Ever see a "UFO?"

During the 1960s there was big UFO craze where everyone seemed to be reporting them.
Today most people are indoors at night, driving cars, or around light pollution, but most people carry smart phones now so can take their own blurry videos, or even do a quick photo edit and upload a convincing fake.

In Haiti back in the 1960s, no light pollution, generators cut off at 7 pm, everyone was always outdoors at night running around, usually with no flashlight.
We constantly saw amazing things..so regularly in fact, we barely commented on them...missionary friends told my parents about lighted discs blocking mountain roads as they drifted past, a disc landing on the beach near their beach house and burning a circle, etc.

When I lived in Port-au-Prince in 1968-69 attending Union School, something went over the Rocourt Pension on Carfour Lane, every night around 7:30 p.m. I climbed up on the roof and lay on the warm water barrels with my friends to watch it most nights. It was high, moved fast, changed colors, swapped directions suddenly, morphed from one color to the other-sometimes there were two of them-but it always ended with one of them turning slightly sideways then taking off so fast it seemed to get tiny and vanish.

When I told my friends at school one boy later told me his family went out on their mountainside deck at that time. He said a huge saucer shaped vehicle came over the house and swooped down the valley below (where I lived). He said it was ringed with lights that changed color and flowed around the rim.

Strangely, he didn't seem excited, and none of the other kids seemed to think it was anything worth mentioning twice.

I saw one just across a pasture with my family and friends in Normal, Illinois in 1968, but they just joked about it being a "burning helicoptor." Later, something followed my car for over 100 miles in the USA, in the 1970s. Once, when it hovered directly (high) above us, the car stalled.

I was afraid, but my husband kept saying it was just a coincidence. When the glowing disc took off to the side, the car started again. It kept circling the car at a distance as we drove, changing colors, sometimes going off to zip around a housing division. My husband totally ignored it, kept telling me it was some experimental Cobra helicoptor. It made no sound, kept changing colors, sometimes swept the entire countryside with searchlights, then would go dark and appear somewhere else. It would move incredibly fast, then hover, reverse directions, but made no sound. Sometimes it would glow so brightly it was blinding.

If it was an experimental helicopter (this was the 1970s) I want one!!!!!!

When we passed a military base it went very high, hovered, then turned sideways, seemed to shrink quickly, then vanish. My husband refused to discuss it, and later pretended he didn't remember the incident.

 

Only time ive seen a ufo was in September of 2008.

 

I like your "price of rice in China" quote-a popular saying in my day (1950s)!

I haven't heard any UFO reports from family or friends since the 1970s, so whatever it was isn't hanging around the US as much these days, although one reads reports from other countries.
Or maybe people who see them don't want to be ridiculed, so don't mention it!

With the confirmation of the Higgs Boson particle existence, light time loop theory work of Mallet, Lene Hau's Bose-Einstein condensate for slowing light to stall speed, UFOs could be routine (parallel universe) school trips from somewhere/the future :2thumbsup:

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/timetravel-01a.html

 

I make other people see ufo's



if you buy them bulk theyre really cheap

 

Yeah, those are popular here in Thailand..see them floating in the sky every festival, but especially during Loy krathong in April.

Thai releasing hot air sky lanterns (khom loy) for loy krathong, Na Muang Park-near my apartment building, Nakhon, Thailand

 

See anything good?

In other countries, people don't pay much attention to even spectacular UFO sightings, but in the USA people are apparently ridiculed so much they never talk about it, so maybe this thread won't go anywhere.

Just from casually talking to my friends and family, there are few to none who haven't seen something in the sky that can't be explained, but most of those sightings came from the 1970s.

A possible explanation is that people spend more time indoors, but I sure don't-I'm always up on a mountain watching meteor showers all night or out riding horses at night, and I've not seen squat since the the 1970s..that I noticed anyway.

 

I believe I have =p
A few times actually.

One time I saw something that thousands of people also saw but it turned out to be a chocolate sponsored air blimp. It was at night, sat perfectly still hovering over the mountains and was bright yellow, perfect cigar shape.

 

few years back i thought i saw one. i was driving around on a roadie so i followed the eery bright light in the sky...all the way to the airport. lol

 

My uncle once told me a story about when he was in a swimming pool he saw poo floating in the water. He called it an unidentified floating object.

 

I've seen an orb high in the sky. This was during the day a few years back. I was simply sitting outside, gazing upward, when I saw it sort of float across the sky at a fairly high altitude.

 

yeah it works way better over here where most people are unfamiliar with them and think they are orbs high in the sky at high altitude,

 

i like aliens

 

Nobody said that UFOs have to be of alien origin. The U in UFO simply means unidentified. Most of what people are seeing, if it cannot be explained by some naturally-occurring phenomena, is probably some government test craft.

 

Yeah righto.. fuckin' hell. =(

 

or dragons

 

and flying serpents. I like your style

 

I wish I had the one I kept seeing in Haiti at night, and especially that same kind that followed my car 100 miles in the 1970s..sucker was silent, fast, changed running colors like a squid, would go extremely bright , then no lights at all, then colors running around it..it would switch directions, go far away, then suddenly be hovering over the car, completely silent except that when it got too close the car engine died. It was actually going around between houses whenever we passed a subdivision, like some curious dog sniffing around strange houses, then it would suddenly light up the entire countryside, then go dark again.
If our government made it back in the 1970s, then I am VERY frustrated I don't have one by now. It was so fast that when it left; it sort of turned sideways, then spun out so fast it seemed to shrink and disappear. If I had that thing I could commute to anywhere from anywhere.
I could pop in to see my son in CA, my daughter in Kentucky on lunch break.

Come to think of it, my kids are in their 30s and they've never seen a UFO, yet I don't know anyone in my generation who hasn't! I wonder if there was some required 1970s time-frame field trip for students in another/parallel universe, so they hung around until people got upset.

 

Amazing stories, birdpics !

I remember a few sightings yet not very spectacular, mostly with someone else watching the same thing. An unusual triangular light sitting very high in the sky (that was in the seventies in the pyrenean mountains); stars suddenly starting to move, or they disappeared as if a light was switched off; bright flashes in a clear hight sky out of nowhere, in different parts of the world (one appeared twice within a minute from the same spot).
Lights that change direction, blink (unlike airplanes) and disappear.
I've seen them more often in my dreams.

 

Oh yeah !!... everytime a brown bird flies past. I don't know what it is so it's 'Unidentified'.