OT: My UFO Encounter.. (True Story)

[EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro]

I don't think we'll ever hear anything official from our government about visiting spacecraft, their occupants, and how involved we already are. Well maybe someday in the future. But I agree with the reasons why. Just look how angry we get about who to vote for, abortion, military intervention, religion. Sometimes these issues bring us to each other throats. Somtimes these issues make us kill one another. Can you imagine the freak out potential if the general public is told we are being visited, and have been visited for many years by people from another solar system. You or I may think it's cool and welcome such news but what about the guy talking to himself at the bus stop, or the crazy eyed jihad dude with a bomb in his pants?
Earthers just aren't ready....yet!


I'm the Uncle Tom of our Alien Overlords!

[TerranC]

You people are all crazy; everyone knows there are no such things such as UFOs.

Everybody knows that they are merely flying space cows.

[Fyron]

With plasma udders!

[Raging Deadstar]

Imperator Fyron said:
With plasma udders!

And thats why some people are Lactose Intolerant

[mac5732]

RD, yes we were armed, however, didn't make a difference to us, we just decided to go back and check on the ladies instead of going into those woods at 2am....

Did you ever wonder just where we got all this stealth tech and some of the other high tech stuff we have? Do we have better scientists then everyone else? hmmmm. They not only have stealth planes but also stealth warships, tho that has not had a lot of publicity. The ship was out way before the planes....

I really don't think the people would go that ballistic if we found another alien race, UFO's etc have been around so long most people would be normal as usual, sceptical, curious, afraid, non believing, and excited. However, there would always be the nut cases and those who just can't face something strange...

But no way is the gov telling us poor folks the whole story, look at area 51 and how secret thats been for all these years and don't think thats the only ultra secret base we have..... You never put all your eggs in one basket.

[Suicide Junkie]

Lactose Intolerant people are the only humans left unmodified by the space cows. Count yourself lucky, for when the cows come for us, you will be spared from slave labour on the farming asteroids.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

The trouble with UFO's is that there is only stories and blury pictures. The facts cannot be evaluated. You could say there is no hard evidence, but if there was, the government or another agency grabbing it is entirely beleivable. So, we are left with stories and crop circles. Never having seen any of the latter except in pictures, I can't comment. Sure, some of those could be pranks. And then, there is the stories of crop circles where the crops have been bent, not broken, as would happen if someone walked accross them. As I said, have not seen any except in pictures.

[DeadZone]

Do note, crop circles have also been around for centuries
http://www.alien-ufos.com/cropcirclesinformation.shtml


And UFOs have been reported before man developed flight
http://ufos.about.com/od/ancientastr...a/aa081504.htm

its even been said that UFOs have been seen just before some of mans prolific battles
http://www.crystalinks.com/ufohistory.html

[Saber Cherry]

Did you wear contacts in 1974? The jerky path you describe (zoom, hover, zoom, hover) is quite similar to what one would expect from "search" eye motion, or a contact lens recentering itself from such motion. So if, say, this was an ocean bay with phosphorescent plankton, and a plankton blew into your eye and stuck to your contact lens, such a pattern would be not only possible, but expected.

Other possibilities include a semidetached retina (minor retinal damage can cause strange flashies, and yet still repair itself), neural disorders (brain tumors and bloodflow irregularities can cause such visual anomalies), or phosphorescent bacteria actually living inside your eyeball, not to mention a viral optic nerve infection.

Astronauts in orbit have been noted to see gigantic lightning displays in the upper atmosphere, where no such electrical activity has been noted through other means (e.g., ground-based observations or instrumental detection). Such sightings have been attributed to cosmic rays directly stimulating the optic nerves. Of course, such sightings also tend to be a single short-lived blotch rather than a longer-duration zigzag.

Well, other than those, and perhaps the possibility of 9 independant meteorites (5 moving perpendicularly to yourself, and 4 moving directly toward you so as to appear stationary) or the Brownian motion of a very small, very bright meteorite... ok, I'm kidding about that one, but perhaps it could be the Cerenkov radiation of a hitherto-unknown hyper-lightspeed massive particle buffeted by weakly-interacting dark matter? That's what I'm betting on...

At any rate, these are all highly plausible scenarios, and it should put your mind at ease that there are so many common, natural phenomena that can explain what you saw, without resorting to crazy sci-fi mumbo-jumbo about UFO's and the light of Venus refracting off swamp gas.

[Raging Deadstar]

Saber Cherry said:
Did you wear contacts in 1974? The jerky path you describe (zoom, hover, zoom, hover) is quite similar to what one would expect from "search" eye motion, or a contact lens recentering itself from such motion. So if, say, this was an ocean bay with phosphorescent plankton, and a plankton blew into your eye and stuck to your contact lens, such a pattern would be not only possible, but expected.

Other possibilities include a semidetached retina (minor retinal damage can cause strange flashies, and yet still repair itself), neural disorders (brain tumors and bloodflow irregularities can cause such visual anomalies), or phosphorescent bacteria actually living inside your eyeball, not to mention a viral optic nerve infection.

Astronauts in orbit have been noted to see gigantic lightning displays in the upper atmosphere, where no such electrical activity has been noted through other means (e.g., ground-based observations or instrumental detection). Such sightings have been attributed to cosmic rays directly stimulating the optic nerves. Of course, such sightings also tend to be a single short-lived blotch rather than a longer-duration zigzag.

Well, other than those, and perhaps the possibility of 9 independant meteorites (5 moving perpendicularly to yourself, and 4 moving directly toward you so as to appear stationary) or the Brownian motion of a very small, very bright meteorite... ok, I'm kidding about that one, but perhaps it could be the Cerenkov radiation of a hitherto-unknown hyper-lightspeed massive particle buffeted by weakly-interacting dark matter? That's what I'm betting on...

At any rate, these are all highly plausible scenarios, and it should put your mind at ease that there are so many common, natural phenomena that can explain what you saw, without resorting to crazy sci-fi mumbo-jumbo about UFO's and the light of Venus refracting off swamp gas.

Ok...Now thats Crazy Talk, give me space cows anyday!