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tl;dr; just a story of how I saw a UFO when I was young, nothing actionable... I feel somewhat bad for sharing life stories on a technical forum, but here it g

tl;dr; just a story of how I saw a UFO when I was young, nothing actionable... I feel somewhat bad for sharing life stories on a technical forum, but here it goes. As a young boy, 5-ish, I was sleeping with my mother and father in the room, and my grandmother rushes in, all pale, shouting something which directly translates to "Flying body! Flying body!". I distinctly remember having nightmares afterward with flying torsos of humans, because my mind interpreted the "Flying body" statement as literal. My parents take me with them and the four of us go outside. Sure enough, super close to the top of the buildings is a huge incandescent ... circle. It felt like it had no height, just a 2D circle, just moving somewhat slowly, soundless, above the buildings. Now, this went on for a total of 5 minutes until we lost all visibility, to the other buildings (again, this thing was very very very close to the building tops). Add two more decades to my life, and I remember this incident. I look online and sure enough, I find an old phpBB forum where people talk about 'the incident'. Apparently, several people tracked it that evening and wrote about it. Unfortunately, I can't find the forum anymore, and going to the library to look for newspaper clippings yielded nothing, so this is always going to be a story that I'll believe, but probably no one else. My parents still remember the incident, my grandmother is no longer with us. I've thought about what it might have been, trying to come up with a somewhat reasonable explanation, but I have yet to find any.

Fiahil 5y ago
Like this ? https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marvelcinematicuniverse/images/5/5b/DS_Hospital_Portal.png/revision/latest?cb=20170806211636 https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marvelcinematicuniverse/im...
- ThalesX 5y ago
  Hi. Hotlinking doesn't work directly, but I figured out what you were pointing to: the portal from Dr. Strange. I took the liberty to illustrate how I remember it, note that the picture is randomly from the internet and not as it was: https://i.postimg.cc/3NbJ0tvT/HNUFO.png https://i.postimg.cc/3NbJ0tvT/HNUFO.png .
simion314 5y ago
What is paradoxical is that decades ago we had many pcitures in newspapers with UFOs or Jesus/Mary apparitions (and here in Romania there were newspaper focused only on paranormal stories vampires,ghosts, witches etc) but today when is easy to create proofs with your phone the number of this encounters decreased instead of increasing. Btw my father has a similar story to tell (but with a small ball of light that moved around the home and garden) so IMO there are some natural phenomena that we do not understand well and manifest as spherical lights,
- sumedh 5y ago
  There are so many phones with cameras, there are dash cams in cars, there are home security cams and yet no credible ball lightning video. What does that tell you?
  - simion314 5y ago
    Good question, what does it tell you? let me add some extra info, the incident happened 50+ years ago in a village without electricity. So we have no light pollution or devices to distract people. There were 3 witnesses so it was no hallucination, so what could it be ? maybe insects, someone prank , or a rare phenomena. But for sure I expect to see more videos with such phenomena ,I do not think that light pollution and less people outside in nature can explain the missing of the videos.
    - sumedh 5y ago
      > There were 3 witnesses so it was no hallucination A mass hallucination is a phenomenon in which a large group of people, usually in physical proximity to each other, all experience the same hallucination simultaneously. https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Mass_hallucination https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Mass_hallucination
layoutIfNeeded 5y ago
Was it translucent? Maybe it was a circular beam of light from the local discoteque reflecting from the clouds :D
- saberdancer 5y ago
  As a kid, I was in an astronomy group and knew the skies well. First time I saw a discoteque lights in the sky, I was sure I am seeing an UFO. I noted down the time and place but realized since it was in the sky constantly that it can't really be an UFO. Later I learned it was just a reflector pointed to the sky. I wouldn't be surprised if a similar effect but from car lights or plane lights could throw people off. Since it could be a one time event, it's hard to explain it.
- ThalesX 5y ago
  Nope. At that point we had no disco light. Small town, Eastern Europe. And the cloud cover would be way too low.
saberdancer 5y ago
Do you remember the weather? Were there low clouds? Are you on a hill or near a valley? If it is just a silent incandescent circle it is possible that you saw light from a car or other similar object reflecting on a fog/cloud or maybe temperature difference in the air.
- ThalesX 5y ago
  I’d say it was clear sky, but honestly I don’t remember the weather. The topology of the terrain is flat. Chances are it was some sort of atmospheric optic phenomenon, but I’ve never seen anything like it since.
reinkaos 5y ago
What you saw might have been ball lightning. A friend and I saw one when we were kids. I only came to find out what it was many years later. From the distance it looked no different than an airplane light until it got really close, around 30ft from us. It looked like a ball of white light, a bit larger than a basketball. There was no clear contour, like when you look at a very bright lamp. It made no noise whatsoever. We lost it from sight for a moment and it was gone. I'm not totally sure but I think the sky was clear that night.

