I have two incidents. The first one happened about 17 years ago way out in the country near Tulsa, OK, at an off-road motorcycle event. My brother-in-law and I drove there and got there late, around 10:30 or so, and there were many others there with their tents and campfires sitting around in otherwise pitch black darkness. I was near the truck trying to undo a knot in a tent bag, with my headlamp on, looking down, when i saw on the ground and out of the corner of my eye a very bright flash, no different than a very close flash of lightning. Well, I knew for a fact there were no storms around, so I thought someone had taken a flash photo. Just then, my brother-in-law asks "What the heck was that?" He said he happened to be looking up at the stars and saw a very bright flash of light, but it seems kind of be behind a cloud or something, but it definitely was not lightning. We asked some of the other campers near us if they just saw a bright flash of light, but not a single person said they saw anything, which I found impossible. We stood there in the darkness for a bit near the truck, discussing what it was we might have seen, when I heard a very strange noise off in the distance. It was a low, rhythmic hum, or grrrrr sound... and after listening, I thought it sounded like a car stuck in the snow, or mud, trying to get out, that same kind of periodic revving of an engine. it was impossible to tell what direction it was coming from; it seemed to be coming from everywhere. We hopped in the truck as drove around the area, trying to locate the source of the sound, but it never seemed to get closer or further away. It was going on like that for a long time, until we were too tired to listen any more. We thought it might have been an irrigation pump, also. In the morning, my brother-in-law got up very early to see if he could find the source of the sound. He drove all over tarnation and came back. For one, there was no mud anywhere. Also, he could find no irrigation pipes or system. he could find nothing that it might have been. So, we just left it there.

The second event happened in 1997 at a Fourth of July celebration at Pagosa Springs, CO. Right before the fireworks, about 8:30, there were thousands of folks there. A number of us were admiring how the sun looked on the eastern ridge of mountain tops. Just then, some type of object came speeding over the tops of the mountains to the east, zoomed across the entire sky in a few seconds, and disappeared behind the mountains to the west. One guy said "What the HELL was that?!?!" The object was pretty much an ellipsoid, grayish in color, and leaving no trail or resulting sound. it was completely silent. One woman said they see weird stuff out there all of the time, and have gotten used to stuff like that. it was no meteor, bolide, or anything else that I can think of. It traveled faster than any jet I know of, and due to the mountains, it was pretty high, but yet its apparent size was quite large.

I have been abducted and implanted with a chip (undetectable to us) that allows me to communicate and even act like an avatar to a certain alien intelligence (combination of cybernetic and organic). It happened when I was a kid. I remmember I was in the rocky mountains looking up at the sky when my friend went back to the campsite...then all I remmember is vomitting over a rock and my friend calling my name but I could barely hear anything because I had a faint yet numbing ringing in my ears...They took me to the hospital and concluded I was fine. Ever since then, I started having dreams and eventually peiced together the encounter once the alien started revealing itself. I was looking up at the sky and this seemingly star like object started moving (while previously it had been stationary). I looked at it intently and then I saw that it was moving in a weird zig zag direction. Upon further inspection it started to spiral downward toward me. Straight toward me. And the lightsource that made it look like a star started to dim...I then remmember this dark disk descend ever more, until I actually started to get nervous (like I noticed something was actually out of place, this was actually coming down straight at me)..so I got up really quickly in a panic and then the last thing I remmember is a flash of light prior to seeing this huge disk right over my head....Once that last bit is over...I then remmember being talked to in a thought language (hard to describe), and then going through a surgical operation (painless). I do remmember feeling something there during the operation (the beings) but I don't remmember how they looked. I just remmember feeling their essences, like their characters, and what they wanted to say. I think my eyes were closed but at the same time I remmember a light and a syringe...its kind of confusing.

