It seems that by its very definition, a UFO is simply anything in the air that can’t be identified. Big deal. I can’t identify every bird I see so that makes them UFOs, doesn’t it?
By that definition, correct. There will always be things that defy explanation. The universe does contain something on the order of 10^22 stars, however, by latest estimates. Certainly countless numbers of them must also conain life. But the distance to even the nearest star is incredible. It’s hard to believe they would cross hundreds of trillions of miles of cold, empty space just to fly around frightening people, mutilate cows, and make pretty pictures in wheat fields. Still, it can’t be ruled out completely.
I used to be the single biggest skeptic on this subject on the planet, until, that is, one day in late July of 2004 in SW Wyoming.
My wife and I were on our honeymoon and while traveling in SW Wyoming we saw a a craft that was so unlike anything I'd ever seen it was nothing short of amazing. Both the wife and I are pilots and we are familiar with just about everything that flies. The thing we saw was in broad daylight, less than a mile away, 500' off the ground and moving at what I would estimate was about 350 knots. It was about 100' in diameter, black and silver in color, with a row of fairly large circles (lights?) around the bottom of the circumfrence of the object. It looked sort of like one of those helium balloons that many have tried to fly around the world, only it was moving sideways at 350 knots. It was a warm day and we had the truck windows partly down. This thing was silent, but left a shadow on the ground as it passed between us and a small ridge in the distance. The really weird part is we had two cameras sitting on the seat in the truck between us and neither of us grabbed for either one. In fact, it was about 30 minutes later before either of us even commented on what we'd just seen. It was really, really strange. I'm familiar with all currently known military aircraft, iow, I know the difference between say an F-15 and an F-16 at this distance. I'm also very familiar with virtually all civilian aircraft. This was nothing like either of us have ever seen, before or since....
I have no idea of the origin of this object, but if this thing was military, those boys have been doing a damned good job of keeping it a secret.....
Wasn’t there some kind of experimental flying platform that used helicopters...