How do I know if what I think is a UFO is actually a meteor?

Answer 1

You are probably seeing a man made satellite. Many orbit the earth and can visibly be seen as lights travelling slowly in space.

Answer 2

1. Did you see the UFO make a sudden right turn?

2. Did the UFO hover over a given spot for ten minutes or so?

3. Did the UFO join up with two or three other UFO's and depart as a team?

4. did you get a terrible sunburn and rash on your skin while watching it?

If any of the above are true, it was not a meteor.

Answer 3

If you don't know what it is, then it is a UFO. That's the "unidentified" part of Unidentified Flying Object.

It is not actually a meteor until you "know" it is a meteor. There's a pretty good chance, however, that it is something else entirely...and not anything having to do with extra-terrestrial intelligence.

Answer 4

the fact is that the nearest part of the universe that could have beings with advanced enough technology to travel in space is an unimaginable distance away.The fastest thing known to man is light but even at that speed it would take decades to get there. there may well be beings out there vastly more intelligent than we are but to think that they would travel through space and time with a method we would recognise as a transport system i.e. a metal box with some sort of propulsion is highly improbable.Scientists and physicists are just beginning to explore the theory of multiple universes. if time travel is possible (because that is what it would amount to) the likely hood is that it would be some sort of multi universal black hole time warp jobby not a flying saucer.
By the way if you see an air liner head on coming straight towards you at night it is easy to think the lights look as though they are rotating and they appear to jump around the sky. When i was a holiday rep in tenerife years ago i used to have great fun fooling people into thinking that they'd seen a flying saucer

Answer 5

a meteor will hit the ground at some point, a UFO will probably change direction or be erractic. unless it crashes of course, then it could be harder to tell.