OK, who believes in UFO's? anyone seen one.

[bob10]

I know we could have a lot of fun with this, but, seriously, anyone actually seen something out of the ordinary. There are a lot of reports, from the land of the conspiracy theory, the USA , which, being a sceptic, I find difficult to believe. But, that does not mean they are not out there. Bob
Now this is a lecture from the former Defence Minister Of Canada. We can dismiss it as rubbish, or not, but either way, what is going on over there, that there are so many people who believe this.




Alien Contact - Canadian Defence Minister - Disclosure 2014 ? - YouTube

[vnx205]

What is going on over there?

The same thing that makes so many Americans believe that the world is only about 6,000 years old; the same thing that makes a significant number of Americans believe that the moon landing was a hoax; the same thing that makes some Americans believe that Elvis is still alive and well.

That speaker didn't produce any evidence of anything at all. The only thing he did was make claims about cover-ups.

A lot of people believe they have seen UFOs. That doesn't make UFOs any more real than some of the other nonsense that some people believe.

Where is the evidence? In an age when every trivial incident is recorded on someone's camera/phone, wouldn't you think that there would be hard evidence available?

The fact that a lot of Americans believe something means nothing.

[Chops]

I'm not sure if I believe or not,, but I reckon one night out the back at work having a smoke, a mate and I saw what we believed to be UFO's. Four of them in fact.
At first we thought they were maybe satellites, but then as they sped off, it was like,, woah, wtf was that. They were moving across the night sky quite quickly, then zipped off like shooting stars.
I don't know,, but I can't imagine we could make anything that would go that fast.

And no, the smoke was not weed

[bmw535guy]

Ive seen them enough times to justify buying a digital slr and appropriate lenses. Have caught quite a few unidentified object amongst all the satellites i caught. Im not saying their 100% real but i think it would be arrogant to think we are alone and from experience most people very very very rarely look into the sky.....and those that do seem to have seen a few themselves.
Ive attached one of my favourites, this is a cropped photo from a 12 megapixel large picture i took at approximately 2 in the morning a year or two ago...... nobody could explain it and rest of the photo was in focus at infinity with a 2 second shutter speed and was using a high end tripod

[Ferret]

Not sure about aliens on earth but a squirrels and mice have been discovered on Mars.

None of the usual indistinct and blurred pictures which could be anything - hi res and very clear photographic proof that rodents have colonised other planets beside Earth.

[Will Wallace]

I want to believe.

[BathurstTom]

In the 1980's I worked with the Central Mapping Authority as a Surveyor's assistant. The Surveyor and myself were doing what is called Field Completion - driving a swb Landcruiser checking every track on a new (or revised map sheet) and categorising them into 4wd, 2 wd etc and noting anything showing up on aerial photos that was questioned.

Early one evening we were returning home to base (pub at Manilla) from out towards Kingstown (NSW) and we had a flashing light following us for about 5 kilometres or so. This thing was following the road around bends and up and down hills and was maybe 50 - 100 feet above ground. It eventually disappeared (we came around another corner, it didn't). There was no sound from this light - so we don't believe it was a helicopter. The surveyor checked for lost weather balloons - weren't any.


Don't know what it was, but it certainly had the hairs on the back of my neck standing up. Have never seen any other UFO's but for this one.



Tom.

[bob10]

Early one evening we were returning home to base (pub at Manilla) from out towards Kingstown (NSW) and we had a flashing light following us for about 5 kilometres or so. This thing was following the road around bends and up and down hills and was maybe 50 - 100 feet above ground. It eventually disappeared (we came around another corner, it didn't). There was no sound from this light - so we don't believe it was a helicopter. The surveyor checked for lost weather balloons - weren't any.


Don't know what it was, but it certainly had the hairs on the back of my neck standing up. Have never seen any other UFO's but for this one.



Tom.

Sounds like the Min Min light, as reported by a lot of people in far west Qld. No one is really sure what it is, Bob

[jackafrica]

Saw the movie poster and...
captured one, live!

[vnx205]

A common reason people believe that what they saw must have been a flying saucer is the speed at which it travels or the rate at which it accelerates. Their argument is that no earthly plane could manage that.

However, the problem with that argument is that there are ways that we can be fooled into thinking something in our field of view moved very quickly.

One of the clearest examples was some movie footage that appeared decades ago that fairly clearly showed a saucer shaped object travelling beside an passenger plane. It then appeared to accelerate at an incredible rate and disappeared.

The film was not a fake, but it didn't show a flying saucer. It was shot through the aircraft window at a bit of an angle. A very slight imperfection in the window created a crude lens that made a small oval part of the nearby wing appear to float in space.

As the angle of view through that crude lens changed, the visible part of the wing shrank and disappeared, creating the illusion that an object had moved very quickly.

Atmospheric conditions can created a similar effect. Anyone who doubts that has obviously never driven on long straight roads, especially in hot weather.

Everyone who has will remember the illusion that objects, including approaching vehicles several kilometres away appear to be floating above the road way.

The fact that someone saw a light appear to accelerate very quickly is no more proof of the existence of flying saucers than the appearance of cars floating above the road surface is evidence of hover-cars.