However, for some reason I remmember opening my eyes, which the characters reacted to unexpectedly, in a sort of light chamber.....and this I remmember it distinctly. I have been told that this does not usually happen. And they would perhaps object to me saying this, but this I remmember clear as day..(I remmember going through a hallway that looked like a regular hallway on my way to the operation room, but I now think it was just an implanted memory)

but...I seemed to be in some sort of 'tractor beam' that was full of blue light, and I was completely naked. I lay there suspended in the beam upright but I wouldn't have known if I had not opened my eyes, because there was no 'frame of reference' when it came to balance. My 'ear' did not detect anything, I could have just as well been dreaming in water. The light beam was not completely tranquil however. It moved like a stream and it felt in many ways like a viscous liquid. However, I could breath normally, which was odd (i remmember that thought going through my head). This sort of 'stream beam' not only kept me suspended, but made me feel happy and energized, cuddled and protected (i know, its weird). I have reasoned that this may have had some positive effect on my nervous system while I was being suspended in order to calm me down I guess. Anyway, I could also look into the room that I was in. I looked around me and there were like 25 people whithin the chamber (humans suspended whithin these sort of tractor beams or what I would call them, energy fields). Many of them were kids and seniors, although there were some people that were middle aged as well. The room was cube shaped from one perspective and what I originally thought was the 'floor' had these blue root like 'tubes' that extended all over the room. However, I then realized this was not a floor, for the room didn't have any gravity, and it was actually oval shaped, even though the effect while in the suspension field made it SEEM like it was a cube like room with a floor. I realized this because I remmember being 'ejected' from the energy field forward INTO the room and being in free fall (didn't experience any gravity). However, unlike the energy field, I could roam freely. In the energy field I was contained and although I could move, I could not really leave the suspension energy/containment field. I then remmember the room going white (although I think this may have been some effect by the aliens to try to subdue me) and spitting out this long thing cable from my throat (I have hypothesized it might have been an advanced oxygen mask, perhaps what kept me breathing inside the energy field)...

The rest is kind of fuzzy, but I remmember talking extensively and 'feeling' them all the time throughout the process. I also remmember the syringe. I have one memory of a creature that looks like those little gray men in the movies, but I now reject the memory. The aliens, as has been described to me, are not really of that shape, they only assume that shape, like an avatar, to get the human to conciously recognize what he/she is seeing (started in the 50's)..They are of various forms, cybernetic and organic, and the original race that they evolved from (bio-engineered from) did not look humanoid. In fact, their currrent form is more like an octupus, if anything. But they can shape shift with their technology into various forms while still projecting conciousness. Anyway...so yea, thats what I remmember. They are fairly peaceful, but very very advanced. Its not even funny. I don't think we would even be here if they even had the slightest incling of hostility. Very advanced tech, like inertial gravitomagnetic bending machines that can create energy and matter with gravity through temporary asymmetries (F does not and I demand it not = ma...lol) , really cool stuff.

There is a federation and they have satisfied most of their mineral needs through asteroids and their energy needs with really advanced nanotech--inertial devics we won't even very likely discover for a thousand years. From the characters I felt, I think they looked at us as children (not only because I was fairly a child back then, but just in general), and they also seemed very careful when they operated on me. I felt safe and taken care of. ALthough that is not always the experience I am told (that was just my experience).

So yea, I have never told that to anyone though, because I didn't want to be rushed into the insane asylum. But I know the memories were true and I know what I saw and felt. I don't know when the intelligence communicates through me, for I never have any of the memories. I presume it happens when I am asleep. But I am sure it does it. I cannot explain how, but I am sure of it.

Btw, I think there is a giant gateway on earth that leads to one of their homeworlds. It could be in area 51, but I am not certain. Anyway, have a good one. Im a crackpot, I know. Im going to bed.

btw...lol...they are committing a crime?

you are crazy. The police officer would go arrest them and come back thinking he is mario going after princess peach. There is absolutely NO WAY any of that is going to deter them...funny though, I would like to see a police officer try to ARREST an alien...thats going to go down REAL WELL. lol...The only thing I think that would make them reveal themselves is a massive disclosure and even then, I don't even know how they would react.

