UFO'S

i shall start off with the first reported sighting; & generally considered to be the 1st time UFO was used in reference to it's now meaning

Kenneth Arnold was a pilot & on 24th June 1947 he claimed he saw 9 bright lights flying in formation past Mount Rainier in Washington (Spielberg anyone?) He was flying that day in search of a reward for the discovery of a Marine transport plane, that had crashed near Mount Rainier. No visible abnormalities or general bad weather reported. His report reads: "I estimated they were at an altitude between 9,500 and 10,000 feet and clocked them from Mt. Rainier to Mt. Adams, arriving at the amazing speed of about 1200 miles an hour.   "It seemed impossible," he said, "but there it is -- I must believe my eyes."

1947 was a very strange year

Top shout, NL

Rock Bottom, for me

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Seriously though Bap, sure.  Why not?  There've been plenty of reports and some seem highly likely, imo.

Another question is, "What would you do if one landed just by you?"

Oft I've been outside having a smoke staring up into the huge sky and asked myself that very question.  I honestly reckon I'd go over and say "Hi!" … unless they looked a bit dodgy, of course.

A few years ago on a beautifully clear night, I was looking up at the sky when I saw a 'star' moving across. At first I thought it was a plane or a satellite, but the way it moved was weird.

It was moving in a straight line but had a stochastic pattern to it's speed, and I thought, 'what could possibly move that way?'

Sometimes it would virtually stop for a split second and then ping forward. Even weirder, from mild curiosity I was suddenly hit with an eerie feeling that they knew I was watching them. That's when I thought it could be some kind of alien craft. Telepathic aliens at that.

I came to the conclusion that the movement was some kind of defensive movement, so these aliens have enemies!

If anyone has any other theories about this I'd be pleased to know, cos I don't know of anything normal in the sky that moves that way.

Hmmm, not too sure about this in today's Express ...

https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1070785/Ancient-alien-discovery-painting-PROOF-UFO-sighting-bible-news
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Nothing's impossible, Bap.  Well, not much anyway

the sightings of ufos seemed to peak, and there were very few ghost sightings.

not so many miracles reported these days either.

odd that ufos didnt turn up way back when. maybe they just found us when tv was
invented.

why are so many ufos spotted in usa, and why are so many americans abducted by
these aliens, when other more remote countries dont have any ufos nor abductions.

why did so may people see the loch ness monster?

post uri geller why did so many people claim to be able to bend spoons?

Get me a drink    12 Jan 19 11:36 
A few years ago on a beautifully clear night, I was looking up at the sky when I saw a 'star' moving across. At first I thought it was a plane or a satellite, but the way it moved was weird.

It was moving in a straight line but had a stochastic pattern to it's speed, and I thought, 'what could possibly move that way?'

Sometimes it would virtually stop for a split second and then ping forward.



I, and others saw exactly the same near Emley about 40 years ago, early evening. Nothing in human knowledge could move -and then stop- at such speed.

thanks chaps. I'd like to run a thought past anyone who is interested? You can scoff or laugh, no matter, it's something that occurred to me a while back.
There is a theory that only a certain amount of people can see ghosts. They may be hypersensitive or psychic; even psychologists & sceptics alike admit that being in an altered state or changes in brain chemistry caused by stress, build up of hormones etc. your brain can be stimulated into actually believing there is a presence near you, or indeed seeing one. These of course are scientific explanations. But it doesn't mean it hasn't happened, does it? Just because your brain has become more receptive to thought & vision, doesn't mean you were hallucinating, does it? So to my thought; what if the same may be true of UFO sightings/abductions etc? Using the exact same principle? So if scientists & sceptics alike believe your brain can allow you to see 'presences' then why not UFO's. If so, why has this never been put forward as a reason or explanation?  Also; maybe spectres/presences use the same principle. Maybe UFO'S only reveal themselves to people let's say, or a certain disposition? That would go someway into explaining why some sightings are in broad daylight. when most are at night.
Einstein, amongst others evaluated that humans only used 10% of their brain. This has now been debunked; but it's been debunked by people who admit that if you actually used 100% of your brain, we would all be having seizures. So what is the actual figure? Whatever it is; it's fact that some use more of their brain than others. Now would that make these people seers, or sceptics? Just my thoughts

1972 i was 9 , i lived in Hackney, London,one evening, about 5.30pm (probably autumn/winter as it was dark) my nan use to sit by a wall near our flats while me , my Brother who was 7 and our friend Albert who was 10, use to ride our bikes along the the pathway next to a big field, waiting for my mum to come along when she finished work, this certain evening, i looked up in the sky, and slowly moving, silently, over the flats we lived in was an object, which was like the light we had in our living room, a small circle in the middle, three arms coming out of it and three bigger circles on the end of each arm, which were glowing lighter then darker, when i called out to the others, my nan called us to come over to be nearer her, as she was worried about what it was, it was so long ago, but can remember thinking at the time it was big and about 400/500 yards up in the sky, it never made a sound, it wasn't a balloon,. the following night there was a programme on called tonight, with Eamon Andrews, and he was talking to people near Hackney Marshes (about 3 miles from us) who claimed to have seen a UFO the same night...
I lost touch with Albert, then saw him about 30 years later,(about 6 years ago), i asked him if he remembered, and he said, its something he will never forget..None of us are druggies or wrong'uns. But would love to go back to see it again.

Get me a drink & saddo; there's been numerous sightings of such movement over the years, and it was usually from a close-up perspective. Namely pilots/astronauts. They of course were probably nutters/right charlies

crop circles, yeti, loch ness monster, ghosts with heads under arms, big foot
chariots of the gods, the templar legacy


all money makers


any of em true, provable, a single proof?

by the way you missed out religion from your list above. And religion (biggest moneymaker?) is very important in this discussion

who's we?

Are you really as dim as you come across Baphornet?

So you ignored me because you are dim.

Donny asked you a question in his only post.

I can. But you obviously can't understand what people say. Do you know what proof means?

You are welcome to me venom when you talk bollocks.

This was your OP:

Thoughts, couldn't care less or any other rants welcome

I take it you didn't mean it?