Poll for all members (skeptics, debunkers, and believers) of ATS: Have you ever had a UFO sighting?

Yes, I have seen several lights over the years and one time in like 1990 I even saw 3 different beings and none of them was a "grey".

a reply to: cuckooold

Unfortunately, no.

Yes, I have seen four different ones, three in Florida and one in the water. The one that landed in the water was black until it submerged and then a ring of lights came on underwater that I could see plain as day. It was about 4am, I was crossing a bridge on my bicycle and didn't think about the big black thing as it may just have well been a big spooked pelican or some other big bird flying by in the dark. I stopped and looked when the lights came on underwater, a ring of lights that looked almost like fire underwater, but more yellow or gold, said "What the # is that?" out loud to myself and they turned of like someone flipped a switch when they heard me say it. Another huge one moving silently above the clouds that had to be a mile long, another that looked like a giant LED bulb flying from horizon to horizon in about 10 seconds, and another that looked kind of like a big winged bug that glowed a pale green.

I have experienced UFO signtings as well

actually saw a black triangle when i was 3 and saw beings walk around on the farm. Never thought why.

originally posted by: MinpinStudios
Yes, I have seen several lights over the years and one time in like 1990 I even saw 3 different beings and none of them was a "grey".

You have to elaborate, man.
I have never seen a "gray." I still think they should leglizate Gray Marriage.
I jest. I have seen a big ass praying mantis. Little guys in cloaked robes. Midgets in Teddy Bear costumes, and a big black cat with "Batman" type head.
Take that for what you will.

a reply to: cuckooold I saw three separate objects which I identified as UFOS, although I still can't say exactly what two of the three were. Two were during the day, in the morning. I was looking at a jet with a contrail and saw a small white orb following the same flight path behind it and overtake it alongside it. No wings or fuselage, just a white orb. I don't know what that was. Again in the morning, I was watching a flight of what was probably government jets( not military) climbing heading west. One after the other a few minutes apart, same flight path. By the time the third one flew over I had a pair of binoculars and was trying to identify them. They were large lear jets. As I looked at the fourth one, I saw another white orb extremely high up in the sky which would have been invisible to the naked eye. I'm sure I was looking at the planet Jupiter that could be seen through the atmosphere given its location and where Jupiter was seen at night. The other sighting was at night. I was stargazing as I had the dog outside and saw two white lights very close to each other, close enough that they were on the same craft. One larger light in the front, one smaller right behind it. They were moving, really moving seeming to be going straight up. Then they really moved and disappeared. Almost but not quite at shooting star speed. The funny part was that I really got spooked seeing it, like it brought something back I had forgotten and didn't like. I reported it to the local airport but I'm sure UFOS don't appear on radar, LOL.

Yes, a few times. Once New Year's Eve a few years back, I was drinking so ..(there's that) but we were shooting fireworks off, us and the people across the street from us. Anyway it was about 11:30 and we didn't have many left, so I told my hubby to wait to shoot off the last few that we had. Anyway I sat down and looked up, looking for other people shooting off fireworks and I saw an object that flew above us. It was lit not blinking and kinda "hovered: above us for a moment, then it shot off. I asked my hubby "OMG did you see that and he said yes I did"....... Still not sure what it was, but I don't think it was "alien' in nature, of course to me it was as UFO.

Yes, I have.
And several at that.

originally posted by: AgentShillington
a reply to: cuckooold

I have seen many things in the sky that I have not been able to identify. I don't have any reason to believe that any of them were of an intelligent extraterrestrial nature.

Yes to the question.

Do you have any reason to believe they were not of an intelligent extraterrestrial nature? Can you approach that question from an unbiased viewpoint, or are you guilty of the same bias you accuse "believers"?

Something which I cannot explain: I live very close to Heathrow Airport and around about a year ago I left my extension and walked into my garden at around 1am. For some reason I looked up at the sky and saw a blazing trail go across me vertically, it looked like a glowing orange yellowish ball of light that had a short trail of the same colour attached to it. At first instance I thought I had seen a shooting star and that would be the best way to describe what I saw, however the night was clear with no clouds and I realised that whatever went past me was directly over my head near enough eye level and that planes in the sky were flying much higher in the sky. The wierdest part was the fact that whatever this was made no sound at all and did not leave any sign behind it that it had occupied that air space such as smoke or streaks. It was also not travelling that fast as I was able to watch it go past for at least 5-6 seconds before it dissappeared out of view. On the same night I went to research if there was any weather phenonemons that may have beeen occuring in my area at that time, however there was no significant activities taking place.

if any one could shed some light on this (no pun intented) I would be grateful.

