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Posted: 7/31/2014 4:04:01 PM EDT
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Tell you the craziest thing I didn't see. For a couple of days after 9/11, the sky was completely devoid of aircraft... not a sight, not a sound... same, except I could see the F-16's doing CAP over phoenix. That is what freaked me out the most, fighters doing Cap over the CONUS. |
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Posted: 7/31/2014 4:04:06 PM EDT
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I got one. About 17 years ago. I was on a long ski traverse deep in the mountains in Alaska. Myself and another individual were doing over 30 miles through some big mountains on skis. Completely unpopulated and this particular night we were about 20 miles from the nearest road. It was the middle of winter and it gets very dark up here, especially when camping away from any light pollution. A little background on my understanding of what I see in the sky. My dad was a fighter pilot and I grew up around military bases. I think I knew what the military aircraft of the time were capable of. Also, I had been camping and climbing in remote areas of AK for years and could pick out satellites vs aircraft vs whatever as a result of that. Winter camping in AK can be miserable and you wake up several times throughout the night. I make a habit of unzipping the tent and checking for the northern lights. About 3 in the morning I unzip the tent and see what looks like a satellite (a dot of light kind of like a moving star) that has just come into view on the horizon. It is moving at a speed that matches a satellite. My climbing partner was awake and I point out the satellite. We are both watching as it goes about halfway across the sky and then abruptly stops. I say WTF to him and about 10 seconds later we watch it start moving at a higher rate of speed on a path 90 degrees from it's previous course. It stops instantaneously from the high rate of speed and a short time later changes direction again. It was completely silent and did not speed up or slow down, it just started moving at that rate of speed and then stopped, all at once. Nothing that I know of (I'm a nobody) could move like that in the sky. my dad saw that here in KY, almost exactly the same. That was in the early 90s. |
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Posted: 7/31/2014 4:23:10 PM EDT
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Went hiking this February at night in the wilderness (around 3:00 AM) wearing a couple of helmet mounted PVS-14's. Temps were in the 20's. There were reports on Arfcom that Aurora would be visible very far south of the North Pole that A.M., so I grabbed my gear and headed out to see what I could see.
Aurora was visible with the nods, but were extremely faint to the unaided eye. Then, out of nowhere, an extremely bright "laser like" beam began to emanate from the peak of the largest mountain in the area, directly into space, and visible only with the Gen 3 nightvision. The mountain was about 1 mile from my position. I say "laser like" because the extremely bright beam was climbing into the sky at a speed of only about 20-40 feet per second. The beam looked exactly like a powerful green laser, (brighter than your typical 0.7mW IR laser through the goggles), except it somehow was climbing into the sky at a very slow speed rather than instantly like an actual laser would. As the beam climbed into the sky, the atmosphere around the "laser" began to glow, very dim at first, but brighter and brighter as the beam rose higher. As the gases grew brighter, I began to see puffy, cloud like definition and formation to the glowing gases around the beam. This was in a clear sky with no clouds. After a minute or so, once the beam reached about 2000 feet into the sky, it dimmed rapidly leaving the glowing, puffy cloud formations which also began to fade away rapidly - first losing the cloud like appearance and then the afterglow of the gas dimmed completely. This happened an additional 20-30 times over the next hour and a half, however, the beam often did not reach the original height or duration and sometimes dimmed after 15 seconds or so causing the gases around the beam to only begin to glow before fading away completely. It was the weirdest damn thing I’ve ever seen! None of this was visible without using night-vision. |
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Posted: 7/31/2014 4:36:46 PM EDT
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One really foggy late night/early morning I was scanning my sector and saw what appeared to be a illumination round floating in the sky. The problem was that it wasn't moving. I had my buddy look to insure I wasn't going delirious. He saw the same thing-a floating ball. We honestly couldn't figure out what it was. We didn't think it was a UFO unless you count stealth choppers blowing their cover.
Turns out it was the moon and we were both very sleep deprived.
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Posted: 7/31/2014 4:39:26 PM EDT
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I was driving home last winter and I saw crazy round balls dancing across the sky erratically and VERY close to my truck. I was completely in awe. I thought FOR SURE that we were making some kind of alien contact and I was witnessing something amazing.
