Ufo.

[Atheist]

Has anyone here ever seen a UFO? Not necessarily a 'flying saucer', just something they couldn't puzzle out what it might be.

[naomi24]

hereIam, don't stop now. I'm still reading.

[Canary42]

I love the paradox UFO. Once you've identified it as a UFO it's not unidentified so it's not a UFO after all.

[hereIam]

Ok naomi. The second time was when I was at work, again some years ago. I happened to look out of the window and I saw what looked like a small cloud very low down, but it was moving faster than a cloud and in the opposite direction to the other clouds! I said to my colleague sat behind me something like 'look at that, what do you think it is?' and as she got up to look a light went around inside it, similar to the way a lighthouse light goes round. We were both stunned and couldn't imagine what the hell it could be and we stood and watched it slowly disappear over the rooftops. That Friday in the local rag, there was a story about UFO sightings in the area and asking if anybody had seen anything and to get in touch. We didn't because quite frankly what we saw wasn't your 'typical' sighting of a UFO, but a UFO it was ! I often think about both these incidents because they were strange and just couldn't be explained.

[naomi24]

hereIam. Oo-er! I bet you're pleased someone else saw it with you. I know I was. At least you know you're not imagining it.

[hereIam]

No, definitely not imagined naomi, but very, very strange. I wonder if we'll ever know the answers to these things ..

[Atheist]

I find it fascinating to hear from people who have seen odd things. The usual response to UFO sightings is to ignore them, because we all know that flying saucers are too far out to believe in. So the papers and other media don't bother to report or follow them up, because they can't. They don't impact on everyday life. But the people who see things remain puzzled. They think, 'Why is nobody interested?'

[SparklyKid]

There are always rational explanations. Trick of the light, shadows, weather balloons. The notion of little green men travelling trillions of miles just to look at us is laughable.

[SparklyKid]

I believe there are other lifeforms out there and also believe we shall never know.

[Atheist]

Sparkly. You shouldn't refer to little green men in such a dismissive tone. I don't think any ufo reports have referred to little green men. You say that you believe that there other life forms out there, but you believe we shall never know. I am sure that if there are other life forms out there we shall eventually know.

[SparklyKid]

Unless we can ( which we can't) travel at the speed of light we could never go far enough to find out. Also with all the high tech radar, telescopes ,cameras etc why has nothing conclusive ever been recorded.

[SillySpider]

I've seen some lights far away in space, it flew much faster then satellite

[Arksided]

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”

Arthur C. Clarke

[naomi24]

// The notion of little green men travelling trillions of miles just to look at us is laughable. //

Green, I'm not sure about green, but how far do we delve into space?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46502820

^Unmanned, granted - but early days. We are infants. If that probe is ever discovered by a civilisation occupying a far distant world I wonder what they'll make of it?

[alavahalf]

My experience was some years ago in Donegal not far from Malin Head. It was January and we had plenty snow on the ground, clear blue skies from one horizon to the other, it was a proper winters day.
In the morning we had felled some tall trees to make supports for a shed roof. We knew the afternoon was going to be spent removing the bark from the trees. We were about 50 mtrs. above sea level and where we were working, we looked out to a mountain opposite which was a few hundred metres tall. On top of the mountain was a very visible communications mast, I could see a few dishes and a number of ariels on it .. nothing else. Speaking to my relatives I said that I bet their weren't too many people looking at the view we had today. 'Stop gazing and keep scraping' was the reply. I couldn't stop looking up at the mountain in awe of the scenery. All of a sudden I looked up at the mast and I would guess a few hundred metres above it, was a sphere, just sitting there. There was no way that it was attached to the mast ,but then it started to drop down directly above the mast. Asking my relatives about it, they said ''it's lovely.. keep scraping''. When they did look up they said they had never seen it before.
I knew that it wasn't possible for something to lower itself from the sky like that and just sit on top of the mast. It seemed to reflect the sun and looked like it was spinning. My relatives said it was probably some engineers putting a new dish up .. they hadn't seen it arrive.
I asked if ' invisible engineers delivered dishes in invisible helicopters in Ireland'.. and ''why would you fit a dish that was bigger than the mast itself'' ?
For the rest of the afternoon I watched it constantly as it rose up into the sky and then slowly down, many times. Nobody around me took it serious, although they all seen it. After three hours it was getting incredibly cold and we decided to call it a day and downed tools. I hung on for a bit longer and waited outside watching it. I couldn't take my eyes off it as I knew it wasn't right to be able to hover like that. It was still a bright clear day and still with blue skies with light just beginning to fade. The next thing whatever it was rose up again and just sat in the sky possibly at about 1000 metres above the mast, in the space of 1 second I watched it as it climbed and disappeared out of sight. It didn't go over the horizon, it just disappeared high into the northern sky in a sweeping arc. The distance it traveled in a second or so, I couldn't begin to guess, but as someone who was an engineer at the time, I know we have nothing on earth that is anywhere near capable of that motion.
We headed off to the pub soon after where I was the butt of the jokes about my little green men, the flying saucers and do you want a Mars Bar with your beer .. until another local arrived and sat quietly. He listened into the conversation and was really pleased for me to confirm I had seen it, as he then admitted to having watched it all afternoon from his armchair and thought he might be going mad. He to had seen it leave and his teeth almost fell out when I said ''I had also seen it go''. He was gobsmacked and asked ''How could you describe the speed it went at'', I said ''unless you seen it, you couldn't''. We talked about the experience and agreed that no one will ever believe us. Who knows ?

So yes, without a doubt I know from my experience that afternoon ..that we are not alone ..

[Theland]

Mrs T saw some craft a few years ago, long cigar shape, and flying and changing direction impossibly.

Never seen anything myself.

Should not call them, "little green men," or Diane Abbot will cry, "Racism," saying the, "vertically compromised," and the green skinned brothers are deserving of our respect! (And benefits, and housing, and counselling, and seats in the Commons. Black equals green!)