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Do you believe in UFOs & flying saucers ?

  • 25-05-2020 10:38pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Have you every seen an unidentified flying object?

    A UFO of course is just an aerial phenomenon that you can't explain (hence unidentified), & probably not at all connected to little green men from Mars.

    So what are UFOs and have you ever seen something in the sky that you couldn't explain?

    In the past many people have mistaken aircraft, weather balloons, silver party balloons, and even bright planets in the night sky as UFOs, but of course under scrutiny they usually have a rational & logical explanation. More recently drones have been mistaken as UFOs.

    Then in the last month we've had video clips released from the Pentagon actually showing real UFOs filmed darting around at amazing speeds & doing manouvers that would be impossible for any manned craft to do. The G forces would be so powerful as to kill any human occupants, so what was witnessed by the US Navy pilots and the aircraft carrier radar?

    Are UFOs terrestrial or extraterrestrial craft?

    Illusions or really there, imagination or reality?

    What are UFOs !


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  • Registered Users Posts: 895 ✭✭✭Mocha Joe


    Cant really be illusions or imaginations if they're on video.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Ive never even seen Michael Schenker.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,541 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Yes I believe in UFOs. UNIDENTIFIED flying object.
    Unidentified being the point.
    It could be several things , birds,planes,balloons,flares including possibly aliens. Who knows ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭corks finest


    Why not, my nana point-blank refused to believe that man actually landed on the moon


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,145 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    Many years ago I saw something very strange in my housing estate. Myself and my friend were standing outside his house one evening when a hole opened up in the clouds and an object came down and shone a light on one of the houses. It stayed there for about 10 seconds and then went back up in the sky and the hole closed up again. This was before we had camera phones unfortunately.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,180 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    No. In the sense that I don't "believe in" the postman, but I have a fair idea he turns up most mornings.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Why not, my nana point-blank refused to believe that man actually landed on the moon

    Ditto.

    Wonder when we'll get to Mars?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    We did land on the moon


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Yep, 20th July1969, Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin.

    “That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,230 ✭✭✭jaxxx


    cj maxx wrote: »
    Yes I believe in UFOs. UNIDENTIFIED flying object.
    Unidentified being the point.
    It could be several things , birds,planes,balloons,flares including possibly aliens. Who knows ?


    This. UFO doesn't necessarily have to mean alien in origin. Plenty of things out there that we, the general public, don't know about. That's not conspiracy, that's just common sense. Of course there are government projects, private projects, etc that are purposefully kept top secret.

    That being said, if there are actually any species alien to planet Earth reading this right now, give me a call please cos I don't relate to Homo sapiens at all! Think I'm probably from Uranus. Just don't abduct me or probe me anally or anything like that, that's all I ask! I just want to be friends!!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 489 ✭✭Edgarfrndly


    That's a multi-layered question.

    We'll just take it as how you meant it. Do I believe flying saucers have visited earth? No. Do I believe life lives outside of our solar system and has the means to make a spacecraft that might resemble one and is capable of long-distance space travel? Sure.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    Mocha Joe wrote: »
    Cant really be illusions or imaginations if they're on video.

    Any video I’ve seen of supposedly UFO’s are not very clear and questionable to say the least. I don’t know what videos you’re looking at to convince you otherwise.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,376 ✭✭✭facehugger99


    I believe that any alien civilization, capable of interstellar travel, will not be flying saucer-shaped thingies around our skies.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,230 ✭✭✭jaxxx


    I believe that any alien civilization, capable of interstellar travel, will not be flying saucer-shaped thingies around our skies.


    Plus I rather doubt they would want to actually get in contact with us based on how violent we are. Let's face it, if an alien was discovered today, especially in 'Murica, it'd be carted off to some place against its will never again to see the light of day; all in the name of 'science'.


    Then again maybe I've watched too many movies.. .. ..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,180 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    jaxxx wrote: »
    Plus I rather doubt they would want to actually get in contact with us based on how violent we are. Let's face it, if an alien was discovered today, especially in 'Murica, it'd be carted off to some place against its will never again to see the light of day; all in the name of 'science'...

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,741 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    branie2 wrote: »
    We did land on the moon

    What’s it like up there?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Have you every seen an unidentified flying object?

    A UFO of course is just an aerial phenomenon that you can't explain (hence unidentified), & probably not at all connected to little green men from Mars.

    So what are UFOs and have you ever seen something in the sky that you couldn't explain?

