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UFOs - Your Story

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Da'iel Zehn
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#1 - 2013-12-18 16:58:42 UTC  |  Edited by: Da'iel Zehn
I'm very interested to see how many people that play in our world wide community have had an experience with a UFO in some form or fashion.

I'll start.

I was a teenager at the time, and it was sometime in November 1991. I don’t remember the exact day. I decided to go get a hair cut. So I borrowed my mom’s car and headed out. It was between 7-8 in the evening. It was dark too. The first thing I noticed as I was driving along was the unusual amount of lights in the sky. There were a number of planes or helicopters all over, but not close enough for me to hear or identify them. This is one of the biggest cities in the southern US, and we do have an airport in the area so its not uncommon to see planes and what not, but there were more than usual.

As I traveled west on a back street, I came to "T" interesection and stop sign at a major road. I looked to my left and saw the traffic was stopped down at the nearest intersection to the south. I turned right and headed north. Almost immediately I looked over to my left and saw something that grabbed my attention.

About a hundred yards across the major road (three lanes heading north, three lanes heading south divided by a wide expanse of land) from my location (I measured it on Google Earth) there is a field with 2 bill boards on the north and south side of the lot. Hovering above the field was a large black shape. It was between the bill boards. It had no lights on it. I slowed down to almost a complete stop, turned off the radio, and rolled down the window. There was no sound coming from the object.

I should have stopped the car and gotten out so I could get a really good look (my friends have said it was probably better I didn't). I was so surprised I didn’t really think about stopping. Within 10 seconds from me sighting the “craft” it began to slowly ascend into the sky. It was quite large (at least two houses wide), but I could not see any detail because it was blacked out. I am not sure if it was a “saucer” shape or not since I was looking at it from the side. But it was not very thick.

I circled around at the u-turn at the next intersection as it slowly moved upward. When I was under it on the opposite side from where I started I could tell it was quite wide. It was circular looking at it from underneath, but not a perfect circular structure. I came back around at the southern u-turn and watched it float high and higher, and I ended up at another intersection a little further north. At some point the dark shape turned on its light or lit up into a ball of light. I’m not sure how else to describe it.

Then suddenly it flashed northward toward me. When I say it flashed I actually mean it flashed. It moved so fast that it left a trail of light behind it. As it came toward my location it did a 180 degree change in flight and flashed southward toward the Gulf of Mexico and did a zig zag. Again, it moved so fast that it left a light trail behind it. It looked to have slightly ascended in its trajectory as it took off.

Years later, my Dad saw one of the black triangles flying slowly from north to south down this major road from the major highway to the north.

Human? Government? Alien? I don't know. I want the truth to come out. Disclosure! I love space ships after all!
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#2 - 2013-12-18 17:16:21 UTC  |  Edited by: Krixtal Icefluxor
Da'iel Zehn wrote:

Then suddenly it flashed northward toward me. When I say it flashed I actually mean it flashed. It moved so fast that it left a trail of light behind it. As it came toward my location it did a 180 degree change in flight and flashed southward toward the Gulf of Mexico and did a zig zag. Again, it moved so fast that it left a light trail behind it. It looked to have slightly ascended in its trajectory as it took off.



Yup.

This kind of thing has been historically frequent, especially in Virginia/West Virginia.

I was 9 years old in 1974, and I was sitting in the front seat of the car between my parents, on our way from Arkansas to Washington DC, and we were on one of the Interstates in West Virginia, down in a sort of valley in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

It was approaching twilight, and I had noticed, for about 20 minutes, a really bright light about 45 degrees up in the sky in front of us. I seemed to be an oncoming 747 or something, what with the brightness. But after the 20 minutes, it had not moved at all, so I said something, and my parents then opened up about being a bit puzzled as well.

So we had this thing up in the sky just really bright and unmoving. For about another 10 minutes. As we were all 3 staring at it, it suddenly sprouted a "one quarter inch long" tail of a sort, and it suddenly whipped over us and disappeared over the horizon behind us faster than one could see. I would definitely classify it as "instantaneous, inertia-free, attained speed" without any acceleration at all. It was just there, then gone, faster than I've ever seen anything move.

