Have you ever seen a UFO?

Shooter McGaven · 28-11-2007 09:42PM #1

Just thinking about UFOs and such, and I see that the majority of "sightings" are in the USA. coincidence? So i was wondering if any of you guys have ever seen one?

EDIT -> or think that you have seen one

MagicMarker · 28-11-2007 09:44PM

I saw a squirrel once

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 28-11-2007 09:46PM

i saw a ufo on tv

although, on a serious note... does anyone have any clue what those lights were over mexico city a couple of years ago? there was like 12 of them in a semi circular shape in the sky.. pretty weird.

--edit

actually, maybe it wasn't mexico city. but it was somewhere.

galwayrush · 28-11-2007 09:49PM

It's not possible to see them on Earth, considering the nearest star that could contain life is 84,000 light years away, and if they could travel at the speed of light, all sort of weird things start to happen.( look up Einstein's Relativity). Of course if they can overcome said problems, they must exist in a higher dimension, because then Time wouldn't be a problem but we still wouldn't see them because 5th dimension beings would be on a different plane of existance unless we get totally pissed and \or stoned at which UFO's and all kinds of weird wonderful things are very visible.:D

Gator · 28-11-2007 09:52PM

I saw one out my back garden one day while playing ball, it looked like a star shaped thingy and was rotating, it flew right over my house, it wasnt that big, weird

Shooter McGaven · 28-11-2007 09:52PM

MagicMarker wrote: »

I saw a squirrel once

i see thats the second smart answer to a post that magic marker has made in the last 10 mins, you try to hard

Auvers · 28-11-2007 09:52PM

Mordeth wrote: »

on a serious note... does anyone have any clue what those lights were over mexico city a couple of years ago? there was like 12 of them in a semi circular shape in the sky.. pretty weird.

it was Phoenix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Y5RjhOThM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg6cGCAB2Ck&feature=related

unfortunately it was just slow burning military flares.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 28-11-2007 09:54PM

looks pretty cool, whatever it is

but I don't see why aliens from another planet would build spaceships that look like they come from cheesy 50's sci fi

Overheal · 28-11-2007 10:07PM

ok this DID happen in the USA: Palm Coast, Florida. about 50 miles north of Daytona Beach (thats a guesstimate)

Time: early morning. about 5am.

now my moms an intelligent woman; but the one thing about her that still gets me is she SWEARS that about 15 years ago (rounded off) she was delivering newspapers, having to work 2 jobs, and at one point she looked up and saw this huge UFO. By the description she gave I imagine it had a radius of about 50 metres and hovered several feet above the height of the car, and remained stationary for several minutes before whizzing off.

Sadly, nobody else can corroborate this story

I still dont know what to make of that.

Steyr · 28-11-2007 10:35PM

galwayrush wrote: »

It's not possible to see them on Earth, considering the nearest star that could contain life is 84,000 light years away, and if they could travel at the speed of light, all sort of weird things start to happen.( look up Einstein's Relativity).

Oh im sorry i didnt realise they heard of Einstein's Relativity....Or that it bothered them.

Steyr · 28-11-2007 10:37PM

Auvers wrote: »

it was Phoenix

The same happened over mexico city during a Military parade with flypasts, Mexican AF Aircraft actually broke off from the flypasts to intercept.

MagicMarker · 28-11-2007 10:38PM

Shooter McGaven wrote: »

i see thats the second smart answer to a post that magic marker has made in the last 10 mins, you try to hard

I really don't, it comes naturally.

Pigman II · 28-11-2007 10:43PM

Don't we have a board for this kind of discussion? All Things Retro.

Steyr · 28-11-2007 10:44PM

I bought a book on UFO's in Ireland and a few interesting stories stuck out such as the sighting in Sept 95 in Co Cavan in which a UFO was involved with an Irish Air Corps Fouga Magister CM170 Light Attack Jet. One man was enjoying a night out with three friends at a popular nightclub in the Portmarnock area near Howth. After the club they were walking along the beach when they noticed and electric blue egg shaped object moving towards them heading out to sea, then as it disappeared out of sight they heard the noise of a fast jet following the object, they watched as an Irish Air Corps Fouga Magister jet crossed over the beach heading out to sea after the object, the jet was low enough for Minihane to make out its Irish Military Serial number.

