one small and one kinda inbetween.They were just sitting there hovering or whatever. didn't think much of it, untill they moved.
The one in the middle shot straight up, then one of the right went right, and the left, to the left. This happend all at the same time, and so fast that you couldn't really follow them.

Whatever they were it was fun to watch:D

[Earth Walker]

Believe in UFO's........not until I got into an argument with
Ariel.......hehehe:bigredgri 8O ........:eek:


Curiosity killed the Cat.
Satisfaction brought her back.:)

[Tigerwallah]

I remember stargazing and seeing a far off star cluster that was shaped like a triangle, and moving. Then I noticed that there were more than one of them. Could have been military aircraft, I suppose. Although, now I live in an area with lots navy aircraft, and the f15s, f18s, and f22s that I see almost everyday look nothing like what I saw when I lived in NY.

[stormyray]

I may have never seen one but I truely belive in them. I was born and raised in Arizona and heard stories from my family that were amazing.

[loopy]

Unidentified Flying Objects... absolutely. My brother once threw something at me; I still have no clue what it was. Gave me a heck of a bruise though.

Um, no more lemonade for me.

I believe. My best friend's sister swears she saw one a few years back. A lot I guess are hoaxes, but I think among all the jokes there's got to be one or two real ones.

[Myst]

I think the belief that aliens and UFO doesn't exist is self-centered and egotistical on the part of humans who hold it.

Yeah, there's billions of stars and universes and galaxies and planes of existences and an infinite amount of possibilities but we're on the only planet with "intelligent" life.

Yeah, right.

[reanna]

Aliens, Ufo's......
Definitely. In my opinion:
In a universe as large and unknown as most of it still is..... We are the only species lucky enough to exist? That would be fairly egotistical on humanities part.

Lol:):) I just read down a bit and realised that I made almost exactly the same post as Willow Raven.
Great minds.....:D:D:D

[Socharis]

Yup I do, but shouldnt the post be dont we believe in aliens and UFO's, as we all believe in unidentified flying objects (for example a plane is unidentified).

[Andromeda]

We were out sitting in my boyfriend's truck at around 12:00am. I was looking up at the sky when 2 flashing lights side by side caught my attention...at first I thought it was a plane. But then It slowly went down not getting and bigger or smaller. Then it went behind a cloud.

Yep thats what happened.

Blessings
Andromeda
(aim andromeda172)

[ladyrowan]

Originally posted by Socharis
Yup I do, but shouldnt the post be dont we believe in aliens and UFO's, as we all believe in unidentified flying objects (for example a plane is unidentified).

Was just being generalistic. I think if you mention UFO's to most people they assume you're talking about craft used by beings from somewhere other than earth - bit too long to use as a title i think.

I believe that Americans call anyone not from their country an Alien, so we're alien to them (and i, for one, don't fly a UFO!). So the majority of people on this board know very well that there most definitely ARE aliens.

And a plane can very easily be identified as a plane.

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[Socharis]

Originally posted by ladyrowan


Was just being generalistic. I think if you mention UFO's to most people they assume you're talking about craft used by beings from somewhere other than earth - bit too long to use as a title i think.

I believe that Americans call anyone not from their country an Alien, so we're alien to them (and i, for one, don't fly a UFO!). So the majority of people on this board know very well that there most definitely ARE aliens.

And a plane can very easily be identified as a plane.

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I meant a plane at night time, but i just really ate it when ppl say to me do you believe in UFO's. I mean technicly a bird you cant name is an unidentified flying object.

[evilslinkycat]

Originally posted by WillowRaven
I think the belief that aliens and UFO doesn't exist is self-centered and egotistical on the part of humans who hold it.

Yeah, there's billions of stars and universes and galaxies and planes of existences and an infinite amount of possibilities but we're on the only planet with "intelligent" life.

Yeah, right.

Yep:D
The idea that humans are the only 'intelligent' life is pretty sad, and even a bit scary

[bluecat]

I have seen plenty of strange things in the sky. Living in New Mexico you get plenty of chances to see things that the military won't talk about, some of them are ours, some of them, well ...

