Do you believe in UFOs & flying saucers ?

lintdrummer wrote: »

Saw something mildly interesting in the sky last night that I may as well share here. My family were staying in a cottage in west Clare for the week. I was outside having a smoke when i spotted something to the west. A bright light, similar to a star but larger. It was getting quite dark at this stage but there was a bit of light left to the west. So this was visible against the last light of dusk if you know what I mean. The cottage is approx 1km from the coast and I would estimate this object was at least 10km away so well out over the water.

The light was shimmering white. It caught my attention because of how bright it was but also because I had a visual reference to it's movement in the form of a telephone pole. When I began observing it it was in line with the wire on the top of the pole. It was moving slowly straight down. No lateral movement. I called my family out to see it and we watched it descend slowly before disappearing below the horizon. From when I first noticed it to it disappearing took about 4 or 5 minutes.

There is a view of the Atlantic from the house, but the direction we were observing this light in has a small hill blocking the view of the sea. So when I say it disappeared below the horizon it wasn't the sea horizon, just below the hill in the distance.

Never seen anything like it before, nor had any of my family. Now, I'm a pilot, so I know an aircraft when I see one. This had no beacon or navigation lights that I could see. It wasn't moving laterally nor was it getting any closer to or further away from our position. The only thing that may explain it would be a helicopter at sea, with it's landing lights on, pointing in our direction continuously while performing a very slowly descending hover.

We considered chinese lanterns but not only would they have a more orange light that wouldn't be as bright, they would be drifting laterally in the wind. Likewise for a weather balloon.

The only other thing then would be a star. This is the most obvious answer but I've never seen a star this big and bright against a sky with some light left in it. Then there's the speed at which it moved, which was slow but noticeable and faster than I would associate with celestial movement. Finally, against the reference of the telephone pole it moved vertically, no lateral movement at all, which is not how celestial objects are observed.

So that's it, will probably never know what it was.

Rhys Essien wrote: »

I’m not really expecting much at all to be honest. They are hardly going to say ‘ Ok, we have advanced beings visiting Earth from Zeta Reticuli'. I’d say it will probably be along the lines of what Obama said to James Corden recently. That the military have tracked/witnessed objects in the sky that they cannot explain.

And you can be sure that next Sunday week the vast majority of people will still laugh at the subject.

spegnor87 wrote: »

Talk on the grapevine is that the report will disclose more details on the Galatic Federation leaked by the Israelis. There's rumours that the extraterrestrials are believers in a universal Islam which would be another paradigm shift in itself.

yourdeadwright wrote: »

That's my point there always form something that can't take a good picture,
Do you not find that a bit strange all the thousand of UFO sightings down the years and every single one bar none are on absolute terrible camera's or infer red or anything that simply does not give you a good imagine ,

If this was a big foot thread everyone would be laughing ,

It's 2021 no good imagine then get the hell out of here

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Like I said it's beyond our understanding. What if they can build a craft, not out of aluminum, or steel, but light? That they somehow can harness light energy into a usable craft that they control, not by piloting it, but in the same way that we control unmanned surveillance and reconnaissance aerial vehicles. That they control it from afar.
Would explain how it traveled here, if it's purely light,if you were standing on a sky scraper with a laser, and pointed it to the east, in a nano second you could turn and point it to the west. That's how this UAPs move, as if light, yes you can move it slowly across the sky like a laser, as 9000 mph, or you can just turn it on a dime and shoot straight up.