The next morning he rang Baldonnel Air Base to ask about what had happened, the desk Officer knew nothing about any such activity so he asked to talk to a more senior officer, he was allowed to and was told nothing but he then decided to quote the Fouga Magisters Tactical Serial Number and the response was much more irate than before......

Very interesting!

Gillie · 28-11-2007 10:47PM

I saw one once. Weird. Still can't explain it exactly but it wasn't normal anyway!

one-angry-dwarf · 28-11-2007 10:47PM

Shooter McGaven wrote: »

I see that the majority of "sightings" are in the USA. coincidence?

I suppose it seems that way, but there are UFO sightings all over the world. Mexico and south america has had loads of them. You probably just don't hear about the sightings around the world because other countries have less internet access/media coverage/ whatever.

but, no i don't think i've ever seen a ufo. although walking out of work the other day i saw this wierd blue streak across the sky that disappeared behind some houses. lasted only a split second tho, and i'd just walked out of the bright hall into the dark so maybe my eyes were just being wierd.

lucyburn · 28-11-2007 11:51PM

My Dad who is a Garda said he seen on about 15 years while he was working nights, his partner also seen it.
They were driving in their patrol car and saw a saucer shaped UFO fly across the sky.
I believe him because he's not the kind of man to ever tell a lie.

leninbenjamin · 28-11-2007 11:56PM

i've seen UFO's before... mostly lights being weird in the night sky. wouldn't go as far as saying they were aliens or a space ship or anything. just things that were unexplained.

i'd say most people confuse military projects for UFOs. the U.S. military have a lot of weird stuff in development, mostly UAVs, and half of it you'll never hear about such is the whole confidentiality thing.

6th · 28-11-2007 11:59PM

Roscommon is Irelands UFO hotspot.

MrJoeSoap · 29-11-2007 12:00AM

Overheal wrote: »

ok this DID happen in the USA: Palm Coast, Florida. about 50 miles north of Daytona Beach (thats a guesstimate)

Time: early morning. about 5am.

now my moms an intelligent woman; but the one thing about her that still gets me is she SWEARS that about 15 years ago (rounded off) she was delivering newspapers, having to work 2 jobs, and at one point she looked up and saw this huge UFO. By the description she gave I imagine it had a radius of about 50 metres and hovered several feet above the height of the car, and remained stationary for several minutes before whizzing off.

Sadly, nobody else can corroborate this story

I still dont know what to make of that.

Probably very tired from working two jobs and hallucinating from lack of sleep (a la Mrs. Doyle).

Steyr wrote: »

I bought a book on UFO's in Ireland and a few interesting stories stuck out such as the sighting in Sept 95 in Co Cavan in which a UFO was involved with an Irish Air Corps Fouga Magister CM170 Light Attack Jet. Jerry Minihane was enjoying a night out with three friends at a popular nightclub in the Portmarnock area near Howth. After the club they were walking along the beach when they noticed and electric blue egg shaped object moving towards them heading out to sea, then as it disappeared out of sight they heard the noise of a fast jet following the object, they watched as an Irish Air Corps Fouga Magister jet crossed over the beach heading out to sea after the object, the jet was low enough for Minihane to make out its Irish Military Serial number.

The next morning he rang Baldonnel Air Base to ask about what had happened, the desk Officer knew nothing about any such activity so he asked to talk to a more senior officer, he was allowed to and was told nothing but he then decided to quote the Fouga Magisters Tactical Serial Number and the response was much more irate than before......

Very interesting!

If its in a book it must be true.

Gillie wrote: »

I saw one once. Weird. Still can't explain it exactly but it wasn't normal anyway!

Can't explain it "exactly" or "at all"?

one-angry-dwarf wrote: »

I suppose it seems that way, but there are UFO sightings all over the world. Mexico and south america has had loads of them. You probably just don't hear about the sightings around the world because other countries have less internet access/media coverage/ whatever.

but, no i don't think i've ever seen a ufo. although walking out of work the other day i saw this wierd blue streak across the sky that disappeared behind some houses. lasted only a split second tho, and i'd just walked out of the bright hall into the dark so maybe my eyes were just being wierd.

