has anyone seen a ufo?

Question

I seen something when I was 10 or 11 that looked like a big round red meteor but it was only about 50 feet up and coasted by about 15 miles an hour and about 20 feet around,,I cant stop thinking about what the hell it was

Answer 1

My son and I saw the same thing 20 years ago in Santa Cruz, California. Ours was around 50 feet in diameter and slowly moving just over the tops of 200 ft. high redwood trees. Forget swamp gas, the planet Venus, helicopters, airplane lights or any of that crap. I am an Air Force veteran and private pilot. Seen every kind of aircraft the Tactical Air Command and Strategic Air Command owned at night and in daylight. The Air Force had (maybe still has) a requirement that all UFOs be reported directly to your squadron commander. Can't tell anyone else. Big fine and possible jail time if you violate that directive. Posted on bulletin boards all over the ready rooms and airfield. Most military pilots have stories about strange objects they don't let get around. Many, if not all, believe something is out there. Once the twits experience a sighting, they get religion very quickly.

Live long enough and get out of the house often enough and you'll see things that no one can explain. By the way, we still talk about that thing and wonder what it was.

Answer 2

Firstly, I'd like to get the matter of the word out of the way; UFO means an object that is not immediately identifiable, althgouh it may be identified later. I have seen several UFOs in that sense. But I have found very good explanations for all of these since the times that I saw them. One was when I was nine, which I saw after reading my first book on the subject; it happened to look similar "my favorite" UFO in the book. It was an orange light on an aircraft. Every night at that time an aircraft came by, I just never attached any significance to it, and became overexcited after reading the book. Ditto with the others. One was another aircraft, and the other was a bunch of lightning bugs. UFO "believers" often scoff at the idea that people could mistaken such things for really incredible events, but some simple phenonomena can look REALLY weird.

It's been a while since I looked into these things, so my mind is a little rusty on the matter. But firstly, how did you judge the size and speed? In general those things are hard to determine by sight alone. It could have been further away and thus moving faster.

I have a couple of possibilities that you may want to research further. If this was in the evening, (and this HAS happen before, so people can indeed misinterpret it), a weather ballon can catch the red evening light, and it will look like a red illuminated object (I've seen a photo of this -- really weird looking!).

And again, this sounds stereotypical of "right offs," but it MAY have been "swamp gas" or similar phenomena. In the right conditions, gas like this will move about in globular configurations and will be illuminated in various ways depending on the conditions at the time.

I can refer you to several books.

"Believers" sources:
Project Blue Book, Brad Stieger
UFO Briefing Document (can't remember authors names)

"Skeptical" sources
The World of Flying Saucers, Donald Menzel
Watch the Skies!, Curtis Peebles

I hope that this helps. Peace out.

Answer 3

Watched a bright object pass over one night and stopped above a thunderhead cloud. Stayed above the cloud about 20 minutes and disappeared. This was in the Gulf of Mexico 100 miles offshore below middle Louisiana.

Answer 4

Yes ~ Read my stories & many other people stories on my blog. Also, UFO videos ~ Many are on YouTube ~ Here are some interesting ones.

I hope that I was helpful.

Answer 5

It was a UFO but not one from space.

Answer 6

I haven't.

Answer 7

yup.... so what?