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In reply to the discussion: UFOs are in today's news again. Step up DUers. If you have had a sighting, lets us all know. [View all]intrepidity
(7,506 posts)It was the late 60s in So Cal. A bunch of us were outside, probably BBQing with neighbors. Saw something strange in the dusk sky, just hovering. A couple other conventional craft (copters) showed up after a bit, flying near it, seemed to be inspecting it.
Then it suddenly took off to the west. We all jumped in the car and headed towards the coast, where this thing was headed. When we got there, we watched from the bluffs as this *whatever it was* disappeared into the ocean (not over the horizon, but *into* the water).
It was pretty exciting at the time.
Years later, some UFO sightings book came out, and this same incident was apparently witnessed by a whole bunch of people who reported it. I hadn't realized until that book how widely it was seen, although I do recall we were not the only ones at Santa Monica watching it at the time.
I was just a kid at the time, but the memory is vivid and I've been interested in the subject ever since.
Those days are long gone. Now there are so many satellites and whatnot, plus bonafide military tech, drones, plus deep fakes etc that I can't imagine taking any sightings nowadays seriously. But back then.....