You know, I have a pretty amazing story...

[omegatripod]

True story:
A few months ago, near the end of June, I was lying awake on the couch at about 11:45 PM. Suddenly, I saw a weird flashing light outside the window, so I went to investigate. When I went into the backyard, and I saw it, my jaw dropped, my knees buckled, and my heart skipped a beat.
It was a real UFO. Since it was so dark out, I couldn't see it in detail, but it was somewhat cylindrical, with multicolored flashing lights at the front and back. It was going slowly, and it was making a eerie noise no human aircraft could ever make. It didn't sound anything like a stealth jet, and I don't live anywhere close to a government facility. It didn't notice me, though. It kept circling around, though since there are a lot of trees in my yard, it only did a half-circle, disappeared behind the trees, came back in 5 minutes, and repeated the cycle about 5 or 6 times. I regret to say I did not get any pictures or videos of it. But I am dead serious. I was always wanting to see a UFO, and I did. Then later, I thought that since I hadn't gotten any pictures or videos, nobody would believe me.
I swear on the good book that I saw a UFO, and I hope you guys believe me. Do you?

[rustisstrikesagain]

You probably did. Obviously its just your word but i know several people in your position and 9/10 times they are the most level headed people around.

My Uncle who is long long dead, i never knew him, said to my parents that he saw a UFO land in a field back between both wars and 'silver people get out and started doing things. he stood there in broad daylight watching them for a while then they got in their ship and zoomed off. He hada reputation of being as sober as a concrete pillar.

[Scifishocks]

I saw two when I was younger..
One time was on a deserted Sussex road and my Dad pointed it out.
He was ex RAF and he swore blind that no aircraft would behave the way it did. My step-mum told him to shut up because he was scaring us kids. Actually, I was fascinated, not scared!
Another time I was looking out of my bedroom window (I was about 10, I guess) and I saw two lights heading straight for each other. I watched because I thought, as they were heading straight for each other, it was two aircraft about to crash! Anyway, they joined up, almost in the middle of my view, and turned into one light. That light stopped dead still for a moment and then shot off to the left, very quickly, and disappeared.
I know UFOs are a bit of a laugh now... and the majority of sightings now seem to be in South America for some reason.
But there is something weird going on out there, whether it be man-made or not.

[Scifishocks]

Talking of weird stuff.
When I was a nipper, we had a baby sitter. I was about 10 I suppose but this lady was a friend of my stepmothers and she used to come over and look after me and my older brother.
She used to tell us stories. Lovely and interesting woman. In fact, I probably had a bit of a crush on her.
Anyway, where I lived (and she lived close by) was on the site of an ancient Roman mining camp (I found this out later).
She said that once that she was asleep in her house and she found herself wide awake all of a sudden.
Then she was aware that she could hear voices talking in latin (she wasn't aware, at that point, of the Roman connection).
She felt that they were talking about her, somehow, and laughing.
Then she realised that she couldn't move. She knew suddenly that she would have to... Something told her that, if she couldn't make herself move, she probably never would again. She had tunnel vision and the blackness was closing in.
With some effort she did move... and the voices faded away and her vision cleared.
I realise that there may have been some embellishment to this story when told to me, but I think something happened to her, although what it was I couldn't say.
The world really is a strange place.

[krakatoa]

I saw something to when i was 15, it seems that i was not alone, i was living in Montreal, it was very weird, but even if i saw this, i say, yes it was a ufo to me, and others that saw it, an unidentify flying object, only this.

I dont really believe in Alien, the principal reason is that we have enough trouble now in the world we dont need Aliens on the top of it. ;D ;D

I wish there is none, and i think there is none, but hey we can't be sure of anything in this world anyway.

Chantale.

[Luperis]

There are definately many things out there that we are yet to explain... even though many people would love to think otherwise.
I have to say I've had my fair share of odd experiences and seen some pretty interesting stuff (some of which seems perfectly normal at the time, and it is only much later, when talking about it to someone else, that you realise it was an odd occurance... for example, I believed that a 'UFO' I saw once was a satellite for years until I actually got into astronomy and saw what satellites really looked like in the sky - and they were nothing like the large, featureless, ball-bearing like objects I thought them to be! XD).
It certainly makes life a lot more interesting. ^^

[FALLINGSTAR]

Interesting stories! The only UFO I've seen [ apart from one or two unusual lights in the sky ] is when we had a party out the back when I was about 15. It was about 10 in the evening and dark, and as I was talking to my fathers friends wife what appeared to be a perfect triangle with 3 non flashing white lights in each corner appeared silently above the trees.

