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

 

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.

 

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

 

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!

 

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.

 

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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!

 

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

 

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....

 

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.