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It reminded me of something I saw years ago when I was a kid.
My dad had sent me and my older brother out to clean out a stock tank (water trough} on our east Texas farm. While my brother was mucking out the leaves
and debris, I was leaning on my shovel (as usual) and day dreaming.
It was a clear cloudless day and I noticed way up high a strange sight. There
seem to be an object moving across the sky at an extreme speed. It seem to be
a bright gold and silver craft and almost looked like it had many facets that
reflected the sunlight in flashes. I would judge it now to be at about 20,000 feet or better and probably traveling at maybe 600 to 700 miles per hour.
About half way across the sky it stoped on a dime,turned and doubled back on the same track it had been traveling on and finally vanished out of sight.
I hollered at my brother to look but he couldn't spot it and thought it might of been a flock of geese.
This was well before commercial airlines flew that high or that fast,so always
ruled that out.
What was it? I don't know,but this was well before I was old enough to do drugs
or drink alcohol and my eyesight was a damn lot sharper than it is now.
Anyway thats my little tale about UFOs and cleaning out stock tanks.
Anybody else had any experiences like this?...KF
[edited by: King_Fisher at 8:19 am (utc) on Sep. 24, 2007]
Of course, until identified it remains a UFO!
Matt
Inflation - no UFO is more important.
Bad Economy - no UFO is more important.
Homeless people - no UFO is more important.
I still don't know if what I said makes sense at all.
[Everybody seems to have a disclaimer at the end of whatever they say]
Habtom
[edited by: Habtom at 9:21 am (utc) on Sep. 24, 2007]
Optical illusion?... Maybe.
This was pre satellites or space junk, before even Sputnik flew.
At that time there was only a little buzz about UFOs.
Could of been a kids over active imagination, but it sure seemed real to me!...KF
Just wanted to say:
Kids have more chance of looking at something strange than many adults would ever notice.
On the other hand, our own existence in the universe is such an unlikely anomaly, one might question if there could be any other intelligent life out there at all, because the chances of intelligent life managing to appear twice would be infinitesimally small.
Unless... intelligent life did only appear once and that's our cousins out there. Because we're not from Earth - it's all just a colonisation project gone terribly wrong.
However I found it always fascinating how the alleged aliens keep up with the newest trends in hubcap design...
- if they are smart enough to make it all the way here they could either hide from us, or they would just land on the White House lawn and announce their presence,
why is it always in rural areas they seem to show up?
- I think nearly all UFO sightings are military planes
last night i could see lots of stars despite being in the middle of the city, i could see two very fast planes with multiple lights, one following the other very close, they must have come out of the US airbase that is about 20 miles away, but it did look really strange
I am open to them visiting us in the future I thinks its possible.
if they are smart enough to make it all the way here they could either hide from us
Most of the time, they appear to be entirely successful in doing this. How many flying saucers have you ever seen in the sky?
why is it always in rural areas they seem to show up?
Because they are trying to remain undetected while they observe us. And they don't yet have cloaking technology. (Or, at any rate, they don't have cloaking technology which works 100% the time).
I think nearly all UFO sightings are military planes
Except that military planes don't go from 200 miles an hour to an absolute standstill in mid-air and then immediately fly straight upwards at right angles, also at 200 miles an hour.
or they would just land on the White House lawn and announce their presence
One might think they would look at how humans treat each other. Then they would look at each other and ask: if they treat each other like that, how are they going to treat us?!
Don't expect any White House lawn landings any time soon.
Disclaimer: Just in case anyone is thinking that I believe that there are extra-terrestrial presences out there, rest assured that I find the notion most unlikely. I just find the possibility an interesting one to play with.
Except that military planes don't go from 200 miles an hour to an absolute standstill in mid-air and then immediately fly straight upwards at right angles, also at 200 miles an hour.
It could look like that if it was flying horzontal across the sky, then turned and flew away from you. 200 mph is nothing for a military plane or a helicoptor, or do you mean 2000 miles an hour. Which is still possible for a military plane.
The earth had barely cooled for a few hundred millions years, and life was created, but it took 5 billion years for intelligent life to evolve, and this would not had happen, had it not been for a set of unique events.
And the big question, is how long will intelligent life last and does it last long enougth to develop interstellar space travel?
The bright side, if the human race is unique in the Universe, then we won't have to worry about interstellar war with the Klingons :)
Its possible.
sci-fi writers which went before the ufo-wave all had it in their books..
A common misconception. History is littered with tales and images of strange flying objects. Here for example is a painting from 1710, by a Flemish artist named Aert de Gelder [images.google.co.uk]. The object looks mighty strange to me!
Here are a few more well documented works of art showing "anomalous" aerial objects:
Ufo's in art [bibleufo.com]
Are they UFO's? What, as in unidentified flying objects, or space ships? No idea, but to paraphrase the tag line from the X-Files, I'd quite like to believe. ;-)
Trivia question for you: the flag of which nation has a depiction of a flying disc on it?
Syzygy
Instead, it's a depiction of the Ashokra Chakra [en.wikipedia.org]. Guess I've read too many books on ufo's over the years... :-)
Syzygy
