A UFO is an Object that Flies and is Unidentified. Whatever theories the imagination of the viewer conjures relative to his personal experience in connection to a UFO sighting, are strictly his own--and the imagination is, indeed, a curious but interesting element making up part of that rational faculty which distinguishes terrestrial man from animal.
Last June, 1998, at about 2:30 in the afternoon, i was sitting in the frontyard of my home with my two boys (10 & 12) soaking in the summer sun. From the distant horizon i saw emerge from behind a cluster of trees a dark dot that climbed into the sky and slowly headed toward the house. At first i thought it was a plane and thus i watched it as it continued flying at a regular, steady speed until it finally flew overhead. This was no airplane! It flew at a very low altitude (much lower than passenger planes that fly above the skies here). I called my boys' attention to the object and asked them to describe what they saw: a circular, dark gray, metallic object. This was also my opinion. As the UFO lazily passed us, we clearly saw reflections of light on its underbelly as it tipped slightly to the right. It was here, as it gently tipped, that we could clearly distinguish the cupola on its top. If you can imagine two dinner plates on top of each other, lip to lip, with an upside down soup bowl on top, at the center, this is what we saw. It looked exactly like some photos i have seen of flying saucers in various publications. The object flew very slowly at a steady speed right across the sky and disappered in the distant horizon. It made no noise whatsoever.
The interesting thing is how it absolutely attracted our undivided attention. An airplane or helicopter flying overhead is seen, heard, looked at and forgotten almost instantaneously because it is a common occurrence and everyone is familiar with these flying machines. Not so this strange object. It was extraordinary in shape, extraordinary in its smoothness of flight and in its eery silence, extraordinary in every respect and it was not like something we had seen before.
My great regret is not having either my binoculars or camera with me.
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dumaurier
Last June, 1998, at about 2:30 in the afternoon, i was sitting in the frontyard of my home with my two boys (10 & 12) soaking in the summer sun. From the distant horizon i saw emerge from behind a cluster of trees a dark dot that climbed into the sky and slowly headed toward the house. At first i thought it was a plane and thus i watched it as it continued flying at a regular, steady speed until it finally flew overhead. This was no airplane! It flew at a very low altitude (much lower than passenger planes that fly above the skies here). I called my boys' attention to the object and asked them to describe what they saw: a circular, dark gray, metallic object. This was also my opinion. As the UFO lazily passed us, we clearly saw reflections of light on its underbelly as it tipped slightly to the right. It was here, as it gently tipped, that we could clearly distinguish the cupola on its top. If you can imagine two dinner plates on top of each other, lip to lip, with an upside down soup bowl on top, at the center, this is what we saw. It looked exactly like some photos i have seen of flying saucers in various publications. The object flew very slowly at a steady speed right across the sky and disappered in the distant horizon. It made no noise whatsoever.
The interesting thing is how it absolutely attracted our undivided attention. An airplane or helicopter flying overhead is seen, heard, looked at and forgotten almost instantaneously because it is a common occurrence and everyone is familiar with these flying machines. Not so this strange object. It was extraordinary in shape, extraordinary in its smoothness of flight and in its eery silence, extraordinary in every respect and it was not like something we had seen before.
My great regret is not having either my binoculars or camera with me.
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dumaurier