Turns out the Casino that is on my drive home had some retarded ass light show going on with massive spotlights that moved around. |
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Posted: 7/31/2014 4:41:07 PM EDT
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I saw an F-111 do a "powerslide" at pretty low altitude. It basically slid, changed direction 180 and dropped it's wings back while igniting afterburner and in sling shot fashion it was freekin' gone. After seeing thousands of other jets (growing up by an AFB) this has perplexed me to this day. Seems to have defied physics. Which one, if you don't mind me asking? I grew up near Bergstrom and watched a pilot eject as I was playing with my friends. He made it and there were no civilian casualties from the wreckage. |
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Posted: 7/31/2014 4:44:40 PM EDT
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When I was a kid (10) we lived in Alaska. I went flying with my dad and we where near a storm and saw some very interesting static discharges coming off the leading edges of the wings. He said it was because of the ash in the air from a small volcano eruption.
My last year of high school we went camping. We watched a "object" go around the mountain top a few times and then went straight up and out of sight. It was about 5 miles away, and looked like a blob for a better word. No lights or sound. Later everyone played it off as a helicopter or plane. Then in 2007 lots of people around here saw some lights in the sky. I saw them as we'll. looked like a plane with its landing lights on but moved all over the sky. Then after a few nights they just stopped. http://m.wxii12.com/Strange-Sightings-In-Triad-Skies/4501508 |
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Posted: 7/31/2014 4:44:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Went hiking this February at night in the wilderness (around 3:00 AM) wearing a couple of helmet mounted PVS-14's. Temps were in the 20's. There were reports on Arfcom that Aurora would be visible very far south of the North Pole that A.M., so I grabbed my gear and headed out to see what I could see. Aurora was visible with the nods, but were extremely faint to the unaided eye. Then, out of nowhere, an extremely bright "laser like" beam began to emanate from the peak of the largest mountain in the area, directly into space, and visible only with the Gen 3 nightvision. The mountain was about 1 mile from my position. I say "laser like" because the extremely bright beam was climbing into the sky at a speed of only about 20-40 feet per second. The beam looked exactly like a powerful green laser, (brighter than your typical 0.7mW IR laser through the goggles), except it somehow was climbing into the sky at a very slow speed rather than instantly like an actual laser would. As the beam climbed into the sky, the atmosphere around the "laser" began to glow, very dim at first, but brighter and brighter as the beam rose higher. As the gases grew brighter, I began to see puffy, cloud like definition and formation to the glowing gases around the beam. This was in a clear sky with no clouds. After a minute or so, once the beam reached about 2000 feet into the sky, it dimmed rapidly leaving the glowing, puffy cloud formations which also began to fade away rapidly - first losing the cloud like appearance and then the afterglow of the gas dimmed completely. This happened an additional 20-30 times over the next hour and a half, however, the beam often did not reach the original height or duration and sometimes dimmed after 15 seconds or so causing the gases around the beam to only begin to glow before fading away completely. It was the weirdest damn thing I’ve ever seen! None of this was visible without using night-vision. Well, now I want to buy some NVGs just to look for weird shit.
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Posted: 7/31/2014 4:46:41 PM EDT
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YF-23 at dusk, mid 90's
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Posted: 7/31/2014 4:47:54 PM EDT
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Went hiking this February at night in the wilderness (around 3:00 AM) wearing a couple of helmet mounted PVS-14's. Temps were in the 20's. There were reports on Arfcom that Aurora would be visible very far south of the North Pole that A.M., so I grabbed my gear and headed out to see what I could see. Aurora was visible with the nods, but were extremely faint to the unaided eye. Then, out of nowhere, an extremely bright "laser like" beam began to emanate from the peak of the largest mountain in the area, directly into space, and visible only with the Gen 3 nightvision. The mountain was about 1 mile from my position. I say "laser like" because the extremely bright beam was climbing into the sky at a speed of only about 20-40 feet per second. The beam looked exactly like a powerful green laser, (brighter than your typical 0.7mW IR laser through the goggles), except it somehow was climbing into the sky at a very slow speed rather than instantly like an actual laser would. As the beam climbed into the sky, the atmosphere around the "laser" began to glow, very dim at first, but brighter and brighter as the beam rose higher. As the gases grew brighter, I began to see puffy, cloud like definition and formation to the glowing gases around the beam. This was in a clear sky with no clouds. After a minute or so, once the beam reached about 2000 feet into the sky, it dimmed rapidly leaving the glowing, puffy cloud formations which also began to fade away rapidly - first losing the cloud like appearance and then the afterglow of the gas dimmed completely. This happened an additional 20-30 times over the next hour and a half, however, the beam often did not reach the original height or duration and sometimes dimmed after 15 seconds or so causing the gases around the beam to only begin to glow before fading away completely. It was the weirdest damn thing I’ve ever seen! None of this was visible without using night-vision. Well, now I want to buy some NVGs just to look for weird shit. I dont know what he saw, but I absolutely believe he saw it. |
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Posted: 7/31/2014 4:52:38 PM EDT
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Meteor Shower about 10 years ago. It was super cool.
