Has anyone seen a UFO?

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I got inspired from another thread on here where a poster had seen a UFO.

Has anyone seen a UFO?

It doesn't specifically mean that you saw an alien craft, which is what people used to popularly use the term UFO for.

UFO is just something that you didnt know what it was - in the sky.

Have you ever seen anything unusual in the sky that you couldn't identify as an aeroplane?

Nothing too exciting, but I watched a white light in the night sky travel, stop, then shoot off in a different direction. Didn't act like a plane, helicopter nor satellite. This was at our family house abroad. In the same place, I twice saw a fireball travelling down the valley in the late evening; both times over the shoulder of my aunt, now deceased. I felt a sense of calm and peace at each event.

Those darting lights have a name - it's called St Elmo's fire and it's some sort of static electricity discharge thing. Not unusual around ships.

Yes I have, and I've posted about it before.

I was wild camping in the middle of nowhere and I saw a huge, boomerang shaped light in the sky. It travelled very slowly overhead, then back the way it had come and then shot off forwards again almost in the blink of an eye..... extremely quickly.

I don't think it was aliens, but I'd love to know what I saw.

What did your dh's grandad think you had seen?

Yes. It was the middle of winter in the early 90s, very cold and clear with a brilliantly starry sky. I was walking to work to start a 6am shift - no early buses in my little semi-rural part of Yorkshire in those days - and I noticed what I thought was a particularly bright star, quite low in the sky to my left and quite close. It looked like it was moving, and I had the oddest feeling it was keeping pace with me.

I paused for a better look and the "star" stopped moving for a moment, lost a little height, and then began to swing from side to side like a pendulum, losing more height as it went. Well, innocuous as it looked on the face of it, the hairs stood up on the back of my neck and I bolted. I just had a strong feeling that there was something not quite "right" somehow, that it wasn't anything natural.

And that was it - nothing spectacular, no aliens, no abduction, just a curiosity. I did do a little research much later when the internet became available, and oddly enough, there have been descriptions of UFOs moving with a kind of pendulum or "falling leaf" motion, quite similar to my sighting.

It was the early eighties in South Wales. I was riding in the back of my SD's car when I saw a craft covered in bright lights hovering over a field. I asked my SD what it was, and he seemed to get annoyed, saying, "I don't know."