That shit is wild. I once saw a moving light in the night sky, which I assumed was an airplane, make an abrupt right angle turn and speed off. Not very dramatic, but it certainly qualifies as UAP.
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Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No.
I had a broad daylight sighting in 1994. It came down over a field, hovered, and shot up and off with extreme speed. That shit was real. A physical object under intelligent control.
OutOfMemory@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
My mom used to keep an old photo she took back in '65 or '67 (she said she was a little girl at the time but took the picture so I assume around 10-ish). It was a photo of my grandmothers back yard and clear as day there was a classic disc shaped craft.
The story she told about it was that it came in over Tampa bay and got really close to the water, she said the water was churning under it like it was boiling and there were tons of dead fish floating on the water after it passed. My grandfather was an arial photographer at the time and had a darkroom at home and they had copies drying when the government showed up to talk to residents. They confiscated all the negatives and pictures save the one she had with her to show her friend, and gave the explanation that swamp gas had killed the fish and was the reason for the churning water.
I don’t know how I feel about it, but having lost my mother 25+ years ago and the look in her eyes when she talked about it, I’ll keep on believing it was real.
Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I believe you.
The experience has been very difficult for me to process. I try to remain objective. What was it? I don’t know. Was it alien? I don’t know. But I spent a great deal of time digging through UFO lore, was a regular at the Errol Bruce-Knapp UFO-Updates list where major figures like Stanton Friedman, Jerome Clark, Bruce Maccabee, Kevin Randle, and others posted. That was the best (highest S/N) public UFO forum I’ve seen. Far, far better than r/UFOs. And yet, there’s just so much disinfo and outright bullshit. Too many hucksters out for a buck. Too many sensationalist podcasts. Few people with real credentials willing to speak openly. There are a few. But not enough.