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UFOs: Seen One? Personal UFO Sightings (IHTM; Miscellaneous)

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Think that was in Feb, there was another incident were they landed or likely more accrete rested
the landing gear of a helicopter on the roof of a school as part of a exercise, we are in a RAF low
fly zone and test area for BA systems, as well as lots of helicopter movements for the off shore
energy industry, we are well used to such things but every now and then something a little odd
like this light pops up.
 
RaM said:
Think that was in Feb, there was another incident were they landed or likely more accrete rested
the landing gear of a helicopter on the roof of a school as part of a exercise, we are in a RAF low
fly zone and test area for BA systems, as well as lots of helicopter movements for the off shore
energy industry, we are well used to such things but every now and then something a little odd
like this light pops up.
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Yes, your correct (realised my mistake just before having a look at your post back).
*Made error of not checking date of report/s first!
(Have since made appropriate corrections to post (#361))
 
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Pic from Morecambe Facebook of a UFO seen last night not looked at it properly as on phone

Edit looking at it blown up on the laptop it looks suspiciously like the ISS


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RaM said:
Why does it happen when your in a rush,
Crossing Shard Bridge about 11 am today in a rush late for appointment,
across the fields on the left is a very bright pure white light, it's stationary
shining through the top branches of a big tree maybe 3/4 of a mile away,
|Drive this road 2 or 3 times a week for years never seen anything like it,
will leave time next time over to have a look see if I can work out what it was.
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Stopped today and got the binoculars' out, there's a house in those trees
with solar panels on the roof so am thinking mystery solved.
 
charliebrown said:
Prince Philip’s man, Sir Peter Horsley, claims the Prince collected 70 years of UFO information and was fanatical about UFOs.

I wonder what happened to this information ?
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King Charles probably has it somewhere. I think he has an interest in the subject as well.
 
Supposedly the DoD of the UK got out of the UFO business in 2009 closing UFO hot lines, UFO investigators, and UFO offices claiming UFOs are completely harmless.

The DoD said if there is an UFO present call the local police or call the news services like The Sun or The Daily Mail.

The DoD claims this saves the citizens of the UK 44,000 pounds a year.

So, if in the UK an UFO lands on your lawn and an alien knocks on your door, you are own your own.

Maybe ask the alien in for a cup of tea.
 
Well, if you live in the UK you would think the DoD would be interested about UFOs.

Lately Nick Pope has been very critical of his past DoD employer in that their “hands off attitude” about UFOs and the UK not wanting to work with the U.S. Pentagon’s UFO office or AARO.

Like I said if we get invaded, I hope everyone is friendly.
 
I think we have to be realistic, the UK is a founder member of the 'Five Eyes' intelligence community

"Initially, compromising only the UK and the United States, it expanded to also include Canada in 1948 and Australia and New Zealand in 1956, all of these last three English-speaking countries, members of the Commonwealth of Nations and with similar political systems when compared to Britain. Thereby, the ‘Five Eyes’ term was created from the lengthy ‘AUS/CAN/NZ/UK/ Eyes Only’ classification level that included the ‘eyes’ that could have access to high profile papers and information."

There is a large Marconi air defence radar about three miles from where I am sat right now that monitors the Western approaches to the UK:

https://www.barnflakes.com/blog/the-golf-ball-radar-at-rrh-portreath

This is just one part of a chain of such radars across the 'Five Eyes':

"... the ‘aerospace domain’ which covers ballistic missile tests, foreign satellite deployments and the military activities of relevant air forces."

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/the-five-eyes-the-intelligence-alliance-of-the-anglosphere/

So the UK Government is intensely monitoring UK airspace and this extends beyond our atmosphere.

Do they really need to spend £44,000 pa on someone to take calls about Chinese lanterns and Starlink? Because the sad fact is that in the final few years of thew MoD desk pretty much nothing of note was reported (well nothing credible anyway). It gives me no pleasure to argue that the Classic Age of Ufology with structured craft and humanoids ended back in the 1990s; we haven't had a decent case since, just lights in the sky.
 
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charliebrown said:
You are correct it has been a long time since we have seen aliens in cute silver spandex walking around.

Those were the good old days.
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Four possibilities:

1. 'They' came and have gone away again for reasons known only to them
2. 'They' now take on a different form
3. 'They' were Human: misinterpreted Cold War shenanigans or some sort of covert livestock testing
4. The witnesses and/or Ufologists and/or local practical jokers made it all up

Which one do you fancy...?
 
Just like we have a grouse hunting season, aliens have an Earth visiting period for all of their anal probing shenanigans….it just happens to be off-season right now…..it will pick up again around 2030 or so!
 
I basically have two theories.

