Author Topic: Had a UFO encounter last night (Read 1816 times)

Graybeard · « **on:** April 03, 2006, 11:20:43 AM »

Seriously. :eek:

Again last night it was a warm night so prior to going to bed I went out and sat on the front porch or an hour or so prior to turning in. Must have been close to midnight when I went out. The night was clear as a bell with stars shining as brightly as all the night lights from the neighborhood would allow.

Didn't see a single lightning bug the entire hour or so I sat there and only one single airplane which is VERY unusual as Sunday night is usually a very busy night for planes over us. We're apparently on the flight path of planes headed west from Atlanta or east to it from out west. A normal night has us seeing 50+ in an hour.

Now to the UFO encounter. I'd been sitting there for perhaps ten minutes or so, my eyes having plenty of time to get accustomed to the darkness. All of a sudden a bright light streak came from behind the house and went only a short way out from the roof of the porch before disappearing.

What was it? Beats the heck outta me. My best guess is a shooting star that burned out just after I saw it but it looked different some how than most of those I see. Couldn't have been a lightning bug as I said I saw none in about an hour or so there. Don't know what the heck it was thus it was unidentified and clearly it was flying and it appeared to be some kinda object so that makes it an UFO.

No I have no foolish thoughts that it was extraterrestial in nature. I just can't explain what it was.

Teufelwald · « **Reply #1 on:** April 03, 2006, 01:14:40 PM »

Wisill · « **Reply #2 on:** April 03, 2006, 02:39:01 PM »

Would you say it was moving as fast as a normal shooting star would have been?

I had a weird thing happen a few years ago, with a totally explainable answer once I learned what it was. I was standing outside the business I worked at, late at night, having a cig and watching the sky. I saw a small white dot floating across the sky, and immediately thought it was a satellite. However, after watching this thing moving for about a minute, it suddenly became very bright, so bright it appeared to light up the whole sky momentarily, then went out, and I saw the same little white dot continuing on it's way. My first thought was that it was a meteor that had skipped across the upper atmosphere, and was now heading back out into space.

Wanting to know more, I posted a description of what I had seen on a message board, and someone came back with the suggestion it had been an Iridium Flare caused by an Iridium Satellite. A WHAT? I thought, so I did a google search and found out some pretty interesting things. The Iridium Satellites have these massive panels that collect solar energy, and are polished to a mirror-like finish. When the angle is just right between you, and the Iridium Satellite, it actually reflects the sun from it's panels to your eyes. That explains why it was so bright.

Here is the link to a picture of an Iridium Flare..

http://satobs.org/iridium.html

To see if maybe what you saw was something man-made, check out this site...

http://www.heavens-above.com/

The registration page wasn't working when I just tried, but you can still use the site by inputing your location at the bottom of the home page by clicking on SELECT. This will give you data on all kinds of space stuff flying over your house at different times. If you remember the date and time you saw what you did, you can track to see if anything man-made was over you at the time. Interesting site to say the least.

jgalar · « **Reply #3 on:** April 03, 2006, 05:15:16 PM »

I have seen a few meteorites burn up just before touching down. They look like what you described. Sometimes they slow down and drift a bit before they wink out.

The reason I looked at the posting in the first place is last night there were reports of UFO sightings in the Dallas/Fort Worth area - I guess these reports had the bright lights heading straight up at high speed.

NONYA · « **Reply #4 on:** April 03, 2006, 05:24:01 PM »

I was driving through Wyoming late one night and saw a meteorite come down and disappear behind a hill in front of me,a few miles down the road we came over a low hill and there was a field on fire and a couple patrol cars parked with thier headlights shining on the burning area,they must have seen it come down as well because they were on scene imediatly.I dont know how big the piece was that hit the ground but it started a fire within minutes.

Graybeard · « **Reply #5 on:** April 03, 2006, 05:32:10 PM »

I'm reasonably confident what I saw was just a meteorite at the end of it's life. But at least most seem to have a kinda big bang effect right at the end that this one didn't. Not all do that of course and this one didn't. Still I have no illusions it was anything other than that.

Now Faye did claim to see what was seen over Dallas/Ft. Worth. I'll let her describe it. She said she saw two after she joined me on the porch but I saw neither of them.

Mrs Graybeard · « **Reply #6 on:** April 04, 2006, 04:19:45 AM »

The same night that GB had his sighting I saw a bright light go straight up in front of me and disappear. Then I saw another one go across in front of me and disappear. Don't know what they were.

Faye

Savage .250 · « **Reply #7 on:** April 05, 2006, 02:02:44 AM »

At this time i have "no comment."

wijim · « **Reply #8 on:** April 05, 2006, 04:18:39 AM »

Quote from: Savage .250

At this time i have "no comment."

but isnt "no comment" a comment in and of itself?

ive seen odd stuff flying but just odd enough for me to wonder a bit. i saw a light across the sky moving faster than what i thought a plane could move...then it took way too sharp a turn for it to be a plane as well. never did figure out what it was.....probably wont know either.

