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[TimeEffect]

Can you link me to some of the videos you are watching?

 

[Peltz]

Guys, the video is literally 10 minutes of me just blathering like an idiot in the darkness while driving. If it had anything of merit on it I'd post it without question. I have my HD Handycam in my car ready to go if it happens again. And I will post it if I get anything.

I need to see this. Merit 'shmerit

 

[mysocksarepink]

wow threads like this, the op, and the videos that have been posted here as well make me realize there are some crazy ass people out there.



edit: I have sooo many videos of them following me...like creepy shit...but after a few melt downs I'm kinda ok now...it's daily...so I guess I just conformed to this lifestyle


^ from one of the videos posted here

 

[koji kabuto]

Gaf is giving you some tough love here, It's better to change your approach to this subject now before you sink even deeper down that path in the future.

If you see something flying and you don't know what is it then don't jump to the most illogical explanation,More than 60 years of people claiming that they have seen UFOs and not a single clear photo or video to prove it.

 

[ced]

The whole way. Around 30 minutes.

Ok thank you, and it seems looking at the roads you mentioned it was low speed, with the exception of SR.

How fast do you think you were going when it was right by your side?

 

[Lorcain]

An alien species come from millions of light years away...

...to fuck with you on your way home from your uncle's apartment.

*Alien Seth Rogen laugh*

I would totally do this if I was an alien. It would be my own psychological war on the human race. Especially knowing that nobody would believe any of the people that I harassed and followed. And if someone waved at me like the OP? I'd break out all the cool tech, like lights that can change color and intensity, strobe lights, you name it.

 

[Pejo]

Very cool story OP. To me it sounds like one of those bigger drones, maybe even some people goofing off at a local military base doing tests. I hope I'm wrong though, it'd be awesome to know we're not alone out there.

 

[superdeluxe]

My name is Kyle, I'm 32 and live in Tampa, Fl. I saw a big orange light about two months ago right above my neighborhood and as soon as I stopped my car to look at it, it went out. But tonight legitimately shook me. I was leaving my Uncle's apt. around 9:30pm and I saw a bright white light right above the neighborhood down the road. As soon as I got close to it it started to move and look just like a plane with the blinking lights but moving much too slowly. I was amazed but after giving it a wave hello after stopping right underneath it I went on my merry way. This thing ended up following me all the way home. It literally creeped up right in front of me at an intersection and then kept flying towards me straight on and as soon as it reached my driver's side would fly backwards keeping right alongside me. I get to another intersection right near my house and I see a few objects in the sky with glittery lights flashing over a large area in the sky, almost like morse code. I finally pulled in my driveway and got out, looked up and saw it fly by me one last time. I was always on the fence about all this stuff until tonight but now I'm a legit believer.

I had to check YT to see if others have had this same experience and at least two videos I watched described my experience to a T. I haven't even told anybody I actually know about it because I think they'll think I'm crazy. I've never seen anything until I started researching this stuff on YT and talking about it with my Uncle (also a believer) for the past year or so. The orange light now feels like maybe it was a test to see if I'd notice it because it was 3 a.m. (I go to work early) and I was the only one in my neighborhood outside at that moment. I'll be really curious now to see if this becomes a constant thing. I mean it was so obvious that it was letting me know that it knows that I know. Just crazy!

You should listen to the Trumbull County Police Dispatch audio tapes.

 

[weshes195]

I still don't understand the not having believed in UFOs part. If you see something that appears to be flying that you can't identify, then it's a UFO. It's not exactly easy to identify something at night. It's not even a concept that you can believe or disbelieve.

People rarely use it correctly though. I think everyone here understands what ufo means, but are implying that it is standing for an alien spaceship in this and in nearly all other situations.

Most people believe he saw ufo; just not an alien spaceship. Because c'mon. They don't exist (from what we have seen so far)

Oh I think I read your post wrong. Didn't realize you were talking to op. My bad!

 

[GTI Guy]

 

[Glip_Glop]

Aliens are probably love Florida man storiesand have come to check it out for themselves

Probably haha. I do know people release those "Chinese lanterns" in Tampa by the shore sometimes. I could see someone thinking it was a UFO (technically anything flying is a UFO until it is identified). I'm not a believer myself, but odd things do happen down here. Since Tampa is the lightning capital of the world, we can't rule out ball lightning.

 

[Deadstar]

Maybe if Trump wins the aliens finally intervene?

 

[Dion Blaster]

If you're really embarrassed about your blathering just post the video without sound.

 

[Jzero]

Does the moon follow you too?

 

[Last Prime]

Isn't that what happen to John Travolta?

