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Have you ever seen a flying saucer or UFO? I have!

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Applegran Mon 31-Aug-20 10:03:35

This morning I had to call Mr Apple to look at the flying saucer I could see on the horizon. It looked stationary and hovered above distant hills. On reflection, I decided it should be called a UFO - it certainly was an unidentified flying object. Then it moved, very slowly, downwards - it looked like a barage balloon - does anyone remember these? I don't know what it really was. Have you ever seen something really inexplicable?

lefthanded Tue 01-Sept-20 16:23:39

Not a UFO, but something equally strange. About 60 years ago when I was on my way to school one morning I saw a mini tornado. It was about 6-8 feet tall, tapering from about a foot across at its highest point to nothing at the ground. As it moved it kicked up dust and gravel off the road. None of my friends saw it, and no-one ever believed me - but I know what I saw.

Annaram1 Tue 01-Sept-20 16:01:48

grandtante
I am more interested in your small black cube than the UFOs. I wonder if you saw some sort of spider? Pity you did not ask the professor.

Seefah Tue 01-Sept-20 15:19:29

My dad was a pilot, I was a pilot , and 45 years ago I watched something move fast across the sky ( too fast for any aircraft then) and then I watched it stop, reverse in a 90 degree curve and shoot off into the sky. We have nothing with those capabilities even now. My dad and I also saw a formation of lights quite low in the sky when I was young which moved slowly down the road , turned left, seemed to follow another road then shoot off. Two days later a man said a UFO had followed him down that road at the exact time we watched it. Again an aircraft could go that slow but could not accelerate that fast. We are so arrogant to think we know what’s out there. It’s taking millions of pounds and thousands of scientists worldwide to get rid of a bat virus.

TrendyNannie6 Tue 01-Sept-20 14:54:41

No I can honestly say I’ve never seen anything remotely like a UFO I don’t really know how I feel about these sightings! There’s lots of things we don’t understand out there, so I wouldn’t laugh at someone who has seen things, but then I believe in life after death, so who knows, they could look like the aliens from the smash adverts years ago, I doubt that very much though, ??

Jaxie Tue 01-Sept-20 14:27:35

I saw something very bright, moving very slowly in the sky one dark evening. I rushed to tell my husband I’d seen a UFO and he identified it as the International Space Station which was reflecting the sunlight. I am sure UFO’s which do not originate from Earth exist though.

GrandmaSkeggs Tue 01-Sept-20 14:19:43

Yes. When my DH and I were courting we saw what we thought was a craft going from left to right over a field. It had orange and white lights all the way round. A local Bobby also saw it and reported it in. It was picked up on radar and apparently it was going around in a circle which just looked like left to right to is us. It made the local paper too

MissAdventure Tue 01-Sept-20 14:05:58

I've only seen a black panther.
No UFOs. shock

RhysTaylor1 Tue 01-Sept-20 13:45:20

I've seen two UFO's. One very close by. Why do we think we are alone. Of course we are not.

grandtanteJE65 Tue 01-Sept-20 13:25:18

Well, I am one of those who have never seen a UFO, but I do remember the incidents Frankie mentioned. They were much talked about in the Glasgow area at the time.

I once saw a small black cube walk across a desk on its hooked claws. It was about an inch and a half tall.

I was sitting in my professor's study at University discussing my term paper with him at the time. I didn't feel I knew him well enough to ask if he had seen it too.

It had absolutely no connection to my term paper, which dealt with the varying interpretations of the story of Abraham and Isaac in Genesis, in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

To this day I have no idea what it was. It felt real and not like an optical illusion.

willa45 Tue 01-Sept-20 13:24:23

In early 1970s, we were living in Caracas, Venezuela. Our apartment had a terrace with a view of the city. My DH and I were standing outside on a clear night and we saw what looked like three unusually bright stars. To our amazement, the three began moving as one and traversed the sky from one end of the city to the other, in seconds. We stood in disbelief as this strange triangle of lights kept zig zagging across the sky, before disappearing behind our building. We ran to our neighbors next door whose apt. faced the other side. They laughed at first, but then we went outside and they saw it too. To this day, I can't explain what we saw. Has anyone ever seen anything similar?

Saggi Tue 01-Sept-20 13:21:38

Question..... why do beings from outer space visit us from millions/billions of miles away.... just to be ‘spotted’ by a loony...then fly straight back to their planet? Answers on a pin head please.