It hovered for a few seconds as if watching us then silently glided away behind the trees again. Most of the party just carried on talking and didn't seem to notice it and I'm sure I remember saying calmy "strange, what's that?" and the person I was talking too said "looks like a helicopter is it?" I'm familiar with helicopters and their flashing lights plus the fact that if it was directly above us and low it would have made a hell of a sound - so it was obviously no helicopter.

The odd thing is - I don't really know whether it did happen or not and when I asked my father if he remembered it - he just looked at me stupid. I'm sure it must have happened though - but it's one of those things that doesn't seem that striking when it happens but is really weird when you look back on it.

I also remember kids coming into school one day really excited saying they'd seen triangles in the sky [ and my mothers friend saw them too ] but looking back on that - they were most probably stealth fighters being tested before they were made public.

[poyks]

Some of you will have seen this before on other forums, but when I was 13 years old, there was a mass of UFO sightings around Market Rasen, then my whole family saw this great event one night.

We were listening to music, and at the time my Mother worked for a jukebox company, and I went out to the car to grab a record pack to listen to the new singles on the record player. On the way back to the house the whole sky lit up white for a couple of seconds, and in a field beyond the garden, there appeared a large orange downward facing dome, like the bottom of a soup dish. I called my Mum and Dad and my brother outside, and thankfully it stayed there long enough for us all to see it. It then jumped vertically straight up, and disappeared into the sky above. The strangest thing was the total lack of sound, all we heard was the sound of horses panicking in the field near to where it appeared.

An exact account of what happened appeared in the local newspaper a couple of days later from people around the same area, so we confessed to seeing the same thing.

My brother (holding my JW War Of The Worlds album, the photographer thought it would look cool! ) and I appeared in the Market Rasen Mail a few days later.

Here is the newspaper clipping.

[David Faltskog]

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[Scifishocks]

Ha!

[thorgrimm]

Two years ago in Minneapolis at about 9 pm I was watching television when I got a call from my friend and he told me to go look outside at what was going on in the sky.

When I got outside what I saw was an amazing sight. In the sky clouds from a storm were scudding in a southeast direction and somewhere above them a vast light show was playing out before my eyes.

What appeared, at first, to be lightning was rapidly flashing across about thirty degrees of the sky. With an uncanny regularity, by regularity you could almost set your watch by the streaks of light. After about ten minutes of this all of a sudden the flashes became increasingly rapid and more hectic, it reminded me of weapons fire I had seen as a US Marine.

This 'weapons fire' continued for about another fifteen minutes and slowly tapered off into nothingness. Now most folks would not call that 'odd' under most conditions, and they would be correct. For electrical storms are quite common around the world. Note my usage of the words 'under most conditions'.

Now I will relate the odd things about these flashes of light.

1. During the whole time not one sound was heard from the flashes of light. No peals of thunder, no rumbling, not even a small rumble. Nothing, it was totally silent.

2. As the clouds were moving from Northwest to Southeast, the flashes of light were heading in the opposite direction, from Southeast to the Northwest. Against the track of the storm.

3. Their regular intervals in the beginning. One thing about lightning is its unpredictability and never knowing where it will strike.

Being a science geek I know that with regular lightning, there WILL be peals of thunder since lightning is extremely hot and causes a rapid expansion of the air around it, and that is where the thunder comes from. Never in my life, or have read about, have I seen a lightning track in the OPPOSITE direction of its associated storm track. Lightning is one of the most unpredictable things in nature, and to my knowledge, cannot occur in regular and predictable patterns.

Now for my opinion on what I saw. I can say without hesitation what I saw was not a product of nature and it reminded me, when it first began, of some sort of test. Then when the flashes increased in tempo and became more sporadic in their occurance reminded me of weapons flashes. All together the scene brought to my mind of a weapons test that was interrupted by an enemy raid.

BUT this is only a wild guess, and the ONLY thing I can say with certainty is that was not a natural electrical storm, for I have seen many in my life. As to what it really was, I cannot say.



Cheers, Þórgrímr