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Posted: 7/31/2014 4:55:07 PM EDT
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Last year my Son and I were out night fishing and a meteor went over, one minute its pitch black, the next its like day light for a split second.
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Posted: 7/31/2014 4:57:13 PM EDT
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A water spout by the full moon. This was probably the fall of 2004. I was camping by a local lake when I heard a roaring wind over the water. I went to the bank and looked out and here was this huge spout in the middle of a small lake about a houndred feet tall and maybe 300 feet away with no clouds over head. It stayed in one place for maybe 2 minutes or 10, I was spell bound by the moonlight throught the thing. Then it dropped the water, Just dropped it and their were moonbows.
A 300 year old Oak tree first twisted up like liquorish, picked up then thrown by a tornado as a child. A green meteroite explode close enough to see the smoke trail and hear the boom. Several other Meteorite explosions. |
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Posted: 7/31/2014 5:15:18 PM EDT
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I had a crotchety old neighbor who got in some legal trouble and was forced to move into an assisted living center. On the morning they came to pick him up, he inflated a shitload of helium balloons and floated his whole house to South America. It was the damnedest thing I ever saw. Did he meet a dog named Doug? |
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Posted: 7/31/2014 5:19:08 PM EDT
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September 11, 2001. Strangest thing in the sky? Nothing. Nothing was in the sky. It was strange to not see or hear any airplanes. |
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Posted: 7/31/2014 5:19:50 PM EDT
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I had a crotchety old neighbor who got in some legal trouble and was forced to move into an assisted living center. On the morning they came to pick him up, he inflated a shitload of helium balloons and floated his whole house to South America. It was the damnedest thing I ever saw. Did he meet a dog named Doug? I don't know what happened after he left. He only had a land line and... |
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Posted: 7/31/2014 5:23:34 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/31/2014 5:24:02 PM EDT
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Saw a UFO once, it was 3:00 in the A.M. and I was next to a military base so who knows what I really saw. The object, after hovering, shot sideways across the sky at blazing speed, I am 100% serious.
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Posted: 7/31/2014 5:40:32 PM EDT
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One morning I was looking up and a huge box fell from the sky and slowed down. Rear wings came out of the box and formed a gull wing, a boom moved forward and canards where at the very front of the "plane" It leveled off and flew away. My guess the plane was about 100 feet long and 70 feet of rear wingspan. It had no obvious engines and was silent. The fuck? Ever since that day I keep a camera close or in the car. I have never seen any other reports of what I saw since. |
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Posted: 7/31/2014 5:48:51 PM EDT
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I once saw a full moon.
It was shining out of the door of a passing Huey. |
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Posted: 7/31/2014 5:55:23 PM EDT
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We just did this in another post a few days ago, and I first posted about my experience first week of July! No one gives a shit! Even those that claim to see something don't care. I linked a video I found on youtube of the same things I've been seeing, (2years ago, in same location) and these things were trying to communicate with some one! So far no one cares! One person bitched about the verticle video, and another thought it was funny the obviously terrified people thought they were angels from heaven!! Then within a page no one gave a crap. This goes for every other person I've talked to about it.
I still scan the night sky looking, but havnt seen anything for over a week! I could post up the five sightings I've experienced since July 4th, buuuut! No one gives a shit. 
