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

  • GCanuck@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    I am almost 50 years old. I have spent my life staring at the night sky. Pretty much nightly I will spend up to an hour just looking up. I’m not an astronomer, just a dreamer.

    I have never seen anything that was unexplainable. I have seen things I wasn’t quite sure what they were in the moment, notably the Starlink satellites, but never something that made me think it was a UFO/UAP.

    Granted I’m a small town Canadian boy so perhaps the aliens don’t give a shit about me or my geographical region, but surely I’d have seen something by now.

    I will note that the uptick in “sightings” have coincided nicely with the increased availability of hobbies drones.

  • Transient Punk@sh.itjust.works
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    8 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.

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      8 days ago

      I saw something similar as a kid in the 80s. I was in bed and turned around so my feet were against the window so I could look out at the stars. An object, brighter than the stars, was moving downward. It then stopped, shot across the sky, went up, back left, then abruptly rocketed to the right - east (thinking about it now).

      I woke up my parents, but they told me to go back to bed.

      This obviously preceded the advent of drones and was too fast and high to be a helicopter. I lived in St Pete, FL, which is across the water from MacDill Airforce Base. It’s possible that it was military, but how could anything from that era do this?

      I’m 48. I still think about this.

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        7 days ago

        I saw something similar as a kid. My buddy and I were walking back from a snack run in the early, orange evening and saw a bright light about midway from horizon to directly above, westish. We argued which planet it could be (both of us huge nerds) when we saw it get brighter, much brighter, then shoot off like a meteorite.

        After debating it late that night, and wondering for months, I learned about atmospheric refraction and other phenomena that can mirror objects and lights, even ones on the ground. Even though it wasn’t a UFO, it sparked an appreciation for meteorology and physics at an early age.

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    8 days ago

    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.

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    8 days ago

    Are you the NYPD? If so, yes. The guy who shot that CEO? I actually saw him. With my own eyes, I saw him abducted by a flying saucer! It scooped him up in a beam of light and zipped away. No need to bother looking for him, he’s long gone. Light years away by now.

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    9 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.

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    8 days ago

    I’ve seen 2. The first was when my girlfriend and I were sitting by the ocean alone after walking down a long dirt road. The sun had just gone down and we were just staring out at the water. We both see this star come up from the water then float around in circles for a few minutes then go back down into the water and disappear. That was about 7 years ago.

    Also, last year I was getting off the highway on my way home and I see something huge just hanging above the river. It was just floating in place. There wasn’t a quick way to get back to the river so I didn’t go back to investigate, but I still hope I see it again one day.

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      8 days ago

      For the first one, were to looking towards Cape Canaveral? Sounds kinda like a falcon 9 booster return to launch sight. The sun will illuminate the rocket stage as it gets higher.

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        8 days ago

        No, it was a super remote part of the coast of Maine. I was thinking it could be some kind of navy technology, but it’s funner to imagine it was aliens.

  • otp@sh.itjust.works
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    9 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.