UFOs.......................aliens or not?

@Wol62 no. I couldn't really ascertain a definite shape in either instance.

@CBarson I think a lot of them are just balloons or something in the sky we can't tell what it is... and sometimes the distance complete throws us off, as it's a lot closer or.further than we realize.


Also, ball lighting was cool to read up on and see. And we don't fully understand it.

@Viper I have seen lenticular cloud formations, and although I knew what they were, gazing upon them I could easily see how an observer could mistake them for something else. My partner and I we're out walking on a clear winter night a few years ago and we saw the ISS go by overhead (I later tracked it on NASA's website to verify).

@icedsky Have you ever had a close encounter?

@Wol62 Never anything up close. Seen a few things though. Once in Iraq. The air defense guys said whatever we were watching was up at 100k to 120k feet. Bunch of white round objects changing position in the sky for about 3 hours. They had to be huge for us to be able to see them with the naked eye at 100k feet

Another time here in Washington state during a good thunderstorm. Watched a rectangular box shape drop out of the cloudbase. Bounced a little. Like bobbed. Turned to a 45 degree angle and moved off towards the Cascade Mountains. The object was about 4000 feet up. The cloud deck was about that high. And probably 2 or 3 miles away. So it had to have some size to it as well. Like a building up in the sky. Had lighter colored ends. And a darker center. My guess would be 100 feet wide and 400 tall? Watched it go off into the darkness. Lasted about 20 seconds.

@icedsky That is amazing, thanks for sharing. Shame you didn't get any pics from that encounter. I totally believe in aliens and a mate of mine did claim not only to have encountered them but to have been abducted by them.