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RE: Saw my first UFO last night
December 24, 2014 at 9:36 pm
Do you have any theories, Zen?
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RE: Saw my first UFO last night
December 24, 2014 at 9:36 pm
(December 24, 2014 at 9:34 pm)Zen Badger Wrote: 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?
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RE: Saw my first UFO last night
December 24, 2014 at 10:02 pm
 (December 24, 2014 at 9:35 pm)Alex K Wrote: 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.
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RE: Saw my first UFO last night
December 24, 2014 at 10:07 pm
(December 24, 2014 at 8:54 pm)abaris Wrote: (December 24, 2014 at 8:49 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: 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.
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RE: Saw my first UFO last night
December 24, 2014 at 10:15 pm
Beware of Predator drones.
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RE: Saw my first UFO last night
December 24, 2014 at 10:48 pm
(December 24, 2014 at 8:38 pm)Zen Badger Wrote: 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.
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RE: Saw my first UFO last night
December 24, 2014 at 10:51 pm
(December 24, 2014 at 10:02 pm)Zen Badger Wrote: (December 24, 2014 at 9:35 pm)Alex K Wrote: 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.
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RE: Saw my first UFO last night
December 24, 2014 at 11:12 pm
(December 24, 2014 at 10:02 pm)Zen Badger Wrote: If it was flying high, then it was huge and fast.
Can you estimate how long it took to cross the sky?
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RE: Saw my first UFO last night
December 24, 2014 at 11:40 pm
(December 24, 2014 at 11:12 pm)Stimbo Wrote: (December 24, 2014 at 10:02 pm)Zen Badger Wrote: 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.
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RE: Saw my first UFO last night
December 24, 2014 at 11:43 pm
I saw one when I was eight. Strangely, a year later, I would find out about people seeing something eerily similar downstate.
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