Saw me my 1st decent UFO

It would be interesting to conduct a psychological study to determine why this might be so. I have my suspicions that factors such as a fear of a conspiracy of UFO enthusiasts to destroy science and logic - and also a fear that their perception of reality (and perhaps even reality itself as they know it) might be overturned if UFOs were real - would play a large role in their thinking.
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This statement really posted the irony meter.
 
Yeah, you saw a real UFO from beyond the borders of reality as we know it. Those damn mainstream-science shills forced you to find a mundane explantion with their indoctrination campaign!
 
I saw a trio of lights pass westbound over my car while I was traveling eastbound on Hwy 290, during a rainstorm one night in 1996. They moved fast (faster than the westbound traffic), in a close, triangular formation, and appeared blurred by dint of the rain.

Fort Hood is some 70 miles northwest of Giddings, TX. The lights could have been a trio of military planes. They might also have been the landing lights of a low-flying passenger jet; in those days the Austin airport was in the north part of the city, some 40 miles behind my location to the west.

But to me they were UFOs! Because, you know, I haven't identified 'em yet. ;)

Then about three months ago, one night in Killeen (near Fort Hood), my wife and I saw two small-ish purple lights hovering "playfully" in the black air nearby. If the view was as close as it seemed, the lights were probably 50 - 75 yards away, and maybe 50 to 60 feet up in the air. They appeared to be about the size of tennis balls. This is my best guess given that it was night time in the Texas hill country, and the only visible object was a dimly-illuminated house or building, which sat in front of the hovering lights.

I say "playfully" because the lights were darting and circling in a mischievous or jaunty way; I don't know how else to describe it. My wife and I did not watch them long because while the scene was bizarre and the objects unknown, they had a human quality which made me think they were remote-controlled devices of some kind, like toy planes with purple lights mounted on them for nighttime fun in the backyard.

But to me they were UFOs! Because, you know, I haven't identified 'em yet. ;)
 
I remember when I first saw one. out of this *********** world man, literally moved faster than anything ive ever seen. me and my friend didnt really know what to think of it
 
Whats the point of this thread? To tell people you saw a helicopter? Really? Or are you trying to put words in UFO believers mouths?

"If a ufo believer saw this, they would think its a UFO"

How do you know that? You know how others interperate things? What a gift you have.
 
mushy said:
Whats the point of this thread?
To tell people you saw a helicopter? Really? Or are you trying to put words in UFO believers mouths?



"If a ufo believer saw this, they would think its a UFO"

How do you know that? You know how others interperate things? What a gift you have.
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I used to believe in them, which is identical to saying I really wanted them to be real. That motive would have suspended analysis at the point where my desire had been fulfilled. Guess that was the point.
 
mushy said:
Whats the point of this thread? To tell people you saw a helicopter? Really? Or are you trying to put words in UFO believers mouths?

"If a ufo believer saw this, they would think its a UFO"

How do you know that? You know how others interperate things? What a gift you have.
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What definition of UFO are you using?
 
Ive seen UFO 5 years ago on vacations. Surely it wasnt moon or venus.

First there were lights - blue, red, orange on the horizon. My first guess - storm is coming (as it was very hot day). But then this i saw this bright object flying over forest very fast.

Surely it wasnt any kind of aircraft or helicopter. Maybe ball lighting - but i dont know if they can travel so fast. Not to mention that this lights dissaperead along with UFO.
 
Saw a UFO yesterday. Except it wasn't actually flying and I was eventually able to identify it. And it wasn't really a single object, either.

It appeared to be a line of rapidly moving reddish lights. At first, I thought the lights might be from fireworks (this weekend is a great time for fireworks in both the USA and Canada), but the lights did not flare like fireworks, and they seemed to rotate in a line rather than falling in individual arcs. They also seemed to define a solid structure that was rather large.

The lights turned out to be from a set of broadcast towers. The illusion of a large solid airborne object in motion was due to the fact that I was in a car that was moving, and so the relative positions of the towers was changing with respect to my point of view.

It was yet another case of HEY, WTF??? Oh. I see now. Is that all it is?
 
The Mexican Government have finally released some brilliant military film footage...

Search YouTube - UFOs - FOX News - Mexican Air Force - CNN News - OVNIs‏

All governments have 1000's of hours of footage... but finally somebody is releasing it...
 
The exact opposite happened to me thinking I was seeing a helicopter when in reality it wasn't.
Later as I traveled down the mountain I got to see more, way more.
 
ethospete said:
The Mexican Government have finally released some brilliant military film footage...

