Finally saw my first UFO

Sadly, no photographs or video, only a tale to tell.

Last night i had just left my cousin's wedding reception with my parents and was waiting at the car for them to catch up when i noticed a light in the sky.

It was flashing from red / green / white, cycling through the colours about once every 5 seconds. My first thought was a star or satellite because i've heard they can appear to pulse, but then things happened to change my mind.

My parents finally caught up and i pointed it out to them just as the show began. It first darted to the right about a hand-span's length and stopped. Then it returned to where it originally started by darting across to the left.

After about 5 or 10 seconds the pulsing stopped, it stayed bright white and it began a pendulum motion, swinging from left to right several times before disappearing. It simply 'turned off'.

My parent's were never believers before last night but in my fathers own words, 'nothing any [censored] person has ever made can move like that'.

I feel that i can finally call myself a believer now, i always WANTED to, but now i've seen an aerial phenomena i cannot explain, it makes it easier. (I'm not saying it was aliens etc... it was unidentified and in the sky, that is all).

[edit on 11-11-2007 by fooffstarr]

Congrats fooffstarr. I wish I knew what it was like.I do believe in UFO's,but it must feel very good to be able to have your own personal experience to back up your beliefs.

Cheers man,I'll keep looking to the sky hoping for my own experience.

That's cool, and you have whitnesses! I can only claim to a couple times as a young kid I saw something and blieved, but I was too young to really scrutinize them and it was at night and I can't remember much any more.

jats

Another conversion to the nearly 65 percent of Americans that believe Ufo's exist, and or had their own sightings. I wish they'd just get it over with already and land on London, the White House, or the Red Square. We must really be the 'Springer' of the universe. Not you Lord Skeptic, the other one. In a 'nough trouble already.
edit; spelling again, REALLY wish this site had auto spell correct.

[edit on 11-11-2007 by jpm1602]

Whats the fascination with seeing an Unidentified Flying Object? Do you get a sense of enlightenment? Does it make you more of a believer? Is it some sort of revelation?

Swamp gas, Chinese Lantern, Night fly, superman, batman, plane, blimp, bird, owl, natural phenomena, space debris, figment of your imagination, lies, attention seeking, lighthouse, oil rig, car headlights, Christmas lights, night fishing floats, an illegal rave, flashing kites, helicopter.

Originally posted by paul76
Swamp gas, Chinese Lantern, Night fly, superman, batman, plane, blimp, bird, owl, natural phenomena, space debris, figment of your imagination, lies, attention seeking, lighthouse, oil rig, car headlights, Christmas lights, night fishing floats, an illegal rave, flashing kites, helicopter.

You forgot...
Acid trip, flares, Jupiter.

The Gov't has the best explanations for these sightings. Always something which is easily answered as well.

"I saw 3 light moving in sync through the night sky and it came to me and I touched it."

Gov't: "Oh, yea that was just the new Air Craft we have been testing."

[edit on 11-11-2007 by ChronMan]

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It is good to see such things. I think there would be less need for "proof" if everyone got off their butts and went outside every now-and-then and simply gazed upwards.

I'm glad you didn't hit something as you were driving... mwahaha.

Thanks for the responses!

Chronman - To me, witnessing what i believe to be a genuine UFO cements my beliefs. I wouldn't really call it a revelation, because before last night i believed they existed, it is just such a wonderful thing when you have your beliefs verified.

paul76 - Nice list. I saw a good diagram in a thread the other day that had pictures of a heap of things with 'weather balloon' written as their description. The weather balloon on the diagram was labeled 'swamp gas'!

Well, I dont know whether to give you a congrats or my condolences...I have been seeing the same objects for over ten years now ( the one you described red, blue, green and weird iridescence purple in the center, flashing or strobing)
and I have never been able to successfully photograph them.


So congrats on your first confirmed sighting, and mabey you'll have better luck capturing one on film now that you know what to look for.

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I attempted to film it with my mobile phone camera, but it is an old phone and it came out pitch black anyway.

I do have a professional camera + tripod though, which usually never leaves me. I had intended to take it to the wedding as well, but half way up the highway i remembered that i'd left it at home.

Typically my luck!

