or had some kind of UFO related experience?

I'd be really fascinated to hear about it.

I unfortunately missed out on a presentation by Raelian followers at the local weirdo/occult book store to go to the 24 hour movie marathon instead

I found a raelian book on cloning in the bin room at work... I don't know what that says about the people that frequent my work place or raelian cloning...?

No UFO stories, a couple ghost stories though.

one time i was in big bear and i was watching this crazy blue star for a while at campfire because they were getting all christian and serious and i was way bored. After about ten minutes it was like getting closer than farther, not a twinkle so I told my friend to watch it, we sat there for like 20 minutes going wtf. Then all of a sudden it went like 2 inches (well in the sky which would be like 2,000 lightyears or something) and made a small circular movement and then was gone.

The same camp a different year we saw a cloud that for about five minutes that would expand about ten times its original size then go back to its original size every two seconds and gradual getting a little bigger everytime. About a thousand people saw this though.

I have no UFO stories, nor do I know anyone who claims to have seen one, but I do have a reliable third-hand Bigfoot story if you want it.

I never saw a UFO, but I lived in a house that I suspected was haunted. TV would randomly turn on and off tuned to a staticky channel. Doors would slam even though nobody else was home and all the windows were shut. I'd hear people laughing outside my bedroom door when nobody was home. One of my roomates swears she saw a white figure going up the stairs as she was going down.

Stuff like that...

peyote talking....

hahaha dude i was like 9 when the cloud thing happened and 11 with the ufo thing, at a christian camp. Although if I had been 15 at the time peyote would have helped. I have also seen an alien but thats not a ufo and that was a few years back so post-acid tripping mushroom chomping teenage years so that could have been a flashback..........

I once thought I saw a UFO, until I figured out it was from the Night Show at the Air Show.

ahhhhhh, memories of shrooms tasting like wet socks will always haunt me and are now making me nautious just thinking about it.....

i never saw a ufo, but i remember going out in the rain once when the lightning was lighting up the whole sky in bright green flashes. i'm used to lightning being white/purplish so it was excitingly different. stayed outside for probably an hour while green lightning flashed every couple of seconds. i couldn't see the individual lightning bolts, just the sky lighting up green. the thunder was loud and exhilarating.

i was twelve or so. I wanted aliens to be involved so bad.
I also used to think vampires would come when I took the garbage out late at night down our long driveway. I kind of wanted them to. Flight, supermental powers in exchange for sucking blood, deserting family, and no more sunlight. sounded cool before I hit puberty.

but aliens, yeah. my mom's got one in a pickle jar.

I can't say that I have honestly seen one, BUT I did have two very odd things happen within two nights of each other. My grandparents live on 500 acres in central Texas. So basically you have no neighbors within sight from your house. Well on one night when I was laying in bed I happened to open my eyes and saw I weird circle of light go across the window above my bed in a zig zag pattern. At first I didn't realy think anything of it since me whole family was up there and we like to practical jokes on each other when it is dark outside. Well the following night my dad was outside with his telescope looking at stars, planets, etc. Anyway his scope is really snazzy with this digital handheld thing that will track whatever you are looking at and follow it so the object always stays in focus. So while we were using it the handheld deal went haywire. It started displaying all these weird symbols and basically became useless. When we went inside to try and figure it out it was working fine. So I honestly have no idea what was going on but to say the least it was very strange.

Yup!! It was the night offfggvhxzzzzgrrmm,,,uh what was I gonna say...danng my butt hurts...

Mmm, no UFOs, but I have ghost story / unexplained phenomena story involving stuff in the sky.

When I was in high school, I was waiting outside at night for our neighbors to drop something off at our house. I happened to look up, and I saw a bright green ball with a flame tail dropping over a nearby hillside. As it went down, it made an audible "WHOOOOOSH" type of noise. While I guess this could be a lot of other things, there is a well-documented phenomenon in Hawaii and Japan known as "Hi no Tama" (in Japanese; there's a Hawaiian word for it, but I can't remember it offhand) involving fireballs that appear to signify death or the presence of spirits. Anyway, this has stayed with me over the years, and I can still remember it pretty vividly.

So there you go. Happy Halloween.

I believe I had a sighting about 18 years ago, but perhaps it was military. We were driving from Denver to Kansas City, through the night. I was in the back of the van staring out the window, probably 2am, and I saw what at first looked like bright stars - 3 of them. They began moving in a non-linear fashion, it looked like two of them were "chasing" the third. Smaller "projectiles" were "shot" from the persuing lights, towards the light being persued. Then they all disappeared. The "projectiles" were much quicker, but not hugely so. There was no flash or explosion. They all simply disappeared. I don't mean to imply that they were weapons by using the words "projectile" or "shot".

I was driving with my then Girlfriend, now wife. We where in a rural area, weather was clear so no lighting. She was changing a CD in the deck and dropped the cd, she reached down to get it and the hole outside around us got so bright I couldnt see the road for about a second. She got up and looked at me and said, "whats wrong" my face was white as a ghose. She swears to this day she didnt notice the amazingly fucking bright white light. It was so bright my eyes hurt. That is all.