UFOs and their humanoids have always been here and live on our planet earth whether in oceans or inside volcanoes.

My second theory is that we are dealing with different realities that run into each other by design or accident.

And I will throw in that governments have not been honest about information pertaining to UFOs.
 
Hi fellow Forteans. Been away for a while, but I'm back . . . .

I saw a UFO, once, many years ago; 1974, to be exact. Or, let me put it this way; I experienced something I can best describe using the UFO model. I was at a campsite in a (Canadian) national park, just south of Jasper, Alberta; a green, glowing disc, or I suppose it could have been a sphere, about full moon apparent size, drifting fairly slowly across the patch of sky I could see from where I was sitting, at a picnic table. Early afternoon, clear blue sky, so not the moon or a planet or a balloon, or ball lightning. Not car headlights reflected off clouds, not any kind of aircraft I'm familiar with, so none of the usual culprits. An enigma, then.

I described my sighting on a so-called "skeptics' " forum, a few years ago; the response was drearily predictable. It's a long time ago, you're not remembering it correctly, you didn't observe correctly, you imagined it, you heard about it from someone else, and anyway it's just an anecdote, therefore it didn't really happen, therefore we don't have to concern ourselves with it, don't bother us with this nonsense any more, blah blah blah. Zero interest in trying to speculate what might have caused it - it just didn't happen. None of them were there, of course; but they all knew it couldn't possibly have happened. Oh, and I didn't hallucinate it, I wasn't on any kind of drugs. Well, maybe caffeine.

Nevertheless, it was an interesting insight into the workings of the "skeptical" mindset. Not only were they "true believers" in the current mechanistic-materialist paradigm, but they were absolutely certain that things like UFO's, ghosts, ESP, etcetera, simply don't exist. That, my friends, is not "skepticism" by any reasonable definition. And, of course, for the person undergoing the experience, one personal experience outweighs all the so-called skepticism, theorising, evidence - or lack of evidence - in the world.

So I, personally, know that UFOs exist.

You may be sure I didn't tell them about my ghost experience . . . .
 
I'm a skeptic, but I'm completely open to the possibility of extraterrestrial civilisations, as I've stated many times on this forum. The reason for my skepticism is that I want to eliminate false positives, and I'm fairly certain that either most or all all UFO or UAP sightings are false positives of some sort. But it is perfectly possible that your sighting is an exception to this, or that it represents an unknown but natural phenomenon, such as a new kind of upper-atmospheric electrical discharge like sprites or jets.
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so not the moon or a planet or a balloon, or ball lightning.
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I see you have already dismissed the 'ball lightning' explanation, but since we don't really have a good handle on all the different electrical phenomena that might occur in the sky, we can't be certain that this was not some sort of natural discharge. In particular the green colour suggests to me that the phenomenon may have involved ionised oxygen, which emits a green wavelength when excited by protons in an auroral display. You might even have seen a very rare natural event which has not yet been classified - the phenomenon now known as STEVE was unknown until a few years ago, but many people were able to see it last week because it coincided with fireworks displays around the UK.
https://www.bordertelegraph.com/news/23908172.bonfire-night-rare-steve-phenomenon-seen-borders-sky/

Oxygen also emits green wavelengths sometimes when heated to a plasma by a large meteor, which is why some meteors are green. So a large, slow meteor or re-entering satellite would be my second guess. Bright meteors are one of the most common causes of UFO reports, and they can look very odd indeed. If you think you've seen every kind of meteoric phenomenon, you are almost certainly mistaken.

I should note that I have myself seen a 'flying saucer'; rather than green, this one was white, and it was moving very slowly downwards in the distant sky. The probable explanation for this was a large partly deflated weather balloon, or perhaps a parachute carrying the payload from the balloon (I had been watching this balloon for what seemed like an hour as it made its way across the sky). Balloons are another of the most common causes of UFO reports, and these too can look very unfamiliar in certain circumstances.

But of course balloons are not generally luminous, although some airships have lights, and some even have illuminated displays. A brightly reflective balloon might appear luminous in full daylight, or a balloon carrying a bright illuminated display might look very strange, even when seen against the background of a clear blue sky. I'm interested in how you distinguished between a brightly-illuminated object and one which was actively emitting light.

For instance the Moon is often visible in the daytime sky, and one might think that the Moon is a good example of a luminous object; but in fact it is only shining because of reflected light, and in fact its reflectance (albedo) is quite low compared to (say) a white sheet of paper. If we were able to paint the Moon pure white it would look at least five times as bright, and would be a much more brilliant object in our skies.
 
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Alchymist said:
Hi fellow Forteans. Been away for a while, but I'm back . . . .

