Posted on 07/15/2013 6:47:01 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Human beings have always seen unidentified objects in the sky. From the prophet Ezekiel’s sighting of a flying wheel in 593 B.C., to the 1561 A.D. Battle over Nuremberg, Germany, to Kenneth Arnold’s “pie plate” UFOs spotted near Mt. Rainer, Washington, in June 1947, there are things above our heads that baffle us.
Many of these unidentified flying objects appear to be intelligently controlled aircraft. Others, like the following sightings in California and Illinois, defy explanation.
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Years ago in rural northern VT I saw a UFO, it was pretty close, in the night sky, hovering over a field. It was either a UFO or some kind of secret military flying thing. It was circular, utterly silent, could hover, had lights of a few colors around, and it just stayed there for a while. This was when I was a teenager so any memory of distances are very, very approximate. Maybe 200 to 400 feet off the ground? It was pretty low. THen it sped away so incredibly fast I hardly saw it diminish in size before it was gone.
Not a single sound.
If you want to get a rational idea of what flying saucers are, read the book “Intercept UFO” by Renato Vesco. Basically, it outlines the german development of flying saucer projects at the end of the war, and the allies won that war... 2 years later, we started seeing the results. Pretty simple. It obeys Occham’s Razor, which the ET hypothesis just ignores.
Despite what a few would assert, I believe you, that you are telling the truth of what you experience. I too have had a rather significant sighting. We are not lying, and we were not hallucinating, but some will continue to push that meme because of their own agenda if personal or paid.
And I didn’t read books or magazines about them, didn’t think about them, didn’t “believe” or “not believe” in them - the whole UFO topic just wasn’t in my mind at all. Obviously I’d heard of them - this was the late 60s, and I had my own share (big plateful) of family and school problems, and just wasn’t expecting to see them or hoping to or anything of the sort. Went outside at night to take a walk, as it was summer and hot and the evening was nice and cool. Very rural, no lights from town or even any neighbors, it was an old farm, about 15 miles from the CA border.
The weird thing is I just went to a wooden pasture gate and leaned on it and - there the thing was, came pretty fast, just the way it left.
I had another odd experience right around the same time; might have even been that night. Won’t recount it on the thread; it wasn’t shady or icky or anything, just don’t want to put it out there for people to scorn.
And I never saw another one, and that didn’t disappoint me, I don’t look for them. But after that, I know they exist.
The best book ever written on this particular topic:
Vallee, Jacques, and Chris Aubeck, “Wonders in the Sky”
Thanks for the ping!
I’ve seen things in the sky that I can’t explain either, LJ.
One of the more interesting things I’ve seen was in 1985. I was driving from Los Angeles, to a company dinner in San Pedro, CA after dark. The sky was completely overcast and filled with cloud cover.
After I’d exited the southbound Harbor Freeway, and was driving on Pacific Avenue, I began to see bright lights zipping around in the clouds above. At first I paid little attention to them, thinking that they must be the reflections of searchlights bouncing off the undersides of the cloud cover.
At some point I stopped at a red light at a place that was a natural high vantage point, overlooking L.A. harbor. I noticed one light track from far south of me, racing to a point that was far north of my position. It dawned on me that no ground-based searchlight could possibly create a dot that small on the cloud cover over such a long distance.
As I was incredulously chewing on that sudden realization, I began to notice other lights doing the same thing. I suppose there were about a half a dozen of them, and all of them were covering distances that defied the searchlight explanation. Not only that, I couldn’t spot any light beams emanating from the ground, like any searchlight would put out.
The traffic light turned green and I continued on my way, alternately watching the road and the mysterious lights doing their acrobatic dance overhead.
When I arrived at my destination and got out of my car, I could still see a few of them far off in the distance, zipping back and forth.
Driving home from the company dinner, I tried to make sense of what I’d seen - posing the usual explanations to myself, but none of them passed the logic test. The lights I’d seen were moving at speeds, and doing maneuvers that I’d never seen any sort of aircraft perform. Being a military brat, I’d seen all sorts of jet aircraft operate, and at full speed. Whatever these things were, they outperformed any jet aircraft I’d ever witnessed. They also didn’t make a single sound.
your closing logic is flawed....if there ARE aliens, we have the same God.......................covers it
re: “your closing logic is flawed....if there ARE aliens, we have the same God”
Now, I do agree with you that if aliens exist, God created them too.
bttt
we good
“Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?”
I know what I saw - don’t now what it was, but I know what I experienced.
My comment just above!
We seen what we seen!
Sho nuff.
I just recalled another detail about that sighting that's very important. When I realized that those weren't searchlight reflections, I took a closer look at the lights, and realized they were inside the clouds.
Now, I never did see a craft. Just lights zipping around inside the clouds. I'm satisfied that I saw something that's real but unexplained.
By “inside the clouds” do you mean “in the middle of the clouds” or “under the clouds”?
I suppose some of the unexplained stuff people see in the sky may be military technology people don’t know about, but I would also assume that if they test things they don’t want people to know about it, they won’t test things like that in the sky above LA.
I sometimes wonder if the vast majority of humans planet-wide believed the phenomena they were experiencing for certain had extra terrestrial origins, would it change their perspective to take a longer view on life as a planet family? ... Not the Muslims, to be sure, but the rest, I want to believe it would profoundly effect the way we interact and what we would tolerate from financial oligarchs now manipulating humankind so adversely.
I mean that the objects were obscured by the clouds and not visible in the open air. They were moving around just above the cloud cover. If they hadn't been illuminated, I wouldn't have seen them at all.
Ronald Reagan once asked the very same question. Remember that?
Yes, I remember it. I’m 68, nearly. He said it in front of the UN assembly. Like so many things RR said (back when his speech writer was an honest conservatives; she’s not so much now) this rings true even today, decades later.
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