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[tall_dave]

Have any of you ever seen a space ship (not from this world)? I'm doing some personal research on the matter and would like to hear your true stories.
I have not seen one but I believe alien life exists and visitors from other planets are HERE among us, in Korea even.

[Deep Thirteen]

kentucker4 would be all over this if he were still here.

[CapnSamwise]

Yes, I was abducted for a whole season and replaced with a less charismatic expy noted only for his role in Terminator 2.

[CapnSamwise]

nvm thinking of x-files, sorry.

[tall_dave]

[neil537]

No, but my parents told me about something they'd seen once that they couldn't explain.

They were in the early stages of 'courtship' before they got married, and they and another couple decided for some reason to take a walk down to the south-west corner of the island I am from back home in Scotland. This island is pretty small, and the entire southern half is uninhabited. The South-West corner faces directly out into the Atlantic, there's nothing between there and Canada.

So they were sitting out on the clifftops looking out to sea, and away on the horizon they began to see these lights moving about. At first they thought it might be a military exercise, which are not uncommon in our area, we get quite a lot of low-flying aircraft and such. But these lights were moving incredibly fast, and streaking across the horizon in such a way that my dad said there was no way they could have been normal aircraft. They sat and watched them for a while, and after some time the lights disappeared. I asked my dad why he never reported it and he said that he never really thought about it....I don't know...maybe they were high or something!

Anyway, that's the only connection I have to anything possibly extraterrestrial. I definitely believe there are other 'things' out there somewhere, though I'm not convinced they've been to Earth yet.

[Some of the Mothers Said]

[Gatsby]

We're all aliens.

[mayorgc]

Christmas Night. 2003. 6 pm.

My place was located by a small city lake. The garage looks out onto the lake and also towards the western part of the city. I was in my garage, in my car, looking towards the western horizon. I see trees, buildings, clouds, street lamps and the lake in front of me. The view is very familiar to me, I see it every time I pull out of my drive way.

There was something different this night. There was a bright light, just above the horizon, maybe the same height as some of the buildings (the buildings are just 1 or 2 km away from me). The light basically looks like a star you see in the sky, but it was huge, just sitting there, beside a building. It looked like a motorcycle headlight, that was just 100 feet away from me, but I know the thing must have been atleast 1 or 2 km away from me.

I was trying to figure out what this giant light in the sky was. It could have been a street lamp, but it was too bright. It could have been some sort of radio tower light, but it wasn't there yesterday. Then the light started to rise. It was a very very slow ascension. I couldn't tell at first that it was rising, but I think it got faster. Then I realized that it could have been a helicopter. The bright light that I was staring at might have been the helicopter spotlight or something and now the copter was rising.

The Light was now higher in the sky, no longer the same height as the buildings. The light then started to get dimmer. The reason it was dimming was that the object was now travelling east, towards my direction. So instead of looking head on into the light that was infront of me, the light was now travelling towards me and was more "above" then infront, which explains why it looked dim to me. When the thing was above the lake, I finally got a good look at the thing and it was no helicopter. It was absolutely an aircraft. I remember seeing red and green flashing lights on the underside. The thing really looked like a black triangle to me, but it was night time and 3 lights in any formation will almost always like like some sort of triangle in the night sky.

The thing was basically travelling in a straight line from what I could see, but suddenly, it just veered right (south) when it was above the lake (which is about 300 meters away). It wasn't a 90 degree turn, more like a 110 degree turn. I tried following it in my car but it basically dissapeared from my view after a couple of minutes. I was able to get a couple more glances at it and I definitely remember red green lights. I still think it looked triangular and black, but in the dark night sky, almost all planes look like black triangles.

So, I was trying to process all the info and this is what I concluded. The thing was stationary for maybe 1 minute. It was sorta just hanging out, near some buildings. It looked like a giant star or car headlight. It definitely rose up into the sky, like a helicopter. But this was absolutely not a helicopter. The thing also made a right turn, south, towards the airport. But it couldn't have been an airplane, since airplanes don't normally hover or rise. And for some reason, it just looked like a black triangle to me.

So I was in school at the time and had some breaks in between classes. I scoured the internet, looking for reports that were similar to what I saw. I used Nuforc.org, it's a ufo sightings database. Nuforc has a really extensive database/archive, that dates back to atleast the 70s.

I searched for all reports that mentioned black triangles. Then, I read those reports and made a note of any mentions of bright white lights. Starting from as early as 1975 I think, there were cases where people report seeing a bright light in the distance. The bright light then turns out to be a black triangle. I made note of atleast 15 different reports that all sounded similar to my experience.

Of the 12-15 cases that sounded similar to mine, there were maybe 3 or 4 that really caught my eye. One case took place maybe 3 or 4 years before mine, but it took place on Christmas as well. It was a report of a bright light that turned out to be a black triangle.

One case was from a stoner dude scouring a field for "shrooms". He swore that he was lucid. He mentioned that he saw a bright white light, like a headlight and it turned out to be a black triangle.

Other cases used the same vocabulary as I did. They report that they saw something like a "headlight in the sky" or that the light "rose into the sky".

In the end, I'm not sure what I saw, but I think it's fascinating that the thing that I described was so similar to things that people in the 70s or 80s also saw.

[tall_dave]

[CapnSamwise]

It really depends on what you consider "life". If we're talking single-cell organisms sitting in a pool of liquid sapphire somewhere off of Eos, then yeah there are probably aliens out there.

If you're thinking complex organisms capable of bitchslapping Reality into allowing faster than lightspeed travel, you'd have to seriously narrow down the environments wherein evolutionary processes were applied in such a way that these creatures evolved the ability to leave the planet and detect whatever radio signals we're sending out, that they were able to travel to Earth, and that for some odd reason they'd actually want to interact with us.

I mean, Human civilization is such a statistical fluke that I'm pretty sure we don't actually exist. So many different things had to happen in just such a precise manner that we developed technology, it's pretty crazy.

[tall_dave]

[CapnSamwise]

Yes, but life exists on Earth. We have an environment conductive to the formation of complex amino acids. In a primarily methane environment, that wouldn't happen.

Think of it this way: You're hungry, and want a cheeseburger. You could search your kitchen, which has all the elements capable of making a cheeseburger, or you could wander down the street and hope you run into a McDonalds. Sure, it's likely that there are McDonalds out there, but the cheeseburger you end up getting might be horrifying, absolutely nothing like the idea of cheeseburgers you knew and loved.

See, in this case the cheeseburger is life, and. . .

[tall_dave]

[Globutron]