Have you ever seen a UFO?

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	22 (52%)
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	18 (43%)
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[SamKnause]

1. I answered no.

I have seen an unidentified object, but it was not flying.

[BootinUp]

2. unsure seems like an invalid answer heh

the waters fine

[niyad]

3. Hasn't everyone?

[Rhiannon12866]

30. Right, my question, too.

I did see an flying object, lights low in the sky at night, but I was unable to identify it. Jimmy Carter spotted something similar when he was president and was made fun of by the press - but I totally get it. It was obviously flying, just impossible to identify.

[rickford66]

4. Late 60's at night

Bright light a mile or so away over a power line. Moving around a bit. Then lowers a smaller light like it was on a cable. Then extinguishes.

[Progressive Jones]

29. Late 70s' for me.

I saw a blu-ish light moving across the sky. Could have been a jet, as I didn't live more than 8 miles from O'Hare Field, in Chicago.
Here's the thing, though --- that light was moving across the sky much quicker than a jet would appear to be moving.

The very next day, I spotted an article in the newspaper possibly related to what I saw. At the time, there was a "UFO spotting/studying" program at Northwestern University (not sure if it still exists). On the night that I saw that possible UFO, there were numerous reports called in to this group at NU, describing the same thing I saw. Many of those who reported it claimed to see multiple lights out over Lake Michigan that eventually headed West, over the city.

That's my UFO story, for what it's worth.

[chia]

6. Wish there was a poll choice for "someone I trust has seen a UFO" because I do know people

who've seen UFOs who I trust to have been sober and not the type to make things up.

[nocoincidences]

7. Not me.

But a lot of others do.

I watch the VA UFO (UAP) reports to see what is being seen around Va. Beach, since I know the jets from Oceana NAS see them out over the ocean.

http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/ndxlVA.html

[Cracklin Charlie]

9. I saw one from a great distance one night.

Other people reported seeing it, too.

A few years ago, I thought I saw a triangular craft flying off to my right. I watched as it turned my direction, and I realized it was gonna fly right over me.

I, and a couple others, stopped our cars on a bridge going over I-70 to watch it fly over us.

As “it” flew over, we could all see that it was a group of 6 antique looking aircraft flying in a triangle formation, probably using the interstate as a landmark.

Not what we expected, but still pretty cool.

[Binkie The Clown]

8. I was ready to dismiss it as something normal that I just couldn't identify, but then...

it made the local papers the next day and people from all over the county reported having see the same fast-moving dazzlingly brilliant red lights in the sky at the same time, and in the same direction that I did. This was in the 1970s.

In the 1960s, when I was in high school, I saw what I was sure was a metallic, rotating disk floating slowly above the skating rink were I was with some friends. I was about to run inside and get my friends to come out and look at it, but then I decided to watch it a little longer. That's when I realized it was a large military plane making an approach to the National Guard air base. It was angled with the wings pointed straight at my line of site, so they were invisible to me. If I hadn't stayed to verify what I was seeing, I'd be convinced to this day that I had seen a real flying saucer. That's why I was skeptical of what I saw years later, and ready to dismiss it.

On edit: a couple years ago I was taking some pictures of birds. I was looking up at the high tension electrical towers when "something" went by, way too slow to be a meteor, and way to fast to be an airplane. It was nothing more that a dot of light in the clear blue day ligjht sky, and I followed it from overhead, where I first spotted it, to the horizon. It gave me a creepy feeling for some reason. I won't claim it was a UFO, though. Just a bright light moving very fast.

[mockmonkey]

10. I have.

It was in the 1979, at night. It was just over a line of trees.

I could make out that it was large, cigar shaped and a totally silent craft.

As it got closer I could see the words, "GOODYEAR" on it.

I still don't know what it was.

[-misanthroptimist]

12. Did you say "Goodyear" back to them?

If not, that's probably why they left.

[-misanthroptimist]

11. I prefer the designation used by the military - UAP

Both "Flying" and "Object" imply things that aren't necessarily true.

UAP, OTOH, is much more accurate and much more likely.

[RegularJam]

15. Unidentified Aerial Phenomena nt

[-misanthroptimist]

18. Thanks for covering for my laziness.

[RegularJam]

19. I had to look it up.

I appreciate the education.

😁

[Sneederbunk]

13. Saw an Unidentified Floating Object. Flushed before I could get a camera.

[RegularJam]

14. I was picking balls at a driving range late one night.

I saw something the size of the star and same color moving rapidly at a high altitude. Watched it as I thought it was a shooting star(love that technical term). It came to a stop for about five seconds and then went in the other direction at an unbelievable speed until out of site.

I was sober. 😁

One of the big differences in what I saw and what many others report as UFO’s is that I’m highly confident this was well outside of our atmosphere.

[hunter]

16. Yes, several times.

One of them was a F-117 Nighthawk I saw in the early 'eighties while I was out running on one of my cross country desert adventures, just before dawn.



Hot dogging pilot.

I figured out what I'd seen a few years later, and met one of the guys who'd built substantial parts of it at the only high school reunion I've ever attended.

The real aliens I've met don't need UFOs.

They just be or be not in the human perceptible universe.

No need of space ships.

[IsItJustMe]

17. Back in the early 70's I saw three objects that had the appearance of stars.

Two of the outer objects (both of which were evenly parallel to the middle object at all times) were rotating in a circular clockwise directions around the middle object. At some point, the two outer objects changed directions and stared evenly rotating in a circular counter clockwise motion around the center object.