UFO Observation at U of O campus

It is September 7, 2010 and I am responding to a call for personal observations connected with this subject. The event I am recounting occurred one evening more than forty years ago, probably 1967, after a summer open-air theater performance and was witnessed by many of us in a dispersing crowd after the show. Attention was directed to a nearby object hovering obliquely overhead, little more than the distance between goal posts at a football stadium. Its silhouette was elliptical from my vantage point and contained within its perimeter a pair of alternately blinking red and blue-green lights. I recall that as a group we became still, enthralled by it, watching the thing with wonder and perplexity. In its stationary position it seemed to emit a vibrating tone something like a high voltage power line. I don't recall stars in the night sky connected with the event so there may have been cloud cover present, also I don't trust my memory about the duration of time between events but I suspect that it was only several minutes before a thin horizontal beam of light appeared from an obscured port above the silhouette. Unlike a search light or lighthouse beacon whose light becomes more diffuse from its source this light beam appeared to extend indefinitely as it rotated in circular sweeps. Then, just as abruptly as it began the beam shut down as if some process were complete. Soon after, the object thrust itself into a new position at the opposite side of the campus and we followed to watch a repetition of the same sequence of events from a bit further away this time. Just as before it seemed to fix its position while sweeping the horizon numerous times and just as instantaneously took flight as if no period of acceleration were required for departure.

On arriving home that evening I called the local airport to inquire if radar had detected what I described but no evidence existed. I called the local newspaper to ask if other eye witnesses had called in and to give my version of the story. My account of events was not published and no mention of the subject ever appeared in the media. My earliest rationalizations were to suppose a military research project, possibly an experimental simulation being tested for public response. I have experienced earthquakes, lived through a tsunami, been in plenty of tight situations but never seen anything to rival my perception of mysterious events that summer night at U of O.

During the subsequent decade I met two others who claimed to have seen a similar night time visage in that era and I'm comforted by the fact that I was among a large group of witnesses on this occasion. I have a particularly keen sense of distance and scale compared to the general population and I am disposed to frequent private speculation in regard to the size of objects and distances between them. Therefore it might be useful to intuit the object's diameter to have been about sixty feet or less within a considerable margin of error. I hope this information will be useful to someone. I remain awed and perplexed after so many years, tending to suspect an earthly explanation will eventually become public, a projected illusion? How, why and by whom, for what purpose? Then again, the universe is immense.

they also use laser and energy fields a lot (my hunch)..and may even use it for propultion, but I think their main deep space 'warp drive' is basically a gravitomagnetic manipulator. I don't know which one they use on Earth. But they seem very very adept at using all sorts of technologies. From bending space time, to bending the mind itself. I don't know their main power source or drive, but my intution is its gravitomagnetic with lasers acting as a 'transition'..I know it may seem weird to think of a spacecraft that travels with lasers, but thats what I witnessed....I also think the original beam may have dragged me through a higher dimention INTO the ship directly...like a teleporter...There are different 'kinds' of light. There are the ones we use in our homes, which are mainly for lighting, and then there are others that use crunched up frequencies to deliver energy, while others still are used as a way to startle the abductee (wiping his memory temporarily). Its weird. But many of their technology is wave function and energy based....with effects ranging from space time bending, to trans-dimentional transport, to mind tricks, energy fields and simple laser canons. Its almost like some of the beams may have been some sort of third kind of matter. I don't know, there is no way any human can really verify it..there is nothing we have that even comes close to it so there is no way to associate...so I guess I might as well have told you about a harry potter potion. Anyway, just wanted to put that last tid bit out there.

i also have been told by the intelligence at one point that some astronauts (didn't tell me who) actually witnessed an encounter in space...and what they actually said was (it was edited out later):

'housten, either we have some sort of russian spy vehicle that can travel at the speed of light in orbit, or something really weird is going on'

Future President Gerald Ford recommends an official committee investigation of the UFO phenomenon.
"I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment on this subject"
--President Gerald Ford (1966)

I am extremely dismayed to see this blog wasted talking about woo-woo space alien stories. Don't we have enough of this nonsense in the media already?

It was sometime in the fall of 1989 that my son and I saw the strangest thing in the sky that we had ever seen. I was driving home and it was between 9 and 9:30 pm. I live in a semi-rural area so there were no streetlights to interfere with a view of the night sky. As I began to descend from a small hill, I noticed this strange orange ball of light in the sky almost above us, slightly to our left. There were no other cars on the road. My son was sitting in the front seat. 

