OT: My UFO Encounter.. (True Story)

[Raging Deadstar]

mac5732 said:
they described it as being close to 8' tall, covered in hair, walked upright and it scared them.

And thus Primitive became a national Celbrity

Thats a rather interesting story Mac, Sasquatches in space it seems. Very dam weird. I have to ask you one thing Mac, when you decided to follow this thing were you armed or not? Because if you weren't you are the bravest guy i know

What i really find strange about all the alien stories people here about is the fact that they somehow travel to earth and then start destroying property and acting like, with no offence to Major Primitive, a barbarian

Kamog said:
You just wonder what is really going on out there, and how much does the government know that they're covering up?

With the current administration i'd say they probably know absoloutely nothing Would you trust Bush with information on aliens? But there's definitely something creepy going on out there

[mac5732]

RD, yes we were armed, however, didn't make a difference to us, we just decided to go back and check on the ladies instead of going into those woods at 2am....

Did you ever wonder just where we got all this stealth tech and some of the other high tech stuff we have? Do we have better scientists then everyone else? hmmmm. They not only have stealth planes but also stealth warships, tho that has not had a lot of publicity. The ship was out way before the planes....

I really don't think the people would go that ballistic if we found another alien race, UFO's etc have been around so long most people would be normal as usual, sceptical, curious, afraid, non believing, and excited. However, there would always be the nut cases and those who just can't face something strange...

But no way is the gov telling us poor folks the whole story, look at area 51 and how secret thats been for all these years and don't think thats the only ultra secret base we have..... You never put all your eggs in one basket.

[EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro]

I don't think we'll ever hear anything official from our government about visiting spacecraft, their occupants, and how involved we already are. Well maybe someday in the future. But I agree with the reasons why. Just look how angry we get about who to vote for, abortion, military intervention, religion. Sometimes these issues bring us to each other throats. Somtimes these issues make us kill one another. Can you imagine the freak out potential if the general public is told we are being visited, and have been visited for many years by people from another solar system. You or I may think it's cool and welcome such news but what about the guy talking to himself at the bus stop, or the crazy eyed jihad dude with a bomb in his pants?
Earthers just aren't ready....yet!


I'm the Uncle Tom of our Alien Overlords!

[TerranC]

You people are all crazy; everyone knows there are no such things such as UFOs.

Everybody knows that they are merely flying space cows.

[Fyron]

With plasma udders!

[Raging Deadstar]

Imperator Fyron said:
With plasma udders!

And thats why some people are Lactose Intolerant

[Suicide Junkie]

Lactose Intolerant people are the only humans left unmodified by the space cows. Count yourself lucky, for when the cows come for us, you will be spared from slave labour on the farming asteroids.

[Saber Cherry]

Did you wear contacts in 1974? The jerky path you describe (zoom, hover, zoom, hover) is quite similar to what one would expect from "search" eye motion, or a contact lens recentering itself from such motion. So if, say, this was an ocean bay with phosphorescent plankton, and a plankton blew into your eye and stuck to your contact lens, such a pattern would be not only possible, but expected.

Other possibilities include a semidetached retina (minor retinal damage can cause strange flashies, and yet still repair itself), neural disorders (brain tumors and bloodflow irregularities can cause such visual anomalies), or phosphorescent bacteria actually living inside your eyeball, not to mention a viral optic nerve infection.

Astronauts in orbit have been noted to see gigantic lightning displays in the upper atmosphere, where no such electrical activity has been noted through other means (e.g., ground-based observations or instrumental detection). Such sightings have been attributed to cosmic rays directly stimulating the optic nerves. Of course, such sightings also tend to be a single short-lived blotch rather than a longer-duration zigzag.

Well, other than those, and perhaps the possibility of 9 independant meteorites (5 moving perpendicularly to yourself, and 4 moving directly toward you so as to appear stationary) or the Brownian motion of a very small, very bright meteorite... ok, I'm kidding about that one, but perhaps it could be the Cerenkov radiation of a hitherto-unknown hyper-lightspeed massive particle buffeted by weakly-interacting dark matter? That's what I'm betting on...

At any rate, these are all highly plausible scenarios, and it should put your mind at ease that there are so many common, natural phenomena that can explain what you saw, without resorting to crazy sci-fi mumbo-jumbo about UFO's and the light of Venus refracting off swamp gas.

[Raging Deadstar]

Saber Cherry said:
Did you wear contacts in 1974? The jerky path you describe (zoom, hover, zoom, hover) is quite similar to what one would expect from "search" eye motion, or a contact lens recentering itself from such motion. So if, say, this was an ocean bay with phosphorescent plankton, and a plankton blew into your eye and stuck to your contact lens, such a pattern would be not only possible, but expected.

Other possibilities include a semidetached retina (minor retinal damage can cause strange flashies, and yet still repair itself), neural disorders (brain tumors and bloodflow irregularities can cause such visual anomalies), or phosphorescent bacteria actually living inside your eyeball, not to mention a viral optic nerve infection.

Astronauts in orbit have been noted to see gigantic lightning displays in the upper atmosphere, where no such electrical activity has been noted through other means (e.g., ground-based observations or instrumental detection). Such sightings have been attributed to cosmic rays directly stimulating the optic nerves. Of course, such sightings also tend to be a single short-lived blotch rather than a longer-duration zigzag.

Well, other than those, and perhaps the possibility of 9 independant meteorites (5 moving perpendicularly to yourself, and 4 moving directly toward you so as to appear stationary) or the Brownian motion of a very small, very bright meteorite... ok, I'm kidding about that one, but perhaps it could be the Cerenkov radiation of a hitherto-unknown hyper-lightspeed massive particle buffeted by weakly-interacting dark matter? That's what I'm betting on...

At any rate, these are all highly plausible scenarios, and it should put your mind at ease that there are so many common, natural phenomena that can explain what you saw, without resorting to crazy sci-fi mumbo-jumbo about UFO's and the light of Venus refracting off swamp gas.

Ok...Now thats Crazy Talk, give me space cows anyday!

[David E. Gervais]

I didn't wear contact lenses. (never have) the bay is on the Saint-Lawrence river. (no plancton, especially the glowing kind.) It was a clear night, the kind of clear night that does not exist anymore thanks to modern industrial society. I remember very clearly what I saw, I'll be replaying and analizing this memory for the rest of my life. current theory on what I saw? either a firefly (which does not exist in my neck of the woods) or a mysterious object that defied known principles of aerodynamics. hmmm, since fireflies do exist 'elsewhere' on this planet (or so I've been told) the first theory has slightly more merit. But I believe that what I saw was truely "Unidentified", and as to it's "flying" well if it defied the known laws of aerodynamics then it can be agrued that it was not actually "Flying" so with this in mind it might be more accurate to say I saw an "Unidentified Moving Object" Althought all the movement I saw did take place in the sky above the mouth of the bay. The fact that at it's lowest point I also saw it's reflection on the water of the bay as well as the trees on the edge of the island get 'illuminated' kind of supports the fact that this object was indeed 'airborn'... Final analisis = I saw a UFO, yup I did, difinately did. I cannot confirm it being of "Alien" (extraterrestrial) origin however and therefore simply say "It was, what it was. Brief in appearance and everLasting in my mind, forever my own private memory that even when shared remains unbelievable."

Cheers!

P.S. it looked alot like that thing in the madonna painting.