    In the past many people have mistaken aircraft, weather balloons, silver party balloons, and even bright planets in the night sky as UFOs, but of course under scrutiny they usually have a rational & logical explanation. More recently drones have been mistaken as UFOs.

    Then in the last month we've had video clips released from the Pentagon actually showing real UFOs filmed darting around at amazing speeds & doing manouvers that would be impossible for any manned craft to do. The G forces would be so powerful as to kill any human occupants, so what was witnessed by the US Navy pilots and the aircraft carrier radar?

    Are UFOs terrestrial or extraterrestrial craft?

    Illusions or really there, imagination or reality?

    What are UFOs !


    i doubt il ever see one but its possible some people have


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭mr_fegelien


    Yes and I believe in many conspiracies but wouldn't care so much if they were false or true. Don't obsess over them.

    I personally think (and I've read this theory before) that aliens that came here from another planet/dimension actually wanted to test humans reactions to an extraterrestial civilisation and thus created ambiguous alien reports that make some people think aliens are ridiculous and others think they're credible. From a UFOlogist, the goal of some aliens is deception, they're trying to deceive humans. Give them 50% truth, 50% false.

    So I think, contrary to what people say the government would allow movies, TV shows about UFO's if they existed. Some of these shows accurately portray aliens and some are total bull****. All designed intentionally to lead humans down a path (almost disinformation_. To mold their opinion on aliens so that when they do reveal themselves, it won't be surprising.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,512 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Dr. Bre wrote: »
    What’s it like up there?

    No atmosphere.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,238 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Of course I do. I and several others with me saw several bright glowing circular orbs in the sky. stayed there for a good while too. A former ATC also admitted to me that he had seen them as well.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,638 ✭✭✭✭bangkok


    seen 2 ufo's with about 8 to 10 other people when we stopped our car on the road years ago, one was higher than the other, red in colour, the strangest part was there was no sound from them whatsoever, we all watched them for about 5-10 mins and then the 2 of them imploded and were gone, was the strangest thing i have ever seen in my life and will prob never see anything like it ever again.

    remember a few weeks later i was in the doctors and on the radio they were talking about UFO's and sightings around ireland, a few people called in and described exactly what i had seen a few weeks earlier from around the same time, the hair stood up on the back of my neck. will never forget it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    I believe that any alien civilization, capable of interstellar travel, will not be flying saucer-shaped thingies around our skies.

    And they’d say hello.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Dr. Bre wrote: »
    What’s it like up there?

    Cheesy


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭Immortal Starlight


    About 10 years ago late at night my mam was out in the back garden bringing in clothes off the line. I was standing at the back door which was open. We both noticed straight in front of us in the sky there was a bright white light. There was a lot of stars so at the beginning I thought it was just one star was brighter than the rest. My mam said to me wasn’t it too bright to be a star and couldn’t be an aeroplane because it hadn’t moved in the 20 minutes since we’d seen it.
    All of a sudden the light shot across the sky over our house and vanished. This happened in the blink of an eye and there’s no aeroplane that could have been.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,029 ✭✭✭Rhys Essien


    bangkok wrote: »
    seen 2 ufo's with about 8 to 10 other people when we stopped our car on the road years ago, one was higher than the other, red in colour, the strangest part was there was no sound from them whatsoever, we all watched them for about 5-10 mins and then the 2 of them imploded and were gone, was the strangest thing i have ever seen in my life and will prob never see anything like it ever again.

    remember a few weeks later i was in the doctors and on the radio they were talking about UFO's and sightings around ireland, a few people called in and described exactly what i had seen a few weeks earlier from around the same time, the hair stood up on the back of my neck. will never forget it

    By any chance would this have been 1993?..if so my experience is similar to yours in that one bright moonlit evening myself and my two friends happened to look up and saw a huge craft just hovering silently behind the clouds. Very eerie experience. And lo and behold a day or two later I remember hearing on radio, tv and in newspapers they were talking about a UFO wave over Ireland and Britain and reports from multiple sightings.

    Two seconds on google just brought up this RTÉ report from the time.

    https://www.rte.ie/archives/2018/0321/949136-ufos-over-ireland/

    So OP, to answer your question, I 100% believe from my own personal experience that we are being regularly visited by inter-dimensional beings rather than interstellar beings.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    So OP, to answer your question, I 100% believe from my own personal experience that we are being regularly visited by inter-dimensional beings rather than interstellar beings.

