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Most boring UFO incidents thread

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The purpose of this thread is to offer some of the 'best' or most boring UFO cases that 'seem' to be explained by naturalistic explanations. I'll start by offering the 1976 Tehran UFO incident.

And then Roswell.
 
Mine (true story): When I was in college, a sleek black craft flew over the library at high speed. I turned the corner in time to catch sight of it. It collided with the English building and the wind pinned it there.

It was a Felix the Cat Mylar balloon. I'd thought it was much larger from my first quick glimpse.
 
Spektator said:
Mine (true story): When I was in college, a sleek black craft flew over the library at high speed. I turned the corner in time to catch sight of it. It collided with the English building and the wind pinned it there.

It was a Felix the Cat Mylar balloon. I'd thought it was much larger from my first quick glimpse.
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The devil you say! Nobody is going to believe that. ;)
 
I live near a general aviation airport.

You think I can be bothered to identify everything that flies by?

Nearly every flying object in my vicinity (and there are plenty) remains unidentified. :)
 
The Canadian Lake Windermere Firefly Incident was quite boring.

Apparently some bloke sucking on weed all night saw some fireflies and spent the next 30 years lying about it... If only the giant talking rabbit he had met as a child had told him it would happen, he could have been ready with a camera (or an empty jam jar) or something.
 
I saw a UFO once when I was a kid. It was a glowing orange cigar-shaped thing that followed my parents car while we drove down a winding country road one evening. It seemed to be keeping the same distance from us the whole time. There was no noise. I got a good look at it through the rear view window.

It was the underside of an airplane, reflecting the sunset.
 
The time I saw a UFO at dusk outside the gym. I had two witnesses to this far away fast moving light that would zip around making "impossible" course corrections, disappear and reappear at random, and stayed around for several minutes.... then we realized it was light reflecting off of the underside of bats that were chasing insects over the pool on the other side of the wall. Perspective is a fickle mistress.
 
I've listed a few of my experiences before. They have the following things in common: they were weird, they were unusual, and they all had conventional explanations. They were birds, ground fog, clouds, airplanes, searchlights, Chinese lanterns and the like. Sometimes I had to search pretty hard, or wait, to find the explanation.

The most recent incident was the Chinese lantern that floated over my house. I got video of it, but the video shows nothing but a flickering light against a dark background. A group of us saw it, and one member of the group explained what it was (she had been to a wedding recently, after which such a lantern was launched).

Also recently we had some fairly prominent sundogs that caused a stir, for about ten seconds, at least until we realized what they were.

And somewhat less common is that there are a glider airport and an aircraft museum nearby (featuring several older aircraft that still fly, including some WWII bombers), and we occasionally spot unusual aircraft in the skies.
 
I got a far more boring UFO story to tell. I was once standing on top of a mountain and absolutely nothing happened. Fin.
 
Well, one day I going back home, hearing some Sex Pistols tunes when I was abducted by aliens. They placed me at a room with a sexy female platinum blonde alien and forced me to have sex with her after greasing my body with some oily chemical substance. As proof, I brought back home one of her hairs, wrapped around my you-know-what.

You may be asking yourself "How the **** can this **** be boring? It has sex and drugs and rock and roll!"

Simple. It never happened. Just like the two UFO cases I blended to create this one. Presented here as "good", "compelling", "interesting", whatever, evidence by UFO enthusiasts.
 
It was a bright sunny day during the summer of 1974 (roughly) When it appeared.
My older Brother (15) saw it first, shouting "What the ...... hell is that?"
Following his pointing finger to the blue skies Me and a group of about 5 kids, nearly crushing our Beer cans, stood open mouthed (no change there then) in wonder at the sight of the inexplicable. It was bright red and cigar shaped, a long way up and travelling about airliner speed.
There were immediate guesses as to what it was, some daft some even dafter.

Biff, being the Brains of the gang, suggested that Concorde was known to change shape at supersonic speed. The colour was just the heat build up.
Who were we to question the Sage of whitechapel? Mystery solved we finished the Beers and went home.

We never spoke about it again and I hadn't given it much thought till now....It was just too boring.
 
One beautiful evening, Venus was shining in the sunset sky. My crazy friend Hans remarked in his wierd and wonderful Czecko-German accent, "May be it ist a yoofoh." It wasn't.
 
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