Probably. Are you named after the Ben Folds song?

lucyburn wrote: »

My Dad who is a Garda said he seen on about 15 years while he was working nights, his partner also seen it.
They were driving in their patrol car and saw a saucer shaped UFO fly across the sky.
I believe him because he's not the kind of man to ever tell a lie.

Saucer-shaped eh? Interesting. Thats what films tend to show as well...

sebastianlieken · 29-11-2007 12:04AM

well thats nothin!, once, i even got abducted! they were gonna anal probe me, but i said "look, a distraction", the alien fell for it, i knocked him out n escaped. jus nobody believes me

actually, this a little off topic, but does anyone recall a movie (bout 10-20 years old) where this family was in their house hiding from the aliens outside. then there was a red light or summit that floated around. the little daughter in the house took on a disturbing personality. at the end, the aliens kinda freeze everyone in the house, and leave. its all recorded on home camcorder. with intervening interruptions from real-life psychologists and theorists trying to explain whats happening. claimed to be a true story. wats it called???

gonna put this in movie form now aswell actually.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 29-11-2007 12:04AM

anyone interested in ufo's and ufo sightings should read The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan. It's not all about ufo sightings, but there'a few mentions... very interesting stuff.

SuperSean11 · 29-11-2007 12:05AM

Heres some links yous might find interesting
http://www.ufosocietyireland.com/
http://www.irishufology.net/

Mossy Monk · 29-11-2007 12:31AM

I saw one, it looked like a silver cigar shaped thing.

Zaph · 29-11-2007 01:10AM

6th wrote: »

Roscommon is Irelands UFO hotspot.

Well something interesting has to happen down there I suppose

Red Hand · 29-11-2007 01:13PM

Everytime you look up in the sky and see a plane flying, you are looking at a UFO. Unless you are an aviation expert with binoculars of course.;) So, yeah, I've seen a fair amount of UFOs.

Funny how spaceships turn up once science fiction writers start writing about them.

Gillie · 29-11-2007 01:46PM

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

Can't explain it "exactly" or "at all"?

Here goes. Heading to my local shop one evening many years ago on my bike. Half way back home I realised I had forgotten something so turned and headed back.
While freewheeling down the hill towards the shop for the second time I spotted a greenish glow in the sky. There was no noise (ie a helicoptor) and it appeared to only be a couple of hundred feet above the ground.

At this stage I had pulled up the bike and was just staring at it.
A couple of seconds later it shot towards the mountains and disappeared from sight - Very very quickly!

Anyway got home and was kinda shaken up by it. Was only a cub at the time but remember it to this day!

Suitably bored?

RVD420 · 29-11-2007 01:57PM

Ever seen a UFO? Yep.....YORE MA! (Can't believe I'm the first with that one...)

ojewriej · 29-11-2007 02:08PM

Gillie wrote: »

Here goes. Heading to my local shop one evening many years ago on my bike. Half way back home I realised I had forgotten something so turned and headed back.
While freewheeling down the hill towards the shop for the second time I spotted a greenish glow in the sky. There was no noise (ie a helicoptor) and it appeared to only be a couple of hundred feet above the ground.

At this stage I had pulled up the bike and was just staring at it.
A couple of seconds later it shot towards the mountains and disappeared from sight - Very very quickly!

Anyway got home and was kinda shaken up by it. Was only a cub at the time but remember it to this day!

Suitably bored?

It was a weather baloon, you got that?

Gillie · 29-11-2007 02:34PM

ojewriej wrote: »

It was a weather baloon, you got that?

Sir Yes Sir!

Dopey · 29-11-2007 02:56PM

I find the topic interesting. I don't have a strong feeling one way or the other.

If there are aliens going for Sunday drives in Roscommon and in the US why would the military and goverment deny it? Do they want to keep the little green men all to themselves?

The alien in ET was like a family pet I suppose.

Have you ever seen a UFO?

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