Have You Seen a UFO?

[TwistedSage]

NM at night driving in between Las Vegas and Raton. Wife and I saw a shooting star that seemed to last and both said oh wow that ones lasting a long time, then it changed direction and went out of sight very quickly

 

[beagle001]

I saw something similar to this one night coming home from glassing for bucks on the farm.
Seemed to be anywhere from 150-350 feet off the ground and was as close as (what appeared to be) 200 yards from me before it drifted off.

 

[LopeHunter]

Was 18 and parked down by the Missouri River beyond both sets of flood control levees. Very dark and around midnight. Just enjoying the moonless night sky laying in back of the truck bed when I noticed something was zooming up from the horizon headed from south to north and way faster than a typical jetliner or even fighter aircraft, assuming were at a reasonably high altitude. There is an airbase a few counties over so figured was a flyboy coming in low. No noise, though, and usually can hear those fighters a long way before and after approach overhead. I pointed out the aircraft to the girl I was with and just then the aircraft made a turn to west and there was no curve in that turn. . The dang thing just changed directions and went over the horizon. Only thing I can figure was two flyboys and one killed the lights n their plane just as the other flipped his on as they intersected at slightly different altitudes. No blinking lights like expect on commercial flights. On the good side, no unaccounted lost time on our clocks.

 

[blueridge]

Yep. 7/4/95. Watching a July 4th fireworks celebration in a high school football stadium just north of Raleigh, NC. Just outside the stadium a big bright light appeared just above the tree line past the end zone to the left. Looked to be just a couple hundred yards away, maybe 150 feet up. Thought it was a big light on a helicopter but didn't make any sound like you would hear from a helicopter if it were that close. Hovered for maybe 10 seconds, then shot off horizontal at a high rate of speed out of sight. The weird thing was lots of people saw it and couldn't explain it and all felt a little shocked and confused by it, so we didn't even talk about it further, just kind of left it alone and went back to what was happening on the field. (Wasn't a firework, if that's what you're thinking. Was way too big. Was before the show. Was clearly a light, not a burning ball. The fireworks were set up at 12 o'clock, this entered at 2, hovered at 3, then rocketed straight along the horizon.)

I can't remember how it came up, but last week I was talking with a guy who worked with Mac Brazel's twin sons up in Alaska back in the day. Brazel was the rancher central to the Roswell incident. They had told him that the military and govt agencies put quite the squeeze on Mac to say publicly what they wanted him to say. He was an obstinate old codger and couldn't care less.

For what it's worth.

 

[wytex]

Yep , while spotlighting black footed ferrets. A fiery ball of light that moved vertically from near ground to above the ridge line. Was witnessed by a G&F supervisor, Biologist and found out later by a good friend of mine and another gal from many miles away but opposite side of the same ridge. Me, the spouse and toddler son were in the truck, closest guy keyed the radio and asked if we could see what he was watching, we all said yes and the Biologist called it a night for all of us.
I don't camp in Shirley Basin anymore, lol.

 

[gouch]

I have seen nine UFO’s. I am not saying I have seen an alien spaceship because that would require “identification” and it would no longer be an unidentified flying object. The first time I saw a UFO was when I was 11. I was all cozy in my sleeping bag next to my dad in the back of his pickup. I was right at the point of falling asleep when my dad poked me and asked “do you see that?” I honestly said no since my eyes were closed. He angrily said “ Dammit, look up there.” There was a light about the size and brightness of a middle of the road star only yellow. It was moving slowly from west to east. We watched it for about ten minutes until it was directly over head where it just faded out.

The second was the next summer. My parents, my oldest sister and I were all in the front yard around sunset when something, It’s hard to call it an object because it didn’t seem solid, flew from the horizon to the north to the horizon to the south in probably 1 to 2 seconds. It was green and looked opaque and not like a solid object. I couldn’t say how big it was because I couldn’t tell how high it was but it was higher than the mountains and seemed quite large. My parents didn’t see it but my sister did.

The third was when my wife were newlyweds and we were walking westerly on a clear dark winter night. Suddenly towards the horizon we saw a bright undulating orange light. It looked exactly like a large fire looks from several miles away. It burned for a minute then started to fall. It was rotating as it fell so we could see it was only burning on one side. A fairly dim yellow light remained in the spot the burning object originally fell from. Assuming it fell at the standard rate and given the time it took to fall out of sight it had to be falling from very high and it had to be quite a ways away. I was about seventyfive miles from the ocean and I guessed it was probably well out over the water. After it disappeared from sight the yellow light seemed to rise up until it faded away.

Next was on the 4th of July about 30 years ago. Around noon I went into my back yard and saw a black object in the sky off to the west. It was shaped like the letter V with the point pointing towards me. My first thought was a hang glider because there is a mountain to the southwest where people like to jump off but I have never seen a hang glider out over the valley. I ruled that out as it kept coming slowly towards me in a straight line and was rising the whole time. I got my binoculars and as it got closer and closer It got higher and higher until it was so high that I couldn’t even see it without the bino’s. Shortly after it passed overhead I lost track of it but I watched it for a good 15 to 20 minutes.

While hunting I sit at night and watch the stars. I like watching the satellites drift by. One night I saw a very bright satellite coming from the north I watched it until it got directly in front of me when it turned and disappeared over the mountains to the east. Satellites don’t change directions.

A couple of years ago I walked out into my back yard and immediately saw an extremely bright star in a spot where no bright star should exist. It seemed to be moving very slowly but if you look at a star too long it will always appear to be moving. So I decided to move a little to where I would be looking through tree branches and would have a stationary object to compare it to but when I looked back up it was gone.

The last three were last winter. I was sitting in my hot tub in the dark before dawn as I did every morning. The stars were all in their normal location as usual except off to the west where there normally was one bright star but this time there were four stars. Three bright and one dim. Then I noticed that three of them were moving to the south very slowly in formation. First the dim one just disappeared then the lead one disappeared, then the third one disappeared.

 

[dirtclod Az.]

And the fourth one?

 

[gouch]

And the fourth one?

4th of July 30 years ago.