    Interesting, very interesting theory.

    Or is it possible that we share this planet internally & externally with life other than carbon based, on another level or indeed another dimension?


  • Registered Users Posts: 181 ✭✭Sarcozies


    I'd say the vast majority of not all are government aircraft that they are testing.

    It's hilarious how the height of all these sightings occured just before everyone and their mother had a high quality video recorder in their pockets :pac


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,547 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    I think aliens COULD exist. But the evidence we have for their existence is just not good enough to believe it's true.

    We might get more evidence in the future and then we'd have to re-evaluate. Bit unexplained flying objects are UNEXPLAINED. So they can't be used as evidence for anything until they're explained.


  • Posts: 14,344 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Two seconds on google just brought up this RTÉ report from the time.

    https://www.rte.ie/archives/2018/0321/949136-ufos-over-ireland/




    I love that.


    RTE Reporter: It was strange, alien-like behaviour.


    Chap with massive telescope: 'More than likely it was just a bit of a satelite, sometimes the casings...' (RTE fades to black and ignores him). :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,180 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    I'll just leave this thing here:

    14697480_f520.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,029 ✭✭✭Rhys Essien


    Sarcozies wrote: »
    I'd say the vast majority of not all are government aircraft that they are testing.

    It's hilarious how the height of all these sightings occured just before everyone and their mother had a high quality video recorder in their pockets :pac

    They seem to have been witnessed for millennia. Christopher Columbus wrote something about seeing a craft. The monks in Ireland saw something strange in the sky in the 1400’s. In WWII all the reports from pilots about the 'Foo Fighters'.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 242 ✭✭Flickerfusion


    The majority of them in the US seem to take place in places like Nevada and so on near areas where the US military and defence companies would be conducting tests of new aircraft, drones and missiles.

    It’s very likely many of those sightings you hear about were just prototype aircraft.

    It’s very probable that drones and so on have been in development since at least the 1950s. The technology has just become more mainstream and affordable which has brought them into consumer markets in more recent years.

    Also if you were an advanced alien race, why would you spend so much time abducting and probing rural Americans? They’re not that interesting!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 161 ✭✭LeYouth


    I wonder do they have recessions on alien planets. I wonder are they giving out about dole payments there....and travellers. Do you think there's an alien Dublin out there? Oh god.

    *Collapses.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,638 ✭✭✭✭bangkok


    By any chance would this have been 1993?..if so my experience is similar to yours in that one bright moonlit evening myself and my two friends happened to look up and saw a huge craft just hovering silently behind the clouds. Very eerie experience. And lo and behold a day or two later I remember hearing on radio, tv and in newspapers they were talking about a UFO wave over Ireland and Britain and reports from multiple sightings.

    Two seconds on google just brought up this RTÉ report from the time.

    https://www.rte.ie/archives/2018/0321/949136-ufos-over-ireland/

    So OP, to answer your question, I 100% believe from my own personal experience that we are being regularly visited by inter-dimensional beings rather than interstellar beings.

    probably was around then, not sure of the year but would have been around that time. will never forget how it just vanished in on top of itself


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,638 ✭✭✭✭bangkok


    jimgoose wrote: »
    I'll just leave this thing here:

    14697480_f520.jpg

    ah yes, the Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar, a pile of crap that they could barely fly


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,029 ✭✭✭Rhys Essien


    Interesting, very interesting theory.

    Or is it possible that we share this planet internally & externally with life other than carbon based, on another level or indeed another dimension?

    Could well be the case. There are several cases of UFOs seen going into and coming out of the water and also a theory that they have some connection with Volcanoes. There are videos on YouTube showing objects flying around and into several volcanoes including Popocatepetl in Mexico (which it so happens they have a constant live feed going on YouTube), Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland and Sakurajima in Japan.

    This video here of the last one is bizarre to say the least.

    https://youtu.be/ShMmP7Sy6Mc


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,512 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    They seem to have been witnessed for millennia. Christopher Columbus wrote something about seeing a craft. The monks in Ireland saw something strange in the sky in the 1400’s. In WWII all the reports from pilots about the 'Foo Fighters'.

    If Columbus and everyone after him behaved like the "aliens", native tribes would be reporting these mysterious sea going vessels with big sails that never seem to make landfall.

    If a technologically superior race ever got here for real, we would be fücked.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭LillySV


    Yep, 20th July1969, Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin.

