I Honestly Think I Saw Some UFOs For The First Time In My Life

I should say, I've put off joining ATS & posting about this for a week, because I wasn't sure how the members here would react to this thread. I didn't particularly want to post it and then just have everybody laugh about it, as this is a serious thing that happened to me, and I just hope people can respect that, even if they don't believe it. No offense to any of you, as you could all be very nice, but due to the nature of the thread and having a bad experience with this type of thing in the past on other forums, I've been rather cautious as to whether I should post it or not.

This happened around 1 week ago. I have just copied/pasted the exact thread I made on another forum last week when I'd just seen the things in the sky. Anyway...

OK I've never seen anything strange like this before in my life, and I've never seen a UFO before. I live in the North West of the United Kingdom, and tonight I looked out my window and saw what looked like a BIG "formation" of UFOs, there must have been around 30-40 of them. It was most definitely not shooting stars as these did not have a 'tail' and were not moving as fast as shooting stars do.

This came as a big shock to me, because I'd never seen anything like this before and I genuinely think they were UFOs. Now obviously a lot of people won't believe me, and I can't PROVE that they were indeed UFOs, but it's just what I think they are, having watched them in the sky earlier tonight.

They were reddish in colour and moved like they were in formation, without breaking it for as long as they were in the sky. I've done an amateur drawing in Paint just to show what it looked like in the sky, with the formation etc & the red arrows just show what direction they were moving. They were ALL moving in the same direction aswell.

The strange thing (and I know this sounds ridiculous) is that after I was watching them for around 2-3 minutes, they just disappeared. It's as if they had turned their lights out, so we couldn't see them anymore. My friend and I were outside in the back garden at this time, having moved from my bedroom window in order to get a clearer view. My friend had brought his camera phone down into the garden so that we could try & get a picture of the strange light formation. He took a picture of one of the UFOs from his phone and I've linked it below.

The strange part is, only when we looked at the photo on the phone after the UFOs had disappeared, we noticed the ring shape of lights like cliché flying saucers have in the movies etc. Now having uploaded it to the PC, it looks much clearer than what we saw in the sky with our own eyes. When we were looking at them in the sky, they didn't look like they did in the picture, they just looked like balls of light but perhaps this was because they were shining so bright.

Anyway, I'll leave it to you guys to see what you think about it, but this was my first time ever seeing anything like this so I just wanted to share it with people.

Oh I wasn't going to include this in the post as I figured the UFO story was unbelievable enough, without throwing this into the mix, & I didn't want to come across as crazy, but then again I feel it's relevant so I'll post it. Now this might just be a massive coincidence, and it could well be, I'm not saying the two are definitely linked somehow. Anyway, last night I had a dream that I was abducted, and the dream definitely revolved around aliens. I've NEVER had a dream like this before in my life, and it seemed to just have come out of nowhere. Now, I'm not saying I was abducted, definitely not, but I DID dream of aliens and being abducted, which is what makes this experience of seeing the lights in the sky, that more strange.

I should also say aswell, due to people on the other forum where I'd posted this claiming it was lanterns I'd seen, I can guarantee 100% that they WERE NOT Chinese Lanterns. I know exactly what Chinese Lanterns look like and no matter how far away they are, I'd be able to tell if I was looking at lanterns or not. These were not them, they were something else. Plus the fact that if they WERE lanterns, they wouldn't stay in formation in the sky. They'd drift apart, even if ever so slightly. They just wouldn't stay in the exact same formation for 2-3 minutes.


Photo of one of the UFOs




Formation Drawing

I cant wait to read what some of our resident experts have to say about your encounter.

This must have been so exciting for you. What was the feeling you got from seeing the formation? Did the lights seem man made or other?

Also can you share what you remember of your dreams that night?

reply to post by Vanchatron


Good job of documenting the case, it allows cases to be compared for similarities. As for people not buying your story, don't worry too much. You did all you could do and a healthy dose of skeptisim is always good assuming it can remain civil. I'm not familiar with the airspace region you are in so someone with a bit more knowledge on possible flight training etc would be useful. I do find it interesting that the lights turned off, was this in unison or did they blink away one at a time?

As for your dream, although probably not relevant to the sighting itself in an evidence capacity, it certainly shows what this kind of experience can have on a witness.

Eyes to the skies

Cheers

Originally posted by antar
I cant wait to read what some of our resident experts have to say about your encounter.

This must have been so exciting for you. What was the feeling you got from seeing the formation? Did the lights seem man made or other?

Also can you share what you remember of your dreams that night?

