Have you ever seen a UFO?

[CMT]

UFO's (Unidentified Flying Object) can be many things and there are many theories. Wondering if any DUers have ever seen one themselves and if so what they think it was that they saw. Jimmy Carter has claimed to have seen a UFO in the early 70's. Many people have.

[VermontDem2004]

1. How can you not believe in UFOs?

They exist, unindefinted flying objects exist, Alien space ships is different story though.

[rbnyc]

26. THANK YOU!

It really bothers me when people make that mistake.

[Loonman]

2. Two good friends of mine did

The incident was confirmed by an unrelated third party.

[ComerPerro]

3. Once I saw something in the sky

My friends and I looked up, but couldn't quite determine what it was. Therefore, it was a UFO

[trotsky]

4. Not sure.

Considering the size and age of the universe, I think it's virtually impossible to believe that we're the only intelligent life around.

But again, considering the size and age of the universe, it's highly unlikely that two intelligent species will ever have the ability to contact each other.

[Beer Snob-50]

5. Intelligent Life??

Have you seen the Presidents approval ratings?? LOL

[VermontDem2004]

9. I am unsure if there is life

If there was, in order for it survive it needs to be in the position the earth is from a medium sized star so it can be adequate light, and temperatures that are not to hot or not to cold.

[trotsky]

16. Only for carbon-based lifeforms that need liquid water.

But even if you put that restriction on life, consider that there are literally billions of stars in each of billions of galaxies. Even if earth is the proverbial "one in a million", there could be trillions of earths out there.

[VermontDem2004]

17. I guess so

But I am unsure because I haven't had proof either way that they do or exist or they don't exist.

[trotsky]

21. Same here.

But the odds in favor seem to greatly outweigh those against.

Sure would be nice to be able to talk to some advanced race who has experienced all the problems we're mired in, and solved them.

[FlaGranny]

18. Well, VermontDem, have you

been watching the Science Channel or Discovery lately? They have found life at the bottom of the ocean in complete, total darkness, living at temperatures of (if I remember correctly)about 240 degree Fahrenheit. Up until a few years ago, everyone said that was not possible. Now some are speculating that maybe that's where life started on planet earth. Scientists have had to revise their opinions and most think that water is way more important than light or temperature.

[VermontDem2004]

19. Interesting

I don't remember much from Science even though I got an 'A' from Earth Science, but the main reason why I am unsure is if I haven't seen proof either way. I thought life could only exist on a planet like earth, but after all where did life itself come from? The earth is in a great position to help maintain living organisms but the Moon doesn't have any lifeforms as far as I am aware.

[FlaGranny]

15. I'm with you.

I HAVE seen UFO's, two of them about 20 years apart. My parents saw one with my kids about 35 years ago. We saw them, they were UFO's, but they didn't necessarily come from outer space and they still puzzle me to this day.

I almost forgot, I saw two UFO's when I was a child, more than 50 years ago.

The funny thing about them is how different they were from each other.

The two I saw, at the same time, as a kid were pale, teardrop shaped and traveling north to south in broad daylight. They could have been weather balloons, but unlike any I've seen since. They were almost totally round with the teardrop in back.

The one my parents and kids saw looked like a star, but it danced around in the sky for nearly a half hour, zig-zagging, going in circles, and then shot out of sight.

The next one I saw at first looked like a star in the sky, but suddenly became very bright and shot off, seemingly straight up.

The last one (10 years ago) was 6 white lights in formation, four along the bottom and two on top (if you drew a line and connected the lights they would have made a hat), very, very far way, going much faster than an airliner, and sort of wobbling in motion, but traveling in a straight line. That was the weirdest one I've seen.

Last Thursday I saw one "identified" flying object - a meteorite. Although I've looked every night I saw only one, and that was when I wasn't looking for one.

I guess these objects will have to remain unidentified, but I sure would like to know what they are. Although I doubt they were from outer space, I keep an open mind. There COULD be a civilization somewhere that has found a way around the "speed limit." Even that, though, would not explain why there would be so many differences in the appearance of these things.

Is/was it all an hallucination? I don't believe that either.

(Edit:changed 40 to 50)

[ps1074]

6. No - but I've seen ghosts a couple of times

And I am not kidding

[CMT]

8. that fascinates me too

I have seen a ghost, but not a UFO. What was your ghostly experiences?

