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Ask HN: Have you ever seen a UFO?

2 points by graderjs 3y ago

codevark 3y ago
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throwawayixnay 3y ago
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eesmith 3y ago
A flying object I couldn't identify? Sure. I saw an object make the strangest spiral clouds in the early evening sky. None of us had any clue what it was. The newspaper the next day said it was from a failed rocket launch at nearby launch facility. For a similar example, see the 2009 "Norwegian spiral anomaly", from a failed Bulava missile test. Which some also called a UFO. If by "UFO" you mean something that can only have been caused by an extraterrestrial craft? No.
- guzik 3y ago
  Back in 2003, while spending time with my cousins in a village in the northeastern part of Poland, we encountered an inexplicable spectacle in the sky. It was a low-flying object, moving unnaturally across the horizon with considerable speed. The way it maneuvered was unlike anything we had seen before. It wasn't just the speed, but the way it moved, that was truly remarkable. We stood there, awestruck, watching this spectacle unfold before us - and we started to scream loud afterwards. It was a sight that has stayed with us, and to this day, we bring it up during family outings.
fuzzfactor 3y ago
Yes. It turned out to be the Goodyear blimp. It was dusk and you could not actually see the main body of the airship at all. Only the brightly lit advertising panel that looked like a colorful energy field in motion kind of like science fiction renditions show underneath a flying saucer keeping it aloft relatively still in the sky. A different time in the 1990's I was traveling from north Florida toward South Florida, out in the middle of nowhere between Ocala and Orlando late at night. Didn't see anything flying, but at high altitude there clearly appeared quite quickly in a clear sky a geometric grid of contrails. Perfect square crosshatch pattern which lingered for almost a half hour as the lines in the sky gradually diffused. Traveling at speed I was able to estimate the sides of each square were 25 to 50 miles long, and I had to think the overhead pattern extended from coast-to-coast across the state from ocean to gulf. I was about in the midpoint between the coasts. Easily extended north-to-south equally as far, and I wouldn't have been surprised if it covered hundreds of miles of longitude beyond what my direct observation could estimate. There was no physical way a single known aircraft had simultaneously laid down these trails, they were all the same thickness and dissipated at the same rate, and the whole pattern freshly appeared at once.

2 points by graderjs 3y ago

codevark 3y ago

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throwawayixnay 3y ago

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eesmith 3y ago

A flying object I couldn't identify? Sure. I saw an object make the strangest spiral clouds in the early evening sky. None of us had any clue what it was. The newspaper the next day said it was from a failed rocket launch at nearby launch facility. For a similar example, see the 2009 "Norwegian spiral anomaly", from a failed Bulava missile test. Which some also called a UFO. If by "UFO" you mean something that can only have been caused by an extraterrestrial craft? No.

guzik 3y ago
Back in 2003, while spending time with my cousins in a village in the northeastern part of Poland, we encountered an inexplicable spectacle in the sky. It was a low-flying object, moving unnaturally across the horizon with considerable speed. The way it maneuvered was unlike anything we had seen before. It wasn't just the speed, but the way it moved, that was truly remarkable. We stood there, awestruck, watching this spectacle unfold before us - and we started to scream loud afterwards. It was a sight that has stayed with us, and to this day, we bring it up during family outings.

fuzzfactor 3y ago

Yes. It turned out to be the Goodyear blimp. It was dusk and you could not actually see the main body of the airship at all. Only the brightly lit advertising panel that looked like a colorful energy field in motion kind of like science fiction renditions show underneath a flying saucer keeping it aloft relatively still in the sky. A different time in the 1990's I was traveling from north Florida toward South Florida, out in the middle of nowhere between Ocala and Orlando late at night. Didn't see anything flying, but at high altitude there clearly appeared quite quickly in a clear sky a geometric grid of contrails. Perfect square crosshatch pattern which lingered for almost a half hour as the lines in the sky gradually diffused. Traveling at speed I was able to estimate the sides of each square were 25 to 50 miles long, and I had to think the overhead pattern extended from coast-to-coast across the state from ocean to gulf. I was about in the midpoint between the coasts. Easily extended north-to-south equally as far, and I wouldn't have been surprised if it covered hundreds of miles of longitude beyond what my direct observation could estimate. There was no physical way a single known aircraft had simultaneously laid down these trails, they were all the same thickness and dissipated at the same rate, and the whole pattern freshly appeared at once.