Soniah Tue 01-Sept-20 12:53:22

I've seen more than one. In Hampshire about 40 years ago we saw some very strange lights in the sky, three of us saw them then next day it was reported in the paper over 200 had seen them and there was no explanation, then another time in Northamptonshire I was going to run an evening class and driving in country lanes in broad daylight when I saw what I thought was a Stealth plane , big, black, triangular with three lights underneath, huge. I stopped the car to look and realised there was no sound, got scared and shut the car windows ?then another appeared suddenly next to the first and then both shot off, I blamed the American airbase

Lynmary Tue 01-Sept-20 12:39:29

I saw what I believed to be a UFO when I lived in Hampshire in the 1970s. It was early evening time and it was made more obvious as the sun was shining on it on one side. I looked for as long as I could follow it, which wasn't long. That said, I do believe there are UFOs out there; simply explained, if we are sending "metal" up into the skies and beyond, why shouldn't someone else somewhere out there be doing the same thing! Simple as that to me! I'm sure we are not the only "humanoids" living in the Universe given it's perceived size.

halfpint1 Tue 01-Sept-20 12:23:17

Bonfire night, France, English family outside enjoying the
English tradition along with Grandparents over for the birth
of new baby.
Google 'UFO France, November 5th 1990

Millions of us saw it but no explanation or validation was
ever given. I have never doubted they exist since that night!

Certainly overshadowed our fireworks!

moggie57 Tue 01-Sept-20 12:22:11

The first unknown object is the bible.they think it might have Been a comet.

mrswoo Tue 01-Sept-20 12:14:20

I once heard a story, which I believe to be true, of an airline pilot who saw a UFO from the aircraft he was flying. It came quite close to the plane and he was able to take a photo of it. He then radioed the control tower to alert them of what he'd seen and that he had taken a photo.
When his aircraft landed he was met by "security officials" who confiscated his (pre-digital) camera. He later got the camera back - minus the film.
So yes, I do believe UFOs exist and that more than one airline crew member has seen one.

CBBL Tue 01-Sept-20 12:05:55

Yes, I believe so! I didn't think this at the time. I worked in Leeds and my office was in a very high building (14 floors). Working late one evening, around 7.00pm, I went from my office to an adjacent one, and saw an object I couldn't identify. Shaped like an advertising balloon, but completely plain and silver in colour. It was just hovering. I thought it might be on a tether of some kind, even though I could not see one. As I stood and watched it - it suddenly disappeared. I looked round at the the scene - the building had huge windows and looked out over the city for miles. I spotted the same object again, simply hovering over a different building in a different area of the city. I watched again, and called some colleagues to the window to see it. For a second time, the object just "blinked out" and re-appeared in a different place. This happened five times while we watched. The most interesting thing was the way in which no-one saw the object travel that I remembered distinctly. It moved position without anyone seeing it do so. I stared hard at the cylinder shaped object, not taking my eyes from it, and yet it simply disappeared and then re-appeared somewhere else. It was only later that I decided it must be a UFO. The Cylinder was silver coloured, slightly shiny, with no windows, no lettering, nothing. Completely smooth, no fins, nothing to identify it. The manner in which it moved was the most remarkable thing!

quizqueen Tue 01-Sept-20 12:00:42

Seeing a UFO is number one on my bucket list. In general,
I find believers like me are the ones who never see them!

sarahcyn Tue 01-Sept-20 11:56:33

Is anyone else reading this thread and thinking "it's so unfair, why haven't I ever seen a UFO???"

Harmonygranny Tue 01-Sept-20 11:53:54

Following the U.S navy video of unidentified craft released in June, there have been articles published by the New York Times confirming its authenticity. The respected journalist Leslie Kean is worth listening to on this subject.

Baguette123 Tue 01-Sept-20 11:39:33

@Frankie51: I think you did see something genuine but the documentary was the cover up, not the other way round. Why kill cattle to cover up military testing? The cattle mutilations still go on.

MiniMoon Tue 01-Sept-20 11:33:39

My mother and I were walking to visit my grandma. We were puzzled by a bright light just above the horizon in the south west. It was a summer evening, but it wasn't a reflection. It moved very slowly to the east, stopped and moved slowly to the west. We were certain that it wasn't an aeroplane or a helicopter.

We never did find out what that light was, but it was certainly strange, and remained a talking point with my mother and I over the years.

henetha Tue 01-Sept-20 11:33:29

I've definitely seen something which I couldn't identify. About ten years ago, walking with some friends in the countryside I saw a bright silver object, or light, travel very fast across the sky and then it simply stopped high above us and disappeared.
There is probably a simple explanation.,, but..... confused

Baguette123 Tue 01-Sept-20 11:30:08

They are here and have been for years. It’s naive to think the universe exists just to serve humans on earth. I don’t particularly feel comfortable with this but am open minded enough to accept there are things we don’t know about. I firmly believe there are people who do know and deal with this reality daily. Check out Paul Sinclair’s You Tube channel, ‘Truth Proof.’ He is really down to earth and always looks at the practical side of sightings first. There’s some weird stuff going on out there which will become common knowledge in years to come.

Nannan2 Tue 01-Sept-20 11:28:40

This is a wind up right??