Posted on 08/17/2004 4:49:53 PM PDT by demlosers
I saw one very similar to what you saw. It had that "submarine" look, was gray/black, and moved slow and low. Ours was a daytimes sighting. A little before 9 AM -- a totally non-spooky time.
The U.S. Government said it was a weather balloon and decreed it "case closed." That should be good enough for everybody. Such skepticism, ye of little faith.
If in 1000 years, the people of earth achieve the technology for interstellar travel, and we finally located a planet occupied by what we believe is a lower life form, and within our reach, would you suggest that we would just pass on making the trip?
I started at one point to collect such FREEPER REPORTS. Too tired tonight. Should do it some time though.
MOre have owned up on this thread, I think, than all the other threads combined. Interesting!
Thank you. Keep an eye on this thread; and keep an eye out for me later as the thread dies out.
All I know is about the one cylinder though.
Nice, but too short of my 1200 foot job.
In early '99 we lived on Ft. Stewart GA and I had a very dear friend who lived just a couple of blocks form me. Now this is the most pragmatic, down to earth woman that I've ever known and her middle boy is as level-headed as you've ever met. (He was about 17 at the time.) I went over to have some coffee and she called her son into the room. This kid is quite the shy, "Yes, ma'am", respectful young man and when she asked him to tell me what he saw the night before his entire body went rigid. He said that he was walking home from a friend's house when he noticed that all the crickets suddenly went silent. He noticed movement above his head and looked up to see a triangular craft with three lights, about the size of a football field floating above the treetops. It was so close that it actually brushed the tallest of them. It moved silently and slowly (about 20 MPH). Sensible young man that he is, he ducked between two houses and ran as fast as he could home. Honestly, I only believe him because I heard him tell the story. I know this kid well and he was scared.
I heard the second story just two months after the first. My best friend at the time lived in Texas and she was a total night owl. She was sitting in her back yard talking to another owl when a bright spot-light came out of nowhere and lit up her back yard. No sound. It played around a bit, went out, then reappeared about half a mile away after just a couple of seconds.
Here's where the story gets interesting. The next morning she called me and I "ooed" and "ahhed" and make all the appropriate noises. Interesting. Cool. I got things to do. That evening I was watching CNN when they played a story about mysterious lights that were seen the privious night all over the south. (All I really remember was Alabama, but they listed a few states.) They had an interview with a cop who'd chased it and footage from a security camera. I called her up and told her to get a tape in the VCR (as they did the 30 minute roll over). Well, I waited. I watched CNN for about three hours straight and they never replayed the story.
I finally gave up and found the story on their website which I emailed to my friend. Here's the twist; the next day the story was gone. A dozen searches at the CNN website and net searching my fingers off didn't turn it up again. All I remember was that it was December of 1999 when it aired.
So now, not only am I a UFO nut, but I'm also a conspiracy nut. 8-p~~
...and in a related news story, John Kerry - attempting to get to the right of George Bush on national security - calls for immediate creation of department of Home Planet Security...and nominates Art Bell for the post.
Jesse Marcel thought it was a UFO
Yes, but my picture is of a small scale model. There is no real limit to the potential size. Construction cost is trivial.
THANKS! How nice of you to say so!
Another thread has had a field day shredding me all day about 911. Sheesh!
Actually, I maintain the UFO ping list. Are you on it? Do you want on it?
Anyone else new want on it?
Sure, I'd live to be pinged! Could you sirect me to the 911 thread?
sirect=direct. I didn't think that just one beer could make be slur my words so! lol!
Thanks Marie.
You are on the ping list now. But I didn't save it to the backup disk, yet.
The thing we saw did not change shape.
What I have read about and seen years later speaks about all types of cylinders, mostly at high altitudes, moving off at fantastic speed.
My dull and unremarkable 1200 foot long dark grey cylinder passed over me and my mother and dog for a very long time at an altitude that was roughly perhaps eight to ten storeys off the ground, yet in your face to see if there were any imperfection to suggest some type of human experiment going on in 1965. Even as a ten-year old kid, I wasn't that stupid.
My sweetie has seen two UFOs in his life. (Not necessarily aliens, but UFOs.)
The first was long before I ever knew him. He and his sister were kids and went outside to see Skylab. They saw Skylab cross the sky, then right behind it, saw another object cross in the same path. He describes it as a round light that followed Skylab all the way across the sky as far as he could see.
The second was just a couple of years ago. He saw a metallic, reflective, round object hovering beside a cloud over the bay near our home. He watched it for a while, and it moved side-to-side beside the cloud. He went and got my son (then 12 years old) to come and look at it, too. While they were watching it, both of them saw it flatten out and accelerate across the sky. As it passed through the edge of a cloud, they could see the outline and it appeared as a dull, metallic, oblong shape.
He's a goofball, but he's not crazy. And others have witnessed both things he saw.
I never get to see anything, though. But, I keep looking.
And I thank you!
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