NONYA · « **Reply #9 on:** April 05, 2006, 08:22:37 AM »

I have been laying out on the ground in the hills watching satallites and seen one take a SHARP turn almost 90*,i guess that is possible for them to do though...isnt it? :?

Graybeard · « **Reply #10 on:** April 05, 2006, 11:29:36 AM »

Beats the heck outta me, I guess it depends on how fast that astronut driving it can turn the steering wheel.

Wisill · « **Reply #11 on:** April 05, 2006, 11:38:14 AM »

Quote from: NONYA

I have been laying out on the ground in the hills watching satallites and seen one take a SHARP turn almost 90*,i guess that is possible for them to do though...isnt it? :?

Ummmmmmm... no

WmRoy · « **Reply #12 on:** April 05, 2006, 01:36:27 PM »

Quote from: Wisill

Quote from: NONYA
I have been laying out on the ground in the hills watching satallites and seen one take a SHARP turn almost 90*,i guess that is possible for them to do though...isnt it? :?

Ummmmmmm... no

Yeah............. that would be a real trick!!! The only way it could possibly do that would be if it hit something and rubble went flying off...... even then I doubt the angle would be anywhere close to 90 degrees.......... ANY ENGINEERS or Math Wiz's out there??

countryrebel8174 · « **Reply #13 on:** April 06, 2006, 12:23:49 AM »

i seen a "ufo" it looked like a blue light going across the skyline up in the timber in eastern oregon, my grandma thought it was a truck but my grandpa said there was no roads to get there you have to hike or go on horse back, we watched it for a bit...then it stopped and went straight up and was gone. that scared my grandma aweful bad so we went in the house. to this day i dont think ill ever know what it was. all i know is that i couldnt identify it , it flew and it had to have been some kinda object, other then that i just dont know.

country rebel

WmRoy · « **Reply #14 on:** April 06, 2006, 03:03:22 AM »

I remember once back in the mid seventies.... my father had purchased a new ranch outside of Chamberlain So. Dak. It was calving season and we moved some cattle in (the place hadn't been grazed the previous summer) and I was out watching the cows the first night there. I ended up staying with them all night since Dad was worried there would be alot of calves that night due to the stress of moving. Anyway......... I stopped the pickup along the creek facing east and shut the pickup off and closed my eyes for a quick nap...... (you've got to learn how to catch short naps when yer a cowboy!)....... well it was probably 2-3 am and all of a sudden I woke up and I realized there was a light that was flying towards me..... RIGHT THROUGH THE TREES........... BUGGER......... my eyes about fell out of my head........ and then there was a TERRIBLE LOUD SOUND....... as the train went screaming by me................ :-D :-D :-D ........ I had forgotten (heck I'd only been there a couple of times and I was asleep) there was a train track that cut the place right in half........ :-D :-D :-D

But for a couple of seconds there it scared the you know what out of me!

Savage .250 · « **Reply #15 on:** April 07, 2006, 03:30:27 AM »

Wijim:
Dam your good!

jerkface11 · « **Reply #16 on:** April 07, 2006, 04:48:41 AM »

The only way something can make an instant 90 degree turn is if it has no inertia. So whatever you guys have seen either has no mass or has something on board to turn off inertia. Either way you can garuntee it wasn't built on earth.

powderman · « **Reply #17 on:** April 07, 2006, 03:59:30 PM »

About 8-10 years ago my family and I watched a show every night for about 2 weeks or so. These lights in the sky would appear to the east of us, 1-6 at a time. They would circle, cut all kinds of didos. Go straight up, turn on a dime. Through binocs they appeared rather bowl shaped. When they would leave they were just a quick blur, more like a flash. Last time we saw them was at dusk. They were carrying on as usual when 2 jets came towards them, one from the North, the other from the south. As the jets streaked towards them, they all suddenly shot straight up, just a flash, and gone. The fighters came in and circled a while, then left. Never found out what they were. We're not far from FT KNOX, I wonder if it was some experimental stuff?? POWDERMAN.

SAWgunner · « **Reply #18 on:** April 07, 2006, 07:51:38 PM »

Quote from: NONYA

I was driving through Wyoming late one night and saw a meteorite come down and disappear behind a hill in front of me,a few miles down the road we came over a low hill and there was a field on fire and a couple patrol cars parked with thier headlights shining on the burning area,they must have seen it come down as well because they were on scene imediatly.I dont know how big the piece was that hit the ground but it started a fire within minutes.

I have also see that in here in Southern WY while on trains late at night/early in the morning. We get some pretty spectacular shooting star "deaths" on these things at night.