    “That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”

    There is a lot that believe they never did ... they believe the US wanted to outdo the Russians and it was all filmed on earth ....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,512 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    LillySV wrote: »
    There is a lot that believe they never did ... they believe the US wanted to outdo the Russians and it was all filmed on earth ....

    They're the sort who believe in little green (or grey) men as well.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,454 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    bangkok wrote: »
    ah yes, the Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar, a pile of crap that they could barely fly
    Canadians wasting US taxpayers money :p



    flsaucer001-22.jpg

    The Russians had these
    https://englishrussia.com/2013/07/18/russian-flying-saucer/



    220px-Vought_V173_Rear_View.jpg

    There was the Vought V-173




    And a lot of tailless aircraft like the B2 can look saucer shaped from the side.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭LillySV


    The majority of them in the US seem to take place in places like Nevada and so on near areas where the US military and defence companies would be conducting tests of new aircraft, drones and missiles.

    It’s very likely many of those sittings you hear about were just prototype aircraft.

    It’s very probable that drones and so on have been in development since at least the 1950s. The technology has just become more mainstream and affordable which has brought them into consumer markets in more recent years.

    Also if you were an advanced alien race, why would you spend so much time abducting and probing rural Americans? They’re not that interesting!!


    Drove through there years ago, wanted to see rainbow canyon on the way to Vegas as loads of fight jets known to practice their moves there.... a good while later in journey I spoke to afew local guys near a Vietnam memorial in desert and they said you’d never know what you would see around here... the likes of blackbird jet fighters regularly flying by at supersonic speeds and only the height of a telegraph pole ... loads of experimental jets there. Was pulled by a cop for speeding half hour later (he was sound and let me away btw) and I told him I hadn’t notice me speed as was keeping an eye out to indiana springs airbase ... he said that’s where they fly and control drones from out in the likes of Iraq.... he said you never know what you see over there either ....lots of experimental stuff... seen afew f35s and the likes there he said ... I thought he was bluffing until I seen his car pull into his office across the way from the airbase later while carrying on my journey ... id say it’s a huge testing ground for experimental stuff


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,841 ✭✭✭buried


    Think they are something probably from another dimension quite close to us, which science has proved exists, 4th, 5th dimensions. Good few of the probably are military. Wasn't the Stealth Bomber prototype made in the 60's but only made public during the first Gulf War in the early 90's?

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    I'm sure they are out there but that theory about a civilisation blowing up their own planet before they can explore other worlds probably rings true


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    jaxxx wrote: »
    Plus I rather doubt they would want to actually get in contact with us based on how violent we are. Let's face it, if an alien was discovered today, especially in 'Murica, it'd be carted off to some place against its will never again to see the light of day; all in the name of 'science'.


    Then again maybe I've watched too many movies.. .. ..

    How do you know aliens are non violent assuming they exist?


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,454 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Dakota Dan wrote: »
    How do you know aliens are non violent assuming they exist?
    They haven't nudged an asteroid towards us.

    Make no mistake any civilisation capable of interstellar travel could wipe us out with far less energy than it would take to return home.

    Also ET can access more resources in the asteroids than in all the mines at the bottom of the gravity well we live in.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    LillySV wrote: »
    There is a lot that believe they never did ... they believe the US wanted to outdo the Russians and it was all filmed on earth ....

    And the story goes that it inspired the magnificent 1978 film Capricorn One which depicts a hoax trip to Mars. Problem for the crew is that they can't be allowed to live in case they spill the beans, so ......
    Great thriller if you haven't already seen it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭LillySV


    And the story goes that it inspired the magnificent 1978 film Capricorn One which depicts a hoax trip to Mars. Problem for the crew is that they can't be allowed to live in case they spill the beans, so ......
    Great thriller if you haven't already seen it.

    Haha, may watch that :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,238 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    I was told this by a man I know well and he didn't say that much usually. That one night a glowing silvery round object landed in the paddock near his house he could see it from his upstairs window. Not that large 15 to 20 ft across. I asked if he got his shotgun and went out to look at it and he said he was too frightened and didn't tell his wife but locked up and went to bed. A while later he got up to check if it was still there but it had gone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,741 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    Maybe aliens planted covid 19 here


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    UFOs are just unidentified flying objects. So yes there are flying objects we can't identify. ....they could be birds ...dunno.


    Aliens ..i suppose yes there is life on other planets by law of averages so they say.

    Aliens among us? I don't know ..maybe. I've never seen one.


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