How many Freepers have actually seen a UFO?
What are your stories?
Have I seen Unidentified Flying Objects? Yup. Alien spacecraft? Nope.
I think people believe there are UFOs alright, meaning secret government craft that happens to be top secret that won't get recognized by the government as existing.
Almost NOBODY believes they are aliens, though we DO have plenty of illegal aliens in California.
But as one of the world's leading theoretical physicists says in the program, "You simply cannot dismiss the possibility that some of these UFO sightings are actually sightings from some object created by … a civilization perhaps millions of years ahead of us in technology."
I'm guessing it's Stanton Friedman who's being called "one of the world's leading theoretical physicists". If so, the writer of this press release needs to phone home and request a clue.
Yes. I have seen a UFO.
My sighting occured at approximately 8:30PM on Tuesday, October 8, 1968.
I was the publicity director for a performance of Up With People in Sacramento, California, sponsored by Sing-Out Sacramento, the Sacramento Union Newspaper, and KOVR Television. The performance was that evening and it had started at 8:00 PM before a crowd of approximately 8000 people in Hughes Stadium at Sacramento City College.
I was standing behind the risers which were placed centered on the 50 Yard line facing west. The crowd was all on the stadium seats facing east. I was getting some really neat photographs of the Up With People cast sillouhetted against the stage lights.
The first act was close to ending when I noticed a large disk shaped object moving slowing from South to North above and behind the crowd on the bleechers. The object, to my eyes, was about twice to three times the size of a full moon, but appeared ovoid with the short axes east to west, long axes north to south. It glowed with a pearly luminescence and was moving quite steadily and silently. This "saucer" moved from my left, toward my right, and then stopped... about 20º to my right from being directly in front of me. I don't know how long it stayed there, but suddenly, it shot straight up... dwindling in a few seconds to a very small dot. It then moved at a high rate of speed north until it disappeared into the city lights.
The only other witnesses were members of the Up With People cast. A year later I was a student at Mackinac College, Michigan, and my roommate in the dorms was Ollie Howe, one of the cast members. He said the UFO was the talk of the UWP buses for days after that... some members saw it, others didn't and refused to believe those who saw it. Ollie saw it.
Remember I mentioned I was taking photographs? Stupid me stood there with my jaw no doubt on the tongue of my shoe and didn't take a picture!
I'll give Jennings some props here. This is a subject that interests the world. Will the show come to conclusions? Of course not. There are none to be drawn.
But anyone who says there cannot be such things, given the infinity of time and space, simply has no idea...
are real what? unidentified? I see this all the time that I can't specifically indentify.
The anthropic principle argues that the universe must have observers - ET. The same physics preclude ET visits. Go study, go figure.
My friend saw it as well but refuses to speak of it to this day. The object was roughly triangular and very black except for 3 lights...in a row from front to back...all 3 of them were red. It appeared mostly as a dark area that was moving and blocking out the stars as it moved over us.
This object was very large. Based on the aspect of its silhouette to the surrounding trees, I estimated its size at about 300 feet long on a side. It was was only 50 to 100 feet above the house's rooftop. It seemed to move slowly from East to West and made no noise that I could discern. We were in a rural area where there was no traffic noise. What was odd that there was no noise....and I mean NO noise from any source...crickets or otherwise.
The whole sighting lasted about 60 seconds as the object moved along over a wooded area where we were unable to follow it. It looked to be moving slowly but was moving faster than a running man on the ground....my guess was about 20 mph.
I suspected something of a military nature except for the apparently noiseless propulsion system it used. I'll never forget it. It was a striking looking vehicle.
Saw one when I was 7 years old. Classic inverted bowl with a dome on top. It was at night and it moved close to our house as it skimmed along at house top level.
It stopped about 150 ft. from our house with a blue aura around it and dropped a periscope type device down underneath it for observation, I believe it spotted me and it sped away too fast to follow with the eye.
For years I thought it simply vanished, but after reading Paul Hill's book on UFO engineering, I believe it simply accelerated with extreme speed.
Called the FAA to report it and they told me whatever it was it didn't show up on radar.....
Paraphrasing the attitudes of most of my MIT Astronautical Engineering professors..."If we can't figure out how to get THERE...then they obviously can't get HERE. So quit 'yer specylatin' and gimme Max Q on that Shuttle/Tank brace."
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" Phoenix, March 1997 — Hundreds witness a huge triangular craft moving slowly over the city."
THis was another good example of the amazing power of the media, IIRC it did not make national tv news.
Something large and unidentified FLIES OVER A MAJOR US CITY, is recorded by hundreds, and it isn't reported?
Practically none of them documented.
