Topic: Has anyone really ever seen a UFO?
EquusDancer's photo
Tue 11/02/10 12:29 PM
Yes, seen many.

Found out one type of UFO was a green bellied whistling duck. Not originally native to the area, but their migratory patterns have been shifting westerly.


no photo
Tue 11/02/10 04:24 PM

... I also think our own secret Intelligence has something going on they can't share. It would be very kool to site something I can't explain.


My secret intelligence has something going on it can't share. Drives me nuts at night.


Tinfoil helmets help

mightymoe's photo
Tue 11/02/10 06:33 PM


... I also think our own secret Intelligence has something going on they can't share. It would be very kool to site something I can't explain.


My secret intelligence has something going on it can't share. Drives me nuts at night.


Tinfoil helmets help


should they be pointed or helmet-type? should i use the heavy duty tinfoil rather then the lighter stuff? the heavy duty is much more expensive, but it doesn't tare as easy... and do we cover the ears?

AndyBgood's photo
Tue 11/02/10 07:24 PM
Shooting stars do not make 90 degree turns and accelerate away after three direction changes.

Blaze1978's photo
Tue 11/02/10 08:44 PM
I believe the year was 1999. I lived in town, and a friend and I were walking home late at night. We were crossing the field across the street from our two houses, and I wish I hadn't been looking at the grass, because then I could describe what I saw so much better...but there was a flash of green light. And it was so immense, it illuminated the night sky to the extent that I could perceive the flash even without any actual sky in my visual frame. The phenomenon was over before I could look up. My friend described it as a green light that quickly streaked across the sky and was gone, and today he does not even recall the night in question. I still don't know what we saw...might have been a UFO.

AndyBgood's photo
Tue 11/02/10 10:23 PM

I believe the year was 1999. I lived in town, and a friend and I were walking home late at night. We were crossing the field across the street from our two houses, and I wish I hadn't been looking at the grass, because then I could describe what I saw so much better...but there was a flash of green light. And it was so immense, it illuminated the night sky to the extent that I could perceive the flash even without any actual sky in my visual frame. The phenomenon was over before I could look up. My friend described it as a green light that quickly streaked across the sky and was gone, and today he does not even recall the night in question. I still don't know what we saw...might have been a UFO.


You could have been witness to a rare phenomenon called a Lightning Ball. When they back light a cloud they look like a UFO and move like one too. Every once in a rare while they chase people. Typical colors range from green to pink and pale blue. Some lightning balls can be down right bright too!

FearandLoathing's photo
Tue 11/02/10 11:09 PM
Edited by FearandLoathing on Tue 11/02/10 11:10 PM

There are serious problems with the idea that aliens are coming here to visit us, mainly around the huge distances involved. It would take hundreds of years travelling at light speed to get from the nearest possible place of life to our planet. And we can probably assume that the nearest possible place doesn't have life. And we can probably assume that they haven't figured out a way to travel at the speed of light.

Not very romantic, I know. Sorry.

The funny lights you see in the sky are probably just that - funny lights. Hypnagogic illusions explain a lot of the sightings (if you've ever had sleep paralysis, you'll understand).


I don't think they are alien. The U.S. picked up a lot of crazy inventions from Germany during WWII.

Good reading for anyone interested in the subject.

HawaiiMusikMan's photo
Tue 11/02/10 11:28 PM
I saw one in central Oregon over ten years ago. It looked a bit like this picture



You could tell it was huge and flying low but it didn't make a sound. I was with about five other people. We watched it for a few minutes before it flew out of view.

Ever since, I've been fascinated with the subject of UFOs. My belief is that they are most likely man made but you never know

FearandLoathing's photo
Tue 11/02/10 11:35 PM


F-117A maybe? When they initially started flying them in the early 80's there were reports of triangle shaped UFO's.

HawaiiMusikMan's photo
Tue 11/02/10 11:42 PM
Edited by HawaiiMusikMan on Tue 11/02/10 11:43 PM
Perhaps? I don't know a lot about the F-117A. All I know is that it appeared to be huge, flying low, and slow enough to be almost hovering without making a sound. After it flew out of view, there were more planes in the sky that night than I've ever seen there. It was a strange night


intelligenceissexy's photo
Wed 11/03/10 12:50 AM
Edited by intelligenceissexy on Wed 11/03/10 12:50 AM


Age of man about 160,000 years. Age of Universe about 13 billion years. Look how far we have come in 160k years. Imagine a species somewhere that came out a few hundred thousand or even a million years earlier.