I slowed the car down as I was looking up through the front windshield. My son was looking up through the front windshield also. I came to a complete stop in the road and rolled down the driver side window, never losing sight of this 'object.' I stuck my head out the window to get a better look. The only sound there we could hear was my car. This object was a huge orange ball of light almost directly above us. It seem to stop when I stopped.It was silent.

I was so fascinated by this. My son, on the other hand, was beginning to flip out over this! He kept telling me, "Mom, Mom, drive...let's go, get out of here...." This orange ball of light seemed so huge and it looked like a giant orange strobe light. Again, no sound. All of a sudden there were these orange 'sparks' falling off the object toward the ground. The sparks would suddenly disappear as they fell - as if they burned up.

Again, my son as frantic about getting out of there. I was completely fascinated. All of a sudden, this bright orange ball of light disappeared. It was as if someone just flipped the switch and turned the light off. Gone - again, no sound or anything else.

All the time that this was happening, there were absolutely no other cars on the road. It appeared to be just us. I regained my 'senses' and took the foot off the brakes of my car and continued home. We were only about one mile from home anyway when this happened. All the time I was driving, I kept looking up at the sky. When I got home, I pulled the car into the garage. My son ran toward the front door. I stayed in the driveway and kept looking upward at the night sky thinking maybe I would see this again. No such luck. We got inside and locked the door.

I checked the morning newspaper for a few days afterwards to see if anyone else had reported seeing such a phenomenon but there was nothing in the paper. This was way before the explosion of information on the Internet so I could not look up information on this. Over the years I have tried to find an explanation but with no luck.

I would love to know what we saw that night. My son, who is now 29 years old, still won't talk about it to this day. I was, and still am, fascinated by what we saw. I have never seen this 'object' again.

My best UFO sighting was a daylight encounter.  This was in Douglas, Wyoming several years ago.  I was sitting out on the porch having my morning coffee and noticed two bright objects side by side that appeared to be travelling away from my vantage point.  I watched for about 30 seconds as they slowly drifted in a southerly direction.  Then I remembered my new camera I had recently bought.  Ran into the house to fetch the camera and then fumbled with it a bit not being familiar enough with it yet to take a quick snapshot.  By then the lights had drifted behind the tall hospital building.

Aha, I REALLY had seen a pair of UFOs!  But next morning I happened to notice the sun reflecting brightly off two chimneys on a house down the street.  The reflection off the flashing was very bright and spaced about the same difference as the objects seen previously.

Apparently what I had seen was some sort of atmospheric anomaly which reflected this light into another position.  That's almost as cool as seeing a REAL UFO!

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I've been an amateur astronomer for 27 years this summer. I've spent countless hours outside under the night sky. I've seen something I can’t explain only once. In the June, 1996, the second or third Sunday of the month, our outdoor dog was barking around 10:30 at night. One of the neighbors had some cats, and they would sit in the yard and tease him. I went out to chase them off. As I was walking back towards the house, I was looking up in the air, as I usually do. I got up next to the house, and was looking at Arcturus, which was almost overhead.

Much to my surprise, a large, perfectly round object sailed over the rooftop. It was about half the size of the tip of a pencil eraser held at arms length. It was moving in a serpentine fashion, very slowly.

I ran inside the back door and grabbed my 11 x 70 binoculars I kept handy for stargazing. I went out, and looked at this object through my binoculars. It was a perfect circle, and the color resembled a bright light bulb, it was a bit off white. There were no lights on it. The edges of this object were so crisp, so well-defined against the dark sky. I'd never seen anything like it.

It continued to move in a very slow, leisurely serpentine fashion, going back and forth in around a two degree (sky wise) arc. It made absolutely no sound. I crossed the yard slowly, keeping it in view for around a minute and a half. My husband was in the house, upstairs, putting our children to bed, and the air was on, and I didn't want to run in the house and call him because I was trying to figure out what the heck this was, and I didn’t want to risk the chance of losing it. It finally vanished behind some trees. In the 13 years I'd been an astronomer before this incident, I had never seen anything like this in the night sky, and in the 14 years since, night after night, I’ve never seen anything like this again. I've seen satellites, and we look for the ISS when it's visible from our area, but this was most definitely not a satellite because of the way it moved, and the color and the sharpness of the edges. I still don't know what it was.