 

[triplestation]

The truth is out there

 

[Mr. E. Yis]

How can this thing move in front of your car or to the side of your car as you are driving, and you can not get a good look at it? How big is this thing? It would have to be a drone to fit on a road alongside a car. Story doesnt make sense. Either it is a drone or hallucination

 

[aliengmr]

I still don't understand the not having believed in UFOs part. If you see something that appears to be flying that you can't identify, then it's a UFO. It's not exactly easy to identify something at night. It's not even a concept that you can believe or disbelieve.

It's actually become a belief. UFO is almost always code for "something not of this world". A person sees something in the sky that they don't understand immediately, it gets tagged as a UFO. Once that happens the human brain starts down the rabbit hole, filling in holes and adjusting things to make sense of it. Then it becomes a matter of belief.

UFO/ET phenomena can be summed in four words "I want to believe".

 

[Trojita]

If it was a drone someone has some serious confidence in their skills to be flying a probably super expensive drone at at night, following a car and possibly dealing with trees and obstructions.

 

[Wyndstryker]

Aliens are probably love Florida man storiesand have come to check it out for themselves

What if Aliens are the real Florida man and here to ruin society?

 

[Razorback]

Fair point haha.

But I think, an advanced civilisation thousands of years ahead of us technologically may not give a rats arse about what we have going on down here.
Especially after discovering who knows how many other life forms advanced or not, out there.

In the infinite dead void, why would an intelligent civilisation care about visiting a planet full of millions of different living organisms including one that can make large hadron colliders?

If we found evidence of a microbe on a moon in Jupiter, we would spend billions to get there and learn everything we could about it.

This has nothing to do with my opinion on the thread topic, I think OP saw a drone.

 

[SmackDaddy]

A few things you don't talk about on gaf:

1. Ghosts.

2. UFO's.

3. GMO's.

4. Hillary Clinton

These things threaten the bubble that a large percentage of gaffers live in (not all of us are like that though).

You have been learned. Haf a nice day.

Dude has been "researching" this stuff for a year. Finally sees something, doesn't get a good picture of it. The mind is a very powerful thing, and I'm pretty sure his is getting the best of him.

 

[nekkid]

Potato cam or it didn't happen.

 

[Giganteus]

The fact that you recorded something and are refusing to even post it says it all. If you had posted it after its request, you would have gotten some amount of credibility, even if you cant see anything. So you're irritating at the least and at most a liar. This thread was a waste of time. Good job.

 

[FStop7]

MacDill AFB is in your area. US Special Operations Command is located there. There have been a lot of incidents of weird UFO sightings in that area over the years. My guess: it's probably a drone that they use for training UAV operators. That is if you're being honest.

 

[Reeks]

If it was a drone someone has some serious confidence in their skills to be flying a probably super expensive drone at at night, following a car and possibly dealing with trees and obstructions.

You sound like a conspiracy theorist. It had to have been a drone. Why? Because that's the only thing I'll allow myself to consider. You must be crazy.

Spoiler

/s

 

[Grizzlyjin]

This is the equivalent of me researching Big Foot for a year, going on a camping trip, and then thinking I hear Big Foot outside my tent.

You believe in something, you wanted to see it, you thought you saw it. There isn't anything extraordinary or paranormal here. Best case scenario you got yourself hyped about a perfectly normal thing and rationalized it as being alien in nature. Worst case scenario you should probably talk to a professional. I don't mean to shit on you, but this is like a child getting to watch a scary movie and then thinking they saw a ghost when they go to bed.

 

[Nia]

I believe you. The part with the lights underneath and the lack of sound makes me think of the Trumbull County UFO. I've always been fascinated with UFOs, and I hope to see one someday.

 

[sono]

You waved at it and it followed you.

It pulled up alongside you.


As others have said did you consider a drone ?

Over what distance did it follow you ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iX8p_a-eFA

 

[Ferrio]

I used to think I saw ufos all the time when I was younger. Coincidentally I watched a crap ton of X-files, Unsolved Mysteries and other UFO stuff at the time too. Odd that I stopped seeing them after I was no longer interested in those shows.

 

[Reeks]

This is the equivalent of me researching Big Foot for a year, going on a camping trip, and then thinking I hear Big Foot outside my tent.

You believe in something, you wanted to see it, you thought you saw it. There isn't anything extraordinary or paranormal here. Best case scenario you got yourself hyped about a perfectly normal thing and rationalized it as being alien in nature. Worst case scenario you should probably talk to a professional. I don't mean to shit on you, but this is like a child getting to watch a scary movie and then thinking they saw a ghost when they go to bed.

No it's not. He saw it twice and the second time for 30 minutes. That's completely different than psyching yourself out that you caught a glimpse of Bigfoot.. You're the one rushing to conclusions here. He never said that he though it was paranormal or alien--- you came up with that all on your own.