You must steep and strain...then add to Mint/ Chamomile tea....a good fast with only water and fruit 24hrs ahead of time and All is One!

OK when I lived in Ohio I was on my apartment roof an hour or so before dusk taking pics of strange looking clouds that rolled out of nowhere. This was with a slowshitomatic polaroid long before I entered the modern era of digital wonders.

So anyways, I snapped off half a dozen pics and you know how they take a good while to process.. so as I was waiting on them to materialize I saw these triangulated orbs of bright light chasing like madness through the sky in the horizon.. each one juxtaposing top to bottom and back again quick as lightning.

I frantically snapped a pic and waited for it to shit out of the cameras primative shell hoping to snap another but they, well them what ever they was were gone in between the beat of a heart at a severe angle out of sight.

OK here is the good part, after I cooled myself down wonderin WTF they was I picked up the small stack of pics freshly alive and lo and behold I had them in two pics without ever seeing them in the frame when taken.

Its funny really because I just found those photos again in a box yesterday searching for pics of this old alien toy I want.

Can you post them?

In the summer of ’91, I went on an overnight canoe trip on the Delaware River with two high school buddies of mine.

We paddled downriver all day, coming to a small island around 7:00, where we set up camp (and proceeded to bemoan our complete and total lack of intoxicants).

Anyway, darkness fell a couple of hours later- it was a clear, starry night- and we had a nice campfire going.

It was probably around 11 when suddenly there was an extremely low, sternum-vibrating pulse; all three of us heard/felt it at once, and our conversation cut off immediately. About 50 feet from our site, the brush on the eastern side of the island opened to a view of the river, the opposite bank, and the high treeline above it. We all turned in that direction, as that was where the hum seemed to be coming from. The pulse came again, and, in perfect synch with it, a huge, bright corona of deep purple swelled above the treeline, receding as the pulse died out. When I say huge, I mean a nearly-perfect circle of light that rose at least 60 feet above the treeline. This phenomenon repeated six more times, with the color changing (the entire sequence: purple, orange, green, red, red, blue, purple), and some of the swells were larger than others. Also, the “sustain” was different on some of them: at their peak, some seemed to hold for a second or two, while others rose and fell fairly quickly. Then it was done…probably took about 50 seconds, altogether.

It seemed like whatever was producing this effect was on the ground, maybe a few hundred yards back into the woods. I really can’t overstate how impressive it was; to this day, I’ve never seen/felt anything like it, and I still get really amazed and excited whenever I think of it. It was like the brightest fireworks you’ve ever seen, but with no explosions…just these huge, even domes of color, rising and falling with a hum that we could hear and feel even over the rush of that wide, fast expanse of river. And the thing that I really have to get across about the colors: not only were they super-bright, they were weirdly opaque; when they swelled, they totally blocked out the sky and stars behind them- it was like someone was holding up a giant piece of construction paper.

Our reaction? Steve and Steve, the two guys I was with (and, I might add, two of my funniest, most gregarious, confident-to-the-point-of-brash friends), were completely silent, glued to their spots at our site. At the first swell of color, I had run down to the shore, to get a closer look; by the second, I was screaming- literally screaming- at the Steves that we had to get our shit together and get the canoes in the water, cross the river and go check this out immediately. I was weirdly, suddenly elated- it felt like the most important moment of my life, up to that point. The Steves shouted back to me- they were having nothing to do with it, saying it wasn’t safe (the Steves were much more experienced boaters than I, and that was probably the right call to make, in hindsight: it was dark, the current was swift, and I was proposing we go straight across…).

The lightshow ended; I stayed at the shore...I sat down and watched the treeline intently for another 20 minutes or so, waiting, hoping that some giant silver disc would silently rise up from behind (of course, it didn’t happen). The Steves were still in their spots, and were completely silent. We were all awestruck, dumbstruck. For a little while, I intermittently entertained very stupid thoughts of taking a canoe across by myself. Finally I returned to the fireside, where we talked about what it could have been; a weird mood had descended upon our night, tho- the fun was somehow gone- and we only stayed up for about another 45 minutes or so after that.

The next day, I made us pull up alongside the first few boaters and shoreline bathers we saw along that stretch, and described the phenomenon, asking if they saw or heard it; you can imagine the looks and reactions I got (esp. as a dreadlocked, tattooed 17-yo kid asking this).


So…that’s my (long) “could’ve-been-a-UFO” story.
I’d love to hear anyone’s rational theories on what this could’ve been.

That's an amazing story! Very awesome! I woulda been right there with you trying to get across the river!
That reminds me of something from college - though I hardly think it's alien/ufo related. My buddy and I were in his dorm room, blinds were open and we saw a HUGE ball of light literally light up the entire sky. It went from green to purple, but only lasted about 1-2 seconds. We ran outside and asked several people that were standing around if they had seen it, but no one had. All I can think is that a transformer blew, but those usually make a pop, and it's weird that we were the only two people to notice such a bright and intense light.

I will tonight..

I did some editing for a student documentary involving UFO stories. There are a lot of people in New Orleans who have claim to have seen them. We had way too many accounts to feature all of them. Bizarre shit.

