Author Topic: Ever see a UFO? (Follow up to ET thread) (Read 529 times)

LePaul · « **on:** December 09, 2002, 11:46:52 AM »

...and seriously...no beer induced or N1K related ones

Just wondering...we had that famous one up in the Allagash of Maine years ago and there are still many sightings reported by very reputable people...not your easy-to-dismiss swamp gas kinda thing.

I read a book a while back and there seemed to be a great deal of sightings near military bases that had nuclear arms. Were the aliens wondering if we would do ourselves in?

LePaul · « **Reply #1 on:** December 09, 2002, 11:48:45 AM »

...this is the Allagash incident I refer to...

http://ufos.about.com/library/weekly/aa052900a.htm

AKS\/\/ulfe · « **Reply #2 on:** December 09, 2002, 11:55:27 AM »

LePaul, nuclear radiation is fairly easy to see on a certain type of scan... I forget which...

Which would go along the same train of thought as to why "UFO sightings" started cropping up more in the '40s and '50s...

In the '40s due to the many, many nuclear tests that the US was doing with nuclear bombs, and because of the two above ground explosions of Fat Man and Little Boy.. supposedly radiation (at that levels) would make a pretty good blip on intergalactic radar (according to guys who work(ed) in the military)

Have I seen a UFO? No... except there was this one time I was all liqoured up and I saw lights dancing in the skies.... then I realised it was because I was completely inebriated and couldn't maintain my balance while looking up into the sky...

-SW

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #3 on:** December 09, 2002, 12:07:05 PM »

Yes I have - the other reason I started the ET thread - almost in my own backyard (bout 5 miles away).

The local law enforcement closed down the entire area and had it roped off for 3 weeks. I was in high school when this happened (bout 7 years ago I guess) and one of my freinds' brothers' was working as a police dispatcher. They had over 30 calls to report the "craft" in under 15 minutes (2AM). He was asked not to mention it by his superiors.

Everyone who called in reported seeing the same thing - bright multicolored lights, etc. It was spotted no more than 80-90 feet from the ground as was reported to have "disappeared into the woods."

Anyone else in Montgomery Co. remember this?

Ill see if I can find a link to anything mentioning it and post it...

krazyhorse · « **Reply #4 on:** December 09, 2002, 02:22:54 PM »

udet · « **Reply #5 on:** December 09, 2002, 03:13:20 PM »

I don't really believe in UFOs. I believe in extraterrestrial civilizations and that some have star travel capabilities, but that's it, I don't trust any reports of people seing lights in the sky, and everything captured on video or film is probably fake.
I read many books on the subject and finally realized it was all crap. So I gave up on it. Untill I see one, I remain a sceptic.

Animal · « **Reply #6 on:** December 09, 2002, 03:17:32 PM »

I have seen some straaaange crap that certainly falls under the definition of Unidentified Flying Object, but I wouldnt say it was Extra Terrestial.

I can tell you that I have been scared toejamless. A tropical forest with a hidden military base is not a fun place to hang around at night.

Manedew · « **Reply #7 on:** December 09, 2002, 04:01:38 PM »

UFO's are undoubtly USA govement airplanes ... Aliens HA!

Alot of the alien UFO BS was put out there by the US govement to throw people off the track of these "planes"

I often wonder of late why Boeing and Toshiba have invested in antigravity technology.....

Bring Foo Fighters to AH!

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #8 on:** December 09, 2002, 04:36:45 PM »

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Originally posted by Animal

I can tell you that I have been scared toejamless. A tropical forest with a hidden military base is not a fun place to hang around at night.

Should we be alarmed if this post is deleted and you disappear from the boards?

Gh0stFT · « **Reply #9 on:** December 09, 2002, 04:43:58 PM »

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Originally posted by Animal
A tropical forest with a hidden military base is not a fun place to hang around at night.

woah! sound like a cool movie

please more of that story!

and no, i never seen or meet an UFO ;p

Karnak · « **Reply #10 on:** December 09, 2002, 04:51:09 PM »

Yes, when I was ten.

This in no way means I'm convinced it was from some other star system, or that it was even the result of an intelligence (human or other).

It was simply an unidentified flying object.

My mom saw it and woke me up at four in the morning so that somebody else would see it as well. It looked like a very bright light with rays coming off of it and was hovering about two or three hundred feet above the trees a few hundred yards uphill from our house.

I was tired so I went back to bed. My mom said that it remained there until after all the stars had been hidden by the false dawn, then it rose up and left.

What was it? I have no idea.

If I was a UFO (meaning of the alien persuasion) conspiracy freak, I'd probably assume that's what it was. If I were a devoutly religious person, I'd probably think it was an angel or something. As it is, I lean towards "rare but natural atmospheric event".

Animal · « **Reply #11 on:** December 09, 2002, 05:28:59 PM »

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Originally posted by Gh0stFT
woah! sound like a cool movie please more of that story!

and no, i never seen or meet an UFO ;p

Well, a few years back some stoner friends were yakking about how trippy and awesome the 'aliens' make light-shows above El Yunque (a huge tropical forest in the east side of PR)
Its pretty common knowledge that there is a military installation hidden there, so I explained to them that it was actually flares or fighter planes doing something. After a few beers it degenerated into a bet to see if I dared to go there and check it our for myself.

Two days later I took the trip with a few friends, and camped there. At around 3:00am, the lights were there. These were not fighter planes or helicopters, or flares. There were 3 lights doing some crazy maneuvers around the forest. No sound or anything. Just what seemed like three spotlights moving around pretty fast.

We got scared and decided to pack out things and leave. When we got in the jeep, all scared and nervous, my friend drove the wrong way, up to the end of a road, with a pretty big, military style fence at the end. We turned around, and on the way back, a pickup followed us for about 30 minutes until we finally reached the highway and I guess we lost them.

I aint coming back there during the night.

funkedup · « **Reply #12 on:** December 09, 2002, 05:33:58 PM »

Animal tell them about the rectal probe.

Pongo · « **Reply #13 on:** December 09, 2002, 06:20:14 PM »

yes. 5 of us watched one for 30 minutes when I was 11 or 12

K98k · « **Reply #14 on:** December 09, 2002, 07:22:12 PM »

A a friend of mine and I were fishing for snook on the spillway at Gatun, Canal Zone around 'O' dark thirty, clear night. Anyways, we both took notice of this small but really brilliant sparkling light that zoomed across the sky stopping immediately close but not directly above us and went straight down into the jungle about 5 or so miles away. It sure didn't act like those Army helicopter we've seen so many times in the past but then again who knows. My friend started reeling in his line as he made his way out seemingly willing to leave me were I stood. He took the sighting pretty serious, me, I wasn't about to be left alone in the jungle or I'd be walking quite a few miles back home since he had the car keys.
Of course all was forgotten by next week as we were back on the spillway having another go at those fish.