[ps1074]

10. It is a long story

I don't have the time to tell you right now since I am in a hurry but I promise I will post it here some time soon. It was the scariest thing I've ever expeienced.

[VermontDem2004]

12. Let me know when you post that experience

I would be much interested in reading it, I find it hard to believe in ghosts but there have countless ghost sightings and alot of times it is the same ghost, around the same place by multiple people.

[CMT]

14. yes me too

thanks!!

[FlaGranny]

20. I've had one ghostly experience

and it was probably an hallucination. My first husband died at a young age and shortly after his death, while I was lying in bed in that strange state between being awake and asleep, my husband whispered my name into my ear and I felt his breath on my cheek. Let me tell you, though, it scared me good. I've never been prone to hallucinations, but a stressed mind can do strange things, I guess.

[CMT]

22. that is a wierd state

to be in between consciousness and sleep--I've had a few scary experiences in that state too and ended up forcing myself awake.

[FlaGranny]

28. Yes, that state is much worse than REM.

That's where all kinds of strange things happen. One time, in that state, I thought I saw an extremely bright flash of light outside my bedroom window. I jumped up and tried to look out the window and bumpbed my nose on the wall. The window was actually several feet to the right. :-)

Another time as I was starting to fall asleep on the sofa I saw a huge semi truck bearing down on me. I've since found out I have sleep apnea, which can cause a lot of these sleep hallucinations, vivid dreams before you are actually fully asleep. With CPAP, though, they have disappeared.

[dbt]

7. Riding home from band practice one night in 1967

And it gets truly dark out in the sticks where I come from. Saw a lime-green ring of light off to the west. It hovered, pulsated, then twisted itself into a figure-eight before it disappeared behind the treeline.

There have been a very few others since then.

:freak:
dbt

[VelmaD]

11. Back when I was in college in Lubbock...

my evil-ex and I saw what could have been an experimental aircraft or could have been a UFO. We were walking back to my dorm from dinner. I love to try to spot the constellations so we were looking up and watching the stars when something went by overhead. It was going way too fast to be a commercial aircraft and the lights on it were different than anything either of us had seen before. (This means a little more if I add that he had been in Air Force ROTC and was a pretty could plane spotter.)

Anyway, it seemed to be really high up to begin with but then all of a sudden it seemed to turn and head staiight up. We tried to follow it's path but then the really weird thing happened. Much lower and closer there was this triangular pattern of red lights...like those running xmas lights. They looked like they were hovering right over my dorm although it was hard to judge the true distance. There was this whooshing sound and the lights disappeared.

We went in the dorm and I called my mom to tell her and he called his brother. Then we sat up all night talking about what it could have been and how neat if it really was a UFO and whether or not we would go if aliens ever came down and asked if we wanted a ride.

I'm so glad you asked this question. It's one of the few really neat memories I have anymore of that guy. :-)

[bmbmd]

24. I lived in West Texas (Levelland) for the first

forty-eight years of my life. Three years ago, after a late night ER visit, I was sitting in my back yard about three in the morning. A large, silent, black on black aircraft appeared from the northeast-around Anton. it was less that three or four hundred feet off the ground. It disappeared from view in the southeast, towards Brownfield, within seconds, making only a minimal whooshing sound.
My pilot friends think it may have been the SR 75 Blackbird, possibly from Holloman. Scared the snot out of me.

The Lubbock area is famous for unexplained night time visits.

[VelmaD]

33. The aliens seem to like Lubbock

Who knew? :shrug:

I still find teh rationalizations for the "Lubbock Lights" to be hilarious. Not sure which I like more - streetlights reflecting off of the irridescent feathers of migrating ducks...or "swamp gas". Hee. :-)

[bmbmd]

38. Lubock is overrun by Canadian Geese

and they do look spooky at night flying overhead in formation. One can usually tell that they are geese by their incessant honking.

[mw]

13. Looked up, saw strange lights.......

I realized it was a passenger jet, but didn't know if it was a 747 or L-1011. Therefore it was "unidentified". So it's a "UFO".

