the sky was clear and in the distance I saw what seem to me a white dove or a white bird then didn't notice wings flapping, Ok next thought a helicopter or airplane it was slowly climbing towards the sky at an angle, it had a shape like a "tear drop" it wasn't a helicopter or airplane, then kept watching it for couple of seconds and just disappeared , i thought maybe it made a turn because i've seen airplanes where they make a turn and seem like they disappear but didn't, i kept watching but nothing the thing or aircraft was gone. any ideas??
2007-10-23 17:21:52 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Alternative ➔ Paranormal Phenomena
I guess I call it a UFO, sure wasn't the space shuttle it didn't have a trail.
2007-10-24 11:25:01 · update #1
it was almost certainly a weather balloon. your description fits it perfectly. they are almost only visible against a blue sky.
2007-10-23 17:34:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I would need more information to give you an educated guess.
Last night I was observing the night sky and noticed an airplane moving very fast. Then I looked more closely and saw it wasn't an airplane at all, but a satellite or something like that. It was slightly brighter than a star and became very bright for a few seconds and then faded from view as it descended toward the horizon. I read up and found out the space shuttle had launched. I am assuming that's what I saw. Do you think you might have seen the space shuttle right after it launched?
2007-10-24 10:19:09 · answer #2 · answered by Peter D 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Venus is the extremely bright star low in the west just after sunset, but it sets less than 3 hours after the Sun, you couldn't have seen it right next to Venus the whole 3 hours. I have seen many satellites and they move as fast as an airplane, taking only a few minutes to cross the sky, so it wasn't a satellite. Mars is seen pretty close to Venus this week, but it is not so bright. Mars would set about when Venus did, so you might have been looking at Mars. You didn't say if it stayed the same distance from Venus, or mention Venus slowly setting in the west as you watched, so I really can't tell for sure from only the information you provided what it was.
2016-05-25 08:55:52 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let me make things a little easier for you. As two others have alluded to, it was certainly a weather balloon. A UFO is often mistaken as meaning that it is some sort of alien craft. This is not the case. A UFO - 'Unidentified' flying object is just that. Unidentified. It is therefore true that what you saw was in fact a UFO - to you. To anyone else it was just a weather balloon. So now that you know, it is no longer a UFO to you as it is now identified. Clear?
2007-10-23 18:28:29 · answer #4 · answered by Tony 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Someday you might find out the government was testing something that looked exactly like that. That happened to me in 1973 or 4, my friend and I saw soemthings with never before seen wild collors trailing behind it (we have those colors now, but for a long time I could not explain those colors to people) and my friend saw a black craft from which the trails eminated from. There was no sound and we were amazed and thoroughly convinced we had witnessed the real deal. You might now recognize what we saw as the STEALTH. They had to discontinue using it as a weapon of war as every now and then it emits a phospherescent gas such as we saw, which makes it HIGHLY visible.
2007-10-24 00:36:47 · answer #5 · answered by Kimberlee Ann 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
a few years back the Russians put a great big mirror in space to reflect sunlight at night for some strange reason, I caught a glimpse of it one night it looked really strange
2007-10-26 23:00:47 · answer #6 · answered by Will 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The shuttle went up monday I think. Don't know what it could have been if it didn't have a trail.
2007-10-25 13:37:34 · answer #7 · answered by conundrum_dragon 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
UFO is guess, the government would say weather balloon. I've seen a UFO when I was with my dad in the dessert.
2007-10-23 17:35:25 · answer #8 · answered by Agnostic 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I don't know what it is, but my daughters reported seeing something similar to that about 4 hours ago in the night sky. Your question caught my eye bc they told me about it.
Weird...
2007-10-23 17:36:32 · answer #9 · answered by DR J 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
thats an Unidentified Flying Object if i do say so myself! You may also call it a UFO!
2007-10-23 18:37:26 · answer #10 · answered by jhunter 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