It's taught me to just STFU about it and go on business as usual. Don't upset the sheep, they don't like to be frightened. |
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Posted: 7/31/2014 6:04:24 PM EDT
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Aurora Borealis
Driving from Syracuse to Watertown at night, I should have pulled over to watch. One of the coolest things I have ever seen. |
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Posted: 7/31/2014 6:10:05 PM EDT
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We just did this in another post a few days ago, and I first posted about my experience first week of July! No one gives a shit! Even those that claim to see something don't care. I linked a video I found on youtube of the same things I've been seeing, (2years ago, in same location) and these things were trying to communicate with some one! So far no one cares! One person bitched about the verticle video, and another thought it was funny the obviously terrified people thought they were angels from heaven!! Then within a page no one gave a crap. This goes for every other person I've talked to about it. I still scan the night sky looking, but havnt seen anything for over a week! I could post up the five sightings I've experienced since July 4th, buuuut! No one gives a shit.
It's taught me to just STFU about it and go on business as usual. Don't upset the sheep, they don't like to be frightened. Alright now you have to post the video, SO I can make fun of you too. Just kidding, Post it. |
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Posted: 7/31/2014 6:12:59 PM EDT
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Alright now you have to post the video, SO I can make fun of you too. Just kidding, Post it. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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We just did this in another post a few days ago, and I first posted about my experience first week of July! No one gives a shit! Even those that claim to see something don't care. I linked a video I found on youtube of the same things I've been seeing, (2years ago, in same location) and these things were trying to communicate with some one! So far no one cares! One person bitched about the verticle video, and another thought it was funny the obviously terrified people thought they were angels from heaven!! Then within a page no one gave a crap. This goes for every other person I've talked to about it. I still scan the night sky looking, but havnt seen anything for over a week! I could post up the five sightings I've experienced since July 4th, buuuut! No one gives a shit.
It's taught me to just STFU about it and go on business as usual. Don't upset the sheep, they don't like to be frightened. Alright now you have to post the video, SO I can make fun of you too. Just kidding, Post it. You gotta post it! And, fuck what people think! You saw what you saw. |
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Posted: 7/31/2014 6:14:42 PM EDT
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Fire Ball XL5? |
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Posted: 7/31/2014 6:16:07 PM EDT
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Last deer season, one morning before daylight, I was looking up into the night sky with my new binoculars, checking out stars and shit, when all of a sudden a flying object that looked like an airplane at very high altitude went across my field of view. I began tracking it with my binoculars and it moved across the sky in just a few seconds. It was going about 10 times faster than any commercial airplane. That thing was hauling ass whatever it was. Space Station? |
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Posted: 7/31/2014 6:21:16 PM EDT
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It was just at the break of sunrise, so off in the horizon there was a fair amount of pink. Overhead was dark with scattered, but heavy in its parts of cloud cover. There was a lone airliner skimming the low edges of its cloud cover with all of its landing lights on, and a full contrail behind it. It must have been the perfect atmospheric conditions to get this view. Full pink in the background from the sunrise. A low altitude jet with all the lights on and glaring through the clouds in front. And, strangely enough, a Jetstream just to highlight it all. It was beautiful.
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Posted: 7/31/2014 6:31:36 PM EDT
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Saw this light a few weeks ago on my pasture fence during a thunderstorm. No idea what it was. http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb192/cigardad/263321220b47e4b62b77fced116543e4_zps25db3f50.jpg http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb192/cigardad/4639d03043b8e2be0ac5a9d71d456502_zpsa9476367.jpg http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb192/cigardad/300bf01dd6229c91aba9220d19dfb0d4_zps78131737.jpg Ball Lightning! That or St. Elmo's Fire. |
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Posted: 7/31/2014 6:46:17 PM EDT
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I've told this story here a few times.
9/12/01 at about 9pm as I recall. There was no flights, except military, anywhere in the US. I was about 60 miles from Barksdale. I'm positive if this wasn't a military plane that there would have been some military planes in the area after this. Anyway, I'm at my deer lease at the camp on the corner of Texas FM968 and Quail Run or something like that. It is a horseshoe road and I was on the East corner. For some reason, something made me look up, so this wasn't silent, but it also wasn't loud like a jet would be so it. It was a completely black triangle, but it wasn't like a B2, it was pointed and it wasn't loud. It was also low and slow. It doesn't even make sense that it would stay airborne to me, but it was flying steadily. Our camp was a opening in a pine plantation and it traversed the "opening" in seconds, but we were right beside a pond. I ran up the road to an opening where I could see over the pond and watched it disappear over the pine trees on the other side. It was flying from N to S. |
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Posted: 7/31/2014 6:50:03 PM EDT
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September 11, 2001. Strangest thing in the sky? Nothing. Nothing was in the sky. It was strange to not see or hear any airplanes.