To be honest, the feeling I had when I first saw them was TOTALLY unexpected. I always thought that if I ever saw some UFOs I'd be amazed yes, but I never expected the feeling I'd get when I saw them. It was as if I'd seen something that I had been waiting for my whole life, and at that very moment, my life seemed fulfilled. It was strange, especially for me. At that very moment, and for a few days afterwards, I was feeling that if I were to die right then & there, my life would not have been a waste as I'd seen these things in the sky. I can definitely say that the feeling I had, was that they were NOT man made. It's weird, but it was as if I could sense that they weren't planes or anything man made at all. It was almost spiritual in a way, and gave me a feeling I'd never experienced before.

The dream I had was basically me being abducted and then the aliens using me as some kind of "spy" (although I'm not sure if that's the correct word) to bring back information for them from Earth. I woke up from my dream and had a glass of water, and was just thinking "woah!". It was very strange, and for around 10 minutes after I woke up, I was lying in my bed thinking that I was meant to bring back information to my abductees about Planet Earth, but then a few minutes later I didn't feel the same way anymore. I feel like a raving lunatic typing this out, but I feel I should tell the truth no matter how crazy it sounds.

Originally posted by JunoJive
reply to post by Vanchatron

 

Good job of documenting the case, it allows cases to be compared for similarities. As for people not buying your story, don't worry too much. You did all you could do and a healthy dose of skeptisim is always good assuming it can remain civil. I'm not familiar with the airspace region you are in so someone with a bit more knowledge on possible flight training etc would be useful. I do find it interesting that the lights turned off, was this in unison or did they blink away one at a time?

As for your dream, although probably not relevant to the sighting itself in an evidence capacity, it certainly shows what this kind of experience can have on a witness.

Eyes to the skies

Cheers

edit on 3-10-2010 by JunoJive because: Terrible Grammar

There were around 40 or so of the lights. Around 37-38 of them all turned off at once, leaving behind just a couple at the back of the formation, which is what my friend took a picture of. The reason we didn't take a picture straight away is because to be honest we were just dumbfounded by the whole situation. It's only when they started to disappear that I eventually grabbed my friend and told him to take a picture as quickly as possible before the last couple disappeared.

reply to post by Vanchatron


Blimey..... a good old fashioned UFO experience. This is all very retro and the, show me the HD video crowd, or it didn't happen are not really going to be interested.

Me, however, i find it refreshing we have what was quite a common occurrence for many years. You are far from alone with the *spiritual thing*, I will use the term spirit , though it has no real meaning, as it is the easiest way to convey the sense in words. As one might expect, the opposite happens to some people. Rather than feeling as if, they have been given an insight they feel they have been somehow invaded. In crude terms, it is often about the person's own psyche and strength of ego. Here i mean ego in a neutral manner.

Those who tend be the most grounded , also happen to be the most open to outside experience. If that makes sense? That is, those who know they are just tiny speck on a tiny planet in the arse end of galaxy amongst billions of others and think. "Hey that's fine by me", tend to view these sort of experiences in a positive light.

On the other hand, those who tend to rely totally on their physical senses to seek empirical evidence for everything tend to have an ego based in an inward view of the universe. That is in its' crudest, i didn't see it, therefore it didn't happen. These tend towards finding experiences that force to think out of the box, as it were, troubling.

You will excuse me painting with huge brush strokes as there are infinite varieties of these * stereotypes* that exhibit various levels of either tendency cos, were as humans, are an almost infinite variety.

The point of my ramblings being a pretty simple one. You are not alone in your experience both during and after, with your reaction to the incident. To that extent, it really doesn't matter if the world and its' dog tells you they were the ubiquitous Chinese Lanterns.

As for the dream. might I be so bold as to suggest. Your brain during dreams is basically, defragging itself and sticking everything in the requisite files and folders. Not all dreams fall into this category, but that's a wholly different subject. That being so, this last 25 years of Ufology has pretty much, in the public eye been about the abduction phenomenon. To some extent i would postulate that, your dream was your brain dealing with the experience in the light of how you have subconsciously been drip fed what UFOs are about by the media. The incident has stayed with you, your brain during sleep says... "Ah UFOs yes UFOs = abductions"...

The true key is, you saw what you saw, your instinct, because of how you view the universe, tells you it was something *cool*. That's all you need to know. Those lights might be something wholly mundane, it is really irrelevant, as you feel you have gained from the experience.


My experience of UFOs has told me this. Those who are desperate to find conclusive proof they exist by going public with the ships ashtray are forever doomed to frustration. Equally, those who seek to completely dismiss them as mere figments of the imagination or misidentification of mundane phenomenon, are forever doomed to have truly unexplainable cases crop up. Those who seek proof often end up as hoaxers, often out of frustration rather than a true desire to deceive. Those who dismiss the whole phenomenon, tend to just ignore every case that has no simple explanation and spend their whole lives in a constant battle to and fro with the hoaxers.

