UFOs over Stratford upon Avon!

quite freaky

 

Probably those big paper lantern things they let off at festivals...

 

did you watch the video, Lithium? I don't think a paper lantern could move like that. Was a bit odd.
Not saying a UFO (well of the alien variety at least) but it is REALLY weird.

 

I love the caption under the stock photograph of a UFO:

Imagine it. A race of highly intelligent beings who have mastered space travel and choose to examine humans using these silent, floating, unbelievably fast space vessels, using all methods of radar evasion and stealth to avoid being caught.

Then they forget to turn their lights off.


Intelligent life out there sure is stupid.

 

lol ... they are trying to experiment to see how gullible we all are

 

the "flying saucer" pic cracks me up. not nearly as much as the "witch flying over a small town in mexico" does, though. that's a riot. as for ufos, well hell, i lived in new mexico a long time.

 

I'd like to believe that it's something more. Something unexplainable.

 

Yeah, they do, that's exactly how they move. They get caught by a gust of wind and whizz along and then as they keep climbing and reach a different stratum they can suddenly slow down and seem to stop. It's one possibility among many.

I think it's fascinating how we instantly assume all kinds of complicated things when the answer is bound to be something simple There's no magic, aliens or ghosts, people!

 

it's fun believing, in a light sort of way.

 

You are one of them!

 

is your mind really that closed jon i mean to come out with a statement as sort of final like this of course your opinion is your opinion man but their are many many many people who have had paranormal /spiritual experiences as for proof the proof is out their and maybe you could prove it yourself if you really tried . i have stayed in many locations on overnight investigations and i bullshit you not jon freaky things have happened .

 

by the way i dont claim to know everything (who does) but what i see "feel" sense " experience is real to me ..........i find it a bit niave for people to dismiss the unknown or unexplained just like ........that sounds mad or i can"nt grasp or come to terms that it might be or could be real so therefore its not full stop .

 

sorry to go off topic here like but has anyone had that sense of feeling that when they have visited a place for the first time they have felt like they have been their before ? . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox0yRtc5_O4

 

I realise rational thinkers, "Brights" like me are in the minority. I don't dismiss the possibility entirely, I just think the chances are slim. In fact, vanishingly small. If someone were able to offer me convincing evidence from a properly controlled experiment, basically anything that doesn't rely on doubt, assumption, flawed and fallible personal experience and which can't readily be explained according to known phenomena, then I would change my opinion in an instant. No such evidence of any of these phenomena having ever been found despite so much time and effort looking, I feel I can safely assume that the miniscule possibility of their existence can be effectively discounted

Call me closed-minded if you wish, I just think I have high standards and need a good reason to believe something. I know how easy it is to believe in phantoms and know not to trust my unaided senses when we have far better tools to tell us about the way things actually are

This one knows too much

 

i've never "seen" anything or felt anything that couldn't be attributed to something more reasonable. but there's been a few things i'm inclined to believe in, despite the more reasonable explanations, just because my gut instinct tells me to. but that's pretty rare, i guess. ufos? never saw one, but i know some trustworthy skeptics who came to believe.

 

definitely! i've had this happen a few times. once in particular when i was young i was supposed to visit a friend of the families science lab at one of the local hospitals/universities in the area. i'd never been there before.

the night before i went i had this dream that i was in the backseat of a car and we pulled into a parking space that had a streetlamp in front of it with a concrete ballard surrounding it that was painted yellow.
later in the dream i was walking down a hallway painted white. on the left side were a row of wooden doors and on one door was a yellow post-it note sticking out slightly from the door.

sure enough, when we went to the research lab, we parked in front of a streetlamp complete with concrete ballard painted yellow.
and we walked down several white painted hallways, which had a row of wooden doors on the left side and one of them had a yellow post-it note sticking from it, just as in my dream.


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on another off-topic random freakiness thing...

my sis and i haven't talked to each other in about a month. i have no clue what she's been up to, and she has no clue what i've been up to. i hadn't talked to any of my family in several weeks.

this weekend, i decided to redo the sealant around the bathtub as it had been leaking. i was mid project (as i've never done this before it was taking awhile) and logged into MySpace to check messages and saw that she had posted a blog.
Her blog was all about how she'd been redoing the sealant on her bathtub!!!

I had even had a dream the night before I started my project that the sealant was scraped off the tub but not reapplied and my sister had gone in to take a shower (though she's never been at my flat ... in the dream we were at my parents but not their house somewhere else) and I had to go and tell her not to because the water would leak into the neighbours apartment. So, combined with the fact that I found out she too had been working on the same unusual project as me sort of freaked me out quite a bit.

I don't normally believe in 'paranormal' activity but at the same time I'm not just going to assume that I know such things can never happen.

 

I experience deja-vu all the time, I think most people do, it's a normal part of experience like many other misperceptions and illusions we all encounter. Even if we don't know the specific neural mechanism responsible for this perceptual disruption, it makes perfect sense to speculate that it arises as a consequence of brain activity, I think it has been linked with certain brain pathologies and chemical triggers.

I also frequently experience bizarre coincidences, just like everyone does. It makes far more sense to try and rule out the simple explanations before invoking vastly improbable and complicated explanations to try to explain what happens to us all, all the time, millions of times a day throughout the world as part of normal human experience...

 

dont worry jon man ile prove it to you ile come back and fucking haunt yer :tongue:

 

wow........ to me thats no co-incedence infact i personally dont believe in co-incidence "i believe everything happens for a reason .