We were all 3 just baffled, and have brought it up frequently over the years. Maybe experimental aircraft and all that, but the instantaneous full speed just cannot be explained, especially if it were piloted.

Who knows.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882

Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#3 - 2013-12-18 18:44:42 UTC
I haven't seen any personally, but in the late 80s old guys in Micronesia told me they'd seen plenty. They'd be out night fishing on the Pacific, and they'd see some kind of craft in the sky with colored lights. It would hang there for awhile, then suddenly zip off in a straight line and disappear over the horizon. "No airplane can fly like that, not even a jet," they said. I heard the same thing from four or five different guys.

An American commercial fisherman who'd been living in Guam/Saipan/Micronesia area for years also said the same thing. He'd seen lots of the colored-lights craft, and had no doubt they were ETs. He was a really down-to-Earth, pragmatic guy, and he didn't care one way or another whether anybody believed him. So I don't think he was b.s.ing.
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#4 - 2013-12-18 18:55:32 UTC
The hardest thing to explain is just how fast it moved. It was more instantaneous, and any direction before vanishing was determined more by "afterimage".

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882

Steven Alfrir
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2013-12-18 23:29:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Steven Alfrir
I might have seen one years ago but being from the small South Pacific country of New Zealand apart from 3-4 promenient cases we don't really get ufo sightings much less alien abductions like the USA seems to get every so often.

I like crazy plans

Malaclypse Muscaria
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#6 - 2013-12-19 00:17:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Malaclypse Muscaria
I've never had one of these experiences first hand, but during my time at the Spanish Air Force back in the '90s I had a position at the Air Force H.Q. library, and I took advantage of that opportunity to not just procrastinate and sit on my ass reading all day while my H.Q. security squadron colleagues were playing with guns and freezing their asses doing the rounds (I was deemed unfit for being entrusted with guns since my drug tests kept coming back positive), but I also managed to get my hands on a stack of internal U.F.O. files and reports: basically accounts of U.F.O. sightings (called O.V.N.I. in Spanish) by Spanish military and commercial pilots, radar operators, etc...

These reports are in the line of the stories on this thread: witness accounts of strange lights following pilots that move at impossible speeds and patterns, pilots trying to confirm with ground control and Air Force people if the lights may correspond to other aircraft, yada yada yada...

I still have photocopies of some of these reports, out of the dozens and dozens they kept filed away in there. Proof: here is a small sample.
Commissar Kate
Kesukka
#7 - 2013-12-19 00:40:29 UTC
Malaclypse Muscaria wrote:
I've never had one of these experiences first hand, but during my time at the Spanish Air Force back in the '90s I had a position at the Air Force H.Q. library, and I took advantage of that opportunity to not just procrastinate and sit on my ass reading all day while my H.Q. security squadron colleagues were playing with guns and freezing their asses doing the rounds (I was deemed unfit for being entrusted with guns since my drug tests kept coming back positive), but I also managed to get my hands on a stack of internal U.F.O. files and reports: basically accounts of U.F.O. sightings (called O.V.N.I. in Spanish) by Spanish military and commercial pilots, radar operators, etc...

These reports are in the line of the stories on this thread: witness accounts of strange lights following pilots that move at impossible speeds and patterns, pilots trying to confirm with ground control and Air Force people if the lights may correspond to other aircraft, yada yada yada...

I still have photocopies of some of these reports, out of the dozens and dozens they kept filed away in there. Proof: here is a small sample.



IB4 the Men In Black show up. Lol

Anyway nice story there.
Laizir
Doomheim
#8 - 2013-12-19 00:44:07 UTC
Got hit in the head by one.

