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Just saw an honest to goodness UFO
Me

Posted on 03/06/2013 9:31:29 PM PST by albionin

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To: Kirkwood

True. And it happened really fast. Maybe the whole thing lasted 45 seconds.


41 posted on 03/06/2013 10:31:48 PM PST by albionin (Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and)
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To: albionin

I had a similar thing happen to me about 30 years ago (in PA). Several cars pulled over to watch this thing in the sky... no noise at all, odd movements, lights, and so on.


42 posted on 03/06/2013 10:32:16 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: albionin

You and Russell Crowe! Go to the dailymail website and check out the pictures he took with his cell phone. Tell us if they look similar.


43 posted on 03/06/2013 10:36:20 PM PST by Amberdawn
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To: albionin

sounds like the same thing Russell Crowe took picture of several days ago


44 posted on 03/06/2013 10:39:24 PM PST by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: albionin

I believe you, I saw one my self when I was a teenager many years ago.


45 posted on 03/06/2013 10:41:35 PM PST by Eye of Unk
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Only one I saw was in Northern Nevada in the 90’s. A buddy and me were camping on the north east corner of pyramid lake on the shore. To the west above the “pinnacles” (prolly 8 miles away) on the north west corner of the lake I noticed strange lights hovering around, doing sudden zig zags, and all sorts of impossible looking maneuvers. It was only a few hundred feet off the ground. The lake is surrounded by mountains, so it is fairly easy to judge distance and altitude. I watched it in silence for a few minutes dumbfounded (I guess the imbibed substance starting with an L and ending with a D), didn’t help much, but my vision was confirmed when I looked at my friend, and he looked at me, and we both said simultaneously “Are you seeing what I’m seeing?”. My original theory was that perhaps it was a model helicopter (or perhaps an emergency helicopter from the hospital, people used to be allowed to camp there, and it was very possible for drunks to fall off the very tall rocks). It would be interesting landing there. The emergency helicopter was more likely as a model would have to be pretty big to appear that substantial from that far away. The other theory is that the atmosphere above a lake like that can refract light due to temperature differences between the air and the water, so things that appear in the sky can actually be on the ground, and it could have been a car approaching the pinnacles. The show was cool though.


46 posted on 03/06/2013 10:43:28 PM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: steve86

My Dad saw UFO over Korea while flying mission in 1951, he was a fighter pilot and certainly knew the state of aircraft technology and was known or unknown or within the bounds of known technology

To avoid being interrogated or grounded, he never told anyone except my Mom, who waited 50 years to tell me


47 posted on 03/06/2013 10:45:55 PM PST by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: Sequoyah101

Me first, pick me, pick me.


48 posted on 03/06/2013 10:46:19 PM PST by MaxMax
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To: Amberdawn

No it didn’t look anything like that. At first I thought it was an orange colored moon rising from behind a cloud. Picture the top third of the moon rising up really fast and then dropping back down just as fast. That is the best way I can describe the first light.


49 posted on 03/06/2013 10:49:13 PM PST by albionin (Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and)
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To: albionin

About 10-12 years ago i had a good friend tell me He was absolutely convinced he saw a UFO the night before, Him and another friend were out cat fishing on the charles River when they saw this Lit-up triangular shaped object as clear as day in the night sky.
As far as my friend Gene was concerned he saw a UFO.
I was thinking yea ok whatever......

A couple of days later i’m talking to another friend Eric who never met Gene tell me the same exact story about the same triangular UFO that him and another guy Bob i knew witnessed on the same night.
Now i’m starting to get a little freaked out....

Who know’s.....


50 posted on 03/06/2013 11:03:11 PM PST by mowowie (e-ellected.)
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To: albionin

Your description is a strong match for the refraction of sunlight around the curvature of the Earth due to a combination of clouds and high altitude atmospheric densities. The orange color suggests the sunlight has been shifted from yellow to orange by its passage through the thinner high altitude atmosphere. Red light results in the lower and higher denisty layers of the atmosphere. Slow and rapid changes in position and apprent speeds result from changes in the angle of refraction through the atmospheric layeers, clouds, noctilucent cloud layers, and mirage like reflections. Aircraft navigation lights are sometimes reflected eerily across much greater distances than normal by the same extraordinary atmospheric conditions which refract sunlight and moonlight around the Earth’s curvature.

In somewhat different circumstances, orange ball lightning hovers, bobs, and darts around in the air, around objects, and even through towers and buildings.


51 posted on 03/06/2013 11:11:44 PM PST by WhiskeyX
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To: albionin
downing
52 posted on 03/06/2013 11:12:10 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper (RETURN TO MECCA [http://youtu.be/zWQkaDUCJ_Y])
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To: albionin

Well, I checked the most recent reports of fireballs. Nothing reported in your area:

http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball_report/?report_status=pending

Hmm... Checking MUFON...

http://mufoncms.com/cgi-bin/report_handler.pl?req=latest_reports

Nope. Not there.

You need to file a report with MUFON.

Cheers!


53 posted on 03/06/2013 11:13:06 PM PST by DoctorBulldog (Obama sucks. End of story.)
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To: albionin

Oops! Forgot to give you the link to MUFON’s form for reporting your sighting:

http://www.mufon.com/reportufo.html

Cheers!


54 posted on 03/06/2013 11:16:02 PM PST by DoctorBulldog (Obama sucks. End of story.)
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To: albionin

An Orange colored moon is not an aircraft.

I am not saying you didn’t see something but it probably wasn’t a space craft and if it was a space craft it came from this planet


55 posted on 03/06/2013 11:16:39 PM PST by Fai Mao
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To: albionin

Were you west of the Sand Dunes? There’s been a lot of weird things happen around there (Music Pass area) over the years.

Can you elaborate on how you figured the size of the object? How were you to estimate its size? Could it have been much closer to you than you thought?

And were these things hard objects, or only lights as far as your vision could tell? Was there any indication these were solid objects?

Thanks,
Former MUFON investigator


56 posted on 03/06/2013 11:24:17 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (....Let It Burn....)
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To: WhiskeyX

Appears it was too late for a refracted sunlight explanation and too low for noctilucent clouds.


57 posted on 03/06/2013 11:24:20 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
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To: albionin

Hi, there. Just need you to look at this for a sec, 'kay ?

58 posted on 03/06/2013 11:31:45 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: albionin

I saw one as well.

I was young maybe sixth grade.

Black, low humming noise,.


59 posted on 03/06/2013 11:36:38 PM PST by KittenClaws (You may have to fight a battle more than once in order to win it." - Margaret Thatcher)
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To: steve86

“Appears it was too late for a refracted sunlight explanation and too low for noctilucent clouds.
....”

I’m a former Air Fforce meteorologist.The time of observation is less than a 45 degrees past the daylight terminator and limb of the planet. Sunlight and moonlight can become channeled between layers of atmosphere travel well around much of the planet and approach the backside or midnight sky. Noctiluceent clouds and or other clouds do not need to be within the area of observation. They can be thousands of miles away and well beyond the line of sight of the person observing the orangish light being reflected off objects and air layers that are within the observer’s line of sight. Like a desert mirage in broad daylight, you have to seee these to appreciated their ability to trick the eye and the mind.


60 posted on 03/06/2013 11:54:40 PM PST by WhiskeyX
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