What have you seen in the skies?

[Jackrabbit379]

We had the space shuttle land at the air base(Sheppard Air Force Base), and we all thought that was neat.

[Shawnee]

I saw a shooting star once that landed in the field next to me and made a big flash of light. I also see the Northern lights up here where I live. I have driven across a stretch of highway in Canada where I was the only one on the road for 200 miles and the only thing I could see was the northern lights dancing across the sky and millions of stars.

[shyykatt]

if ya wait long enuff and watch closely, you can see satellites- pretty neat

[golfhobo]

If you get out of your truck in a remote area like western Arizona, on a clear night, all you have to do is look up and you'll be able to discern a long stream of closely grouped stars that give that section of the sky a "milky" look.

You are looking at the Milky Way, and our little planet and entire Solar System is just one little spec on the same plane as that "spiral cluster." Wherever it goes in the Universe, we follow.

The rest of the stars, and the darker part of the night, is the whole of the Universe, and we are spiraling through it like a pinwheel on the outer edge of a frisbee!

[Sheepdancer]

A few weekends ago me and a few friends took the boat out for an all night fishing trip. The night was very clear and their were billions of stars out/ We were in a unfamilure part of the lake and moving slow when one of my buddies looked up and screamed "what the hell is that? We looked up and sure enough there was a big black triangle moving slowly through the sky not making a sound. We could see the stars disappear as it passed. There were 6 of us and yes, beer was involved. But we were all 100% sure what we saw. This excited us and kind of freaked us out. We were all convinced we saw something that we couldnt explain. We spent the rest of the night fishing and talking about it wondering if we should report it.
Soon the sun started to come up and it was time to head back. On the way back we passed the same place we saw the big flying triangle and noticed something strange. There were powerlines stretched between two very high bluffs and in the middle of the powerline was a big red plastic cone in the shape of a triangle. OOOPS!
This demonstrates a great example of what surely most if not all UFO sitings are. If we hadnt gone back the same way we came, we would have been 6 educated men who would swear and pass a lie dectector that we had seen a UFO.

[golfhobo]

bump

[golfhobo]

Most of us have seen the shadow of a cloud on the ground, or even the shadow of an airplane, but....

Have you ever seen the shadow of a contrail against the blue sky?? It's hard to see, and I'm sure only happens when the angles are right, but, I've seen it a couple of times, and I think it is cool.

Next time the sun is overhead or behind you, and a plane is streaking AWAY from you leaving a contrail, look closely from the point of the plane "FORWARD" and down to the horizon.

You should see "darkened" line, no wider than the contrail itself against the blue sky. It is not an optical illusion. It is the shadow of the contrail against a clear blue sky!

[Jackrabbit379]

This time of year, around here, you see a lot of spooky thunderheads in the western sky. :P

[COLT]

The space station is easy to see, I looked for the times on Nasa just now but...You go look. I've seen the station many times, it's big, the biggest thing up there... But you have to be somewhere unpopulated...

I like what hobo said, My thoughts too... We are at the edge of a small , solar system of millions of solar systems, that make galaxies, in a system of millions of galaxies, ..... "But I still want what I want, cause I am important !" Love thy neighbor... Your not really that important.
Be nice, treat others as you would like to be treated....

[silvan]

I don't recall seeing anything more interesting than shooting stars, but I sure have seen an awful lot of them as a driver. Before I was a driver, I had never seen one in my life.

Actually, I guess the most bizarre thing I ever saw in the sky was one long night going down I-95 toward Savannah, GA. The flat and the dark and the towering rows of pine trees on either side and the tired and the miles and miles and miles of flat, featureless nothing (yeah, I guess I should go out west sometime, I ain't seen nothing yet, right?)...

Anyway, I started to see a giant rooster in front of me, in the shape of the sky revealed through the tree silhouettes. Then I slammed on the brakes to avoid ass-ending the tractor trailer that materialized directly in front of me, blocking the highway, which turned out to be a damn bridge overpass in some kind of weird parallax phenomenon.

Time to go to bed, that night. Oh yeah. Bigtime.

[century451]

Early 96 around 4am in Missouri I saw something that scared the crap out of me..... it looked like a chariot pulled by white horses. I thought it was something out of the bible or something. Turns out it was a comet....one of those every century comets or something.... after the initial shock it was quite spectacular.

[Useless]

I've seen the lights of Marfa, Tx. We've never figured out what's going on there!!

[Timothy J. Begle]

Last night while driving to Chicago, from Columbus, Ohio I saw a small shooting star. That got me wondering, while out here for just a couple years I have seen some good size shooting stars (meteor shower's).

The best thing in the sky I have probably seen was when coming across I70 west of St. Louis and saw a huge meteor. It lasted for about 3-4 seconds and lit up the entire ski (was bright as a bolt of lightning lasting 3-4 seconds). I have seen 2 other good size ones but not nearly the same size.

You guys ever see things like that or maybe even stranger things you can't explain?

Everybody thinks their short time on earth is the history of the world.