Search YouTube - UFOs - FOX News - Mexican Air Force - CNN News - OVNIs‏

All governments have 1000's of hours of footage... but finally somebody is releasing it...
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Lol!!!

Campeche: Read all about it

How do you know they have 1000's of hours of footage if you haven't seen it?
If Campeche is the best example available, it adds up to nothing, nada, zero, nil.
 
Brown said:
Saw a UFO yesterday. Except it wasn't actually flying and I was eventually able to identify it. And it wasn't really a single object, either.

It appeared to be a line of rapidly moving reddish lights. At first, I thought the lights might be from fireworks (this weekend is a great time for fireworks in both the USA and Canada), but the lights did not flare like fireworks, and they seemed to rotate in a line rather than falling in individual arcs. They also seemed to define a solid structure that was rather large.

The lights turned out to be from a set of broadcast towers. The illusion of a large solid airborne object in motion was due to the fact that I was in a car that was moving, and so the relative positions of the towers was changing with respect to my point of view.

It was yet another case of HEY, WTF??? Oh. I see now. Is that all it is?
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I (almost) had a nice daylight sighting yesterday. I was having my lunch on my deck when I caught a flash of white in the sky. A good look resolved to two gulls (most likely Heron Gulls -- white bellies and grey wings). They where at a fair height and the sky was somewhat hazy such that their wings were just resolvable. If they had been further away or the sky just a little bit hazier, all I would have seen were two circling white dots.

I was that close to a conversion. :scared:
 
Rramjet said:
... strikes me as odd that the people in this thread (in particular) and the JREF (in general) seem singularly unable to identify Known Flying Objects (KFOs) when they see them. It also strikes me as peculiar that, unlike the majority of people, they seem to assign “UFO” as the first option.
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That is a really interesting observation. Have you ever seen what you consider to be some sort of alien craft?

j.r.
 
ufology said:
That is a really interesting observation. Have you ever seen what you consider to be some sort of alien craft?

j.r.
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There's nothing interesting nor indeed special about it.
Thousands of UFO sightings by people all over the world have been later identified as everyday mundane objects.

The fact that some people here, when they can't immediately identify an object they see flying in the sky, label it as 'Unidentified Flying Object' is surely all anyone can do?

Better that than to jump to the conclusion it's aliens from outer space in a flying saucer.
 
On July 2nd of the this year, around 8pm, I took the trash out and saw 5 red glowing lights in the sky, in a line or an arc, moving very very slowly and with no observable sound. They were not very close together at all, but it was obvious they were moving in formation. I just sort of guessed them to be helicopters but wondered what they were doing. It took a long time for them to pass by.

We're sort of used to the "pot sniffing" helicopters, which fly fairly low and quiet with little to no external lighting, in search of cannabis farms. But these were different. Probably not aliens :) but it set the neighborhood on edge, thinking it was some plot of the "gov-ment."
 
AmandaM said:
On July 2nd of the this year, around 8pm, I took the trash out and saw 5 red glowing lights in the sky, in a line or an arc, moving very very slowly and with no observable sound. They were not very close together at all, but it was obvious they were moving in formation. I just sort of guessed them to be helicopters but wondered what they were doing. It took a long time for them to pass by.

We're sort of used to the "pot sniffing" helicopters, which fly fairly low and quiet with little to no external lighting, in search of cannabis farms. But these were different. Probably not aliens :) but it set the neighborhood on edge, thinking it was some plot of the "gov-ment."
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"It took a long time for them to pass by"? How long? Long enough to get a camera and take a couple of shots?

Some years ago when the Fuji Blimp was in town, I looked out my window and there it was chugging by. A great chance for a picture I thought and went to fetch my camcorder. I took it out of the closet and find the battery is flat. I find my power cable and plug it into the camera and start filming. Total time involved -- about ten minutes from first sighting until it disappeared. I got a great few minutes (5-6) of tape. In daylight, in focus, on the horizon, passing between two telephone poles, below the clouds and with the word Fuji clearly visible on the side. No "UFO" film/picture I have ever seen was anywhere near as good. ;)
 
Gord_in_Toronto said:
"It took a long time for them to pass by"? How long? Long enough to get a camera and take a couple of shots?
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Oh definitely -- I watched them pass by for at least the length of the time it took the kids to set off two Roman Candles, and the neighbors were still watching when I got bored and went in. I never thought to get pictures, mostly because I assumed it wasn't aliens. I'm wondering now if it wasn't a National Guard weekend. The lights were headed in the general direction of our airport.
 
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