You bet. 1996. NYC. Broad daylight. Ship hovering over building uptown. Witnessed by two others. Moved/gone in a flash...unknowable speed.

a reply to: cuckooold

In 1995 I saw the STS Tether experiment pass through the Northern skies of Waterfall, Durban, South Africa. Being 10 years old and extremely interested in aliens, I almost pooped my pants with excitement! Thinking I was witnessing a proper UFO, I took pictures... Being 10 years old I opened the back of my camera and exposed the film. Many years later I discovered the true nature of my sighting... and that it wasn't a mind control operation that caused me to lose my 'proof' of an alien craft in the sky. xD

cuckooold, your sighting about the dot of light is quite similar to one my brother, and my girlfriend and I saw on Sunday night around 7 or 8 PM (9 Nov 2014):

Chilling outside, having a smoke, just my girl and I.
I saw a dot of light flash just once in my peripherals (looking South)... thought nothing of it, possible meteor/eye-trickery. A few minutes later my girlfriend saw a flash a bit to the right of my sighting.
Now, we were watching the sky.
This 'dot' flashed irregularly, first it was brighter, a bit smaller than a sesame seed, then it seemed to go away from us, flashing smaller and smaller, it traveled an arc-like path..
(I would say, from some experience, that these flashes where in the upper atmosphere)
My brother then came outside.. we saw some more tiny flashes in the same area, the 'dot' kept flashing, here and there, within a small area. This sighting lasted maybe 3-5 minutes.

This is the first time my brother and I have seen something like this (my girlfriend has seen something similar before). We were quite excited and kept our eyes to the skies. After a minute or two we started noticing more of these flashes, now just below the zenith, kind of south-west-ish.
(I have to wonder if it wasn't a meteor shower of sorts... Not like any shower I've seen before... I'll continue...)

It seemed that if these dots were UFO's there was more than one... Some of these dots seemed to flash in straight lines, some seemed to follow an arc... they 'traveled' in all directions, ie not purely north-to-south, as I would expect form a shower. We did see a few that followed straight lines without flashing, those could have been meteors. Except for the non-flashing straight lines (which seemed to lead off or into the flashing dots) I would say they were not meteors, not necessarily ET in nature, but in my opinion definitely UFO's. Any ideas on identifying these objects would be welcome, of course.
That second sighting was cut short, lasted about 5 minutes before clouds covered the sky.


Sorry to be long winded, just one more. I don't know what this was, but I'm sure there is an explanation for this one...
About 2 or 3 years ago a mate and I were into satellite spotting and he pointed out a red light that also flashed. This UFO traveled a straight path going down South-Easterly, from just below the zenith where he spotted it, till it went out of view. It flashed red once every 1.5-2 seconds

Oh! Also, I was satellite spotting in the wee hours, about 5AM, also about 2 or 3 years ago. Using some fairly strong binocs. I thought I'd found the satellite I was waiting for, but while I was following this little dot, it started changing directions... At first it was going straight up from the horizon, from the North, it was just overhead heading South, and it made about a 45degree turn towards the rising sun in the east, with nearly no arc, it then started turning erratically, left and right every now and then... I lost it as it dimmed with the rising sun.

Meh.. It is what it is... with UFO's the truth is more often less exciting, but I welcome a mundane explanation.

Yes, too many and too varied to explain away. I have seen everything from a low-flying, silent black triangle to orb fleets to silvery orbs to black snakes to morphing red blobs, to a bizarre rolling thing that looked like a pink diamond up high and would plunge downward and transform into a large round thing with a black hole in the middle, and then shoot up again, to a black M-shaped thing. I have seen what looked like a giant jackstone revolving powerfully and slowly across the sky. All of these I have seen in the company of numerous witnesses. Yes, I have seen too many bizarre, unexplained things, but I still do not know what they are. Somehow I no longer believe the extraterrestrial hypothesis, at least in the way most of us seem to conceptualize it, i.e., aliens flying in from another planet, is a sufficient explanation. The phenomenon seems much more complex than that.

