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[Polioliolio]

OP, that's ridiculous.

Now please enjoy these throw pillows My wife made for your family.

 

[Joe Prodigy]

You are living in a simulation.

Spoiler

something happened to me last Thursday when I was driving home. I had a couple of miles to go - I looked up and saw a glowing orange object in the sky, to the east! It was moving very irregularly... suddenly there was intense light all around me - and when I came to, I was home. What do you think happened to me?

I need scissors! 61!

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

I saw 3-4 jets chasing down a UFO when I was a kid. It was straight out of Independence Day. The truth is out there, and ya'll don't even know.

 

[Gravy Boat]

OP, not sure what you expected, but I wouldn't try to get any kind of sense from this crowd.

Honest skepticism is understandable, because if you haven't seen it yourself then it's hard to believe someone else. The only thing most people will believe is the evidence of their own eyes.

YOU know what you saw, what it was and more importantly what it wasn't. That will probably have to do.

Actually he doesn't know what it was. Hence the U in UFO.

 

[brerwolfe]

A couple people mentioned drones. I have two quadcopters, they have lights on them. If you were seeing green lights then the machine was flying away from you, red lights are on the front.


Inspire Sunset - Wide by brerwolfe, on Flickr


Inspire Sunset - Eclipse by brerwolfe, on Flickr

Not sure about the "V" formation. An octocopter would have 4 visible green lights.

Just my thoughts.

 

[Shmuppers]

ayy lmao

 

[cruets]

Drones flying in formation

 

[jchap]

Has advanced cloaking technology that leaves 6 unnatural colored lights in a geometric pattern.

 

[jufonuk]

I love anything paranormal. Experienced some weird shit myself, but not related to UFO's

Does GAF have a 'Paranormal' OT?

No. and that itself it the real conspiracy!!

 

[RM8]

It's funny how aliens always expose their existence to the people who are already convinced they're there. Can't they give the rest of us a glimpse?

Nope. Sorry.

 

[NZerker12]

I need scissors! 61!

You are living in a simulation.

Spoiler

something happened to me last Thursday when I was driving home. I had a couple of miles to go - I looked up and saw a glowing orange object in the sky, to the east! It was moving very irregularly... suddenly there was intense light all around me - and when I came to, I was home. What do you think happened to me?

Raiden turn the game console off right now

 

[sono]

dim lights in the sky
and you drew a picture which then you posted here.



Did you wonder why every ufo sighting is faint hard to see dots in the sky.

People imagination fills in the lack of information.

I can draw pictures too.

 

[akira28]

dim lights in the sky
and you drew a picture which then you posted here.



Did you wonder why every ufo sighting is faint hard to see dots in the sky.

People imagination fills in the lack of information.

I can draw pictures too.

like hell you can. draw one right now.

 

[Jason's Ultimatum]

Even if there was a 1% chance the OP saw a real UFO, we have to take that with absolute certainty.

 

[The Lone Courier]

Aliens from Mars visiting their moms for mothers day.

 

[SaganIsGOAT]

C O N F I R M A T I O N B I A S

 

[SirMossyBloke]

like hell you can. draw one right now.

Haha. That was oddly funny.

 

[jstripes]

 

[Kurdel]

Drones flying in formation

Clearly you were bought out by big drone

 

[Necromanti]

I'm sure most of us have seen at least one UFO in our lifetimes. I know I've seen a few. I never really had a reaction towards it, though, since I never had evidence (or the conviction) with which to assume it wasn't something uninteresting. It could have been a hotdog in orbit for all I knew.

 

[Alucrid]

Anyway, here's the deal. I was at a friend's house in Gautier, MS playing DDR yesterday on 5/8/16. We all left out to go to Walmart around 10pm Got back to his place at 11pm. My daughter was with me. As we got out the car, my daughter commented on how bright a couple stars were. I told her I can find a very bright one in the constellation called Orion's Belt (the star Betelgeuse). I searched up above for the constellation and after I said Orion's Belt, my friend remarked how anytime he hears the name Orion's Belt, he thinks of the film Men in Black.

10 PM on 5/8/16 hasn't happened yet in Gautier, MS.

I think you were abducted and sent back in time.

 

[Deleted member 10571]

oh god im crying

 

[teruterubozu]

10 PM on 5/8/16 hasn't happened yet in Gautier, MS.

I think you were abducted and sent back in time.

There's all kinds of weird things to his story, including the constellation Orion, which isn't observable at this time of the year in Gautier, MS.

 

[Razorback]

A couple people mentioned drones. I have two quadcopters, they have lights on them. If you were seeing green lights then the machine was flying away from you, red lights are on the front.