So thank you for your report, so refreshing to read something so *retro* .

reply to post by FireMoon


Thank you very much for your reply, it's nice to see somebody who doesn't straight away jump on the "HEY THAT'S FAKE" bandwagon. It's refreshing to see people actually believe me for once, as I've read countless amounts of threads where people are very dismissive and refuse to believe in the OPs thread & account of what they saw/experienced.

Regarding the (as you put it) "HD Video crowd". Well, to be honest if I had an HD video of what I saw, believe me I'd be posting it. I regret now that at the time I didn't tell my friend to record them, as opposed to taking a picture, but I guess at the time I didn't know how long they'd be there for, and my first thought was QUICK, TAKE A PICTURE.

Over the past few years, I've read threads with choppy low quality pictures of UFOs in them, and I've thought "why is it every time a UFO picture is posted, it's crap quality?" but having been in this situation for myself, I can understand why pictures/videos are often of low quality now. I often believed it was people just trying to fool others into believing they'd seen a UFO, by uploading low quality images/videos, but now I can see different.

I also don't know why the picture we took shows it being yellow/orange, because when we saw them in the sky, they were coloured blood red & quite bright. But then again, when I saw them in the sky they didn't look like they did in the picture either, they just looked like balls of light in a formation.

One of the main things that made me believe in them, was that there was just so many of them there. If there was just one or two, I may have dismissed them and said it was something else, but seeing as there were so many it was just strange.

EDIT: I've just found a few pictures on Google images. These were pretty much what I saw in the sky, but there were around 40 or so of them.

Pic 1 - bittenandbound.com...
Pic 2 - www.anomalymagazine.com...

reply to post by Vanchatron


More like the orb pictured here ... lightsinthetexassky.blogspot.com... (about 20% of the way down the page.....





... and here ? ... www.ufosnw.com... pic here ..

Originally posted by FireMoon
reply to post by Vanchatron

 

More like the orb pictured here ... lightsinthetexassky.blogspot.com... (about 20% of the way down the page.....





... and here ? ... www.ufosnw.com... pic here ..

Well I wouldn't really say they looked like that because as far as I can remember, they didn't have a very bright red light in the middle surrounded by a darker red light, like in those pictures. They just seemed to be all one shade of red, but quite bright, as if they were made of light themselves.

Oh by the way, it seems a couple people are thinking I had the dream AFTER I saw the things in the sky. I did infact have the dream the night BEFORE I saw them, which is what I found weird,

I think you are going to have a really hard time shaking off the lanterns idea no matter what you say and I do mean that kindly. Sadly we have a great many people who love to hoax and get some real joy from seeing their works on forums such as these.

A set of lanterns tethered together depending on the wind would stay in a pretty reasonable formation.

Remember I am NOT saying that's what it was, you say it deffo wasn't lanterns and I have to take what you say as I did not see them. Wish you had got more pictures.

I found some tiny red ufo's here. The second image you posted is obviously a triangle ufo, did you see multiple ufos or did you see a few of them with multiple lights?



and the link:M25 UFO Fleet

Originally posted by rudeboyrave
I found some tiny red ufo's here. The second image you posted is obviously a triangle ufo, did you see multiple ufos or did you see a few of them with multiple lights?



and the link:M25 UFO Fleet

That image is pretty much what I saw in the sky, although there were more of them and didn't have that "shape" as such. They just seemed to be balls of red light, but were around that close to each other (as the picture you posted shows) in the sky.

I can prove they were UFO's.

Were you unable to identify them?
Were they flying?
Were they some kind of object?

That's pretty much the criteria. If you answered no, yes, yes to the above.
Proving they are craft from another world, on the other hand....THAT is the hard part...

Unidentified just means you don't know what you saw...no shame in that.

Originally posted by Gazrok
I can prove they were UFO's.

Were you unable to identify them?
Were they flying?
Were they some kind of object?

That's pretty much the criteria. If you answered yes to the above.
Proving they are craft from another world, on the other hand....THAT is the hard part...

Unidentified just means you don't know what you saw...no shame in that.

Very good point that nobody seems to want to make. They were, no doubt, UFOs. I bet they were homade balloons. Those always get reported as spaceships.

reply to post by Vanchatron
I believe your story. These things really do exist, I've experienced many of these ufo orbs and I've been 4 feet away from one in the Buxton Triangle area.

Then again you may have seen lanterns. When you describe the latter ones staying lit while the earlier ones went out, then that does sound like lanterns.

Not sure what to make of the photo, one of the moving lights does appear bigger than the others

You say the lights were red. That is very unusual. To see so many (specifically) red type ufo orbs is very rare. Amber/orange like those in my avatar, or whites quite common in numbers, reds usually one or two max. Very unusual