Turned out to be a frisbee.
Commissar Kate
Kesukka
#9 - 2013-12-19 00:51:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Commissar Kate
I saw some crazy stuff a few years ago over the Gulf of Mexico while in a boat. It was in the daytime so there was no lights. It just looked like a silver floating orb to me. The size and distance was hard to tell but it looked pretty far away. It just sat in the same spot for about 10mins and then shot away at incredible speed away from the shore in a straight line directly to the west.
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#10 - 2013-12-19 15:15:40 UTC
Malaclypse Muscaria wrote:
I've never had one of these experiences first hand, but during my time at the Spanish Air Force back in the '90s I had a position at the Air Force H.Q. library, and I took advantage of that opportunity to not just procrastinate and sit on my ass reading all day while my H.Q. security squadron colleagues were playing with guns and freezing their asses doing the rounds (I was deemed unfit for being entrusted with guns since my drug tests kept coming back positive), but I also managed to get my hands on a stack of internal U.F.O. files and reports: basically accounts of U.F.O. sightings (called O.V.N.I. in Spanish) by Spanish military and commercial pilots, radar operators, etc...

These reports are in the line of the stories on this thread: witness accounts of strange lights following pilots that move at impossible speeds and patterns, pilots trying to confirm with ground control and Air Force people if the lights may correspond to other aircraft, yada yada yada...

I still have photocopies of some of these reports, out of the dozens and dozens they kept filed away in there. Proof: here is a small sample.

That's pretty cool. We've got our own Snowden in OOPE! Smile
Da'iel Zehn
Evil Frosty's Premium Liqours and Fine Wines
#11 - 2013-12-19 16:39:59 UTC
Khergit Deserters wrote:
That's pretty cool. We've got our own Snowden in OOPE! Smile


I hope some of the Snowden documents discuss UFOs! I'd love to see what the government is keeping so secret due to "National Security."

Smile
Eurydia Vespasian
Storm Hunters
#12 - 2013-12-19 19:17:42 UTC
you are the same guy!
Naomi Tichim
Sovereign Hospitaller Order of Saint Katherine
#13 - 2013-12-19 21:19:22 UTC
Laizir wrote:
Got hit in the head by one.

Turned out to be a frisbee.


Same, except it was a very angry dwarf.
Brujo Loco
Brujeria Teologica
#14 - 2013-12-20 03:58:46 UTC
/tinfoil hat on

My only real verified UFO story comes from the Solar Eclipse back in 1998

I have to this day a picture that shows clearly a flying metallic object a couple minutes before the eclipse, had it enhanced, amplified and ran a small battery of basic filter tests to discard anomalies, even the camera used was inspected (part of a fun seminar)

Visually Venezuela has a lot of sightings, specially in the Andes region, which is a huge UFO sighting site.

I have seen several weird lights, and honestly, to this day, I dont pay much attention to such phenomena, but I always tape everything I see, some friends I know go bonkers on it Big smile

Venezuela has several strange light phenomena, so much that the Flag of the Zulia state is a Lightning Ray, because of the "Relampago del Catatumbo" , and yes, thats another UFO sighting spot.

During a several hours power outage in Maracaibo City around the year 2001 IIRC , several UFOS were seen hovering over the city and the Eastern coast of the Lake Maracaibo, almost like the Mexico City sightings of 1997 so widely recorded, but honestly, not much you can do about it, besides sharing it with some people in internet spaceship forums and speculate wildly, since the next day, even local news reported it and some local clergy called it the work of the devil and others the work of too much alcohol.

But fun thread, keep this going!

o/

Inner Sayings of BrujoLoco: http://eve-files.com/sig/brujoloco

Commissar Kate
Kesukka
#15 - 2013-12-20 15:32:17 UTC
Brujo Loco wrote:
/tinfoil hat on

My only real verified UFO story comes from the Solar Eclipse back in 1998

I have to this day a picture that shows clearly a flying metallic object a couple minutes before the eclipse, had it enhanced, amplified and ran a small battery of basic filter tests to discard anomalies, even the camera used was inspected (part of a fun seminar)

Visually Venezuela has a lot of sightings, specially in the Andes region, which is a huge UFO sighting site.

I have seen several weird lights, and honestly, to this day, I dont pay much attention to such phenomena, but I always tape everything I see, some friends I know go bonkers on it Big smile

Venezuela has several strange light phenomena, so much that the Flag of the Zulia state is a Lightning Ray, because of the "Relampago del Catatumbo" , and yes, thats another UFO sighting spot.