 

[Fat4all]

 

[Grizzlyjin]

No it's not. He saw it twice and the second time for 30 minutes. That's completely different than psyching yourself out that you caught a glimpse of Bigfoot.. You're the one rushing to conclusions here. He never said that he though it was paranormal or alien--- you came up with that all on your own.

He's been researching UFOs and talking about them with his uncle for the past year and then just so happens to see one after leaving his uncle's house. I'm not rushing to anything. Why even bring up being a "believer" in the OP if that wasn't the implication.

There are people that will say that the devil has lived in their upstairs bathroom for 25 years. At the very most this is something like the Solway Firth Spaceman where people jump to a conclusion because they want to believe something mundane is more than it is, and the actual explanation is far more reasonable

 

[nekkid]

So creeped out, right now.

 

[Al-San]

Occam's Razor. An intelligent species capable of intergalactic travel decided to visit a little podunk planet called earth and buzz your car last night just to mess with you.

Or, the simple explanation it was a remote control drone and someone on earth was messing with you.

Bullshit. I'm going with Aliens messing with him. You're not crazy OP!

 

[wild wild rice]

wtf is this Trumbull County incident. I'm watching some re-creation video on YouTube and it reminds me of Rescue 911 and shit that would terrify me as a kid.

 

[triplestation]

h-hab u seen a alyan please??

 

[Squalor]

Of course, as with all pictures and videos of Big Foot or The Lochness Monster, O.P.'s "evidence" is useless.

 

[wild wild rice]

Of course, as with all pictures and videos of Big Foot or The Lochness Monster, O.P.'s "evidence" is useless.

Of course...




Unless there's a massive cover up!

 

[Mineshaft_Gap]

Go see a mental health professional. I'm not saying this to be a bitch. I'm serious, speak to a psychiatrist. This could be an early sign of schizophrenia.

 

[Forsaken82]

You say it looked like a plane, how high up would you say it was?

Better question is how high were you

 

[Reeks]

He's been researching UFOs and talking about them with his uncle for the past year and then just so happens to see one after leaving his uncle's house. I'm not rushing to anything. Why even bring up being a "believer" in the OP if that wasn't the implication.

There are people that will say that the devil has lived in their upstairs bathroom for 25 years. At the very most this is something like the Solway Firth Spaceman where people jump to a conclusion because they want to believe something mundane is more than it is, and the actual explanation is far more reasonable

He said that's he's open to the possibility that there's a mundane explanation. He specifically said that he meant that he's more likely to believe other people who have seen UFOs, not that he believes in aliens. I'm just commenting on the fact that the knee jerks didn't come from him. UFO does not equate alien.

 

[Fat4all]

UFO does not equate alien.

the molemen built UFO's?

 

[nekkid]

the molemen built UFO's?

Trump did.

 

[Nia]

wtf is this Trumbull County incident. I'm watching some re-creation video on YouTube and it reminds me of Rescue 911 and shit that would terrify me as a kid.

It's interesting right? You're probably talking about the same recreation I saw as a child. I poured over UFO documentaries as a kid, and still do as an adult. Yet I've never seen one in real life. Then again I don't get out of my state much, and haven't visited the sites of frequent sightings. I should change that one day.

 

[Grizzlyjin]

He said that's he's open to the possibility that there's a mundane explanation. He specifically said that he meant that he's more likely to believe other people who have seen UFOs, not that he believes in aliens. I'm just commenting on the fact that the knee jerks didn't come from him. UFO does not equate alien.

Oh, I'm well aware of what UFO means. But what is being said is contradictory to being open to the explanation being mundane. If OP was approaching this as the literal meaning of a UFO, what is there to be a believer in? That sometimes objects at night can't be identified? That isn't a belief, thats a fact. When someone says they're a believer after seeing an object that is supposedly following them and attempting to communicate, it's pretty clear what they're trying to say.

 

[Nickle]

Ayy Lmao

 

[MrNelson]

I mean, MacDill is right there, if anything it could have just been a military drone.

 

[Casimir]

What OP says:

"Aliens are real and they totally visited me guys!"



What really happened:

OP was followed by a drone.

 

[VanWinkle]

I think the problem is that you converse with other UFO believers. When you saw that thing, a rational person would assume it's probably just some military thing. But because you have those thoughts in your head, you're getting freaked out and thinking it's following you because you waved at it, and becoming a "legit believer," etcetera. You should have just looked at it from a rational perspective. Even now, at best you're saying "Well, I HOPE you were right [about it bring a drone]". You should have thought, "yeah, you're probably right" but the conspiracy theories are in your head and you're giving too much thought to them.