:D

[Zolok]

23. My then girlfriend and I

saw an odd half-lit object fly along for awhile and then seemingly float behind the screen of the Drive In movie we were at.
Pretty small beers (she did get me a good semi-fearful squeeze though)
and no it wasn't a sci fi double feature or anything (I think "Legally Blonde" was the film with some Disney flick as the lead-off) so there was no auto-suggestion going on.
What amde this creepy weird was that at intermission the line for snacks and the line for the lady's room were all a-buzz about "what that thing was that fly behind the screen".
I don't for a moment think we saw an extraterrestrial vehicle or anything....merely an odd aerial phenomenon.
The proximity of a civil airfield nearby is also suggestive, but I hasten to add we could discern no noise from this thing.
Coulda been anything...a plastic grocery bag that caught the wind and the light the right way.

[radwriter0555]

25. I believe they exist, by all means, but I've never seen one.. I would

like to!

[rbnyc]

27. You've never seen something in the sky...

...that you didn't know what it was?

[Tracer]

29. One night ...

... when I was a teenager, I was leaning on my bedroom windowsill blowing (forbidden) cigarette smoke out my window in the hope that my mother wouldn't notice the smell.

In the sky, over the woods at the end of the street, appeared a large round, glowing, orange object that moved quickly, but not at a high rate of speed, to the left. It was making a loud, buzzing sound as it moved.

It was so strange and out of any context that I could determine.

I told my parents about it the following morning, but they dismissed me and said that I must have been dreaming. Not!

About a year later, I came across a newspaper description of the same thing that someone in Maine had seen.

I carried this clipping around with me for years.

[slackmaster]

30. Fireball in broad daylight

I'm pretty sure it was just a meteor, but can never be sure exactly what it was.

[RandomKoolzip]

31. One of the biggest regrets of my life....

When I was eight, my dad had a bunch of friends over the house one night for a party, and as one of them was going to his car, he saw a string of colored lights in the sky. He freaked out, and told everybody at the party, including my dad and my brother. There were about fourteen people out on my lawn who saw the UFO.

I, however, was too scared to look at it, and cowered upstairs hoping the incident would end. Biggest regret of my life, as for the rest of my adulthood, I've been interested in UFO's and stuff like that.

[chaska]

32. It happened one night...

in the summer of '65, I think. I was about 8 years old. Me and the bro had just finished our baths and were getting ready for bed when when we heard a loud noise. We went out on the porch and could see that something was going on down on the corner from our house. We (mother, brother and me) ran down to witness there (along with at least a half dozen others) a craft hovering twenty feet above the intersection.

This UFO was the classic saucer shape, metalic, with multicolored lights all 'round. It was about 15 feet in diameter. It hovered for probably a few minutes and then ascended, slowly at first, and kept going straight up until we could no longer see it. I can't recall any blast from its acceleration or fumes or anything of that sort. I'm pretty sure there was noise and some minor wind force, all of which leaves me open to the possibility of the craft being of terrestrial origin.

[leftynyc]

34. Yup, in Sedona, AZ

New Year's Eve about 3 years ago (long before the drinking started). Thought it was a plane but it just stopped, hovered and then dropped behind the mountains. 4 of us saw the same thing.

[onebigbadwulf]

35. By sheer odds alone

I think a report said there were, statistically speaking, dozens of planets identical to earth.


All you need is liquid water. Cellular life can exist in extreme temperatures either direction, or imbedded within planets.

Some cells on earth only live in volcanoes - for example.

[Syrinx]

36. about 1982

I was driving my girlfriend home from school. We got to her house, and got out of the car. We were standing in her yard talking, and I happen to look up. I see something, I point up and say something like "What the hell is that?" It's a huge saucer-shaped object, with three lights on the bottom of it, each a different color. We watch it hover a few minutes. I tell her "Go get your dad." I knew her dad was interested in "paranormal" stuff. She runs in the house to get him. But while she's gone, suddenly it just zooms away, without making the slightest sound. It had been hovering quite low, I'd say four or five hundred feet in the air. I'm not saying it was an alien aircraft. I have no idea what in the hell it was. Therefore it was definitely a UFO!

[Cleita]

37. No, but I've seen a lot of spaced out aliens in my travels.

Incidentally, been to Roswell a couple of times. (Not voluntarily.) They do have a great Southwest cuisine restaurant in Roswell, but alas no UFO's.

[grannylib]

39. Several seemingly saucer-ish shapes with green lights flashing in sequence

hovering, moving straight up and down, and then zooming incredibly fast out of sight