I saw a UFO, once, many years ago; 1974, to be exact. Or, let me put it this way; I experienced something I can best describe using the UFO model. I was at a campsite in a (Canadian) national park, just south of Jasper, Alberta; a green, glowing disc, or I suppose it could have been a sphere, about full moon apparent size, drifting fairly slowly across the patch of sky I could see from where I was sitting, at a picnic table. Early afternoon, clear blue sky, so not the moon or a planet or a balloon, or ball lightning. Not car headlights reflected off clouds, not any kind of aircraft I'm familiar with, so none of the usual culprits. An enigma, then.

I described my sighting on a so-called "skeptics' " forum, a few years ago; the response was drearily predictable. It's a long time ago, you're not remembering it correctly, you didn't observe correctly, you imagined it, you heard about it from someone else, and anyway it's just an anecdote, therefore it didn't really happen, therefore we don't have to concern ourselves with it, don't bother us with this nonsense any more, blah blah blah. Zero interest in trying to speculate what might have caused it - it just didn't happen. None of them were there, of course; but they all knew it couldn't possibly have happened. Oh, and I didn't hallucinate it, I wasn't on any kind of drugs. Well, maybe caffeine.

Nevertheless, it was an interesting insight into the workings of the "skeptical" mindset. Not only were they "true believers" in the current mechanistic-materialist paradigm, but they were absolutely certain that things like UFO's, ghosts, ESP, etcetera, simply don't exist. That, my friends, is not "skepticism" by any reasonable definition. And, of course, for the person undergoing the experience, one personal experience outweighs all the so-called skepticism, theorising, evidence - or lack of evidence - in the world.

So I, personally, know that UFOs exist.

You may be sure I didn't tell them about my ghost experience . . . .
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When I described my sighting of a Flying Triangle in the 1990s to various friends, the first question I inevitably got was "what were you drinking?" I've had my share of alcohol (many times) but never did I hallucinate after drinking. I also agree that the skepticism never casts doubt on the actual experience. To this day, I have no idea what I saw. But it was a very strange experience. (I'm too lazy to look up the exact date of my triangle sighting -- January 27, 1990, I think it was -- and have posted it in detail at the Forum before so won't take up any more space by retelling it here.
 
I used to think I was a “ majority of only one “ expressing my belief in UFOs.

It seems there are two more kindred spirits that believe in UFOs.

Besides my younger UFO events, in 1998 I saw a day time UFO that was following a small river bed.

I don’t bring up paranormal topics with people as they think you could have escaped from the “ funny farm “.
 
The daytime moon is usually only a thin crescent, and usually (I think; I may be wrong here) visible in the early morning or late evening; my sighting was in the early afternoon of a bright sunny day, in a cloudless sky. Also, I described it as moving "fairly slowly": that is, slowly by comparison with a typical jet aircraft or a typical meteor. It moved, through an arc of about 10 degrees, in somewhat less than two seconds. And it must have been fairly big, since it moved from behind the surrounding trees and disappeared behind a mountain ridge about a kilometre away (I can't be any more exact than that, I'm afraid), so definitely not a kid's balloon or a frisbee!

Tentatively, I guess eburacum's suggestion of some kind of unusual atmospheric electrical phenomenon is the most likely explanation; ball lightning normally happens during a thunderstorm, but occasionally, though rarely, has been observed under other weather conditions. But an electrical discharge, of one sort or another, remains a distinct possibility - as does a large, slow-moving meteor; green fireballs of this kind are not uncommon, apparently; though I would think, not usually visible in bright daylight.

Any other suggestions will be welcomed. I really don't think it was an alien spaceship, but you never know . . . .
 
Some fireballs are visible in daylight, and some (superbolides) are brighter than the Sun. The Chelyabinsk meteor was one of those. One famous meteor that occured in 1972 was the Grand Teton event, a grazing encounter with a small asteroid that bounced off the atmosphere.

Luckily it was filmed at least twice.
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I don't think my sighting, if it was a meteor, was anywhere near as big as Chelyabinsk! - it would have been all over the media! . . . . Also it didn't leave any kind of trail, which is one reason I didn't think at first that it was a meteor. I didn't get the impression that it was very high up, i.e. certainly not out on the edge of the atmosphere - but of course, that kind of distance would be hard to estimate from such a brief sighting. I described it as "glowing", but more of a soft glow like reflected moonlight rather than the fiery glow of a typical meteor. On balance, then, probably some kind of electrical phenomenon, but unlike anything else I've ever seen, before or since. So - a mystery.
 
. ... .?? I suppose there's a vanishinly small, but non-zero probability, that it might have been an alien spaceship??!!? . . . . . .

