UFOs!

[trm]

As people who know me would probably say, I'm quite a rational scientific minded person. But for some reason, UFOs are a really cool thing for me The idea of intelligent life elsewhere in the galaxy is something I strongly hope for and I think it would be awesome if they had the technology to actually come visit us.

The National Archives have had a new batch of MOD reports released. They are free to access for one month starting from today and will then go into the usual "pay to get copies" system.

Paranoid conspiracy theorists away! (Where's HWM when you need him

- come on dude, sign-up here please!)

http://ufos.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

and linked from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10853905

tim

 

[VectorGlow]

I saw a UFO once ............ I think. I was at primary school at the time though so the memory is hazy ........... either that or I was abducted and the memory wipe didn't work 100%.

Now back to my marathon of re-watching The X-Files ........... currently on season 6.

 

[Purity]

I've seen things in the sky I cannot explain on two occasions in my life so far.

I'm not convinced it's Aliens or anything like that, but definately objects I cannot identify

Luckily the first time I saw something, it was spotted by other people and was reported in the local papers

Info here

See what you make of it
Purity2010-08-12 19:56:18

 

[trm]

Funnily enough I've seen two unexplained incidents, one just earlier this week. It looked like a magnesium flare due to the extremely pure white light and was about 1cm across from my perspective.

It passed behind some chimneys up the road from me but the angle and speed would suggest it was either very close and fast (and not far off ploughing into the ground) or that it was much further away and moving incredibly fast.

It wasn't one of those candle lanterns due to the pure white spectrum and it wasn't aircraft anti-collision lights as it wasn't blinking and there was no reflection off the wing or plane body. Neither was it a satellite as I've seen the sun reflect off them before and this was much more intense and also moving far too fast.

Although I've seen on the BBC news today that there is a meteor shower at the moment so I'm going to try to see that to see how they compare to what I saw.

 

[paulcan69]

I downloaded those PDF's they are interesting, thanks for sharing.

Think what you will but...

Once about 20 of us had been out all night clubbing, we parking up in a wooded area in the parking lot (like a picnic area) stayed there all night talking and just standing outside the 4-5 cars.

There were males and females, some pissed, some on pills etc... (It was the 90's) some stone cold sober.

We were talking sh*t, taking the pi*s out of each other, talking about weird conversations that you can only have at 4am.

Then we all saw the same thing, someone said "What the fu*k is that?"

We all turned around... and the only way I could explain it was like a blob in the sky, you know the way heat rises up a brick wall on a very hot day, well it was an object in the sky that looked like that, i.e you could see through it but it was blurred, it moved fast then slow and it changed direction quickly, too quickly for anything I've seen fly before and I have seen the red arrows.

It made no noise from memory but looked very close to us.

Then it was gone behind the trees and we never saw it again,

We all spoke about it, then we went a bit quiet, we were all thinking the same thing but no one wanted to say it.

To this day we never really spoke about it properly as we didn't want to feel crazy, it could have been some military plane on test at 4am we were near to the coast,??

Who knows...all I know is I never believed in anything like that until that day, we were all about 19-20 years old, typical late teens who didn't believe sh*t unless we saw it in front of us.

I still get a cold shiver when I think about it.

Did we all get beamed up for 10 minutes and probed by aliens to be dropped back off with no memory of it? (and that's why we were all silent straight after wards) Maybe, or were we all messed up from a heavy night and we convinced the others that we saw something and to "fit in" they said yeah?

???

Will we ever know?

paulcan692010-08-13 07:13:57

 

[VectorGlow]

My 'experience' (such as it was) must have occurred in the late 60s or early 70s (I was at primary school anyhow) - out in the playground one day, fairly blue skies but a few fluffy cumulous clouds floating about.

After a while a few of us brats noticed a steady moving thin 'streak' of white smoke/solitary vapour trail/whatever moving across the sky - it went 'behind' a cloud and a few seconds later what appeared to be an expanding white puff of smoke emanated from behind the same cloud.

Nothing else came out.

And that was that - my sole 'UFO' experience.

Never did find out what it was.