Sounds like that has the makings of an interesting thread !
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Posted on 03/06/2013 9:31:29 PM PST by albionin
Wow. Just saw a real life UFO. Southern Colorado. It happened around 8:25 P.M. On the way home and I saw a bright orange light off to the east. It looked like the top third of a really orange moon rising very fast from behind a cloud except there are no clouds tonight and there is no moon. It pulsed slowly on and then off. I pulled over and got out. No sound. Looked to be, and this is my best guess, about 10 to 15 thousand feet up and elongated. Seemed to be between me and the Sangre De Cristo mountains which are 25 miles east. Looked to be 1/4 to half a mile long. winked out and then 3 bright orange lights appeared suddenly spaced a couple of miles apart and a little to the south of the first one and moving slowly south. They went out and then one large orange light with a flashing red light appeared way to the southeast. It pulsed on and off six times at a steady pace over a 15 second period hanging motionless and then went out and reappeared several miles miles farther south. It pulsed off and on one more time and then shot sideways at incredible speed and stopped somewhere near the New Mexico line which is about 50 miles south. My 13 year old son saw it too. It is a crystal clear night without a cloud in the sky and no trees to block the view. I know you can't take my word for it but maybe some other Freepers in Southern Colorado saw it too. Dang it was the strangest thing I have ever seen and I am 100 percent certain it was no plane or helicopter. Whatever it was it must have one heck of an inertial dampening system.
Sounds like that has the makings of an interesting thread !
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Yes just a few miles from the UFO watchtower in Hooper.
I read one time a fairly credible hypothesis that the lights in the sky in this area could be caused by geologic-static electricity processes in the rock of the mountain ranges. Similar to the lights that have been seen either before or after a major earthquake, although there is no large earth movement involved in this. Trying to find the reference again...
UFO propulsion is zero-inertia, that’s how they make interstellar travel look so easy.
I'm blushing and I'm not sure why. :)
Just saw them again tonight. Driving home with both my daughters a little after 8:00 pm. Got a much clearer view this time. A glowing amber colored oval with two brighter lights near the top side by side. Appeared, got gradually brighter and then faded. Immediately one and then another appeared off a little to the side. One was a little closer than the other but they were near where the first one was. I was almost home so I ran and got my camera with a 75-300 millimeter zoom lens and a tripod. Set it up at the end of the road and waited. About 20 minutes later it appeared again a good 40 miles away just above the mountains. I swung the camera around and had it in the viewfinder but it faded just as I hit the shutter button. It was the same disk with two round lights like the eyes on a frog sticking up above. I am going to be ready tomorrow night with a little wider angle lens. I will get a picture of these things and a video. This is too cool.
BTTT! :)
I looked to the sky tonight. Thought of my friend and thought of your sighting last night (and now again tonight.) Very neat. Hope you will get another “show” tomorrow night.
Seen one myself
I am glad you can be so sure. It must be nice to walk around knowing stuff for certain.
You tell that guy what he saw ! He is sure not as smart as you.
I saw a UFO once in Tucson- watched it for about 3 mintues absolutely motionless, and I know that for certain because it was right about the tip of a pine tree right in front of me. A bird flew by and distracted me for millisecond and when I looked back it was gone- and I mean totally no where in a perfectly clear sky?
Can you tell me what that was? I would really be grateful, thank you
OMG. It's an Unidentified Flying Apostrophe.
A lot depends on how close you are to it. In 1974, in Wisconsin, I had to stop my car because the darn thing was parked in the middle of a country road.
Now that would be something to see and no mistake! I called the planetarium and observatory at Adams State College in Alamosa and told them about it. Maybe someone with more knowledge can get a look at them.
By definition, a UFO is an "Unidentified Flying Object". Since neither you or the OP could identify what you were observing, you both saw a UFO.
The OP did not say an "extraterrestrial spaceship". Is that what you were assuming?
I never trust an account with lights.
Happened around the time the old -V- series was on TV. I was living in SoCal, just got off of work(2nd shift), once I got home I decided to get my mail(Apt.in Anaheim). On the way to my mailbox I happened to look up and see a series of orange(round)objects in a -V- shape, with another singular(but same type)object moving rapidly near the formation. The objects moved rather slowly overhead(E to W)then suddenly all appeared to bank left and sped up like a bat out of hell. I watched them until they faded in the distance(about 5 seconds).
Who knows what it was and who was flying it.
Are you missing any time? Any unexplained scars? :D :-)
I am 57 and have always been a doubter of UFO stories, though still liked to hear them. I live in the area of the Stephenville lights though did not witness them, only the jets afterwards. However, since that happened, I have had TWO sightings in my area.
I was driving from Comanche to Dublin after dark and had noticed what I thought was two planes that seemed odd in that they were flying parallel to each other. I continued to watch them. They were almost becoming imperceptable to the eye, when suddenly, in the same area of the sky, two huge lights just came on. In comparison to the planes, or whatever the first lights were, these were enormous! It was almost like two moons side by side. Both came on at the same time, and I had long enough to look closely, assure myself they were there and were not glare, and then at the same time.
During the next sighting, I was driving from Stephenville with my daughter, on US 377 going towards Dublin when we both saw it at the same time. Directly ahead in line with the highway we saw a line of lights, evenly spaced, but not very bright. . What struck us most was the size of it. There are very few planes flying in our rural area, but this would have been vastly larger than even a commercial plane & much, much lower. It looked to be directly over Dublin and the lights were on for several seconds, then went off, on once more for several seconds, then off again. We never saw them afterwards, and in what daylight there was left we were unable to see the body of any aircraft, only the huge string of lights, but from the first pulse to the second one it was apparent that whatever it is was making a slow, stationary turn towards the East. It would have had to be the size of several city blocks.
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