I just think it's silly to think that we are the only intelligent species in the Universe ... come to think of it, just how intelligent are we?

Blue :cool:

[Earth Walker]

Since we are destroying Mother Earth, Not Very.:mad:


Curiosity killed the Cat.
Satisfaction brought her back.:)

[story]

I put other, becuase I have a few different ideas at once on the subject
---they are intense emtions externalized by the viewer. (kind of an unintentional thought form)
----they are crafts that the gov't don't want talked about
----they might be hallucinations caused by proximity to a strong electromagnetic field(heard that one on the tee vee-- this scientist guy held up a map of ufo sitings and compared it to a map of fault lines and power plants. there was a heavy degree of corallation)
---they are quite real, and we are being visited by critters we haven't imagined yet
----all of the above

[story]

PS: yes, i have seen one. maybe.

[MammaStar]

I voted yes, but to this day I still can't be sure. I was about 8 years old. I saw one through my window one night. It was big, with lots of lights and I SWEAR I could hear it make a noise. Like a whirring sound, but I'm not sure. I remember being really scared when I saw it. At first I didn't know what it was, I thought it was the moon, but it was close enough to the trees to make the branches move. It was cone shaped, with white lights on it, a strip of red in the middle and blue lights on the top and bottom points.

About a month later, I went up to my grandparents house for my annual summer stay, and my Uncle showed pics of a UFO he & my grandma saw that week over their back yard. At least to them it was a UFO, but to me it looked liked a blimp. But it made me believe even more what a saw was a UFO.

I know I was young and it was late at night, so I could have been sleeping. But the scared feelings I had, and I remember opening & closing my eyes several times, before it went away. To this day, I believe what I saw was real.

[Armitage]

I definitely believe in them. Scientists have found how many stars out there? How many other galaxies? *Clusters* of other galaxies...I don't understand how someone could *not* believe there is life elsewhere in the universe, and a goodly amount of it that is probably more advanced technologically than us.

[ladyrowan]

Originally posted by Armitage
I definitely believe in them. Scientists have found how many stars out there? How many other galaxies? *Clusters* of other galaxies...I don't understand how someone could *not* believe there is life elsewhere in the universe, and a goodly amount of it that is probably more advanced technologically than us.

I agree totally, and have done for as long as i can remember.
I think it's sheer arrogance to believe we're the only ones.
Even if they can't find any evidence of others in our universe, how many universes are there?
Someone, somewhere, has the knowledge to travel the universes, as we will too in the future, if we can keep Mother going long enough.

BB

[Wyrdsister]

Originally posted by loopy
Unidentified Flying Objects... absolutely. My brother once threw something at me; I still have no clue what it was. Gave me a heck of a bruise though.

Um, no more lemonade for me. Lemonade is okay. It's the spiked lemonade that you might want to cut back on. :D 8O

Wyrdsister

[pmoonfyre]

Bright Blessings everyone

Yes, Ibelieve in UFO's... Why should we be arrogant enough to believe that the Lord and Lady only put life on this planet...

I mean really our planet is only one among a vast sea of stars, planets, and asteroids... Why would only our produce life?

[Niamh]

And I also find it interesting that humans, when we think of ET's, envision humanoid beings! Granted, it's all we know, but aliens might look like ANYTHING! And we just see something with a head and two arms and two legs.

It will be interesting to finally see what they look like, if they show themselves in my lifetime.

[Faery-Wings]

I have never seen one, and I admit, I would be scared to do so. I have this fear of alien abductions. If I see something on TV about them, I can't sleep at night. But I agree, there is no way we are the only intelligent life, in whatever way we define "intelligent."

I have heard that there have been sightings in my area of NJ.

I got to see a ghost last New Year's Eve. On the way to the party!
That was cool.

Chris~ does *not* watch the X-Files....

[slvr_phoenix]

**shrug**

I don't know if I believe in UFOs as anything other than secret government projects and misidentifications or not. Sure, there are plenty of sightings of things, but does that mean that they're anything other than man-made?

