With the recent talks of UAPs because of the current events over the UK and New Jersey, I’d love to hear your experiences.

  • Rixonomic@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Less than a year ago my cousin and I were sitting outside when we saw a green light in the sky slowly approaching us. There’s a small airport nearby, and it’s common to see light aircraft flying in the area, so we both assumed it was just a plane. The strange part was that it wasn’t making any sound at all, which made us pay closer attention to it.

    It got pretty close to us, maybe half a mile away, when it suddenly stopped for a moment, made several rapid movements in a geometric fashion, and then disappeared behind a nearby hill (not the direction it came from). Neither one of us could explain what we had just seen. We’ve both lived our entire lives in this small town, but we’ve never seen anything like that.

  • GBU_28@lemm.ee
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    19 days ago

    2002, Driving at night, across farm fields with trees around. My buddy in the car.

    A very bright blue light crossed my path maybe 20 yards ahead of my car and maybe 10 yards up. It was moving fast, illuminating the ground in a spot light way and hugged the terrain. I could see the shape of a dark fuselage but could not describe it at all.

    If it was a helicopter or jet or even prop plane it was absurdly close to the ground, at night, with obstacles around. We could not hear what we would expect (as if it were a helicopter). We had windows down, radio off. We were just chatting.

    I slammed on the brakes and my buddy yelled “of fuck” and put his hands out at the exact same moment I reacted.

    We watched it zip over the treeline and horizon, any chance to hear whatever noise it made was covered by the windows down wind noise, and the slammed brakes and gravel. We stood in the bed of my truck hoping it would come back and trying to rationalize it for like, almost an hour. Eventually we convinced ourselves it must have been a helicopter but in discussion days/years later, neither of us buy that. I’ve seen footage of an Apache helicopter flying low at night, but this seemed even lower still.

    I can’t claim anything about it other than it really freaked us out and was unlike any aircraft or drone I’ve been around since.

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    I live in NJ; my friends keep saying they’re seeing them but I have not. I know someone that’s a cop near Princeton and they said there were 6 in the sky in that area just last night. Said they have instructions to detain anyone suspected of piloting any drone at which point they’re supposed to call it in to the Feds.

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    19 days ago

    I’ve seen UFOs that I have no trouble explaining, but I refuse to explain them, so they are technically still unidentified

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee
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    19 days ago

    I’ve never seen one, but one of my best friends saw one when he was three or four years old. It was the year 1999 and he was walking out of a McDonald’s with his grandmother in a town near Conesus Lake (I specify the lake so I don’t have to specify the town, though none of us live in the town anyways). He was looking towards the West in the parking lot, and as plainly visible as can be, a classic flying saucer was flying overhead in the distance. He recalls that he was too young to understand the beings controlling the spacecraft were not Muppets, especially since Muppets in Space was either coming out or already had not long ago.

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    19 days ago

    Are you the NYPD? If so, yes. The guy who shot that CEO? I actually saw him. With my own eyes, I saw him abducted by a flying saucer! It scooped him up in a beam of light and zipped away. No need to bother looking for him, he’s long gone. Light years away by now.

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    17 days ago

    I am almost 50 years old. I have spent my life staring at the night sky. Pretty much nightly I will spend up to an hour just looking up. I’m not an astronomer, just a dreamer.

    I have never seen anything that was unexplainable. I have seen things I wasn’t quite sure what they were in the moment, notably the Starlink satellites, but never something that made me think it was a UFO/UAP.

    Granted I’m a small town Canadian boy so perhaps the aliens don’t give a shit about me or my geographical region, but surely I’d have seen something by now.

    I will note that the uptick in “sightings” have coincided nicely with the increased availability of hobbies drones.

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    19 days ago

    I’ve seen 2. The first was when my girlfriend and I were sitting by the ocean alone after walking down a long dirt road. The sun had just gone down and we were just staring out at the water. We both see this star come up from the water then float around in circles for a few minutes then go back down into the water and disappear. That was about 7 years ago.

    Also, last year I was getting off the highway on my way home and I see something huge just hanging above the river. It was just floating in place. There wasn’t a quick way to get back to the river so I didn’t go back to investigate, but I still hope I see it again one day.