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

Years ago I was in the woods with a friend (don't ask) when I saw a glittery silver ball move in an arc across the sky. No idea what it was and left me in awe.. .a magical night!

My late brother claimed to have seen an alien craft one evening in South Africa. It landed in a field near enough to be seen by him and he claimed that some small beings emerged and looked at him, and then went back inside and the craft flew off at lightning speed.

I believe that some sightings may be of secret planes being developed by America but of course they deny this. The FBI and other departments there are said to be firm believers in UFOs. I believe in them myself, and hope to see one before I pass away. Intelligent beings from other galaxies could have developed means of transporting themselves to Earth and other planets just to see what is going on. They don't seem to interfere with us, although there are people here who say they could have helped in the past to build enormous structures such as the Egyptian temples and places in Mexico which would not have been possible many thousands of years ago.

Do not close your mind to the possibility that other planets could be inhabited by races far superior to our own. Do you honestly believe that of the many many planets in the universe ours is the only one where life exists?

One evening years ago I called my ex ( very skeptical person) over to look at a strange set of lights zig zagging in formation backwards and forwards right across the skyline. We watched for several minutes until the lights just vanished. We lived on a hill near to a couple of air bases, one of which is a base for spies. It was pre social media and it wasn’t until some days later I heard others had phoned the authorities to report sightings. I have no idea what it was but I will always remember that night..

Yes we have some years ago. I didn't think there was any point in reporting it or telling anyone about it because of what some people might think as we see on this thread.
I dismiss lights in the sky as they could be anything, but an actual craft that can manoeuvre upwards and sideways at such amazing speeds in completely different. We were making a 250 mile journey at night that usually takes about 4 hours. It was very dark and no other traffic around, my wife asked me what it was hovering above us. I took my eyes off the road to see a huge craft. Everything went so dazzling bright my only concern was to keep driving straight but couldn't . We were about one hour into the journey home when this happened and the next thing I knew we were parked outside our house. It was about one hour after we started our journey which of course is impossible. We never talked about it as we were both in shock. The following morning I went to the car to find all four tyres were burned out and had to ring a garage to tow the car in for new tyres. I didn't know how or what to say to explain that. Crazy? Yes it is. All I can say is that it really happened. How, or who or why I will never know.

I've never seen one but I'd love to. Do they exist who knows. If we can put people into space we can't rule it out . I loved your comment lewie

As a child growing up un the 1950s and 60s in Northern England I had a strange one winters evening. I heard a loud rumbling outside and found my parents on the doorstep looking at a the underside of a large craft hovering overhead. It was massive and covered the whole width of the street. It looked like the craft from the recent Armageddon film. All the neighbours were out and a police car turned up. The pice were at a loss and were ringing the nearest air force base. The craft hovered for 5 minutes then flew off. There was a report in the local paper, it was described as an unknown craft. Everybody called it a UFO. There were a few sightings round this time and the area became popular with UFO spotters. I looked up the back copies of the newspaper recently but the one for that day had gone missing from the local library as had the British Library copy.
I saw a documentary 2 years ago about the development of stealth weapons by the US during the cold War. Some military personnel claimed an elaborate hoax was played on the public, to cover up the tests. Dead cattle, alien abductions and UFOs were part of the plot. They tested a lot of the craft over certain areas of West Yorkshire where I lived (the Ilkley Moor/Keighley/Halifax area). I felt quite annoyed at how we were hoodwinked as I felt I had genuinely seen a UFO.

One dark evening I was driving along the main road when suddenly above me to the right there was a stream of orange lights on a downward trajectory. It looked as though some kind of small aircraft was crashing from the sky. There was a car in front of me and it braked to a standstill. I stopped behind it and then suddenly just above the field on the left, whatever it was tilted through 90 degrees, there was a whoosh of green smoke and it disappeared. Ten years on, my brain still can’t process what it saw and annoyingly the car in front raced off, so there was no chance for a discussion. So, in answer to your question, I think there might be.

Speaking as an extremely practical, least fanciful, and no-nonsense person, I must post that, yes, I did see two things I cannot explain. Bit complicated to write but I can still picture this in my mind's eye.

In car. Turned off A.41 towards home at Aston Clinton, happened to glance towards our children's little school and there, way above in the sky and small enough to be impossible to see clearly but sharp enough to be noticeable, I saw something unlit (not shiny), and stationary. Didn't think much at first, as assumed a plane at the kind of angle where it's difficult to see travel and direction. Looked back; still there, looked again just in time to see it shoot away upwards. Never saw anything move in that fashion before, nor since. To clarify, all this happened in the short time I drove (very slowly), from the main road then past the school. Still creepy to me.

