With the recent talks of UAPs because of the current events over the UK and New Jersey, I’d love to hear your experiences.

  • Transient Punk@sh.itjust.works
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    19 days ago

    In the late nineties I saw what I thought was a shooting star, until it stopped mid fall, hovered in place for a few seconds, then suddenly accelerated (extremely quickly) to the right, before stopping again and immediately heading back in the direction it was originally headed. The direction changes were instantaneous, unlike anything I had seen before or since. I did live on the outskirts of a military base known for advanced weapons research though, so who knows what I saw.

  • Rixonomic@lemmy.world
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    Less than a year ago my cousin and I were sitting outside when we saw a green light in the sky slowly approaching us. There’s a small airport nearby, and it’s common to see light aircraft flying in the area, so we both assumed it was just a plane. The strange part was that it wasn’t making any sound at all, which made us pay closer attention to it.

    It got pretty close to us, maybe half a mile away, when it suddenly stopped for a moment, made several rapid movements in a geometric fashion, and then disappeared behind a nearby hill (not the direction it came from). Neither one of us could explain what we had just seen. We’ve both lived our entire lives in this small town, but we’ve never seen anything like that.

  • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
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    19 days ago

    UFO sightings plummeted in frequency when cameras became ubiquitous for people, but correlation ≠ causation…

    Personally, I have seen ball lightning, it was scary as fuck because I knew exactly what it was and didn’t want it anywhere near me. A tree was struck by lightning as we were driving home in the family car in the late 80’s / early 90’s and several little white balls hovered around it. My dad then punched the gas and ran the red light we were sitting at, and had me look up ball lightning in the encyclopedia when we got home.

  • sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    19 days ago

    I saw what I think was a shooting star a few months ago in the night.

    It flew not arched but straight.

    I think it flew from horizon to horizon. Only catched it about 1/3 of the length so I don’t know for sure.

    It was too fast for a man made object, because I didn’t hear anything and for it being too far away to not be hearable it would have been way too fast.

    The light it shined was constant.

    Have never seen a shooting star shine so constant and long and fly so straight.

    This was 100-200km north of airbase Ramstein. I heard a few jets fly over and they were always loud.

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    19 days ago

    I live in NJ; my friends keep saying they’re seeing them but I have not. I know someone that’s a cop near Princeton and they said there were 6 in the sky in that area just last night. Said they have instructions to detain anyone suspected of piloting any drone at which point they’re supposed to call it in to the Feds.

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    19 days ago

    “UFO Sightings” in this era is just some kid playing with their drone.

    I’ve actually flew a drone in the middle of the night (hey I was bored and couldn’t sleep okay) throughout my neighborhood, someone who was up at night might’ve seen it and thought it was a UFO.

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    19 days ago

    Usually they’re just U to me, and then I look up what they could be and then they become just FOs to me.