**shrug** Who knows.

The way I figure it, if an alien race had the technology to travel thousands of light years just to visit Earth, you'd think they would make themselves a little more known than what they do. I mean honestly, doesn't it seem at least a little confusing that someone with that kind of technology would have any fear whatsoever of us and our weapons? So then why don't they stop and chat? Two and two just don't add up in my opinion.

But then I also don't think that humans even came from Earth originally. I figure if anything we migrated from Mars after screwing that planet up just like we're doing now to this one.

In which case, maybe somewhere on Earth, or even maybe on Mars, there's someone with slightly-better-than-our (our as in the typical surface-swlling human) technology that lives right next door to us, if not even under the surface/seas of our own planet. And so maybe they do fear our technology at least somewhat then, and don't want to be strapped into a lab and disected.

That's the only reasonably logical explanation I can come up with on why if UFOs aren't man-made, why they wouldn't stop to chat much.

[Rævyn Cigány]

I think the only time I've seen a UFO (or thought I saw one) was when I was about 12 years old. I was walking home with my friend Paulette at the time and it was around October or something. We were looking into the clear sky and saw this 'thing' that was moving very fast...it would zigzag across the sky, stopping occasionally to flash red, white and blue lights in succesion and then continue to flash across the sky in rapid strokes...eventually it just simply disappeared but I'd never seen anything that fast before, or since.

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Rae )0(

[toadstone]

Yes, I've seen them. Quite a few of them.

Between 1948 and around 1970, there used to be periodic waves of sightings in a particular area that lasted days or even weeks and then stopped as suddenly as it had begun. We've had very few of these "flaps", as they were called then, in the last 20 or 30 years, at least in the United States.

In 1965 I lived near Exeter, NH, USA, when one of the last great flaps took place. For almost 2 weeks, there were reported sightings every day, and for three remarkable days they visited my little town or zipped over it. Three nights in succession a craft like a domed saucer, metallic and 50 feet or so wide, hovered for several hours starting shortly before dusk over the lake behind the church, about 200 yards from shore. After the first night when only a couple of people saw it, a couple of hundred people gathered on the shore and watched. I was one of them.

I also saw trios of objects maneuvering over town only a few hundred feet above ground, and batches of a dozen or more flying in formation. In addition there were odd lights, sounds (like the whirring someone mentioned), and disturbances.

As a result, I suppose, of that experience, I later joined a group called "APRO" (Aerial Phenomena Research Organization) as an investigator, and spent several years chasing reports of UFO's, most of which turned out to be misidentification of common sights (Venus, marsh gas, weather balloons, etc.), but some of which seemed to be genuine mysteries.

I didn't see another object while I was doing that. But shortly after I stopped, I walked out of my house in a rural and somewhat isolated corner of Connecticut, looked up, and saw a large oblong light twice the size of a quarter held at arm's length on the horizon. I knew instantly what it was (as I well knew, no terrestrial aircraft has this particular footprint). I watched it cross over the field next door--a bright, football-shaped white light--and then wink out as if somebody had turned a switch.

That was in 1975. I haven't seen one since.

[mol]

Necromancy!!

[AstraSkye]

I don't know what to believe...

Seeing how many planets are out there, we cannot possibly be the only one with intelligence on it...

But then on the other hand - why not? Earth has just the perfect distance to the Sun... Maybe no other planet is so perfectly positioned? Or maybe that one planet is just full of one-celled... things... and has another three million years to go before it can even becalled "intelligent"... or even "life".

[Armitage]

Mol: Wha??? :ugh:

[Derry]

Well, here's my opinion. Only just recently have our space telescopes seen all of the millions of galaxies out there. If you assume that there is atleast 1 to 2 planets in each one, that's a lot of planets. Also, we haven't checked out any planets outside our own solar system. If our solar system is just one of millions, who knows what could be out there. I'm not too anxious to have exterestrial life land here either. The sheer fact that they have a technology allowing them to travel that far scares me because what kind of weapons would they have? I know that's assuming they're hostile....but I'd rather just not know. Leave me blissfully unaware!!!!