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Posted: 7/31/2014 6:51:23 PM EDT
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I saw a black helicopter back in the day when they were tracking us via the new $20 bills.
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Posted: 7/31/2014 6:57:39 PM EDT
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Ball lightning coming over a 400' sand dune, and slamming into 4-5 trees on the way to removing a power pole. I was about 12 and it scared the shit outta me.
Lightning cruising around paralell to the deck, and outta nowhere, just breaks the rules. Ball Lightning coming off Lake Michigan on a sunny day, passing over the North Beach and counteless tourists, and then exploding the shit out of some poor FIB's condo. There was a big flap over that one, because Ball lightning wasn't supposed to exist, several hundred witnesses saw it, and it was well documented by both the FD and local PD. |
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Posted: 7/31/2014 7:08:14 PM EDT
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One night I was standing outside my house. It was mostly cloudy, but for some reason, there was one patch of sky that was abnormally clear and was filled with hundreds of stars. As I'm looking into the vastness of space, I say out loud, "Wow, I am nothing compared to the universe." Just then, a shooting star zipped across my window into the void as if to confirm my realization.
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Posted: 7/31/2014 7:31:53 PM EDT
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Dec. 1965, a lot of people, including me, saw what would later be known as the "Kecksburg UFO" crossing northern Ohio toward Pa. Just a very bright but defined ball shape. I don't know what it was, but it wasn't anything normal in my experience before or since. Mid 1980s I saw parts of an old soviet satellite/station/whatever burning up on reentry. Late evening(11:00 PM-ish?) put on quite a light show. Don in Ohio Saw that too. Left a spiraling trail behind it, took a long time to transverse the atmosphere IIRC. I was in western NY state on top a big hill watching. Clear night in a rural area, saw the whole thing from start to finish. |
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Posted: 7/31/2014 7:32:05 PM EDT
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Ghost in the machine, look at the time stamp.
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Posted: 8/1/2014 8:32:19 AM EDT
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Ever since that day I keep a camera close or in the car. I have never seen any other reports of what I saw since. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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One morning I was looking up and a huge box fell from the sky and slowed down. Rear wings came out of the box and formed a gull wing, a boom moved forward and canards where at the very front of the "plane" It leveled off and flew away. My guess the plane was about 100 feet long and 70 feet of rear wingspan. It had no obvious engines and was silent. The fuck? Ever since that day I keep a camera close or in the car. I have never seen any other reports of what I saw since. It was probably Starscream. |
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Posted: 8/1/2014 12:57:08 PM EDT
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Went hiking this February at night in the wilderness (around 3:00 AM) wearing a couple of helmet mounted PVS-14's. Temps were in the 20's. There were reports on Arfcom that Aurora would be visible very far south of the North Pole that A.M., so I grabbed my gear and headed out to see what I could see. Aurora was visible with the nods, but were extremely faint to the unaided eye. Then, out of nowhere, an extremely bright "laser like" beam began to emanate from the peak of the largest mountain in the area, directly into space, and visible only with the Gen 3 nightvision. The mountain was about 1 mile from my position. I say "laser like" because the extremely bright beam was climbing into the sky at a speed of only about 20-40 feet per second. The beam looked exactly like a powerful green laser, (brighter than your typical 0.7mW IR laser through the goggles), except it somehow was climbing into the sky at a very slow speed rather than instantly like an actual laser would. As the beam climbed into the sky, the atmosphere around the "laser" began to glow, very dim at first, but brighter and brighter as the beam rose higher. As the gases grew brighter, I began to see puffy, cloud like definition and formation to the glowing gases around the beam. This was in a clear sky with no clouds. After a minute or so, once the beam reached about 2000 feet into the sky, it dimmed rapidly leaving the glowing, puffy cloud formations which also began to fade away rapidly - first losing the cloud like appearance and then the afterglow of the gas dimmed completely. This happened an additional 20-30 times over the next hour and a half, however, the beam often did not reach the original height or duration and sometimes dimmed after 15 seconds or so causing the gases around the beam to only begin to glow before fading away completely. It was the weirdest damn thing I’ve ever seen! None of this was visible without using night-vision. Wow thats pretty crazy. You dont sell NV do you? LOL J/K I would be checking that peak regularly and trying to get up there if its happening often. |
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Posted: 8/1/2014 1:37:21 PM EDT
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I saw a UFO once.