Fiahil 5y ago

Like this ? https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marvelcinematicuniverse/images/5/5b/DS_Hospital_Portal.png/revision/latest?cb=20170806211636 https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marvelcinematicuniverse/im...

ThalesX 5y ago
Hi. Hotlinking doesn't work directly, but I figured out what you were pointing to: the portal from Dr. Strange. I took the liberty to illustrate how I remember it, note that the picture is randomly from the internet and not as it was: https://i.postimg.cc/3NbJ0tvT/HNUFO.png https://i.postimg.cc/3NbJ0tvT/HNUFO.png .

simion314 5y ago

What is paradoxical is that decades ago we had many pcitures in newspapers with UFOs or Jesus/Mary apparitions (and here in Romania there were newspaper focused only on paranormal stories vampires,ghosts, witches etc) but today when is easy to create proofs with your phone the number of this encounters decreased instead of increasing. Btw my father has a similar story to tell (but with a small ball of light that moved around the home and garden) so IMO there are some natural phenomena that we do not understand well and manifest as spherical lights,

sumedh 5y ago
There are so many phones with cameras, there are dash cams in cars, there are home security cams and yet no credible ball lightning video. What does that tell you?
- simion314 5y ago
  Good question, what does it tell you? let me add some extra info, the incident happened 50+ years ago in a village without electricity. So we have no light pollution or devices to distract people. There were 3 witnesses so it was no hallucination, so what could it be ? maybe insects, someone prank , or a rare phenomena. But for sure I expect to see more videos with such phenomena ,I do not think that light pollution and less people outside in nature can explain the missing of the videos.
  - sumedh 5y ago
    > There were 3 witnesses so it was no hallucination A mass hallucination is a phenomenon in which a large group of people, usually in physical proximity to each other, all experience the same hallucination simultaneously. https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Mass_hallucination https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Mass_hallucination

layoutIfNeeded 5y ago

Was it translucent? Maybe it was a circular beam of light from the local discoteque reflecting from the clouds :D

saberdancer 5y ago
As a kid, I was in an astronomy group and knew the skies well. First time I saw a discoteque lights in the sky, I was sure I am seeing an UFO. I noted down the time and place but realized since it was in the sky constantly that it can't really be an UFO. Later I learned it was just a reflector pointed to the sky. I wouldn't be surprised if a similar effect but from car lights or plane lights could throw people off. Since it could be a one time event, it's hard to explain it.
ThalesX 5y ago
Nope. At that point we had no disco light. Small town, Eastern Europe. And the cloud cover would be way too low.

saberdancer 5y ago

Do you remember the weather? Were there low clouds? Are you on a hill or near a valley? If it is just a silent incandescent circle it is possible that you saw light from a car or other similar object reflecting on a fog/cloud or maybe temperature difference in the air.

ThalesX 5y ago
I’d say it was clear sky, but honestly I don’t remember the weather. The topology of the terrain is flat. Chances are it was some sort of atmospheric optic phenomenon, but I’ve never seen anything like it since.

reinkaos 5y ago

What you saw might have been ball lightning. A friend and I saw one when we were kids. I only came to find out what it was many years later. From the distance it looked no different than an airplane light until it got really close, around 30ft from us. It looked like a ball of white light, a bit larger than a basketball. There was no clear contour, like when you look at a very bright lamp. It made no noise whatsoever. We lost it from sight for a moment and it was gone. I'm not totally sure but I think the sky was clear that night.