[mol]

Originally posted by Armitage

Mol: Wha??? :ugh:

Hehe. Just referring to the age of this thread. :)

[Psyche Ague]

I believe in the possibility that there may be other creatures living somewhere else in the universe, but I don't believe in UFOs. I don't believe we've ever been visited by creatures from other planets, unless it was long ago before humans existed. I don't think there have been any since humans have been alive.

[Ahautenites]

Back in 1987 on the drive to Florida (for my family's one and only travel vacation ever), we were driving along at night, and I was in the back seat looking out the window. I thought I saw an airplane in the sky (it was far away, so it looked like only one little light in the sky), but then it flew in a way that no airplane could fly (and it moved too fast to be a helicopter). I have no idea what it was. Might have been something manmade, might not have been. Might even have been the delusions of an over-tired 11-year-old.

I do believe in life from other worlds. I just can't say that I've necessarily seen any.

[materra]

Mol... I believe you're right...what do you know? There is thread life after death.... woo hoo...:D

At anyrate I'll bite....During the 60's I lived in a small town in Northern Wisconsin. We went to watch UFO's from various lookout points all the time. One of my Aunties would pick us up, we would go get a DQ something...and drive to a place she would pick and wait. We would see the most amazing stuff. I kinda grew out of them until about 1972 when they seemed to be very active again and my boyfriend and I saw them once again over northern Wisconsin. It was so widely known, and they left circle marks etc. that Nimoy and his show on TV showed up and taped a whole bunch of stuff. They did a show on it and our area.

So yeah, I believe in them. Of course my family also levitated tables so we were considered too weird to be relable reporters. 8O

[Old Witch]

I believe we've been visited by highly intelligent beings from other worlds...........I believe they leave quickly, screaming in terror at what they've seen...............

[jelly.belly]

Why not? I mean, there must be aliens somewhere, why wouldn't they come here? Our evolution is slow, doesn't mean their's has to be....

[Xentor]

Yes, I believe UFO's with intelligent life forms from outer space are real and have visited us.

No, I never saw one (not even close) and probably am too sceptic to recognise one if it landed on my front porch...

I've been wondering why intelligent life would ever choose to visit poor little us. Are we really that important?

Oh, and for the statistical people among us who tend to think that more possibilities create more probabilities - they don't. If you choose one car from ten doors, there's just one car. Even if you choose from a million doors, there's still just one car and the odds go down, not up. Life requires just the right amount of every ingredient and we're lucky enough to be part of the successful recipe... IF you wish to believe that our life is more than a freak accident.

[Twig]

I AM NOT AN ABDUCTEE!!! Or The freakiest thing that even I can't explain.
-Summer 1980 3:10pm-
I stand in front of West Hall ( the administration bldg. of the University of Portland) having a cigarette and looking out over downtown Portland. Being the Univer. sits on a bluff, I have a perfect view of the whole of downtown and the surronding area.
My view was drawn to the sky and the fluffy cumulus cloud that crowned the whole of the downtown core. Suddenly a small silver disk shot out of the cloud, did a hard 90 degree turn, flew about 1/4 mile, did another 90 and shot back into the cloud, in LESS than 1 second!!!

"OOOOW!!!" my cigarette burnt my finger! Now I had only just lit that cigarette and taken 2 drags when I saw this occurance. I still can't explain where the 5+ mins. it takes to smoke a cigarette went.

There you have it. True story.

walks away mumbling "NOTHING does 90 degree turns at over 300 mph. 5 minutes.........damn!??
Peace
Twig
:ghost:

ps- I was a meterologist in the NG so don't say weather balloons as I have launched hundreds of them and know how they act.

[Old Witch]

Just what was in that cigarette, Twig? I'm just kidding...........:D

[Raydreamer]

i voted "other" i haven't seen ufo's.....(suspiciously) but i've seen others......
*looks around carefully*
there goes an other now!!!!

ahemm....anyway....i do believe that these are a definately possibility....everything is possible. And besides, if there isn't any other life, it seems an awful waste of space.