Just basic human nature to think that something normal is abnormal.

[Timothy J. Begle]

A few weekends ago me and a few friends took the boat out for an all night fishing trip. The night was very clear and their were billions of stars out/ We were in a unfamilure part of the lake and moving slow when one of my buddies looked up and screamed "what the hell is that? We looked up and sure enough there was a big black triangle moving slowly through the sky not making a sound. We could see the stars disappear as it passed. There were 6 of us and yes, beer was involved. But we were all 100% sure what we saw. This excited us and kind of freaked us out. We were all convinced we saw something that we couldnt explain. We spent the rest of the night fishing and talking about it wondering if we should report it.
Soon the sun started to come up and it was time to head back. On the way back we passed the same place we saw the big flying triangle and noticed something strange. There were powerlines stretched between two very high bluffs and in the middle of the powerline was a big red plastic cone in the shape of a triangle. OOOPS!
This demonstrates a great example of what surely most if not all UFO sitings are. If we hadnt gone back the same way we came, we would have been 6 educated men who would swear and pass a lie dectector that we had seen a UFO.

I often wonder why UFO’s appear only to the weird folks who live in the middle of a wheat field, or drunken fishermen in the middle of a lake.

You would think those UFO folks would maybe stop by one of them big cities with all the lights. Maybe it’s because they are just looking for an Ice Cold Coors Beer?

[Phantom433a]

Some of these are gooooooood.

U.F.O.= Unidentified Flying Object, meaning that it dosen't have to be a spaceship, such as the 5 fireballs on 95 in Oregon (used to run that route alot). If you can't figure out what it is....its a ufo.

Since I spend my time mostly on I-40 in Az., I see alot of shooting stars and the milky effect mentioned earlier. On 95 running up to Winamucca, Nv. There is a town with a big lake, just south of that town is a group of military bunkers, I've seen lights there at night that hover and move around like helicopters, but even when you stop your truck, you can't hear anything that sounds like them.
I've seen the different colored lights in the Alaskan skies. The one thing I can say was a ufo was located along I-55 north of Litchfield, Illinois. I used to work for a company delivering to McDonalds and one night while coming home, I saw a bright orb located in the middle. Many other drivers saw it as well, even though there was no lights along that section of the road.

[golfhobo]

Everybody thinks their short time on earth is the history of the world.

Just basic human nature to think that something normal is abnormal.

Not EVERYONE, Mr. Beagle.

I happen to think that the short history of the World is just a "passing moment" in TIME. And the most abnormal thing in nature, is the HUMAN nature.

I like to focus my thought on the finite point that is the apex of the shadow of the moon (or any other heavenly body.) Just think.... there is a point in space at which one foot in either direction is the difference between light and dark! A stepladder would make the difference!

Of course, in this whole Universe, there is no such place that is in total darkness. The fact that the human retina is "pixel defficent" notwithstanding.

:wink:

[ben45750]

You would think those UFO folks would maybe stop by one of them big cities with all the lights. Maybe it’s because they are just looking for an Ice Cold Coors Beer?

remember this story?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/classi...5874175.column

[Phantom433a]

No controllers saw the object, and a preliminary check of radar found nothing out of the ordinary, FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory said.

The FAA is not conducting a further investigation, Cory said. The theory is the sighting was caused by a "weather phenomenon," she said.

For it to have been nothing.....why a 2 page story?

The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (the term that extraterrestrial-watchers nowadays prefer over Unidentified Flying Object)

....ok UAP.....dosen't that stand for United Artists Productions?

[Timothy J. Begle]

Are these people seeing something?
Yes

Is it an UFO?
Yes, because something wants it to be.

Is it real?
Yes, but not as we now it.

Want to know what it is?
It cannot be seen on radar.
Some people see them, and others in the very same are do not.
Angles of light are something that most lost people don’t understand, and will fall for and follow.

OH!
Will I ever see a UFO?
No
I know what they are of!

[golfhobo]

Are these people seeing something?
Yes

Is it an UFO?
Yes, because something wants it to be.

Is it real?
Yes, but not as we now it.

Want to know what it is?
It cannot be seen on radar.
Some people see them, and others in the very same are do not.


Angles of light are something that most lost people don’t understand, and will fall for and follow.


OH!
Will I ever see a UFO?
No
I know what they are of!

It is easy for an "angle" of light to be misinterpreted. But what if it is NOT a "reflection" of light tha one sees?

What if is a radar return on a radar scope?

Now, "I" am not one who claims to have seen a UFO, and my father is a man of GOD! But, when he was in the Air Force, as a Control Tower Opoerator, he saw several "blips" on his radar screen (electronic images) that did NOT move for a period of time, then moved quickly and erratically at angles (and speeds) that our aircraft could not have done, and in fact, could not follow.

We have only discussed it a few times, for reasons that I believe should be clear. He's not a "touch you on the head and HEAL you kind of preacher. He's a true man of God. I think he's as puzzled as the rest of us on this one!