Inspire Sunset - Wide by brerwolfe, on Flickr


Inspire Sunset - Eclipse by brerwolfe, on Flickr

Not sure about the "V" formation. An octocopter would have 4 visible green lights.

Just my thoughts.

That's the coolest looking drone I've ever seen.

 

[cyberheater]

Absolutely zero point of starting a topic about ufos with folks on GAF and expecting a serious discussion OP.

 

[Kurdel]

Absolutely zero point of starting a topic about ufos with folks on GAF and expecting a serious discussion OP.

To be fair, it'a also impossible to have a "serious" discussion about UFOs.

 

[infinitys_7th]

Why?
You gave several reasonable explanations but dismiss them for no reason whatsoever. Instead you stick with the one that has no ground to stand on.


It's interesting how one can have delusions, loss of critical thinking etc. only in one part of their understanding of the world and daily life. You can see that pattern in all kinds of people even though you would usually only associate it with religious fundamentalists.
I wonder if that's part of how our brain is designed to deal with the input or if it's some sort of defect. Kinda off-topic but does someone know a nice reading on this? Preferably from a neurological point of view and not psychological.

Except those are possible explanations. They aren't definite, and there is no reason to assign cause when cause isn't known.

Regardless, it is a UFO, or better a UAP, by definition. It is an unidentified aerial phenomenon, nothing more, nothing less.

OP, why don't you report the sighting into a database like the National UFO Reporting Center? That can be a big help in finding out if the sighting has a conventional explanation or is actually unexplained.

 

[cyberheater]

To be fair, it'a also impossible to have a "serious" discussion about UFOs.

I've had many serious discussion about UFOs with folks over the years. You just can't do it here.
A person spends serious time writing out an OP and the very next post is some stupid drive by comment followed by folks with stupid pics or gifs and the whole thing falls though the drain.
Every single time. It's not worth discussing this subject on GAF.

 

[TimeEffect]

All that high tech and they cant even hide from Sherlock OP Holmes here

 

[QuantumSquid]

...

 

[TimeEffect]

Absolutely zero point of starting a topic about ufos with folks on GAF and expecting a serious discussion OP.

The last time someone tried to talk UFOs with me, their source of knowledge was ancient aliens

 

[infinitys_7th]

To be fair, it'a also impossible to have a "serious" discussion about UFOs.

There is a ton of very serious discussion and debate if you have any knowledge of the community. And a great range of thoughts and theories.

When you guys dismiss (and mock and ridicule) it out of hand like regularly happens in these topics, of course it isn't "serious" discussion. You all are the ones preventing serious discussion with your own brand of confirmation bias. The subject itself isn't doing anything.

 

[Gravy Boat]

I've had many serious discussion about UFOs with folks over the years. You just can't do it here.
A person spends serious time writing out an OP and the very next post is some stupid drive by comment followed by folks with stupid pics or gifs and the whole thing falls though the drain.
Every single time. It's not worth discussing this subject on GAF.

I mean what is there to discuss. Guy sees some lights, doesn't know what they are. Where does a serious discussion go from there? 'It was probably a drone(s)' is the most serious response you could give, and even that doesn't lead to a discussion.

Should we humour him by going 'Maybe it was aliens, even though it's probably the least likely outcome and we've absolutely no reason to think it was. What do you think they wanted?'.

 

[Kurdel]

I've had many serious discussion about UFOs with folks over the years. You just can't do it here.
A person spends serious time writing out an OP and the very next post is some stupid drive by comment followed by folks with stupid pics or gifs and the whole thing falls though the drain.
Every single time. It's not worth discussing this subject on GAF.

People being serious about a subject doesn't make for a serious discussion.

Every UFO discussion devolves into conspiracy theories, pseudo science and bizzar anti-nuclear tangents.

 

[jstripes]

A person spends serious time writing out an OP and the very next post is some stupid drive by comment followed by folks with stupid pics or gifs and the whole thing falls though the drain.

You just described 90% of threads in OT.

 

[Samurai G0SU]

Few years ago in Colorado. I thought I was crazy seeing a bright light in the middle.of the day vanish quickly and then come back to the same area within minutes.

When other people told me they seen it too from different locations than where I was, it freaked me out more.

I was in a building facing west toward the mountains (Lakewood)
The other person was driving on the highway nearby, passenger side witnessing it.

No one else in my building bothered to look as I told them to so none of my co-workers can say they believe me...

 

[gai_shain]

So you saw some lights and dismiss everything it could be except an UFO?

