To start an alien/ufo encounter group?

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DH says he'd feel embarrassed if anyone he knows finds out. Also thinks I'll only meet strange people.

I think the people, if anyone turned up, would just be regular people like me and we'd have a chat about experiences and a drink.

So AIBU?

DO it! I'd go. And I'm not much of a weirdo!

I'd go too, OH and I had a very real UFO experience on holiday once and whenever we've mentioned it people look at us like we are crackers. So glad we both saw it so we have validation from somewhere!

Very encouraging answers

So what did you encounter?

What was your experience Crazyoldmaurice*?

You still haven't said what it was that you experienced...

Watch the show People of Earth. 😉

Who cares what anyone else thinks? Do it OP.

Sounds a laugh. I’d go.

Brian Cox and Robin Ince host a close encounter of the first kind with comedian Lucy Beaumont, astronomer Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Prof Tim O’Brien and science presenter Dallas Cambell to ask if UFOs and aliens have visited Earth.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p081swwr/the-infinite-monkey-cage-ufo-special

I think you’ll get a room full of Roy Cropper’s but, don’t let that put you off

What would be the membership criteria? Does seeing flashing lights count, or does it require the full rectal probing?

Lol, Discuieted1

Decades ago I saw a flying object, bright light, about the size of a football, speed past a busy road, maybe 4-5 meters above the ground.

7Worfs

Could that not just be a drone? I'm sure the prototypes (or military one's) would've been around years ago?

I don’t know what it was, not saying it’s a UFO, but this object was very fast, sort of oval, and flying with such smoothness that I don’t think we’ve had then, also it was a backwards country with almost no military.

I mean it was far too small to contain aliens so who knows

Well...you say too small, but there's the bit in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy where the war between two alien races was swallowed by a dog!

ooooh yes,

what did you see?

I thought UFO meant Unidentified Flying Object. It doesn't actually mean you think its an alien, just something you could identify?

Well when you put it like that

I probably imagined it.

I have a history of doubting my eyes - one time I was in an earthquake that shook the building and at first I thought I was dizzy.

I thought UFO meant Unidentified Flying Object. It doesn't actually mean you think its an alien, just something you could identify? [sic]

That's how I read it. To be honest I would be astounded if the vast majority of people hadn't seen a UFO. I have a few times. However that being said, I didn't make the leap to visitors from another planet.

I think you’ll get a room full of Roy Cropper’s but, don’t let that put you off

And what's wrong with that? I love Roy Cropper!

I’d go!

I'd go, saw a UFO many years ago and always like to hear about others' experiences.

I'd go, saw a UFO many years ago and always like to hear about others' experiences.

Two stand out in my mind ...

One, aged about 8, just before school. We were all in the playground when there was a sort of rush as kids ran to the edge of the school playing field (which was forbidden - hence it sticks) to a wirer fence which overlooked a large field. We all clearly saw something cylinder like about the size of a merry go round with lights, spinning. If it had been summer (it wasn't) we would have dismissed it as being one of the rides that used to form part of a travelling fair that camped on that field once a year. But it was not summer, and not a single kid ever thought it was a merry go round. As the teachers started coming for us and we looked round, it was gone.

No idea what it was to this day. However, we didn't live that far from RAF Northolt, and there were forever odd things going on. So it's not necessarily inexplicable. Just inexplicable to me at that age.

The second was (again ?) early morning, in Smethwick (West Midlands). I had just parked up to go into the office, and something caught my eye in the sky. It could have been a plane - it was a very bright shiny light, like when a plane is coming directly at you. However whatever this was went left to right until it was out of sight in about 4 or five seconds in complete silence. Again, no idea what it was. If it was as far away as I gauged (10, 15 miles ?) then to cross the 50 or so miles created by the sweep of my vision means it must have been doing something of the order of 35,000 mph. Horizontally, so not a meteor(ite) (which I have seen).

Of course there are countless meteorological phenomena - some as yet undocumented and unexplained - which might be the answer. On balance I'd accept that over little green men.

Neither incident has traumatised me . But I start from the point of view that if you actually paid for the job your senses do interpreting reality, you'd probably want a refund before too long ...