It sent me a message. In big bright yellow letters. It told me I was going to have a good year. And the wierd thing was, I was the only one freaking out about it... 2:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq-rG_rPX_U My parents live under one of those vortex things, so there's always planes overhead. Saw a jet going north (towards Chicago) followed immediately by another. Air Force One and Two maybe? Also saw these. 
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Posted: 8/1/2014 4:17:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Went hiking this February at night in the wilderness (around 3:00 AM) wearing a couple of helmet mounted PVS-14's. Temps were in the 20's. There were reports on Arfcom that Aurora would be visible very far south of the North Pole that A.M., so I grabbed my gear and headed out to see what I could see. Aurora was visible with the nods, but were extremely faint to the unaided eye. Then, out of nowhere, an extremely bright "laser like" beam began to emanate from the peak of the largest mountain in the area, directly into space, and visible only with the Gen 3 nightvision. The mountain was about 1 mile from my position. I say "laser like" because the extremely bright beam was climbing into the sky at a speed of only about 20-40 feet per second. The beam looked exactly like a powerful green laser, (brighter than your typical 0.7mW IR laser through the goggles), except it somehow was climbing into the sky at a very slow speed rather than instantly like an actual laser would. As the beam climbed into the sky, the atmosphere around the "laser" began to glow, very dim at first, but brighter and brighter as the beam rose higher. As the gases grew brighter, I began to see puffy, cloud like definition and formation to the glowing gases around the beam. This was in a clear sky with no clouds. After a minute or so, once the beam reached about 2000 feet into the sky, it dimmed rapidly leaving the glowing, puffy cloud formations which also began to fade away rapidly - first losing the cloud like appearance and then the afterglow of the gas dimmed completely. This happened an additional 20-30 times over the next hour and a half, however, the beam often did not reach the original height or duration and sometimes dimmed after 15 seconds or so causing the gases around the beam to only begin to glow before fading away completely. It was the weirdest damn thing I’ve ever seen! None of this was visible without using night-vision. |
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Posted: 8/1/2014 5:20:39 PM EDT
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For those that asked above heres a link to the video. It continues after they send the kid inside.
Click Me Audio is annoying And vertical warning! I saw three of these same things fly by very close to our house. Seen up to five of these at a time on five separate evenings! Always between 10pm and midnight. The interesting thing is these things are the same color as most street/yard lights. So most people quickly pass them off as such! I had an experience with one a few weeks back that was right over a subdivision. These lights make no noise of any kind, and have no other navigational/strobe/landing lights! Here are frame grabs showing the different shapes the lights in the video were making. 
I was a non believer until my first sighting July 4th. |
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Posted: 8/1/2014 5:27:09 PM EDT
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Went hiking this February at night in the wilderness (around 3:00 AM) wearing a couple of helmet mounted PVS-14's. Temps were in the 20's. There were reports on Arfcom that Aurora would be visible very far south of the North Pole that A.M., so I grabbed my gear and headed out to see what I could see. Aurora was visible with the nods, but were extremely faint to the unaided eye. Then, out of nowhere, an extremely bright "laser like" beam began to emanate from the peak of the largest mountain in the area, directly into space, and visible only with the Gen 3 nightvision. The mountain was about 1 mile from my position. I say "laser like" because the extremely bright beam was climbing into the sky at a speed of only about 20-40 feet per second. The beam looked exactly like a powerful green laser, (brighter than your typical 0.7mW IR laser through the goggles), except it somehow was climbing into the sky at a very slow speed rather than instantly like an actual laser would. As the beam climbed into the sky, the atmosphere around the "laser" began to glow, very dim at first, but brighter and brighter as the beam rose higher. As the gases grew brighter, I began to see puffy, cloud like definition and formation to the glowing gases around the beam. This was in a clear sky with no clouds. After a minute or so, once the beam reached about 2000 feet into the sky, it dimmed rapidly leaving the glowing, puffy cloud formations which also began to fade away rapidly - first losing the cloud like appearance and then the afterglow of the gas dimmed completely. This happened an additional 20-30 times over the next hour and a half, however, the beam often did not reach the original height or duration and sometimes dimmed after 15 seconds or so causing the gases around the beam to only begin to glow before fading away completely. It was the weirdest damn thing I’ve ever seen! None of this was visible without using night-vision. Maser? Not a Maser, that's microwaves beam formed like a laser. Sounds like somebody saw an IR laser version of something people saw being tested with visible lasers out at Edwards AFB back in the 1980s. It wasn't a slow moving beam as much as it was looking head-on at a laser being scanned up and down fast enough to make it look like a beam rising up from the ground. Talk back in the 1980s was about a portable laser approach lighting system. If they got such a system worked out and shifted to IR lasers, it would be a great COVERT portable laser approach lighting system for the Spec Ops community. Wonder if that isn't the case and OP saw somebody out training with one of those systems? |
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Posted: 8/1/2014 5:28:35 PM EDT
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Last summer I was driving from Idaho Falls north and around Rigby at dusk I saw a big green meteor come down break up into about four or five more pieces turn orange and disappear.