During a several hours power outage in Maracaibo City around the year 2001 IIRC , several UFOS were seen hovering over the city and the Eastern coast of the Lake Maracaibo, almost like the Mexico City sightings of 1997 so widely recorded, but honestly, not much you can do about it, besides sharing it with some people in internet spaceship forums and speculate wildly, since the next day, even local news reported it and some local clergy called it the work of the devil and others the work of too much alcohol.

But fun thread, keep this going!

o/


It seems like all you guys South of the USA have tons of UFO sightings and the media always goes nuts over every sighting.
Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
#16 - 2013-12-20 15:53:57 UTC  |  Edited by: Slade Trillgon
Last night, as i was driving home from work. I looked up at this light in the sky and....*bright blinding flash of light*..... Then a voice from the abyss boomed through the brightness.

"So that tanker trailer just speed by you and ran into the median under the bridge, blew up and totally destroyed the bridge? That is your story?"

My eyes began to come into focus. I see that the whole middle of the bridge was totally destroyed. I slowly turned around to see that my car had been flipped a number of times and that the roof was totally crushed in and apparently I had only a small bruise on my head.

I responded,"Apparently so.....Question"
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#17 - 2013-12-20 16:13:22 UTC
Slade Trillgon wrote:
Last night, as i was driving home from work. I looked up at this light in the sky and....*bright blinding flash of light*..... Then a voice from the abyss boomed through the brightness.

"So that tanker trailer just speed by you and ran into the median under the bridge, blew up and totally destroyed the bridge? That is your story?"

My eyes began to come into focus. I see that the whole middle of the bridge was totally destroyed. I slowly turned around to see that my car had been flipped a number of times and that the roof was totally crushed in and apparently I had only a small bruise on my head.

I responded,"Apparently so.....Question"

^ It's true. I was there. Blink
Something Random
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#18 - 2013-12-20 22:49:42 UTC  |  Edited by: Something Random
Malaclypse Muscaria wrote:
I was deemed unfit for being entrusted with guns since my drug tests kept coming back positive


You have drugs ?

Anyway, i havnt seen **** but ive been trying hard for years.
I think the dinosaurs ate em.

"caught on fire a little bit, just a little."

"Delinquents, check, weirdos, check, hippies, check, pillheads, check, freaks, check, potheads, check .....gangs all here!"

I love Science, it gives me a Hadron.

Malaclypse Muscaria
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#19 - 2013-12-21 03:09:09 UTC  |  Edited by: Malaclypse Muscaria
Something Random wrote:
Malaclypse Muscaria wrote:
I was deemed unfit for being entrusted with guns since my drug tests kept coming back positive


You have drugs ?


True story: some of the drugs I failed my drug tests for, I bought right there at the Air Force H.Q. I was just a lowly grunt doing his 9-month mandatory military service, but I got to know this career military officer from the southern coast of Spain, who had a good connection back home for some prime Moroccan hashish and wasn't squeamish about making some extra cash on the side.

Another true story: some dude who started his mandatory service with me, on the very first day of boot-camp got out his gear and started to shoot-up heroin in the barracks right in front of everyone. He was relieved of having to complete the rest of his 8 months and 29 days of service the next day.

At first I thought he was a lucky bastard, but as much as I seriously don't give a crap about being in the military, I had a real good time there. After all, they put me with the rest of the mandatory service freaks, weirdos and dope-heads the Air Force didn't trust with guns for one reason or another, and instead used as a free workforce for menial jobs: so once boot-camp was over I basically spent 7 months and a half enjoying myself and laughing my ass off. Good times.
Bischopt
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#20 - 2013-12-23 02:02:07 UTC
No, never had an experience with a UFO. I'm also very skeptic about other people's stories, always thinking there's most likely a rational explanation. There are phenomena that can not yet be explained. Just because we don't know what something is doesn't mean it has to be either a) supernatural or b) aliens

Malaclypse Muscaria wrote:
At first I thought he was a lucky bastard, but as much as I seriously don't give a crap about being in the military, I had a real good time there.


Not spanish myself but I've also done 6 months of mandatory military service. It was from january to july so it was mostly very damn cold and draining both physically and mentally. But in the end I was glad about having done it.
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