Saw my first UFO last night

[SteelCurtain]

Do you have any theories, Zen?

[abaris]

True that, but it was easy to tell from the way it acted that it wasn't in orbit.

But what do oyu mean by speed travelling over the next house? Did it appear to be fast or slow?

[Zen Badger]

If it was orange, could it still have been something high-flying which was lit by the sun barely under the horizon? It would be the time I expect stuff like airplanes to be lit by the sun, or iridium flares.

If it was flying high, then it was huge and fast.

To put it in context, airliners from Perth international airport fly over our house on a daily basis heading north to the mines. When they pass over our house they are only at a few thousand feet(the airport is only 25 miles away so they have only just taken off) and travelling at least 500mph.

What we saw was much larger and brighter and moving a lot faster than they do.

[vorlon13]

My sister saw what later turned out to be a Mexican luminaria and she had almost a total melt down.

What's a luminaria? Obviously it has something to do with light, but what is it?

It's like a dry cleaning bag with a candle in it. A tiny hot air balloon. The candle lights it up and makes just enough hot air to keep it aloft. A little bit of wind and they can scoot over a neighborhood . . .



and trigger a bunch of UFO reports.

[Minimalist]

Beware of Predator drones.

[Lemonvariable72]

Yes, as per the thread title, I saw my first ever UFO.
And no, I don't think it was aliens.
What I saw was a large bright orange light flying almost directly North above our house.
It flew in a straight line too fast to be a balloon and too slow to be a meteor.
It made no noise at all but I don't know what height it was at.
Kichi saw it as well.
And we have no idea what it was.

I'm sure that it is a explainable phenomena. But seeing a UFO is always a experience.

[Jackalope]

If it was orange, could it still have been something high-flying which was lit by the sun barely under the horizon? It would be the time I expect stuff like airplanes to be lit by the sun, or iridium flares.

If it was flying high, then it was huge and fast.

To put it in context, airliners from Perth international airport fly over our house on a daily basis heading north to the mines. When they pass over our house they are only at a few thousand feet(the airport is only 25 miles away so they have only just taken off) and travelling at least 500mph.

What we saw was much larger and brighter and moving a lot faster than they do.

[Cyberman]

If it was flying high, then it was huge and fast.

Can you estimate how long it took to cross the sky?

[Zen Badger]

If it was flying high, then it was huge and fast.

Can you estimate how long it took to cross the sky?

Less than 30 seconds from the time I first spotted it as it came over our garage roof(I was sitting just inside the side door of our garage) til it went behind the roof of next doors garage. When I looked around the back of next doors garage to get another look I was able to watch it for at least another minute until it disappeared from view.

[Rev. Rye]

I saw one when I was eight. Strangely, a year later, I would find out about people seeing something eerily similar downstate.