String theory scientists believe its possible to travel faster than the speed of light. That being said its not impossible.

They haven't managed to demonstrate the string theory is true yet. It's a whole bunch of conjecture that, if they can just nail it together, could explain a lot.

We may have come a long way in 160,000 years, but we haven't changed the speed of light. And we probably never will. And even if we could, we couldn't travel at those speeds in a spaceship.

The only way we are ever going to see life on other planets, if it exists, is when we are prepared to send enough people in a spaceship to breed many, many generations during the flight.

(In other news, that leprechaun video made me LOL, so thanks for that.)

Jtevans's photo
Wed 11/03/10 12:54 AM
"UFO's"just seem fishy to me.they're supposed to be so advanced technology wise but yet the first reported sighting wasn't until the 1920's?


i don't get it.why has nobody seen any earlier than that?

s1owhand's photo
Wed 11/03/10 05:33 AM
every sighting is a ufo until it is identified...

:tongue:

so yeah, everybody sees them all the time.

EquusDancer's photo
Wed 11/03/10 08:59 AM

"UFO's"just seem fishy to me.they're supposed to be so advanced technology wise but yet the first reported sighting wasn't until the 1920's?


i don't get it.why has nobody seen any earlier than that?


We have older stories of them, but those have been tossed to the side as myths.

Think of Elijah's (?) chariot of fire that came and took him away - biblical reference.

Wouldn't surprise me if some of the stories of gods and goddesses in their chariots were myths of UFO's.

Countrydawn's photo
Wed 11/03/10 06:02 PM
you guys are great....thanks for the laughs! Until we know for certain there is nothing else out there I'm looking at stars.. ;)

talldub's photo
Wed 11/03/10 06:07 PM
Do Uninteresting Female Otters count?!

no photo
Wed 11/03/10 06:45 PM



Age of man about 160,000 years. Age of Universe about 13 billion years. Look how far we have come in 160k years. Imagine a species somewhere that came out a few hundred thousand or even a million years earlier.

String theory scientists believe its possible to travel faster than the speed of light. That being said its not impossible.

They haven't managed to demonstrate the string theory is true yet. It's a whole bunch of conjecture that, if they can just nail it together, could explain a lot.

We may have come a long way in 160,000 years, but we haven't changed the speed of light. And we probably never will. And even if we could, we couldn't travel at those speeds in a spaceship.

The only way we are ever going to see life on other planets, if it exists, is when we are prepared to send enough people in a spaceship to breed many, many generations during the flight.

(In other news, that leprechaun video made me LOL, so thanks for that.)


Quantum Travel - The ship doesn't move, it moves the universe (which becomes multiversal at this point) around it.

Completely theoretical I know, but...?

Lpdon's photo
Wed 11/03/10 06:55 PM
I used to live by Area 51. I saw some wierd stuff, but I doubt any of it was UFO's.

Atlantis75's photo
Wed 11/03/10 07:46 PM
Edited by Atlantis75 on Wed 11/03/10 07:51 PM

"UFO's"just seem fishy to me.they're supposed to be so advanced technology wise but yet the first reported sighting wasn't until the 1920's?


i don't get it.why has nobody seen any earlier than that?



(today, Kosovo)





17th century fresco of the crucifiction - Svetishoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta, Georgia.

Note the two saucer shaped craft departing on either side of Christ.





6,000 BC from Tassili, Sahara Desert, North Africa.

AdventureBegins's photo
Wed 11/03/10 08:00 PM
When I was a small child my grandmother handed me a pair of old navy gun binoc's. What she showed me was as large as the clouds over the mountains. (mountains were some 20 miles away and the clouds extended for miles - object must have been 10 or 15 miles in diameter - or so my grandfather said).

We were in California and the mountains were on fire. The fire departments could not contain it and had been fighting it for days.

The object was hovering above the smoke and small round things were flying out from under it.

Everywhere the small round things went the fire went out.

The fire department later said they had no idea how they got the fire under control.

Never did figure out what the thing was and no one ever said they saw the thing except my grandparents. (I quit saying anything cause all the other kids made fun of me).