UFO sighting
In the sense of "I saw two objects that were flying and which I could not identify." Not in the sense of "OMG aliens are going to abduct us!"
We got home from a restaurant and saw two red lights in the sky, moving up and down. They weren't airplanes because they had no wings or port or starboard lights. Not stars or anything in orbit because the movement is wrong - you'd see them move up, then disappear like they'd looped around, then they'd rise again. Sadly, my cell phone camera doesn't have good enough resolution in the dark for the obligatory blurry UFO photo so I was denied that part of the experience. :P We couldn't make out what they were even with the binoculars (though, really, we're not talking observatory telescope here, so...) and we both saw them. I'm guessing they were a reflection of something on the clouds. (But saying 'I saw a weird reflection on the clouds' is less interesting than saying 'I saw a UFO.')
I don't actually believe in flying saucers, despite enjoying books, movies, tv shows, etc. Nor do I believe in alien abduction: why? Even assuming alien psychology is radically different from ours, as it almost assuredly would be, we're located in a spur off the Orion arm in a galaxy in the middle of universal nowhere. Why come here to grab people? Interestingly, even before the alien abduction thing began in the 20th century you have representations of circular flying craft, and tales of people being taken by strange beings to places where time runs differently, or people missing large chunks of time for reasons they can't explain. (The Fair Folk are the example that come to mind as that's what I'm most familiar with, though I'm sure it appears in the mythology of many cultures.) So whatever's going on, has been going on for a long time. I just don't think it's aliens, I think it's humanity, recycling the old themes with a new face.
We got home from a restaurant and saw two red lights in the sky, moving up and down. They weren't airplanes because they had no wings or port or starboard lights. Not stars or anything in orbit because the movement is wrong - you'd see them move up, then disappear like they'd looped around, then they'd rise again. Sadly, my cell phone camera doesn't have good enough resolution in the dark for the obligatory blurry UFO photo so I was denied that part of the experience. :P We couldn't make out what they were even with the binoculars (though, really, we're not talking observatory telescope here, so...) and we both saw them. I'm guessing they were a reflection of something on the clouds. (But saying 'I saw a weird reflection on the clouds' is less interesting than saying 'I saw a UFO.')
I don't actually believe in flying saucers, despite enjoying books, movies, tv shows, etc. Nor do I believe in alien abduction: why? Even assuming alien psychology is radically different from ours, as it almost assuredly would be, we're located in a spur off the Orion arm in a galaxy in the middle of universal nowhere. Why come here to grab people? Interestingly, even before the alien abduction thing began in the 20th century you have representations of circular flying craft, and tales of people being taken by strange beings to places where time runs differently, or people missing large chunks of time for reasons they can't explain. (The Fair Folk are the example that come to mind as that's what I'm most familiar with, though I'm sure it appears in the mythology of many cultures.) So whatever's going on, has been going on for a long time. I just don't think it's aliens, I think it's humanity, recycling the old themes with a new face.