Thread: I saw a UFO!

It was the middle of the night and I was eleven years old, sleeping in my top bunk in Southern Ontario, Canada. Our bedroom curtains were usually drawn at night so this was a rare opportunity to see outside. I woke in the night to see what looked to me at the time to be a UFO hovering, motionless outside my window. It was a large, glowing semi-circular shaped object, flat on the bottom side, which almost filled the centre of my sixth floor, westward facing window. It was a deep orange colour in the centre, gradually changing to more yellow near the exterior with no clearly defined visible edge, but the shape was a perfect half moon. I was terrified. I turned my face away toward the wall and considered what to do. I didn't want to run to awaken my parents in case our apartment was occupied by aliens. When I turned back a moment later it was gone. I went back to sleep and when I told my mother the next morning she didn't believe me. She thought I was just telling her a story or something to get attention.

I need as many people to weigh in on this as possible. Please help me understand what I saw. I was not asleep and dreaming, of this I am certain. So what happened?

X

There have been times when I was certain of something. Absolutely convinced I was 100% lucid and awake. And yet, no-one else saw or heard what I thought I had.

I believe there is a kind of semi-conscious state during the sleep cycle where you are both aware of your surroundings and also in a dream-state. It's the place where dreams meet reality and your mind can be convinced that strange things are happening in a real surrounding.

I once jumped out of bed shouting because I was convinced a bird had landed on my pillow. I could hear the flapping of wings, feel the weight of it sink into my pillow by my head, feel the wind created by its flapping -- as far as I was concerned it was as real as anything that day. My wife turned on the light and looked at me like I was crazy. There was, of course, no bird. There was nothing. But dammit, I FELT and HEARD it!

Xman, I don't know what you saw. But it couldn't hurt to talk to a clergyman anyway

I once dreamed I was falling, and suddenly awakened about 6 inches from my desk chair that I proceeded to fall upon (I had apparently rolled over in my sleep from the top level of my bunk bed.) I wish that only been a dream. Perhaps for the chair, I was an unidentified falling object

Stuff like that happens all the time up there in Canada, You should have just roled over and gone back to sleep.

Originally Posted by Seraphim

Stuff like that happens all the time up there in Canada, You should have just roled over and gone back to sleep.

I think its just in the nature of Canadians more than anything. It may be the Molsons.

I didn't vote because I have no idea whether what you saw was a bona fide UFO or some alternative previously suggested. I will say that just because we humans assume that we are the be all and end all of creation doesn't mean that there aren't other creations out there that may come round and scope out the crazy planet where the inhabitants kill one another individually and en masse constantly since they've been on the earth.

There are some things in life that I firmly believe man is not, or will never be, capable of understanding. Me, for example - a mysterious force surrounds the timer switch on my new pool pump which, despite my enormous intellect, insists on turning itself on at 3am each morning...

Seriously though, we have had numerous sightings in Australia of something called the Min-Min Light. Sightings have been recorded at different locations by many different people, and all with similar descriptions over many, many years.

I do not like to discount out of hand anything strange or abnormal - if we had all the answers to everything, we would not be human.

James.

I have no concrete opinion on the existence or non-existence of extra-terrestrial life forms. Some people swear that aliens exist and some don't. Both can produce rather convincing arguments unless they look like nutters of some sort. You certainly don't strike me as being a nutter, X... So, where does that leave us? You experienced something out of the ordinary - you caught a glimpse of something strange that you cannot explain so, being that ideology is our mother language, you explain what you see with what you seem to beleive it to be at that time. You were 11 - we all beleive in aliens when we are 11 - so you explained what you saw based on your system of beleifs, your culture and your perception of the outside world. If you were a religious and mistic boy you would have interpreted what you claim to have seen as being a sign of God. That would have been the dominant discourse.

There are a number of things that we cannot explain easily. UFOs are one of them. However, that doesn't mean that a rational explanation does not exist. Simply put, we can explain everything. Maybe not just yet...

I reckon we (as a culture) know more about the outer space than we know about ourselves and our very powerful and quite fascinating brain, namely that strange state of awareness when we are about to fall asleep. Those moments can be quite psychedelic at times. Majurey's story could be an example. Sometimes we experience the power of our own imagination when we allow it to run off and be free... Sometimes we are amused and sometimes we are scared.

You can call me a sceptic, sure. But I think you experienced, at that time, the power of your brain and your imagination, stimulated by some sleep pattern. Being a young and impresionable lad (sorry, no offense meant) you produced, via the cultural ideology, a discourse to explain what you - no doubt - saw, except for the fact that you saw what you unwillingly imagined.

Based on the story you told us here, this is what I think.

Originally Posted by Proraso Man

B.

They're coming from our own backyard. Did you know that we have the only moon thus detected that is in such a perfect rotation with us that we never see the same side....ever??? Scientists don't know much about the moon, but the Apollo program revealed a few interesting anomalies:

1) its much older than the earth so it couldn't have been created by smashing into our planet
2) it has a magnetic charge to it that could have only come from passing by many large planets, i.e. it traveled from afar and landed in our orbit long ago.
3) when Apollo craft touched down on the moon (on all missions) the seismic sensors we placed indicated that there were resonations throughout the surface. That means that in essence, the moon is somewhat hollow. that would help explain that....
4) the dirt on the moon's surface is younger than the rocks around it. We know that dirt and rocks in the same area should be around the same age....think of a beach. The rocks and sand are the same age, just one has been broken down and one hasn't. Well on the moon, they are two different ages, meaning that one must have came from within the moon (like a core) that was around longer before the crust was formed. So there's evidence that the moon was "cored" sometime in its past.

Again, its much more likely that intelligent beings are hiding somewhere on the moon (darkside, inside) than lightspeed or worm-hole travel. Even humans can travel to the moon with minimal technology (2,000 years after walking around in the desert with sandals).

I know this is off topic, but:

Our moon is not the only one that orbits with only one side facing us. Mercury does the same with sun. Both of Mars' moons are the same. Jupiter and Saturn between them have about 30 which are also in the same state.

The phenomenon is called Tidal Locking. The physics and math are well understood.

The rest of the points outlined are also myths, the hollow moon one (with the possibility of aliens inside) is pretty funny.

I don't believe we are being visited by extraterrestrials however I will tell you that back in the 1970s when I was in the Navy I was a radarman and during a transit across the Pacific when I was on the air search radar I picked up a contact at 100,000 feet flying at 5,000 knots and there no reports of anything that should have been there with those stats. We reported it and were told it was now classified and don't mention it to anyone.

I guess I'm dead now eh?