Back in the 70's I was talking to some friends that just came into the city of Fairfax VA and they said they saw a UFO out near the Route 29 Drive In theater outside of town.  So I jumped in to my GTO and headed that way.  When I pulled off the highway to search for anything strange within seconds these flashing lights appeared over the tree line near the drive in.  It appeared to have multi colored lights flashing moving in a curricular pattern around what ever this thing was.   I was astonished that it seemed to be heading in my direction, and my girl friend started freeking out "LETS GET OUTTA HERE!!!"  As it came closer I could see it better, it looked like some kind of writing.

"This Weekend at Fair City Mall come enjoy......."

It was a bloody plane with advertisement lights under the wings..... But for a few seconds it was cool as you know what to think I saw a UFO lol

Cheers

One night I was out smoking on my patio and happened to look up into the night sky and I noticed a white dot that was moving at a pace slower than a satelite, but looked to be at the distance a satelite would be. I watched the dot for about 45 sec to a min as it moved across the sky and suddenly the white dot stopped, sat there for about 3 secs and then made almost a swirling motion and shot upwards very fast and vanished, silimar to a shooting star. It was strange.

This happened about ten years ago. My family gathered on a dark hill for a meteor shower. We enjoyed the meteor shower for about a half an hour and we heard an airplane flying nearby. Bear in mind that my family and I are all aviation buffs so now this night flier has taken precident over the space rocks. I have binoculars and am scaning the sky in the direction of the engine noise. I spot a cigar shaped object with a light on the front of it flying eerily steady in the binoculars. I keep this thing in my sight and explain to everyone the "airplane" I am watching. I watch it for about a minute and the engine noise from the airplane has disappeared into the distance, however the object I observe appears to be moving closer. Now I know what I see is not the craft causing the engine noise and I get very excited. Then, the object stops very abruptly and I am jumping and laughing like a small child. I keep my binoculars on it for about five minutes afraid to miss anything while my family members look for it in whatever way that they can. I figure I know where it is and will be able to find it again and hand my binoculars to someone else so they can see it. They can't find it. I take the binoculars back and now I can't find it. Whatever it was, it was not an airplane or helicopter and it was not a satelite. I guess it's possible it could have been a shuttle but it stopped in mid flight which is either something the shuttle cannot do or it's a skill not acknowledged by NASA, plus my nerd family would have most likely known if a shuttle was in orbit at the time. 

I have seen one of these things, and would never believe the UFO stories if I had not. What I saw was as high as a sub-orbital aircraft -I was in the Navy and am a trained lookout- Also am familiar with F18's, F14's , F16's. F22's were not in production or testing yet and if they were, this wasn't one of them either. No sound.. none at all. That was the scariest thing. No sonic boom (even though this thing was going ten's of thousnads of mph) ..probably 20000 mph. Ten times faster than the fastest jet I've seen. The way it was moving was weird too.. It was like... when you take the cursor on your screen and quickly move it all the way across the screen. No jerkiness, just a smooth line or slight arc. And it sped up with no jerkiness. It went straight and then split into 2 pieces and each went (and SPED UP!!!) at a 90 degree angle.. like a "T" . The G forces would kill a human and destroy any man-made craft. It was a bright light, looked like a start that was moving slowly at first. Gradually sped up. Was moving so fast it disappeared past the horizon in less than 3-4 seconds. (Not 5) .. Really fast. So since then I've kept it too myself. Scared to tell anyone... Finally told my wife after her boss and his whole H.S. football team saw a dark lightless craft fly over their football practice. Thankfully she believed me. I wasn't by mysef when I saw it either. Was with one of my best friends. We were both visiting home during college thanksgiving break in 1993. This happened in OH, near Columbus, and was at night.