Yes, twice. First in the mid 60's second in 2006 reported to mufon.

originally posted by: skunkape23

originally posted by: MinpinStudios
Yes, I have seen several lights over the years and one time in like 1990 I even saw 3 different beings and none of them was a "grey".

You have to elaborate, man.
I have never seen a "gray." I still think they should leglizate Gray Marriage.
I jest. I have seen a big ass praying mantis. Little guys in cloaked robes. Midgets in Teddy Bear costumes, and a big black cat with "Batman" type head.
Take that for what you will.

Haha I will make a new thread here some day when I have the time but in short: I was a kid when I saw 3 beings that me and my friend believed to be extraterrestrials. They did not look like anything I ever saw or has ever seen since. We froze and watched them for a couplemof minutes until one of them spotted us and we ran home as fast as we could OBVIOUSLY.

I´ll write a longer post about this in a new thread and add a couple of illustrations of what they looked like because i remember it like it was yesterday even though its almost 25 years ago.

Only one in 1993 when I was 10 years old. It was very high in the sky and it was flipping in all directions. When I first noticed it, I thought it was a skydiver. I continued to watch it for 5 minutes thinking it was a skydiver or something, but noticed it never descended and was stationary the entire time. Then, randomly it shot up and out of sight in the blink of an eye or maybe it just cloaked itself...not sure but sure was very strange. Still to this day I try to think of what could do that or what it might had been. This was not a hallucination as my brother (8 at the time) and mother both watched it with me. I wouldn't go as far as to say it was extraterrestrial as I tend to think military black projects could be 40 to 50 years ahead of what technology we have, but who knows. This experience has intrigued all of us for many years now. Any ideas?

a reply to: cuckooold

There are UFOs, and then there are UFOs. To me just about everything in the sky is a UFO. Sometimes I can tell the flashing lights are a plane and sometimes I can't. A light beaming across the sky could be almost anything. I sometimes see blinking lights in the sky and think "I don't know what that is". Even in the day its not as though I can read the lettering on the tail of any plane, which is what you need to fully identify an aircraft. So, UFO doesn't have a good definition.

A UFO in the ATS sense really is more along the lines as something that is BOTH detailed and unidentified. Its one thing to see a blinking light in the sky and not identify it. Its another thing to see a football field sized object with many lights on it and all kinds of patterns and designs suggestive some sort of spacecraft or fancy plane. Now that would be a surprising site and there are people who have claimed to see such a thing.

No, I have not seen anything like that. The most surprising thing I've seen in the sky is what appeared to be a meteor going so incredibly fast across the sky as to almost be like a lighting bolt but without the thunder. It was very cool. But again, not really a UFO in the ATS sense. I know only one person who has claimed to see one. It was a cigar shaped flying craft on a strange flight path.

I do sometimes see stars that seem to be moving quite a lot but I'm told that its an optical illusion, sometimes from the human eye, and sometimes because of moving tree branches.

I have seen many ufo's in the skies starting in the early sixties. I attribute about 90 percent of them to non humans. A few years ago I saw a childs wading pool spinning madly about a thousand feet in the air. That was impressive as well. I have seen orange lights fall out of a hole in the sky and bob around over the mountains and then zoom away at high speed. I once saw a metallic looking object spitting orange sparks out the back and green sparks out the front fly through intermittent clouds about two thousand feet up. It was moving horizontally and no sound was emitted. It lit up the clouds as it flew through them and continued until it was out of sight. The news called it a meteor. Not likely.

A few years ago, maybe a little more I was walking from my detached garage to my back door. I remember it as a very clear night. For a few years I would spend hours outside with my telescope, just browsing the sky. I was not out there with my telescope that night but I always looked up. I looked up as I was walking in, and in the crisp cold and clear air I saw something a little odd. The best I can describe it is a large b2 stealth bomber but largely transparent, almost like predator. This shape silently cruised across the sky and over my house where I lost sight of it. I thought that the cloak effect could have been caused by a large flock of high altitude geese ans I let it go. The more I think about it over the years, the more I wish I had paid a little more attention to it. Nothing extraordinary, but something unusual.
a reply to: cuckooold

I avoided commenting on this for days after seeing it but I can no longer. Forgive any mispellings, but I recall seeing a disk barreling over a farm in my early years and my sister will corrobberate seeing it as well. I've also seen many shooting stars but then there are these other things most would call shooting stars but when I see them they are a different color trail and go from one star to another. I've just assumed they were starships traveling at light speed. That's my 2 cents.