I saw my first ufo

[Kathy]

I saw my first UFO lat week
I was doing laundry at my apartments laundry room around 10:30pm and my daughter wanted to ride in her wagon while we waited,so i pulled her around our parking lot.  we have no lights around us for a few blocks where we live and we are very close to the Sandia Mountains so it is very dark. i was looking at the sky and admiring the stars,when i noticed that one was moving!  I thought my eyes were playing trick so i focused on  another spot with other stars close by the one i thought was moving and sure enough it was moving!!!  I watched it for about 12-15 min total. it was moving in a curved line to the south. it was about the size of the north star and just as bright. I watched and never took my eyes of it,at the end it rose even higher and got smaller in size and a little dimmer then all of a sudden it took off. it was so fast all that was left was the white streak it left behind that only lasted for a second maybe less. I felt so happy,excited and in awe. I ran upstairs and told my husband. i have been so mystified since!

I know it was not a plane because it was WAY to high and slow,and i know it was not a jet because there was no sound and also it was moving so slow. I've seen weather ballons and it was nothing like that, they don't look or move in this manner.

I know it's supposed to be the thing to do here in New Mexico (Abq) with Roswell and all but i have gone to Roswell and Carlsbad and near area 51 and white sands, but i have never seen one for myself in all my 26 years in this life.

[ND013]

AWESOME!!!

It's been years since last time I saw one. Of course, it scared the hell outta me, so I'm not really all that eager to see another. However, I do think it's a very exciting thing.

[Gaiano]

I've seen UFO's twice in my life. Both with my twin brother and we saw them in the exact same place. Granted we do live next an airport, but this was NO plane. It started off looking like an unusually bright star, then it started changing colors from white, to blue, to green, to yellow, to red. All the while it was moving floating in the same spot while moving around in turns that are impossible for planes. Of course I went back inside my house and my parents didn't believe us, even though they have also seen UFOs.

[Theflyingsorcerer]

One day last August I spent an evening at a rural location near Vernon, British Columbia, Canada, with a group of "UFO Believers", watching the sky; the group leader solemnly identified every shooting star and odd shaped cloud  as an alien spaceship, and every shadow in the trees as an alien being, watching us; and the whole group seemed to drink it all up as some kind of Divine revelation. I wanted to scream at them; "You're all idiots! They're just clouds! They're just meteors!", but I restrained myself. With difficulty.

I'm also a member of another Internet forum which brands itself as "Skeptical", but which really consists of "True Believers" in the scientific-materialist-debunking paradigm; to them,"all" reports of UFO's are misidentifications of common phenomena, hallucinations, hoaxes or outright lies. I sometimes want to scream at them too; "You keep saying there's no evidence, but you're just ignoring the evidence that exists! Something really weird is happening out there! Are you all just blind, or what?" Again, I restrain myself. Usually.

Each in their own particular way, both groups are delusional, it seems to me. It's probably true to say that 90 or 95% of all UFO reports are explicable in purely mundane terms, but there remains that intriguing 5 or 10% residue of really strange cases.

My own classic UFO sighting happened in the early summer of 1974. With my (now ex-)wife, I had just immigrated to Canada and was driving cross-country from Montreal, where we had landed, to Vancouver. In no particular hurry we were taking a meandering route to see as much of the country as possible, and on the day in question we were in a campground in Jasper National Park, just to the south of the town of Jasper. It was early afternoon, we were sitting at a picnic table, and I happened to glance up. We were in a small clearing with tall trees all around, so there was a clear patch of sky above us. As I watched, a glowing green disc, full-moon sized, moved fairly slowly across that bit of sky. My wife was looking at me quizzically; I said, slowly, "I think I've just seen a UFO." She's Capricorn and thus by nature skeptical; she smiled, as if to say "oh, really?" and I didn't press the point. We finished our lunch together.

What I saw wasn't a meteor or an odd shaped cloud; it wasn't a balloon, or a frisbee, or space junk re-entering the atmosphere, or any kind of aircraft I'm familiar with; it wasn't the Moon, or Venus, or car headlights reflected off clouds, or any of the usual "skeptical" explanations. It wasn't a hallucination either; I wasn't on any kind of drug (well, maybe a drop of caffeine). Was it an alien spaceship? Probably not, but I'm hesitant to give what I saw any kind of arbitrary identity or pseudo-explanation.

All I can truly say is, that on that June day in 1974, something very, very strange happened, and I was a witness to it.

Blessed Be everyone,

Theflyingsorcerer.