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Posted: 8/1/2014 5:29:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I had a crotchety old neighbor who got in some legal trouble and was forced to move into an assisted living center. On the morning they came to pick him up, he inflated a shitload of helium balloons and floated his whole house to South America. It was the damnedest thing I ever saw. What you did there.... |
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Posted: 8/1/2014 5:31:53 PM EDT
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Saw a meteor streak across the sky in broad daylight when I was a kid out playing in my friend's yard. It was about the size of a bus and had it hit instead of burning up it could have vaporized a small city.
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Posted: 8/1/2014 5:33:37 PM EDT
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Mid-air refueling above my house. I posted a thread about it and the .mil guys here were able to identify the types of planes. 
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Posted: 8/1/2014 5:42:07 PM EDT
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Used to be into astronomy quite a bit. Would set out for the various meteor showers.
I've seen a couple that traverse more than 90 degrees of the sky and cast a faint shadow.  Was pretty spectacular.
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Posted: 8/1/2014 5:42:44 PM EDT
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I forgot about this one. It wasn't strange just cool because I have never seen anything like this before.
I saw a B-52 take off from Ellsworth AFB in South Dakota. It came right up over the freeway. |
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Posted: 8/1/2014 5:45:59 PM EDT
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For those that asked above heres a link to the video. It continues after they send the kid inside. Click Me I have no idea what that may have been, but it wasnt stars or satelites. It was hard to tell if they were moving or how fast. What am I seeing here? |
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Posted: 8/1/2014 6:35:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We just did this in another post a few days ago, and I first posted about my experience first week of July! No one gives a shit! Even those that claim to see something don't care. I linked a video I found on youtube of the same things I've been seeing, (2years ago, in same location) and these things were trying to communicate with some one! So far no one cares! One person bitched about the verticle video, and another thought it was funny the obviously terrified people thought they were angels from heaven!! Then within a page no one gave a crap. This goes for every other person I've talked to about it. I still scan the night sky looking, but havnt seen anything for over a week! I could post up the five sightings I've experienced since July 4th, buuuut! No one gives a shit. It's taught me to just STFU about it and go on business as usual. Don't upset the sheep, they don't like to be frightened. I had a huge object go over me and my bro. Missing time and much more but, whatever. I could have easily nailed it repeatedly with a slingshot or Red Ryder. I don't care if no one gives a shit, hell for some reason me and my bro didn't give a shit while it happened so I can hardly blame anyone for giving a shit when they weren't there. Hell the whole ambiguity about it is the weirdest thing for us about it. |
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Posted: 8/1/2014 6:40:34 PM EDT
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Saw this light a few weeks ago on my pasture fence during a thunderstorm. No idea what it was. http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb192/cigardad/263321220b47e4b62b77fced116543e4_zps25db3f50.jpg http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb192/cigardad/4639d03043b8e2be0ac5a9d71d456502_zpsa9476367.jpg http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb192/cigardad/300bf01dd6229c91aba9220d19dfb0d4_zps78131737.jpg Ball Lightning! That or St. Elmo's Fire. Did Judd Nelson tell you that one? |
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