I saw a fast moving bright point of light in the sky over Silverlake.

It was dropping individual little "sparkling lights" behind it like a guppy giving birth, then it vanished.

never seen a UFO, but had very realistic dreams of a UFO abduction--but I was much much younger in the dreams--like they were memories or something.


When I was younger, the apartment my family and I lived in had some not-so-cool spirits in it. I always had nightmares every night--so much that I thought it was normal. I found out that my brother had nightmares every night too--but this was about 15yrs later when the topic came up. ppl spilling rice on the floor as soon as the lights went out, our cat getting thrown into doors and down the hallway, my brother and I in a room covered in bugs--and then no memory of what came after and no trace of anything left of them. my dad had his stories; voices under his pillow and such, and my late great grandmother (RIP) had hers. I saw a white figure that looked like a child standing in front of me. I didn't believe my eyes, so I stood there and stuck it out just to be sure it wasn't my imagination. the longer I looked, the more opaque the figure became. I jetted out of that room, walking through the apparition. (it was between me and the door). I must've been 17yrs at the time it happened. scared the crap out of me.

no ufos though.

When I was a small boy I had what are now called "night terrors" or "sleep paralysis." I would see people standing or sitting next to my bed, observing me. It was terrifying. I thought I was wide awake, but was temporarily physically paralyzed such that I couldn't yell or move for a few minutes. When I regained normal consciousness, the visitors would be gone. This isn't dreaming ... it's much more like waking consciousness ... you actually "see" what is probably not really there. One of the visitors looked very much like what are now thought of as the classic "grey alien." Big head, grey-white pallid skin, huge eyes, hardly any nose, just a slit for a mouth. I have no idea where this archetype came from as I hadn't yet been exposed to images of the "grey." Perhaps it's inspired by images of prenatal developing embryos. This was well before this sort of representation took over as the de facto "alien" in the popular imagination and media. However, I now think that many reported "abductions" are possibly exactly what I experienced. That is, not an actual inter-dimensional or inter-planetary visitation, but a psychosomatic phenomenon that is currently becoming more clear to the researchers studying it. There is some speculation that this effect may also account for historic accounts of incubi and succubi, or any number of culturally-informed legends of night visitors, demons, angels, ghosts, etc. I don't know. I'd prefer to believe the "scientific" explanations.

I've never seen a UFO although I've always sort of wanted to. In the '90s during the abduction report boom I became fascinated by the speculations and allegations that persons like Dr. Mack at Harvard were actually part of intelligence community disinformation programs somehow related to their covert "mind control" and social meme manipulation programs, which also appear to be somehow related to the slightly less covert "remote viewing" programs. Weird woo-woo stuff but enough of it is documented that with a lot of research and critical thinking, an interested person can connect the dots to some extent. It doesn't help that oddballs like Michael Aquino and Ed Dames who actually did work on MKULTRA-like covert psi programs for military and other intelligence agencies in the past went on to make bizarre kooky claims later in their private post-military lives. Dames is especially suspicious as he's done some really dopey things like claiming to use ESP to contact Satan on the Art Bell late-night radio show.

Unfortunately, the intelligence communities have put out so much tawdry disinformation about UFO and abduction phenomena that it can be really hard to sift through and figure out what's nonsense, what's potentially a cover-up, and what's a fake cover-up intended to distract attention from possible actual cover-ups, or whether it's all misdirection for much more boring contingencies, e.g. covert technologies, experimental aircraft, social engineering meddling, etc.

Is anyone here familiar with the relatively recent phenomenon, mostly reported in California and generally known as the "strange craft?" If not, check it out if you're so inclined. I think this is the most entertaining stuff in woo-woo land since "chemtrails." (I could go off about chemtrails but that's another subject, as are crop circles.)

Here are some photos of the "strange craft" : http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page2 ... heme=light

If that URL says "be skeptical" to you, yes. You can find a lot more about sightings by simply typing keywords "strange craft" into Google. However, this is the most salient of sites regarding these alleged sightings:

http://isaaccaret.fortunecity.com/

It's a page by a guy who claimes to have worked on reverse-engineering "alien" tech in the past and which allegedly explains what these things are, somewhat. It's worth taking a look at the linked photos. The story this man tells is VERY strange, particularly the business about symbol logic having a physical effect on gravitational fields. The first thing that piqued my skepticism is that the diagrammatic symbols bear a strong resemblance to fake science fiction languages, for example, the "common tongue" symbols in the Star Wars prequel. Hmmm.

I don't have it bookmarked, but somewhere there's an outstanding analysis on the Web of how this phenomenon went from the initial scattered sightings to widespread "UFO community" speculation to the engineer's claims page to possible exposé as a very elaborate hoax ... the question being, originating where? Perpetrated by whom? It's way too complex to have been the work of only one prankster ... or is it? If this is as some believe yet another "belief phenomenon" manufactured or seeded by the CIA or some other covert-ish agency, what's their purpose? To simply plant a meme and watch it grow?

For my part, I find observing and thinking about what people believe about this stuff to be far more compelling than actually believing in it or dismissing it all as kookiness in knee-jerk fashion.