Listen guys... No matter how much your conviction says that this stuff is fake or a mistaken identity or contrived, hey man.. its real.. I have no clue what it is, only that it wasn't any kind of plane, meteor, comet, satellite.. seen all those everyday on the lookout deck of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower for 5 years. It was controlled by something, and was moving very very fast, with no sonic boom. It was like it was falling ...away.. I guess that the best way to describe it. When you throw a rock, or when something falls down, it moves with the same smooth motion. I think whatever they are, they don't need fuel because they are somehow, falling all of the time...

On May 19, 2008 at about 12 noon I saw a very large, silvery craft flying over the James River near Williamsburg, Virginia. It was the biggest airborne craft I've ever seen. It must have been at least 400 feet long, and possibly larger. It had an elongated cylindrical shape (somewhat blimp-like, but it was no blimp). The front was dark gray and contained what appeared to be four rows of viewing windows or decks. The rest of the body had a silvery, mirror finish without markings of any kind. There was no tail assembly, no wings, no crew gondola hanging from its belly. There were no external engines of any kind and it made absolutely no noise.

When I first caught sight of it it was flying north from the direction of Newport News. It was quite low over the water, possibly only a few hundred feet up. As I watched, it made an abrupt left turn and shot across the river in a matter of seconds and then hovered near the Surry Nuclear Power Station for about 10 minutes. The entire time it was there it stayed just below the crest of the bluffs on which the station stands. It rocked gently on its long axis like a boat at anchor.

I had a perfect view of it from the opposite shore. It was a clear, cloudless day with a stiff SW wind. Traffic on the parkway was light. I believe I was the only person who saw it from my vantage point. I have since learned that at least one other person saw it a few minutes earlier from his car. He noticed it flying very near Ft. Eustis. His description closely matches mine.

In my excitement I left the scene and hurried home to get a camera. But, when I left the UFO had gone. I did a lot of follow-up research and have since learned that there were no advertising airships within 300 miles of Williamsburg that day (though I knew enough to know that this was no gasbag blimp). Some people have tried to convince me that it was an ultralight aircraft (ridiculous), a VTOL Osprey (even more ridiculous -- this had no rotors), a Predator drone (Huh? They can't hover.), an experimental military dirigible (The U.S. military has no such craft in production), or a Blackwater reconnaissance blimp (they have one, but it's tiny and has only made one short test run and is still housed in its hangar in NC).

My conclusion -- it was an alien craft conducting reconnaissance of our technology. And, one other thing, that thing was beautiful! Watching it fly and hover and sprint across the river was really breathtaking. I'll never forget. I wish we did have something like it.

ufo's are real and have been with us for a long long time!

these ufo's are real and have been here for a long long time!!

I was invited to participate in a navy project that studied unidentified aerial phenomenon. I was never asked to sign a non disclosure document, so I feel justified in sharing what I know. Some of the objects in and near earth's atmosphere are highly advanced mechanical objects with computer like brains that have enormous processing power. There are no 'aliens' inside them. The craft themselves are what is 'alive'. The hypothesis is that since they are found near earth, there are likely trillions of these objects throughout the universe and the assumption is that they self replicate. They are not 'visiting' the earth in any sense. They are simply near the earth, just as they are likely near every planet in the universe given the vast number of them in the universe. The population is billions of years old. The reason for secrecy is that we really don't know if they are a threat. They don't appear to be a physical threat in that they seem to ignore, and selectively avoid collision with, civilian aircraft when they are encountered by pilots. They appear to be networked together in a loose fashion, and they could conceivably be a threat on a psychological level. Their intent could be to influence human thinking, or even inject a virtual reality into anyone who comes into contact with one of them. People who have close encounters with UFOs often report experiencing things, even though there is no physical evidence those things happened. The other reason for secrecy Is that people may not be able to cope with the knowledge that there are silicon based 'civilizations' throughout the universe that are advanced beyond our imagination. This fact touches the root of religion and human ego.

One early afternoon, in the middle of a bright summer day, I took a vacation day and lay out in the backyard at home to get some sun. It was a time that everyone else was at work, or doing "important" things that didn't really require an occasional glimpse skyward. As I lay sleepily on the chaise lounge, I did just what everyone else was not inclined to do at that time.