The only other time I've seen anything remotely unusual was when we lived on the side of a Herefordshire hill, perched up high and overlooking a long stretched out valley. Just chanced to look at the sky in time to see an oval light, massive, in the sky over the valley. It quickly dimmed to nothing. It was way too big to be plane lights, fireworks (it was broad daylight), a flare, lightning, or any other day-to-day cause. It was eye-shaped and to this day I still joke that I have seen Gods' eye. I imagine this was what is known as fireball. Similar pictures on google images.

Many years ago, I thought I might have seen something... It was 3 lights in a long triangle, then one of the 'back' corners (can't remember which) seemed to move forwards, to take the lead as it moved off in a new direction.

Driving to work one day, I saw a bright ball of light travelling fast, in straight line, not that far above the horizon. I stopped car and watched it until it disappeared behind a hill. When I got to work someone said it was probably a satellite caught in the sunlight. Further enquiries did not turn up an explanation.
Friend’s late father was in air traffic control until he retired. Many years after he retired he admitted to her numerous alien UFOs being sighted by him and his colleagues, including near miss collisions with our aircraft. All instances were logged and placed on file. Many sightings were apparently reported in by pilots and flight crews and remained a mystery.

Walking down a hill early one morning I saw a blindingly bright shining object in the shape of a 8 on its side coming towards me. As it flew over my head it turned out it was nothing but the landing lights of an airliner coming in to land. Not everything is as mysterious as it seems!

I was at sea for thirty years and I have seen some amazing sights in the sky, and in the seas, including water spouts, tornadoes, both northern and southern lights [Aurora Borealis and Australasis] but never anything that, upon reflection and discussion I could honestly say was ‘unexplained’ however, I would be delighted to be proved wrong.

What I can say, after visiting almost 90 countries is, that there are many weird and wonderful people out there and many of them firmly believe that we cannot be alone in the universe.

If it is flying and we don’t know what it is, is unidentified, hence UFO.

Petunia you are playing fast and loose with the word intelligent in connection with the words human beings!! Lol. We are pretty crazy to have figured out how to end the planet we live on either through nuclear weapons (there are no winners once those buttons start getting pushed) or abuse of our planet before we can at least escape from it!!
As for UFO’s yes I have seen a couple in my time. If it’s flying and you don’t know what it is then it is an unidentified flying object until such times it has been identified. Some things never get identified but we shouldn’t jump to the conclusion it contains little green men.

Yes A few years ago I saw some lights in the sky when I was out walking my dog before going to bed they looked like the were playing tig I ran home to get my husband to see them when he came out they were over the house moving very fast darting over the trees at the side of my home very strange and quite unnerving. I live in a very small village 20 miles away from the nearest airport.

Lewie and Aepgirl... love your comments!

I am sure there are other intelligent species living on other planets. We humans are rather naive if we think that we are the only ones living in the Universe. Can't help but wonder what 'they' are thinking when they observe the mess we have made here on planet earth. I have seen a couple of 'craft' in the distant skyline, an especially bright one on New Years Eve some years ago... I live in Edinburgh and I think they might have been looking at the huge firework display. I think if it was just one person seeing something it could be said that they might be mistaken but when several people see it, how can one say they were all wrong?

I think it’s very possible that another planet could have more intelligent life than Earth - however, that’s not difficult when you listen to Piers Corbyn (Jeremy’s brother) on ITV This Morning.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is the fact that it has never tried to contact us.

Ive never seen a UFO but I wish I could. With a universe that is infinite and subject to millions of possibilities, how sad if we are the only planet to have intelligent beings.

Thought I saw one when I was about 13.
My father called the police - all reports are apparently taken seriously. They asked exactly what I’d seen, what time and roughly where, etc.

The Pentagon released footage recorded by Navy pilots of UFOs-

Airline pilots have gone on record indicating that they too have seen UFOs-

sparklingsilver

"Have I ever seen a Flying Saucer"

Yes, the day I threw one across the kitchen when the cat got under my feet!!!

That’s not what I said.

A ufo is an “unidentified flying object”
That could be anything. It doesn’t necessarily mean it’s aliens.

The US released footage of unidentified flying objects in June.