Originally posted by jpm1602
I wish they'd just get it over with already and land on London, the White House, or the Red Square.
[edit on 11-11-2007 by jpm1602]

Firstly, and most importantly, I don't see any reason why anyone should follow a specific scenario devised by somebody else, especially if the reason for such a scenario would be to provide "proof" to the masses...
Or, to put it more plainly: "landing" in a conspicuous place might seem a convincing and thereby necessary action to you. There's no reason to assume that an extra-terrestrial intelligence, if there is one (around us, I mean - I am pretty sure there are intelligent life forms all over the space, but they might not visit the Earth), would necessarily be of the same opinion.

And secondly... they did.
In 1952, to mention just one example. They didn't land, but they made themselves very visible above the capital of the USA.
(See "Life" and a relatively vast array of other mainstream - i.e. not tabloid - newspapers of the time.)

There is also at least one vast database (I know you all know how to google, so I won't patronise anyone with superfluous links) ran by a USA government-sponsored body, I believe, where there is plenty of detailed accounts spanning decades.
(I happen to know a scientist who was a "skeptic" until he and a friend of his had their own "close encounter"... He felt it his moral obligation to contribute his sighting to the database.)

A more recent interesting example was the sighting of a small fleet of unidentified objects above Milan (Italy), in 2005, I think.

But personally I feel it's redundant to go on enumerating examples - not only because there are indeed very many, but because I honestly don't see why anybody would find such things so hard to believe... Whatever is at stake here (ideologically, psychologically), I am unfamiliar with it - and I am glad.

Oh, and BTW: I've seen many unexplained - and apparently inexplicable (by conventional science) - events in my life, ever since I was a child.

Maybe that's why I continue to see this world as such a beautiful place, despite the hardships I've been through. It's full of mystery - and to me, mystery equals beauty.
I genuinely HATE name-dropping, but you-know-who WAS very right when he said that without the "sense of mystery" a person might as well be dead.




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P.S. Regarding the Milan sightings (which were in 2006, not 2005), I just "bumped" a thread called "UfOs caught by the media in Milan" right here at ATS, so that anyone interested in the story can access it faster...



[edit on 11-11-2007 by Vanitas]

Originally posted by ChronMan
Whats the fascination with seeing an Unidentified Flying Object? Do you get a sense of enlightenment? Does it make you more of a believer? Is it some sort of revelation?

I can only speak for myself, and will gladly do so: it is a "revelation" - one more among many - that this world is not what it seems, that there are many things that escape our "common knowledge", that the world (the Universe) is a far greater and far more mysterious a place than our pedestrian science (and "science") leads us to believe.

They awaken the sense of wonder at the mystery of this intricate world: the very thing that, according to a well-known physicist whose name any of us would recognise immediately, one might as well be dead without.

Originally posted by fooffstarr
Thanks for the responses!

Chronman - To me, witnessing what i believe to be a genuine UFO cements my beliefs. I wouldn't really call it a revelation, because before last night i believed they existed, it is just such a wonderful thing when you have your beliefs verified.

I bet. UFOlogy is the best religion for that very reason I kid!

jats

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Where was this ufo sighting exactly? Is it near an airbase?

Funny, I saw my first definite UFO the other day aswell. I went to get my camera but when I came back (30 seconds max) later it was gone Maybe they have some sort of attraction to Australia now Pine gap 101.

Jazzyguy - The sighting was on the outskirts of a remote bush town in south-eastern Australia.

The object itself was about 2 - 3 hand-spans above the horizon and somewhere around 10km away.

eRauzed - Yeah, Pine Gap is kind of Australia's Area 51. I'd love to go there one day... as close as possible anyway.

It was a balloon with moonlight bouncing off, which in combination with smog in the atmosphere can make the object look like its flashing. The fact that it moved is easily explained by different layers of air moving in different directions. Are you a professional meteorologist? If not, you dont know what you saw.

Yes, im joking. Sometimes I get the urge to play idiot skeptic.



[edit on 12-11-2007 by Copernicus]

I wanted to say congrats on seeing your first UFO! We (my family) saw something about a year ago and posted it here on ATS. We never could confirm what it was but I still have the video and watch it every now and then. It is pretty exciting to see something you can not explain.