The sky was a brilliant blue, with billowy white clouds that glided slowly northward. Every once in a while I opened my eyes to check the sun's location and to see if the clouds would obscure its rays.

Looking directly above me, I saw an object silhouetted against an immense cloud, seeming to be tossed to and fro by a strong updraft. It appeared to flip and twist in the wind like a leaf, but it was perfectly triangular - yet - even-shaped, exactly like a perfect equilateral triangle.

"Another piece of litter!", I thought. "Some bit of plastic sheet or cardboard from a neighbor's garbage can, caught in a sudden gust and sent upwards in a spiralling climb, only to come crashing down somewhere, later, and to become just another eyesore, again."

As I continued to follow its wind-blown trajectory, I suddenly realized that its movements seemed just a little less random. It flipped and turned sharply enough for me to wonder if it could be someone's kite.

"But, if it were a kite", I thought, "where would the string be extended?" "Where could I see the young boy or girl tugging and winding a reel while staring upwards in eager expectation?" None were about.

It could only lead down to either my yard or another's in a densely populated community where the owner couldn't really run far enough to launch it aloft. No, after some consideration, the kite theory just didn't hold-up for me.

Just at that moment, as I looked up again, and saw it gliding in a circular motion, I realized my warped sense of distance and scale as I continued to observe it.

I thought that it was, maybe just a hundred feet up, until it suddenly disappeared into the large cloud above it!

This thing was much higher than I thought it was! Larger sized planes, later, flew just under that cloud.

By this time, I was standing up. I waited, eagerly, to see this triangular object fly - or fall - somewhere out of that cloud again as it slowly travelled northward. My eyes continued to dart their focus around the cloud's edges for several minutes, not daring to look anywhere else.

Nothing emerged, again.

As the cloud slowly drifted northward, I wondered.

"Was it a stealth?" "No, not with that maneuverability. It made sharp, abrupt turns and flips that seemed beyond our current technology. And besides, it would have eventually emerged from the cloud again, wouldn't it?"

"Was it the Foo-Fighter of the Project Blue Book era legends?"

If so, do they occasionally hide in clouds, out of sight to off-schedule sun bather's like me? If they are extraterrestrial, do they enter and exit the earth's atmosphere, then, in cloud formations that sometimes extend far up into our atmosphere?

To this day, all of it will continue to remain a mystery.

I am writing now about one of the most infamous UFO hoax contributors still active in the community. They were the original Kalahari crash, Lesotho crash and the recent alien signal author. Have documented proof this individual is not whom they say they are from NASA and other official documents. These people hurt the UFO community with their attempt to make money off stories and wild claims. see:

http://dcmb1490.wordpress.com/2010-the-signal-hoax/

I believe there are unexplained sightings that deserve serious investigations but hate the people that take advantage of the gullible to make a buck. Lets hope that the research gets serious into the area of understanding and validating the UFO questions that many seek.

Fortunately or unfortunately I haven't seen any UFO's, or experienced any phenomena that would be classified as extraterrestial in nature. But it's always interesting to read about those who have.

Alan, are you going to allow us to share ghost stories and paranormal experiences around Halloween?

I have tons of that to share.

Halloween, 1964 - Bent Park, Evanston, IL

Back in the days when it was safe for kids to be out at night, the City of Evanston hosted a Halloween event at Bent Park. There were at least 50 kids out there in costume, holding hands and spread out around a huge bonfire at the conclusion of the evening’s events.

I was eight years old, standing at the eastern side of the oval around the bonfire, holding my sister’s hand. While we waited for prizes to be handed out, I happened to look up and slightly left (SW). Hovering in the night sky was a round or elliptical craft with lights around the circumference. The lights were a red/orange/purple color and alternated, making it appear to rotate.

I nudged my sister and she turned around to look too. It silently hovered there for 10 minutes before disappearing in a blink. I never experienced any fear but what I find most fascinating is that all these years later my sister and I are still reluctant to speak of it.

I have no idea what we saw, thus it is appropriately called a UFO – Unidentified Flying Object.