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Post by parallaxbill on Mar 11, 2024 17:53:51 GMT -5
I've seen a few things in my life that I cannot explain.
Does it disturb me?...no.
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Post by gnappi on Mar 11, 2024 21:01:15 GMT -5
I've seen two... things.
I was ~13 and we lived in a remote valley many miles from the largest city upstate New York. The closest town is some 8+ miles away and one clear night I had to walk to town and back home because my bike's tire was flat, it's no wonder I was 135 pounds :-) About half way there I stopped at a privately owned ski slope to see if there were any deer feeding, no deer but from the over slope's tree top level a large totally silent object slowly blackened much if the star filled sky and stopped directly over me. It had a few lights (none red or green) and I guess it stayed over me for a minute or so and it shot off to the horizon in the blink on an eye.
The second event I was in my early 60's and it happened in south Florida 9-10 years or so ago. I was on my very fast crotch rocket (a Honda CBR-1100XX) and left my GF's house in Hialeah pretty late well after midnight.
Switching interstate roads I turned onto a high, long, curved off/on ramp and noticed a single light ahead of me going in a northerly direction some mile or two away doing 360 loops. My bike is pretty loud so I could not tell if it made any noise.
I rode down the ramp at 70-80 and the aerial light kept pace doing pretty tight loops no helicopter or plane I ever saw do. Every commercial / mil aircraft I've seen at an airshow makes pretty much oblong 360's.
So I sped up to over a hundred and kept twisting the throttle to a "getting uncomfortable" 140-150 and it STILL kept pace doing loops. The night was very clear and I glanced at several times looking for an exhaust trail and saw none.
I don't think a Cessna could keep pace at 150 doing 360's, no other car was on the road that late to run a remote controlled aircraft, even if there was I don't think it would be possible for a remote controlled plane controlled from a car to do it.
I slowed to 75 or so, rode another 5-6 miles and the "craft" left me at a 90 degree angle heading eastwards and was gone in an instant.
Maybe a Police or Military RC plane? Maybe but I think the Police would gladly have stopped to chat about my speeding so I wrote that off.
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Post by bigbore5 on Mar 11, 2024 21:38:16 GMT -5
A Cessna 172 or such would barely keep pace at 150. It could not circle you at that speed.
I had one of those Blackbirds. That was one seriously fast motorcycle. I got mine up to 186 before. Had to sell it before I killed myself on it. Now I just play with 130+ horse and up Sportsters. More quick than just fast.
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Post by gnappi on Mar 11, 2024 21:57:02 GMT -5
A Cessna 172 or such would barely keep pace at 150. It could not circle you at that speed. I had one of those Blackbirds. That was one seriously fast motorcycle. I got mine up to 186 before. Had to sell it before I killed myself on it. Now I just play with 130+ horse and up Sportsters. More quick than just fast. I think after my bike was made they speed limited them all to ~186. mine was made before that and is not restricted :-) And she's still a very righteous bike and I easily keep up with the Busa's as they rarely go anywhere near where the speed limiter kicks in! |
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Post by bigbore5 on Mar 11, 2024 21:59:42 GMT -5
Mine had a Super Tuner. It ran to 214 at Maxton for it's new owner. I wasn't that brave/crazy.
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Post by nirvana91 on Mar 20, 2024 16:26:46 GMT -5
"Unidentified" being key here. Im not sure if others have seen much but I have once and it was recently. I dont know what it was and I'm not saying it was other worldly, but I cant explain it. Here goes... Yall are going to think I am a cracked pot, a drunkard, a hopeless individual begging for attention, whatever you want to call it; but here is the truth of it. A couple months ago, my wife and I took a small "holiday" down to the coast to our family ranch on the Victoria Barge Canal. My son stayed with my parents so we had a little free time. After mending fences and fighting mosquitos most of the day, right at sunset the missus asked me to take her to the water just to look around and enjoy the last evening light. I always accompany her because by danged if she will think far enough ahead to actually take a weapon or flashlight with her; plus this is rattlesnake country. Cautions must be heeded. As we were looking up admiring the clear sky my wife pointed up and said "Oh! There is the moon!". I was confused as I know where the moon comes up and down at that that weren't it. I looked up and said "Cant be. The moon is over there.". I saw what she was pointing out at first, then looked over and found the moon and looked back. When I looked back I saw a disc in the sky. It was huge. It had to be around 20,000 feet up and looked about the size of 2 football fields. It was round in shape but I could see outlines on the bottom of whatever the heck it was. It was silent in the sky; no engines, no lights, no nothing. Within 5 seconds of looking back at the object, it pivoted up, accelerated and left. Still with no noise, no lights, no nothing. It left so fast had I blinked I would have missed it. My wife only knows that it was gone when she looked back. We were both left bewildered. I did not bother calling anyone. Everyone would think I am crazy and we are about 2 miles inland from the Gulf, so there are any number of explanations available and I highly doubt anyone would tell me the truth if it was "something". This is the first I have spoke of it outside of my parents and my wife. I have no idea what that thing was but if it landed in my pasture, full auto belt fed firing would be imminent. Dont give a dang who owns it or what country (or possibly planet) it belongs to. Does anyone else have anything they saw that they cant explain? Orbs? Lights? Objects? Thingys? (Yes that is a technical term) Dude thats an amazing sighting! You should report it to mufon or the place peter davenport runs in washington state. Ive been into ufos since they came out in 2017 with the videos and the government admitted they were real so yea im kinda a nerd about it but its a hell of a mystery. Whats cool about your story is it was a disk and the fact you noticed it tilt and take off. Most people probably dont know but just about any legit disk sighting that blazes off starts with the disk tilting so yea dude im jealous you saw some legit nhi craft |
