UFO...?

Shane L wrote: »

I was walking my dog tonight around half 9 ten...ish when for only a few seconds I saw 3 circular light in a form of a large triangle kind of hard to make out an outline in the cloud moving at a phenomenal speed :L i saw it for just a second or two and ran down the road when it had gone out of site but saw nothing else.It was a pretty strange and no I'm not the type to believe in ghosts and am always sceptical of these kinds of stories...

So AHers...have you ever seen anything strange site in the night sky you couldn't explain or do you think I'm gone mad :P I

Once I woke up during the night and saw the shape of an old woman towards the end of my bed. Nearly shít myself. A paranormal believer would probably throw the covers up and try to go asleep, and then tell all their true believer pals about it as evidence of the paranormal. I went to the bother of turning on the lights, and discovered that it was just an article of clothing hanging in a particular way, and being slightly illuminated by light from outside (the moon possibly).

Another time I saw what one could be forgiven for thinking was a bunch of spacecrafts having a dogfight miles up in space! Just looked like dots of light moving around each other randomly. As we turned the corner and looked up, they were gone. My paranormal-loving friend saw it too, and was clearly pleased to see that I had had a paranormal experience. I just said that I didn't know what it was, and left it at that. Saw the same thing the next day on my own, and walked further on, they disappeared again. Forgot about it, until I looked up about 5 minutes down the road, and there were a bunch of seagulls flying around in front of a billboard, being lit up by the lights Showing that (a) humans often confuse 'big but far away' with 'small but close', and (b) just because an explanation is not forthcoming or apparent does not mean it's not something mundane. Seagulls in front of a billboard would be the last thing that I'd consider.

Another recent example, I was cleaning up the sitting room a few weeks ago, and as I was leaving the room the TV came on, seemingly by itself. I wasn't near the remote at the time. Then I remembered that I had moved the remote about 2 minutes earlier, and I also remembered my mother complaining before that this new TV takes ages to come off standby when you press a button!

Wertz wrote: »

Back around autumn 1996 myself and a friend were on our way home from another mate's house at about 4 in the morning. We stopped to make a sleeper (stick what ever weed we had left into one spliff) at the side of a shop that overlooks some fields, a sea marsh and the bay and thr Irish sea. It was a fairly clear night, no moon some scattered clouds...as we were sitting there my firend noticed something out over the bay and that seemed darker than the surrounding sky, that was moving really slowly from S to N...there was a very feint set of lights at one edge. It was maybe 15 degrees above the horizon...we watched it as it took about 5 minutes to traverse our field of vision, obscuring stars and one cloud on it's path (so it was between us and the cloud)...best we could make out it was triangular in shape, although we were seeing it from almost edge-on and it was big, ...very hard to judge as we hadn't really any way to gauge distance and hence size. There was no sound. We were pretty dumbfounded and sat for about half an hour trying to figure out what it was...next day we did the same...to this day we still don't know what it was, but we know what we saw and even though there was some spliff involved, we hadn't been drinking or taking anything else and it wasn't a result of hallucinogens or similar. The only aircraft I've ever seen going as slowly is a helicopter or a hot air balloon; no winged aircraft could do that speed without falling from the sky.
It's easy to talk sh*t on the web and laugh at what others claim...I do it myself, but I still think about that night and it has left me a lot more open to believing what others sometimes report. There are explanations for a lot of sightings and many sightings are mistaken aircraft, planets, birds, chinese lanterns and whatever, but that doesn't mean that there aren't genuine cases of people seeing something that can't be easily explained by conventional means or current knowledge.
I'm still wary of the alien explanation and am far more inclined to think of these sightings as manmade or human influenced...but if what I saw 15 yrs ago was experimental, I'd half expect them to be in service by now or at the very least have been officially outed in some way. I was at an air force display a few years later in the US where I witnessed a then rare glimpse of an out of service B-1 doing a fly past; stealth or not the damn thing made a lot of noise. The stealth blimp is a good explanation for what we saw back then but I've only heard of the concept lately. Blimps aren't new tech really, but adopting old tech with new space age methods and materials certainly makes sense and goes a long way to explaining what we saw back on that night...

Wertz wrote: »

Hence why would I mention said joint if I was posting bull****. I included it because it's part of the story (why we were sitting about at 4am at the side of a shop), unless you're one of them that thinks weed makes you see things or whatever.
I don't care if it's credible or not, I know what I saw and am relating that story for anyone bothered to care or share their own