 

[Keihart]

OP, I figured it out

Legendary thread reference.
I will never forget..neither his sister i believe.

 

[WeAreStarStuff]

Nice. I've seen UFOs twice in my life. Once looking out the window from the bedroom, and once looking at the moon through my telescope.

 

[Necromanti]

Every UFO discussion devolves into conspiracy theories, pseudo science and bizzar anti-nuclear tangents.

It sounds like how every GMO discussion eventually reduces down to one about Monsanto (and nothing substantive) every time without fail. It gets tiring.

 

[TheWorthyEdge]

I'll tell ya what. Aliens are my biggest fear, so if I saw one I'd shit myself.

With that said and done I still want to see one. Aliens might be my biggest fear, but they're by far the most interesting things to think about.

 

[infinitys_7th]

People being serious about a subject doesn't make for a serious discussion.

Every UFO discussion devolves into conspiracy theories, pseudo science and bizzar anti-nuclear tangents.

Because that is where the forum leads it. Because GAF is infested with the lightest, most popular memes about UFOs - those of the X-Files brand.

I mean, I love the X-Files as entertainment, but aliens coming here and performing ridiculously primitive experiments on us? Of course it's absurd, but there is more thought beyond that.

Take cattle mutilations as an example - we have evidence of certain mutilated cattle being dropped from at least 50 ft in the air (impact site, broken ribs). Certainly predator action happens, but what conventional predator picks up a half-ton bull and drops it 50 ft? Could it the government monitoring the beef supply for BSE or other contaminants? Possibly. Could it be something stranger, something nonphysical? Possibly.

Admittedly, I'm not a big ETH guy anymore. I loved it as a kid, but it doesn't add up.

 

[Toki1776]

So you saw some lights and dismiss everything it could be except an UFO?

To be fair, since it was a flying object that they couldn't identify, the term isn't exactly misused.

 

[diamount]

God, this brings me back to me abovetopsecret.com days. Where everything was a conspiracy to me.

 

[Kurdel]

Because that is where the forum leads it.

Could it the government monitoring the beef supply for BSE or other contaminants? Possibly. Could it be something stranger, something nonphysical? Possibly

Funny how your own post contradicts your opening line.

Stuff like cattle mutilation is akin to anomaly hunting, and by associating it to UFOs you are already making assumptions.

Occam's razor never seems to be a thing in these UFO threads.

 

[Keihart]

I really love paranormal stuff too , sadly i've never seen an UFO, but it's hard to look at the sky for stars with the light polution in cities.

There are so many testimonies and people going on record about aliens and stuff that even if there is not definitive proof of it, it seems like it's either a very elaborated missinformation campaing, there are aliens on earth or both.

USA does spend a whole lot of cash on black projects so secret aircraft wouldn't be that strange either, i mean, they even managed to spy the internet throug international links (according to snowden) and almost nobody cared.

 

[infinitys_7th]

Funny how your own post contradicts your opening line.

Stuff like cattle mutilation is akin to anomaly hunting, and by associating it to UFOs you are already making assumptions.

Occam's razor never seems to be a thing in these UFO threads.

Except that they are associated to some degree with UFOs, in the most general sense of "UFO". Look at Christopher O'Brien's work on the subject.

Also what does Occam's Razor say about cattle being dropped from 50 ft to a dull splat? Or other cases where the mutilation occurred very rapidly? Hell, what does Occam's Razor really say at all when at best you guess P(A|B|C)<P(A|D)? No one knows the probability behind these events.

I'm not for monolithic explanations.

 

[Kurdel]

Except that they are associated to some degree with UFOs, in the most general sense of "UFO". Look at Christopher O'Brien's work on the subject.

Why not dragons or demons?

Because people want it to be UFOs, because that is something that sounds a bit more plausible in the 20th century. Never mind with cloning and drones in the 21st century, we can barely imagine a FTL capable civilization sending biological entities and testing one livestock on at a time.

 

[teruterubozu]

You guys are nuts. It's chupacabra, silly.

 

[infinitys_7th]

Why not dragons or demons?

Because people want it to be UFOs, because that is something that sounds a bit more plausible in the 20th century. Never mind with cloning and drones in the 21st century, we can barely imagine a FTL capable civilization sending biological entities and testing one livestock on at a time.

Why not dragons or demons? Because that is not what people report, at least not generally (Skinwalker Ranch had it's share of poltergeist-like activity)?

The funny thing about skeptics is that they never actually look at the investigations, instead just using Occam's Magic Handwave to dismiss anything they don't like while keeping the things they do.

And I never said it was aliens. That's your confirmation bias.