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Anyone seen a UFO?

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Whingey Tue 27-May-25 17:32:54

Looking out to sea at the end of the pier. 2 children with me who loved Care bears. A pink light appeared and slowly faded away. Wishing 🌟 children shouted

Labradora Thu 29-May-25 18:44:44

Never.
But I wish I had.

Ilovedogs22 Thu 29-May-25 17:26:40

Whingey

Naze not maze. Sodding auto-correct

😘😁🤗

123kitty Thu 29-May-25 17:08:16

Travelling to work by coach in the Oxfordshire countryside, between 1965-69, at around 8am. Some passengers noticed 3 silver/grey rugby ball shaped objects in the sky. As we passed a gateway we noticed a parked police car where two officers appeared to be looking at the possible UFOs.

Magenta8 Thu 29-May-25 13:43:31

I think I have, back in 1966, but I am not 100% sure.

AuntieE Thu 29-May-25 13:39:37

I have never seen a UFO, but I know truthful people who are convinced they had.

My speciality is ghosts, both of humans and animals.

farmgran Thu 29-May-25 13:16:09

I saw one a few years sgo when I was driving home at dusk. It was a large circular light hovering about by the hills. I couldn't stop to take a photo as I was crossing a bridge.

Grandmabatty Thu 29-May-25 12:20:14

Aveline we had a local councillor, now lord provost who championed Bonnybridge as the UFO centre of Scotland at the time. sadly, I have never seen any and I've lived in the Falkirk area most of my life

Notagranyet24 Thu 29-May-25 11:56:16

Twice, once in the 1980s camping in Wiltshire, DH and I observed a cylindrical craft in the sky at night. It had no lights and was flying low but silently. It circled the campsite and then headed away north. We both remember it.
The second time was on a regular flight from Morocco to the UK. A black cylindrical craft flew slightly below and to the left of our plane. Lots of people saw it and were calling out to each other to look. Either we overtook it or it vanished but lots of people asked the staff about it when we were leaving the plane in London but the staff brushed away questions. As someone else said, pilots often relate stories of strange things in the skies.
I remember hearing a BBC radio programme, some years ago which was a series of interviews with supposedly reliable people like policeman, EX-RAF etc who had seen UFOs and insisted that they were telling the truth.
Also, didn't President Obama allow the CIA (?) to release data about UFOs which were thought to be genuine sightings?
Have you seen one OP?

Aveline Thu 29-May-25 11:51:23

It was the Bonnybridge area the police superintendent was talking about.

Grandmabatty Thu 29-May-25 10:11:33

Yogitrees not in the Bonnybridge triangle? It was infamous in the 80s and 90s for UFO sightings

yogitree Thu 29-May-25 10:09:34

Yes, Central Scotland mid 90's while feeding my horses.

Allira Thu 29-May-25 10:05:35

nanna8

Seen shooting stars and meteorite showers but nothing unexplained. The night sky in some of the desert areas is phenomenal, a sight to see.

We forget how magical it is here in the UK, although we do have Dark Skies areas.
Years ago we went to an observatory somewhere in the Outback which had an astronomical telescope. It was a truly amazing experience.

Ilovedragonflies Thu 29-May-25 10:01:40

Back in the late 70s my then boyfriend and I were out for a drive near what was then Enfield, Middlesex (now classified as north London). We were heading back from Waltham Cross, driving down a windy, hilly road, alone on the road, when half of a very large, round craft appeared above us (the other half was obscured by the hill), hovered for a few seconds, then simply disappeared. We both looked at it, then each other and simultaneously said, 'Did you see that?'
No idea to this day what it was but we both believe we saw a UFO.

nanna8 Thu 29-May-25 06:53:14

Seen shooting stars and meteorite showers but nothing unexplained. The night sky in some of the desert areas is phenomenal, a sight to see.

NannaFirework Thu 29-May-25 06:34:52

I saw one when I was a teenager (65 this year) whilst walking near my home one night.
Very strange as we lived near Heathrow Airport, but it wasn’t a plane as used to seeing them day in day out - it came down really low, then disappeared.
It was not plane shaped it was circular.
I am still the laughing stock of my family as no one believed me, still don’t!

Allira Wed 28-May-25 20:42:22

Oreo

Which Care Bear is it Allira? My twins have one each, a fluffy green one Good Luck Bear and I think a pink one with a rainbow.They’ll end up on ebay at some point I bet.

A blue one so he's an Earthling.

Jaxjacky Wed 28-May-25 20:36:09

I spent many hours on hills in Warminster with a group I belonged to back in the 70’s looking for them. It was with a group called the Wessex Association for The Study of Unexplained Phenomena, WATSUP 🙂. We did see lots of odd things there and had many interesting talks on other occasions, but I don’t recall a definitive moment of sighting, I think collective hysteria played its part!

Oreo Wed 28-May-25 20:10:36

Pilots say they see all sorts of strange things, so I wouldn’t be surprised.

Whingey Wed 28-May-25 18:41:04

Naze not maze. Sodding auto-correct

Whingey Wed 28-May-25 18:39:30

Saw it in Walton on the Maze in the 90s

CBBL Wed 28-May-25 17:41:15

Pretty sure I saw one over Leeds some years ago. Working late in a Tower Block office in the city. I was preparing to leave, looked out of the window and saw a cylindrical object in the sky that appeared to be hovering over a building in the south of the city. There were no windows or other details on the object, which was a silvery colour.
The strangest part about it was the way it changed position. I didn’t see it travel at all, despite looking intently at it all the time. It simply disappeared from the area and re-appeared in a different location. It did this several times. I called colleagues to the window to witness this. The object gradually moved further and further away. Each person agreed that they did not see it actually travel each time it moved. We watched for a total of 20 minutes.

Aveline Wed 28-May-25 16:47:09

A retired superintendent of police told me that his squad had had to investigate an alleged UFO landing and certainly found very convincing evidence. It was all hushed up which really annoyed him.

GrannyGravy13 Wed 28-May-25 16:42:40

One of my closest girlfriends who I have known for over 45 years is convinced she saw a UFO when she was driving down a country road 30 years ago (District Nurse) no houses or street lights.

She is intelligent, and now a senior nurse, nothing will convince her it wasn’t visitors from outer space.

Oreo Wed 28-May-25 16:15:56

The truth is out there!

Mojack26 Wed 28-May-25 16:13:50

Yes I have twice! Totally inexplicable..even phoned airport 'nothing was flying'. Other was well documented as it was tracked by others right across central Scotland. Another I didn't see but was there and now live there. Check it out Dechmont Law UFO. Knew the ranger very sane down to earth mam