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anyone else watch "ufo hunters"?, ya i know some of the stuff they say is kinda pushing it, i only ask cuz myself, my older brother by 1 year and my life long first friend richy since 2 1/2 years old not only saw one but actually stood just underneath one for about 10 minutes, richy and i were in third grade and my brother in 4th. i know ill be catching alot of silly responses to this question but after 56 years of hearing them ive got very thick skin, im just wondering if anyone else here has had a similar experience? :savewave:
 
Yes, twice. 1st time at age 11 or 12, 1951 or 52. Formation of a dozen or so lights flying in a triangle, changing colors, NO sound, fairly low. this was in Jax Beach, FL. Scared the ---- out of us. Just south of the aircraft carrier basin at Mayport. There were a lot of military aircraft around in those days and I was a model builder so knew all of them at a glance. Never had seen anything like this before.

2nd time was in the daylight, 1954-55. Saw a large cigar shaped object, no wings, dull silver color, altitude est. at 15-20,000'. Very fast. Crossed the sky horizon to horizon in less than 15 seconds.

They may not be real, but I am convinced that I saw something that I can't explain.

Jim
 
I'm attaching a scan of a News Paper article from the Great Falls (Montana) Tribune about UFOs buzzing the state. This story was once featured on "Unsolved Mysteries" TV show, with Robert Stack. The reason I'm posting this is that I was there when this happened. And by "there" I mean I was a computer maintenance man on the 24th Norad Region SAGE computer system and was on duty the night this happened.

There is one minor correction to the story. It states that the pilots never made visual contact. My recollection was that they did in fact make visual contact (I was standing on the Senior Director's dais and was listening to the conversations between the controllers and the pilots). My recollection is that when the pilots would get close, they would "see some orange object" but before they could make positive ID, the object would go lights out. I recall the F-106's attempting to intercept at least 2 objects that night. I also recall these objects making maneuvers that no ordinary aircraft (or even helicopter) could possibly make. For example, I recall one of the objects traveling over 400kts and doing an instantaneous 180 turn - without slowing down! Kind of like a tennis ball being bounced off a wall. I also recall seeing abrupt altitude changes that would defy anything we had (or currently have) in our inventory.

I'll not speculate what these objects were, but this incident did in fact happen and I was a first-hand witness.
 
If anyone looks in the sky at night and sees all of those stars, but still insists that we are the only possible intelligent life form, they are way off the mark, IMHO.
 
Brosky said:
If anyone looks in the sky at night and sees all of those stars, but still insists that we are the only possible intelligent life form, they are way off the mark, IMHO.
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I'm not entirely convinced it exists on THIS planet!
 
Well, I only meant that we were smart enough to launch the shuttle and satellites, not that we were smart enough to live in peace. We are smart enough to make weapons that can destroy all forms of life, but not smart enough to stop a pirate ship manned with a rag tag team of desperados with AK47's.

Oops...sorry, France did that before us.

Anyhow, you get the point.

Why not visitors from other world's? We went to the moon didn't we?
 
Well I never heard about that one Basil, But the usual visual ID mode is done with radar and a snap roll, thats why they carry IFF . On a colision course at night if you can see the target you both dead!. Yes I have witnessed some strange things in the sky too Anthony.--Keoke
 
Brosky said:
Well, I only meant that we were smart enough to launch the shuttle and satellites, not that we were smart enough to live in peace. We are smart enough to make weapons that can destroy all forms of life, but not smart enough to stop a pirate ship manned with a rag tag team of desperados with AK47's.
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Hold on there ah bit.
We got them buggers and freed the captain too it was a Bloody good show in my book.--Keoke- :banana:

Oops...sorry, France did that before us.

Anyhow, you get the point.

Why not visitors from other world's? We went to the moon didn't we?
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P.S. I hear you. But in regard to the Shuttle, Moon Trip, Satellites and our destructive weapons we got paid to do that,
 
Around about 1989 the police/911 lines in a 50-mile (maybe more) radius around Washington DC were completely jammed from frantic and panic-stricken people calling to report UFOs and strange moving lights.

I saw them, and when I heard about all the concern people I laughed. There was a very thin overcast layer at about 10000ft, thin enough that the stars could be seen clearly but not the clouds. The lights were from those "search lights" that spin around making a pattern of multiple light beams. They'd make several "spots" of light that moved quickly. There were other lights that just had one or two beams that had a much wider range of movement - but so fast they'd go from what seemed like miles in one direction to miles in another.

A "chain" of McDonald's restaurants were having a special night to celebrate the opening of some new locations. Each had one of those spotlight setups, and <span style="font-style: italic">those</span> locations were all around the DC suburbs.

I'm not making judgments on those who saw or think they saw something "real", but tens of thousands of people were absolutely convinced ET was attacking DC that night :smile:
 
I can believe that Scott. It's like the reports we got in when sonic booms were first heard around major airports.--Keoke-
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I was going to say something, but changed my mind. (I am not a UFO believer)

Thought his was interesting.
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Re: UFO hunters

One of the self-evident truths (?) of human beings is that, when we see something we don't understand, we often try to show that the something is "a power greater than we are." That's where myths, legends and deities often stem from.

If an object is "flying", and I can't identify it, to me it's an Unidentified Flying Object. But that's just 'cuz it hasn't been identified (yet).

Ray - that is one of my favorite graphics. Thanks for posting it.

OK - I'll go back to my home planet now.

Tom

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TR6oldtimer said:
I was going to say something, but changed my mind. (I am not a UFO believer)

Thought his was interesting.
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I'm a UFO believer - in the sense that there are sometimes things seen in the sky that are "Unidentified" and "Flying" and "Objects". I am also of the opinion that there is a logical explanation for all of them (other than little green men from another planet). Even the event that I witnessed myself likely has a logical explanation, even if we never did determine what it was.
 
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I am the eternal optimist. I believe that anything is possible.

Do you think that the people who fought in the Revolutionary War would have believed that in less than 250 years things would be so different? I mean, prior to the 20th century, technology was rather slow in developing.
 
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Come to think of it, didn't all of this great leap forward in technology take place after that space ship landed at Roswell and the Military Industrial Complex at Area 51 reverse engineered everything?

Bas, you knew that was coming.............
 
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what..no BCFer is going to admit they were abducted!! come on Doc!!!
 
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