re: Have you ever seen a UFO?

My wife mentioned to me years ago that she saw one as a teenager and she’s not one to over dramatize anything

Bunch of them

My dad was stationed at an Air Force base in the mid-70s up in New England.

There were several nights in a row where 'something' came over the Canadian border and hovered over the base's munitions storage areas. After a while, it would go back over the Canadian border and disappear off radar.

Everyone who saw it said it acted like a helicopter, but did not make any noise and didn't have a helicopter profile/rotor.

After a couple of nights, they had a chopper on standby with all sorts of agencies on it (AF, RCMP in case they had to follow over border, state police, etc.). Once they heard there was a sighting, it flew to the area of base but could not see it from the air...but the people on the ground could see it...and it was on radar.

The guys in the radar tower would direct the chopper where to go as it moved around the base. My dad said he was in the backyard of his base house when both flew overhead. My dad says, "one was obviously a helicopter and one obviously was not a helicopter".

After a few days, the activity stopped.

The official story is that a helicopter was flying from Canada as part of a base-wide security drill...but no one there believed it.

I posted this account back on Jan 21, 2023 to the UFO discussion back then.

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OK, here goes.

We lived in Mt. Home, Arkansas back in the early 80's while I was a Quality Engineer with Baxter Travenol at the Fenwal Blood Bag plant there. At that time, I was seriously addicted to fishing in Norfork Reservoir and Bull Shoals Reservoir, on either side of Mt. Home. Several friends and I fished two or three times a week. If it was summer, we always fished at night because the water was clear and the fish suspended in the deep water during the day and moved into the shallow water to feed only at night.

One night a good friend and I were fishing main lake points on the eastern side of Norfork, across from Robinson Point. It was maybe 12:30 or 1:00 am and we had caught enough fish that we had no plans of leaving the area.

I was concentrating on my retrieve and not paying much attention to anything when my buddy, in the front of his boat, began to point and babble, telling me to look down the lake. When I looked that way, I saw a cylindrical object, maybe 100 feet long and 50 feet wide, slowing coming up the lake, maybe twenty feet above the water.

Within a few moments we could hear a steady oscillating hum that was coming from whatever was out in the main channel of the lake. Over the next few minutes, it passed by where we were, maybe 200 yards out in the lake and still maybe 20 feet above the water. It might have been going 20 miles per hour, so we observed it all total maybe two or three minutes from the time we first saw it, until it was gone.

When we talked about it later, we agreed we both saw a disruption in the water that looked like a depression in the lake under the object, with the water pushed away from the bottom side of the cylinder. There were low waves coming out on either side. The thing was solid, looked like metal and had no visible windows. There were no fins or wings or anything in the side toward us or the front or back.

We saw nothing that could have been pushing it up the lake. The closer it got, the louder the oscillation was. It never hurt our ears or anything, but the hum seemed to have a force behind it, like something pushing against us.

The moon was out that night, to the west of us and we both observed it clearly and eventually decided anything we saw was from the moonlight, and not from any light from the object. We decided it was not giving off any light. After it passed us, it continued up the lake, and then began to gain altitude off the water. The gain increased and then, when it was maybe a hundred feet off the water, it becan to rise very quickly and in no time at all, was gone.

We decided to call it a night and went home. Two nights later, we were back out on the water and saw nothing, or during any of the other many times we night fished. Eventually we told our wives, who thought it was a big joke. Never reported it to any official group (police or whatever).

This absolutely true occurrence has always been a good drinking story for deer, duck, or fish camp.


edited to add: My friend died of cancer and my miral valve failed (the top edge feathered out and stopped working) and was replaced 12 years back, about the time my friend died. At times I wonder If there was any damage done to us that night.

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Looks like a moving star, or satellite, then starts jittering around, something a shooting star or satellite doesn't do, then shoots off into another direction.

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I saw this in gulf breeze. It was me and 3 other people. Crazy AF. Late 80s.

when I was a kid and my dad first let me deer hunt alone, I saw all sorts of unexplainable shite in the dark while waiting for him to pick me up at the stand. turns out, I was just scared of the dark. I grew out of it

Lol

Dunno if it was a UFO, but I did see something weird several years ago.

Was driving from CO back to AL. Probably around 11 AM somewhere around the IL/KY border, clear blue sky. There was a bright, stationary metallic object right in the middle of my line of sight. Couldn't take my eyes off of it for several minutes. Passed under a bridge and looked for it in the same spot or nearby, it was nowhere to be seen.

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How do you identify a UFO?

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Anything flying that is unidentified. Not necessarily of other worldly origin.