Have you seen something in the sky you can't explain?, what do you think they are?, and, are they ours or someone else's?
I'll start. I have seen a total of five things that I can't easily explain. But, two of them could easily have an explanation, the other three are more difficult to explain.
Back around 1980 or so, a buddy and I were getting ready to start our traplines. The season started at midnight and we were sitting in a field on the side of a hill waiting for midnight to arrive. I saw 5 white lights in a V formation that obviously were part of the same craft. T here were no flashing lights, no green / red lights, nothing other than 5 solid white lights. This craft was a) either big and flying in the altitude ranges of normal jets or b) immense and flying very high. I say this because it was 5 to ten times the size of a normal jets at altitude.....if you held a quarter at arms length, you would get an idea of the size. The weird part is, it was completely silent. Even today, you can here a jet at 30-35 thousand feet but this didn't make a sound. That fact and the size of it indicates to me that it is, at the very least, an unusual craft.
The second incident happened about 4 years ago. In addition to shooting, I am involved in kayak bass fishing. On a hot humid summer night, I decided to go out and fish a pond nearby. The pond is long and skinny and sets in a valley with some good sized hills surrounding it. I had just gotten there and was heading up the pond to the area I planned on fishing when I saw two large bright lights in the sky. They were at least twice as large and bright as the largest star in the sky. I couldn't tell if they were moving because I was moving at a pretty good clip so, I shut off my trolling motor and glided to a stop. I could then tell that they were moving but quite slow...slower than the slowest small planes. I noticed that once again the only light was the bright white light I could see...there were no nav lights or other flashing lights. I watched them as they got closer and at some point, I realized that they were in front of the hills and in the valley where the pond sat. From where I was to the far side of the valley was no more than 2-3 miles so, if they were helicopters, I would easily be able to here them but, they were completely silent. I kept watching them as they moved left to right and slightly towards me until, at the EXACT SAME TIME, the lights faded out.
The last one was this summer. A buddy and I were out striper fishing. We were near an airport but it was probably 5-7 miles away. A jet was passing over and I looked up at it. When I did, I saw a capsule shaped object in the sky a few miles to the south of the jets path. I pointed it out to my buddy and he had no idea what it was either. I'm a plane buff and I had the most expensive version of flight tracking software on my phone so I checked it and there was nothing showing except the jet I initially saw. We kept fishing but checked on the object every 30 seconds or so. After about 5 minutes, we noticed it had moved a bit so we stopped to watch it. It started moving to the east and picking up speed until it was traveling at the speed of a jet and then disappeared into the clouds. Once again, there were no sounds. I actually reported this one to NUFORC and, to my amazement, someone about 30 miles away reported the same thing at about the same time and in the same day.
Those are my stories, what are yours?
I'll start. I have seen a total of five things that I can't easily explain. But, two of them could easily have an explanation, the other three are more difficult to explain.
Back around 1980 or so, a buddy and I were getting ready to start our traplines. The season started at midnight and we were sitting in a field on the side of a hill waiting for midnight to arrive. I saw 5 white lights in a V formation that obviously were part of the same craft. T here were no flashing lights, no green / red lights, nothing other than 5 solid white lights. This craft was a) either big and flying in the altitude ranges of normal jets or b) immense and flying very high. I say this because it was 5 to ten times the size of a normal jets at altitude.....if you held a quarter at arms length, you would get an idea of the size. The weird part is, it was completely silent. Even today, you can here a jet at 30-35 thousand feet but this didn't make a sound. That fact and the size of it indicates to me that it is, at the very least, an unusual craft.
The second incident happened about 4 years ago. In addition to shooting, I am involved in kayak bass fishing. On a hot humid summer night, I decided to go out and fish a pond nearby. The pond is long and skinny and sets in a valley with some good sized hills surrounding it. I had just gotten there and was heading up the pond to the area I planned on fishing when I saw two large bright lights in the sky. They were at least twice as large and bright as the largest star in the sky. I couldn't tell if they were moving because I was moving at a pretty good clip so, I shut off my trolling motor and glided to a stop. I could then tell that they were moving but quite slow...slower than the slowest small planes. I noticed that once again the only light was the bright white light I could see...there were no nav lights or other flashing lights. I watched them as they got closer and at some point, I realized that they were in front of the hills and in the valley where the pond sat. From where I was to the far side of the valley was no more than 2-3 miles so, if they were helicopters, I would easily be able to here them but, they were completely silent. I kept watching them as they moved left to right and slightly towards me until, at the EXACT SAME TIME, the lights faded out.
The last one was this summer. A buddy and I were out striper fishing. We were near an airport but it was probably 5-7 miles away. A jet was passing over and I looked up at it. When I did, I saw a capsule shaped object in the sky a few miles to the south of the jets path. I pointed it out to my buddy and he had no idea what it was either. I'm a plane buff and I had the most expensive version of flight tracking software on my phone so I checked it and there was nothing showing except the jet I initially saw. We kept fishing but checked on the object every 30 seconds or so. After about 5 minutes, we noticed it had moved a bit so we stopped to watch it. It started moving to the east and picking up speed until it was traveling at the speed of a jet and then disappeared into the clouds. Once again, there were no sounds. I actually reported this one to NUFORC and, to my amazement, someone about 30 miles away reported the same thing at about the same time and in the same day.
Those are my stories, what are yours?
