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By JAFO
#1853398
@chevvron - that must have been an incredible thing to see, whatever it was.

That's the thing that I find interesting about UFOs. Not that they might be some bug-eyed monster from the other side of Alpha Centauri but that people, lots of people, thousands of people are seeing something they can't explain.

It is probably the case that 20% are perfectly normal aircraft misinterpreted by people; 20% might be stars or planets; and 20% might be meteorological conditions that people hadn’t seen before. It’s possible that 10% of all reports are hoaxes; 10% could be satellites; 10% might be meteors or meteorites. Perhaps 5% are weather balloons; and 2% could even be flocks of birds; another 2% might actually be experimental aircraft of a type not seen before or admitted to; but that still leaves 1% unaccounted for. There are so many reports from so many places all over the world that there is something that needs to be explained, something happening that we just don’t yet have the ability to comprehend just yet.

In the same way as the ancient Greeks explained the movement of the Sun as the god Helios riding his fiery chariot across the skies (and the Welsh have, apparently, still yet to come up with an explanation for the one time it was sighted) or Norse mythology said that lightning was created by the hammer of Thor, we say that UFOs are aliens or even time-travellers. The truth is, nobody seems to have any idea and I find that fascinating.

They are something, though, and, hopefully, something that one day we’ll be better off by understanding properly.
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By Flintstone
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#1891745
Someone looking a lot like me and wearing my clothes might have had something to do with this.

It involved some very large, very thin bin liners, bamboo skewers, thin wire and 'Zip' firelighters combined to make enormous Chinese lanterns.


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By Aviator12
#1918866
JAFO wrote:I've seen an object which was flying that I could not identify. Do I think it was bug-eyed monsters from outer space? I do not.

It was in the mid-nineties, when I lived in a house which had, until just a few years before, housed members of the United States Air Force serving at Royal Air Force Bentwaters. The back of my house looked out in the direction of the entrance to the old base, the main runway, Cold War hardened aircraft shelters and, in the far distance, the old top secret site on Orford Ness and the antenna arrays of the abandoned Cobra Mist Top Secret over-the-horizon radar experiment.

One night between Christmas and New Year, I stepped out into my back garden to smoke a last cigarette before going to bed. The sky that night was half-covered by cloud with stars visible through the gaps. Over the trees I saw two white lights, it looked as though someone had parked a car a few hundred feet above the forest. Slowly, very slowly, the lights moved further apart. Eventually it became apparent that the lights were attached to something which was getting nearer and nearer, flying in a straight line from over the base to my house. Eventually, whatever it was flew over my head.

Of course, it’s not really possible to say if it was a small aircraft low down or a huge one much higher up because there was nothing to give it scale. The impression I had, though, was of a B-52 bomber on final approach; a B-52 has a wingspan of 56 metres. This wasn’t a B-52; it was a dark, kite-shaped aircraft with the blunter end moving forward with a white light on each, for want of a better description, wing-tip.

It flew over the top of my house but made no sound, none at all, not even the sound a glider would make rushing over your head. It moved very slowly. I ran to the front window and watched it carry on in a roughly north-westerly direction until it just disappeared from sight as it got further away, never deviating from its course or, apparently, changing speed.

I have no idea what it was. It was an object, it was flying, I can’t identify it. Therefore, it was a UFO. Beyond that I have no real idea; my very best guess would be that an American pilot who had previously stationed at RAF Bentwaters, was flying some kind of experimental aircraft, details of which have still not been released; I presume that he came to have a look at his old base. But who knows? All I know is that I’ve been mad about aeroplanes since I was seven, I spent hours at airshows and peeping through the wire at airbases as a teenager; I learned to fly at seventeen and joined the Royal Air Force as aircrew at eighteen. I’ve seen a few aircraft in my time and I’ve never seen one like that.

If anyone can identify it, I'd be chuffed.


JAFO, could you preceise more the year of your sighting?
Did you hear any more stories of extraordinary aircraft in your region?
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By JAFO
#1918869
Aviator12 wrote:JAFO, could you preceise more the year of your sighting?
Did you hear any more stories of extraordinary aircraft in your region?


It was either Boxing Day night or 27th December and it was either 1995 or 1996. I didn't hear any reports of anything odd at the time.
By A4 Pacific
#1918886
I saw a documentary on the now declassified reports of two US fighter pilots, which I found entirely credible, yet impossible to easily explain.
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By JAFO
#1918897
A4 Pacific wrote:I saw a documentary on the now declassified reports of two US fighter pilots, which I found entirely credible, yet impossible to easily explain.


That's what I find fascinating about such things; not that there might be bug-eyed monsters and little green men visiting Earth but that things are being witnessed which we currently have no explanation for. I'm sure that 99% of the things seen have a simple, straightforward explanation and are misidentified natural phenomena but there are some which just don't yet seem to have an explanation.
By Aviator12
#1918912
JAFO wrote:
Aviator12 wrote:JAFO, could you preceise more the year of your sighting?
Did you hear any more stories of extraordinary aircraft in your region?


It was either Boxing Day night or 27th December and it was either 1995 or 1996. I didn't hear any reports of anything odd at the time.


Did you hear any rumors or stories of possible sightings of anything odd during upcoming years, after your sighting?

Following is a quote of unusual aircraft sightings in the early 2000's:
"Early 2000's.
A good friend of mine Bill was staying on his boat south of Norwich.
About 10pm he was watching F15's perform through his binoculars against a starry sky.
A couple of tankers headed home as well.
A bit later on hearing more F15's he saw two heading inland with a large, almost tanker sized plane behind them, no lights on it but clearly a triangular shape against the sky."

"After reading all the reports I can add to this, in august 2003 over lowestoft I was watching some f15s dogfighting early evening and a second and third flight coming over later in the evening. Just after 11:00 there was a tanker and another large jet which I could not tell what it was, only 2 engines, come in over the coast and an hour later another tanker and with it was 2 f15s trailling on either side. There was a jet just trailling the tanker slightly in front on the f15s with no nav lights, strange shape to it, a distinctive sound which was hard to tell giving the number of jets up there. Shortly after a C5 came over all on the same flight path. It was a very clear night no moon. I travelled up to the hall and the heath the next day and there was a C5 at hall parked with its tail towards the sheds where the ospreys are based. I was talking to a gentleman at the fence and he made some comments that it was a strange night at lakenheath and that the C5 had been in there and then came over to the hall. Also that lakenheath had some strange activity the night before.. I went up the next night and a few spotters where there but no planes! Any ideas ....... A very interesting topic ..."

This is from a different forum. I wonder if anyone here has some interesting stories to share ;)
By Harleyatrix
#1924325
A number of years ago, I was in bed reading, (cold stone sober), when a bright green, oval shaped object started to pulsate outside. It then seemed to enter the bedroom. There was absolutely no sound.

It mesmerised me to the extent I didn’t have the presence of mind to grab a camera. I lived near an RAF base at the time & sort of assumed they were doing something.

On going into work the next day, (I worked at an airfield), I mentioned this event & got laughed out of the room I was in.... until, that is, the phone calls started coming in from people who wondered if we or the military airfield were doing something ‘last night’

All of this culminated with a visit from a UFO ‘specialist’ & a report In the local paper.

What was it? I have no idea, but I often wonder about it
By Gentoo
#1924338
No offence intended but what did you possibly think the RAF were doing? Flying a silent green pulsating drone into people's bedrooms?