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Distribution: Currently: OpenMandriva. Previously: openSUSE, PCLinuxOS, CentOS, among others over the years.
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Well here's my UFO sighting;
I was living in Ingle Farm, South Australia (a suburb of Adelaide), It was on or around the beginning of February 2013 (yeah I know 2013, of all years to see one). The time was somewhere between 2am - 2:30am. I was the only one home at the time (two others lived there as well, both where out of course) and I could not remember if I'd locked the back door or not.
So I thought I'd better check if I had or not (as knowing my luck, I would have forgotten to lock it and some bastard would have broken in and robbed the place), I can't remember if I had already checked or was about to, anyhow, something told me to look up (I was still inside the house, but the back door was a clear glass sliding door, with a clear view out to the backyard and sky above it), so I looked up and...
thought gee, there are a LOT of stars in the sky tonight and bigger than usual (and a LOT lower than usual), but then thought, what would I know, I'm no astronomer/expert; and then no more than a second later... one of them completely disappeared into thin air and re-appeared, no more than a second later in a completely different location in the sky and done the same thing several time over (in a different place of the sky every time). It was the second part of I what I saw that night, that I know it was a craft of *some* kind...
As after that, 4 solid lights appeared (out of nowhere once again), (that where clearly attached to the bottom of a craft of *some* kind once again) and it just cruised off like a normal aircraft would (at the same speed as a normal plane of some description).
I'm not going to lie, I was not game to actually step outside proper!
I could not move, think or react in any way for at least several minutes afterwards, I was stunned, confused, shocked, amazed, all at the same time!
And no, I did NOT even have a pain killer that night and the reason I was checking to see if I had remembered or not to lock the back door, WAS because I was about to go to bed.
I should also say that, I saw a video on Youtube (in one of those compilation UFO videos) that depicts exactly what I saw that night almost (if not), right down to the pixel.
NO Joke! TRUE story, I have zero reason to lie and NOTHING to gain from it!
I've twice seen things in the sky that I couldn't identify. In both cases though, I can make a guess at what they were.
The first, I saw by day. It was spherical and alternated rhythmically in appearance between crimson and silver. I think this was probably a bicoloured helium balloon, maybe a weather balloon.
The second was seen by my mother and myself one evening. It was spherical and luminous, static in position like a tethered blimp. It was there for a long time. Above it was a light which blinked rhythmically once a second, probably as a warning to aircraft. Some time later, I read in the New Scientist about a new type of balloon that had a light inside it, giving a steady diffuse illumination. It was suggested that this could be used to illuminate nocturnal events such as football matches. The direction in which we saw it would have corresponded roughly to Wembley Stadium so perhaps it was an experiment. But if so, nothing came of it and I have never heard of anything of that sort being used since then.
That is frankly quite more logical than the idea that aliens are abducting drunken drivers on deserted highways.
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On the evening of December 29, 1980, Betty Cash and Vickie and Colby Landrum (Vickie's seven-year-old grandson) were driving home to Dayton, Texas in Cash's Oldsmobile Cutlass after dining out.
Marfa lights is just down the highway from me and is a good place to bbq and drink beer on a Saturday night. If you really wanna see UFO's. Go to Mexico.
Unidentified: as a kid* (and further back) you may not comprehend this "definition," and\or as an adult you may change it (warp even?)
I love how "they" try to quantify the number of stars like, "more than grains of sand on earth..." can't comprehend infinity like unidentified or "thought I saw a pussycat?"
Live near an airport, and not very good at knowing which type of jet is which, so pretty much on a daily basis I see something flying and unidentified.
the kind of evadence that says UFOs are some sort of craft
is
the same kind of evadence that could get you put to death in a court of law
so seeing a UFO is NOT grounds for questioning some one's mental health
Could you explain please? It is my understanding that in all cases hearsay is not allowable and in capital cases circumstantial is highly frowned upon as usually unsuccessful in either direction. Confessions, though actually quite suspect, tend to be strong evidence but to my knowledge no flying saucer pilots have ever confessed.
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Live near an airport, and not very good at knowing which type of jet is which, so pretty much on a daily basis I see something flying and unidentified.
Well, then it's not a UFO, if you know it's a jet of some type and your living next to an airport.
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so seeing a UFO is NOT grounds for questioning some one's mental health
Who's questioning your mental health? (or anyone else's, for that matter)
Many people including former police officers, spy's, military personnel, etc have reported seeing UFO's. Are they all crazy? I doubt it.
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