Nah, I don't really believe that. But then, I don't really believe in anything very much. I have many suspicions and conjectures; I suspect that some of my suspicions and conjectures might be true, in some sense, or at they might at least point towards some kind of truth, or at least reasonableness; but I don't believe in any of them. Often, late at night at times when sleep seems to elude me, I might think for a while about the implifications of one of them, and try to see if it makes any kind of sense; but then I'll fall asleep without reaching any kind of conclusion.

I suppose this is the Fortean way; substitute acceptance for belief, and see where it leads us; shine a light into dark corners and note what scuttles out, or turn over rocks to see what wriggles. I've observed quite a lot of wriggly thihgs in my time . . . .
 
ramonmercado said:
Being bi he would have been partial to a bit of anal probing.
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Okay, it made me snigger, but:

"It is a widely held belief that anal sex is “gay sex.” In other words, people tend to assume that anal sex is an activity practiced almost exclusively by gay men. However, this is not an accurate reflection of reality. In fact, research suggests that not only has anal sex become increasingly common among heterosexual men and women, but the vast majority of people who practice it are not gay."

https://www.sexandpsychology.com/blog/2013/3/13/how-many-straight-people-are-having-gay-sex/

Maybe time to do away with these old stereotypes...?
 
Paul_Exeter said:
Okay, it made me snigger, but:

"It is a widely held belief that anal sex is “gay sex.” In other words, people tend to assume that anal sex is an activity practiced almost exclusively by gay men. However, this is not an accurate reflection of reality. In fact, research suggests that not only has anal sex become increasingly common among heterosexual men and women, but the vast majority of people who practice it are not gay."

https://www.sexandpsychology.com/blog/2013/3/13/how-many-straight-people-are-having-gay-sex/

Maybe time to do away with these old stereotypes...?
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Being Bi myself I don't see it as a stereotype. Anyway I couldn't resist the opportunity offered by Mountbatten juxtaposed with UFOs.
 
Wasn't sure where else to put this as it isn't an IHTM but feels like something I should record nonetheless.

I had an early morning call with my brother this morning to discuss a trip we're planning next year. Towards the end of the chat, he off-handedly mentioned "oh by the way, dad and I thought we saw a UFO last night". Not something he's ever said to me before!

I'm recording the story pretty much as he told me it and will be speaking to my dad later to get his side of the story. Essentially, my parents live in the countryside of Warwickshire (not under any flight path but close enough to Birmingham airport) so on clear nights, the stars are very visible. My brother was at my parents last night and was having a last smoke in the garden while the dog did her business - this was around 10:30pm.

He was looking up at the sky absent mindedly when he noticed what a first he thought to be a star that was significantly brighter than the rest. I asked how high he estimated the light to be and he said it was definitely above the clouds, as it was so bright it clearly shone through any (forgive lack of technical terms here) 'wispy cloud' that moved beneath it.

Here, my brother called my dad from the kitchen to see what he thought it was. At this point, the light began moving quickly from side to side; looping; and seeming to dip and rise again. This continued for around five minutes before the 'light' was either extinguished or it flew off.

I asked if it could have been a helicopter but there was no accompanying sound. I then asked if it could have been a drone and my brother responded that, if it was, it was both very high and with a very powerful light.
 
NomDeGuerre said:
Wasn't sure where else to put this as it isn't an IHTM but feels like something I should record nonetheless.

I had an early morning call with my brother this morning to discuss a trip we're planning next year. Towards the end of the chat, he off-handedly mentioned "oh by the way, dad and I thought we saw a UFO last night". Not something he's ever said to me before!

I'm recording the story pretty much as he told me it and will be speaking to my dad later to get his side of the story. Essentially, my parents live in the countryside of Warwickshire (not under any flight path but close enough to Birmingham airport) so on clear nights, the stars are very visible. My brother was at my parents last night and was having a last smoke in the garden while the dog did her business - this was around 10:30pm.

He was looking up at the sky absent mindedly when he noticed what a first he thought to be a star that was significantly brighter than the rest. I asked how high he estimated the light to be and he said it was definitely above the clouds, as it was so bright it clearly shone through any (forgive lack of technical terms here) 'wispy cloud' that moved beneath it.

Here, my brother called my dad from the kitchen to see what he thought it was. At this point, the light began moving quickly from side to side; looping; and seeming to dip and rise again. This continued for around five minutes before the 'light' was either extinguished or it flew off.

I asked if it could have been a helicopter but there was no accompanying sound. I then asked if it could have been a drone and my brother responded that, if it was, it was both very high and with a very powerful light.
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I spied something in the sky very similar to what you have posted 'NomDeGuerre' when I was just a very young boy looking up in our back garden at night-time, told my Dad straight away, who replied "come indoors!"
i.e. He never took it seriously!
 
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