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Post by revolvercranker on Mar 20, 2024 17:43:28 GMT -5
"Unidentified" being key here. Im not sure if others have seen much but I have once and it was recently. I dont know what it was and I'm not saying it was other worldly, but I cant explain it. Here goes... Yall are going to think I am a cracked pot, a drunkard, a hopeless individual begging for attention, whatever you want to call it; but here is the truth of it. A couple months ago, my wife and I took a small "holiday" down to the coast to our family ranch on the Victoria Barge Canal. My son stayed with my parents so we had a little free time. After mending fences and fighting mosquitos most of the day, right at sunset the missus asked me to take her to the water just to look around and enjoy the last evening light. I always accompany her because by danged if she will think far enough ahead to actually take a weapon or flashlight with her; plus this is rattlesnake country. Cautions must be heeded. As we were looking up admiring the clear sky my wife pointed up and said "Oh! There is the moon!". I was confused as I know where the moon comes up and down at that that weren't it. I looked up and said "Cant be. The moon is over there.". I saw what she was pointing out at first, then looked over and found the moon and looked back. When I looked back I saw a disc in the sky. It was huge. It had to be around 20,000 feet up and looked about the size of 2 football fields. It was round in shape but I could see outlines on the bottom of whatever the heck it was. It was silent in the sky; no engines, no lights, no nothing. Within 5 seconds of looking back at the object, it pivoted up, accelerated and left. Still with no noise, no lights, no nothing. It left so fast had I blinked I would have missed it. My wife only knows that it was gone when she looked back. We were both left bewildered. I did not bother calling anyone. Everyone would think I am crazy and we are about 2 miles inland from the Gulf, so there are any number of explanations available and I highly doubt anyone would tell me the truth if it was "something". This is the first I have spoke of it outside of my parents and my wife. I have no idea what that thing was but if it landed in my pasture, full auto belt fed firing would be imminent. Dont give a dang who owns it or what country (or possibly planet) it belongs to. Does anyone else have anything they saw that they cant explain? Orbs? Lights? Objects? Thingys? (Yes that is a technical term) Dude thats an amazing sighting! You should report it to mufon or the place peter davenport runs in washington state. Ive been into ufos since they came out in 2017 with the videos and the government admitted they were real so yea im kinda a nerd about it but its a hell of a mystery. Whats cool about your story is it was a disk and the fact you noticed it tilt and take off. Most people probably dont know but just about any legit disk sighting that blazes off starts with the disk tilting so yea dude im jealous you saw some legit nhi craft Or Georgio on the TV show Ancient Aliens!! |
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Post by x101airborne on Mar 21, 2024 4:55:33 GMT -5
I would like to meet his tailor.
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Post by lassiter on Mar 21, 2024 16:47:12 GMT -5
I would like to meet his tailor. Or his barber... |
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Post by Aeroscout on Mar 26, 2024 19:16:21 GMT -5
Interesting thread. I've flown thousands of hours in the service of this country and as a civilian. Never seen a Foo Fighter. I do believe that other life off planet is possible and some day we may have proof. Tucker Carlson has interviewed a former Air Force service member who claims proof of not only craft but "biologics" going back into the early 20th century pre WWII. Interesting to listen to on YouTube.
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Post by gnappi on Mar 26, 2024 23:49:39 GMT -5
Interesting thread. I've flown thousands of hours in the service of this country and as a civilian. Never seen a Foo Fighter. I do believe that other life off planet is possible and some day we may have proof. Tucker Carlson has interviewed a former Air Force service member who claims proof of not only craft but "biologics" going back into the early 20th century pre WWII. Interesting to listen to on YouTube. A good friend worked as a pilot for a major airline on a route to South America from Florida. He was a jovial guy I can't say I ever saw him mad or distressed until one day I asked him "since you spend so many hours in a jet did you ever see anything you could not explain"? His face went dark and he said "I don't want to talk about it" Seriously I asked? "Knock it off I will not discuss that subject" he said and it was never brought up again. |
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Post by x101airborne on Mar 27, 2024 4:31:52 GMT -5
That is a reaction probably not expected and could possibly have more than one meaning. Very interesting.
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