Ever see a UFO?

[kch73]

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Cool thread....fun reading other people’s sightings.

I grew up in a small town south of Lubbock. At the time of my sighting (mid 80s) I was approximately 12 yrs old and my 10 year old cousin was with me one evening in sept/oct. it was already dark out and we were walking down a residential street to my house, it was a clear night & the street lights were lit. As we were walking down the street chatting, something in the sky caught my attention....saw something out of the corner of my eye above us. I stopped for a brief moment and looked up and at ca. 200 ft above us I saw the leading edge, tip of a large gray triangular object floating/very slowly gliding across the sky in complete silence. The object was large, my initial thoughts were that it was a hand glider because of its shape and the complete silence with which it moved across the sky....but a hand glider at night made no sense then and it doesn’t now, plus the object we saw was as big as a house. we quickly realized that this was weird so we took off running down the street to my house.

To this day i still wonder what we saw, intelligent extraterrestrial life? Maybe. But my home town is relatively close to Cannon AFB so as I got older I just assumed it was some type of top secret military tech. I also wonder if anyone else across the Southern Plains saw something similar in the mid 80s. I will also say that it was unnerving having something that large float/glide above you in complete silence.....it was creepy.

Maybe a prototype Stealth aircraft? Cool story!

[TxArcheo]

Could be testing for solar sails. Timeline checks out

Solar sails are interesting, never considered these as an option so thanks for mentioning them. I didn’t see the object’s cross-section because it was mostly directly over us so I can’t say whether or not is was flat like the solar sails or if it was an object with significant mass. I can say that the object was not reflective (I assume all solar sails are reflective?), it had a dull/matte gray appearance. Also, this was in town so there were home & street lights all around & it was flying/gliding at relatively low elevation; I clearly do not recall seeing any light reflecting off of the object & the object was not lit.

Kch73 - that’s what I’ve thought all along too....some type of stealth technology, maybe early drone tech?
But, what do I know....

Kinda of a cool experience/story for me but all of our friends and family roll their eyes whenever we tell our UFO story.

[Razorback01]

I was never a believer until one morning about 30 years ago while I was sitting in a box blind waiting for daylight. I started seeing odd lights on the horizon. They were unlike any lights I had seen before. They would sit still for several minutes and then shoot off in different directions. After watching for several minutes, I tried to look at them with my binos, but every time I would get the lights in my view, they would disappear, only to come back when I put the binos down. Just at daylight, the lights began to come towards me. All of a sudden, the lights surrounded the stand. Im not sure what I saw was an alien, because the light were so bright that I could not see real well. But something stepped in front of the lights and said it would give me a cookie if I showed them my butt hole.

So, they were from Uranus?

[arrowsmack324]

I have seen things in the sky I have zero explanation for.