At some point, the two outer objects changed directions again and both of these objects moved toward each other, with the middle object being dead center, with direct parallel precision, and joined with the middle object. At that point, the objects all became as one. The object became very bright and appeared to take off across the night sky appearing like a shooting star. In all, this took about five minutes.

The image has clearly stuck in my mind over the years. I have thought about it on several occasions and have come up with two conclusions.

One, whatever was behind the manipulation of those objects was intelligent. Two, given the distance and speed of those objects and given humans limited technological advances, this was not a human created event.

A cousin was with me at the time observing this, and I recently checked with her to see if our memories of the event coincided. They did.

I am thankful for observing this event. It has helped to keep me grounded throughout my life to the fact that human understanding is extremely limited to the vast mysterious universe that we all dwell.

[Dial H For Hero]

20. Nope. And I was into amateur astronomy when I was younger. Never saw a thing in the sky

out of the ordinary.

[jcgoldie]

21. no but my wife swears she did about 10 years ago

I always tell her she was probably abducted and anal probed but that just pisses her off... marriage is great

[Vinca]

22. No, but here's an experience a friend told me about.

It must have been 1965 or 1966 when I was in high school in central Ohio. One of my best friends, a very honest and trustworthy girl, went out parking with her boyfriend. They drove down a rugged road into a wooded area and she swears they saw lights through the trees and saw some kind of thing resembling what you might think a UFO looked like parked on the ground. It sounded like a scene from "E.T." or "Close Encounters." She didn't take drugs and didn't drink and there was no reason for me not to believe her. It could have been something else, of course. It's a shame everyone didn't have a cell phone to snap a photo way back when.

[Earth-shine]

23. A year ago I saw 14 shimmering shooting-star-like objects moving rapidly in a line the sky.

There was a cold beauty to it.

A few later, I read about Elon Musks' communications satellites.

[Martin Eden]

24. I saw UFO perform live at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, circa 1975

Does that count?

[jpak]

26. Yrs

And dmn u

[Progressive Jones]

31. LOL ! I was there! Seriously. In those days, UFO seemed to hit Chicago every month.

My very first rock concert was UFO, KISS, T-Rex, and Hydra, at the Aragon. I saw UFO many more times there.
I sure miss "The Aragon Brawlroom". I went to a lot of great shows there. It's still around.
I've only been there 3 times in the past 25 years, or so.

[Martin Eden]

36. My buddies and I went to see T-Rex

Hydra opened, then UFO. Marc Bolan put on a great show with T-Rex. We had no idea who or what Kiss was.

Needless to say, high as we were, Kiss blew us away with their costumes, stage show, and ear splitting rock.

That was the best way to see Kiss -- no clue what to expect. One of my friends bought their album, and we were decidedly unimpressed.

But that night at the Aragon is something I won't forget. We saw saw other shows there as well, including Sly and the Family Stone. The Aragon "Brawlroom" (apparently we weren't the only ones to call it that) was quite a contrast to the classy Uptown Theater on the other side of the street.

[Generic Brad]

25. Saw one close up

It was triangular, had no visible means of propulsion and was nearly the size of a city block. I lived in a downtown high rise at the time. Looked out the window and saw it over. It was less than one block away.

I ran to get my digital camera, but by the time I turned it on, the machine flew away so fast it was gone in the blink of an eye.

I saw it. My wife saw it. My daughter saw it. We just assumed it was a new style military drone.

[mvd]

27. My mom thinks she did once

Driving around Lansdale, PA in the 1990s. In daytime. It looked like the cigar type. It was moving slowly and made no sound. No one else was around.

I have personally not.

[milestogo]

28. Thank you.

[highplainsdem]

32. Yes, nearly 50 years ago. Posted about it in another thread on this subject earlier today:

https://democraticunderground.com/100215452378#post31

[meadowlander]

33. No. I hallucinated angels once though

and I'm the biggest atheist you will ever meet.

I once had a job that was so mind-numbingly boring with a massive control freak boss who literally never gave me anything to do for weeks on end and I actually started hallucinating at work to fill up the time.

[Texasgal]

34. I voted no.

I've seen some interesting things in the sky in my lifetime, but I have no idea if it was as UFO or not.

Many of the interesting things I've seen occurred in West Texas. You can see a lot out there!

[frogmarch]

35. Not in person, just a photo

of the Mother Ship.

Photo courtesy of Denver & Front Range Weather : Supercell that rolled through Lamar, CO this evening

[niyad]

39. I have seen some very interesting cloud formations here in CO these last few days.

[NurseJackie]

37. Unidentified? Yes! --- Extraterrestrial? NO!

[niyad]

38. I have, three times. The first, in the early 60's. I was out one night, and saw a bright orange

light zipping around the mountain that houses NORAD. It moved quickly, changed direction often. After about five minutes it disappeared . When I called NORAD the next day, I was told it was a weather balloon. Uh huh.

The second was watching a strange, round object hovering over an air base. I watched for several minutes, then saw it plummet to the ground. The base denied it.

The third was witnessed by hundreds of people in Phoenix. An object with a strange profile, odd lights, was observed flying at incredible speed and very low, over the city. The story, complete with an image of the odd object, was front page, headline news in the Phoenix paper the next morning.