Aurigny Airlines captain Ray Bowyer, 50, described what he thought to be a UFO as 'a cigar-shaped brilliant white light', similar to the image supplied by Dennis Plunket of the British Flying Saucer bureau

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Most U.F.O.'s are easily explainable to even the smallest of minds. But, there are many sightings that cannot be explained away so easily.

Remember that the term 'U.F.O.' means an object that is flying and has yet to be identified. It does not mean spacecraft of or interdimensonal craft of extraterrestrial origin. Simply unidentified.

This sighting is way to simple to be newsworthy.

- Tlbinsd, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

Obviously this was one of the military's experimental heavy lift dirigibles. "Google it"
These things are huge and supposedly capable of lifting over 1000 tons or 1 million pounds!!!

- Dan, Sacatomatoes

These are obviously vehicles controlled by highly intelligent life,they keep well away from us, and at high speed.

- Dave Morris, Sunderland UK

In 1980 I had been up with a very sick baby all night. When she finally fell asleep, I went outside to have a cigarette - it was about 10 pm. I stood on my porch and looked up at the stars. Then I noticed over the garage were two round objects about 18" to 24" in diameter just hovering about 6 to 10 feet above the roof. They made no sound and they did not look metallic. There was an inner "light" that made them look darker in the thicker center and lighter where there was less distance through the edges. It was strange because they didn't glow or shine, they just were lighter than the night sky. I stayed very still and just watched them for 10 minutes or so. I was afraid that if I moved they would go away. I wanted to go call my little brother who was facinated by UFO reports. As I slowly tried to turn to go back into the house, first one and then the other slowly began to move up and away, then suddenly they took off extremely fast. They zipped away without any sound at all. After that, I KNEW there was something else here with us. I'm still not sure what it was that I saw, I just know it was nothing I have ever seen or heard about from any other source.

- Ripley, Henderson, USA

I saw a flying qnis at the Crofton Bowling Centre one night in 2008. It was pretty scary, this thing was quite a derrigible and a large opening on one end. It was grayish brown and moving quite rapidly. I did not distinguish any other apparatus except a Danny Burns type of flushing in the back of this, more reddish in appearance.

- Dillon Raye, Crofton, Maryland-USA

I've enjoyed reading people's accounts of UFO sightings here. After reading much of the literature on the subject, I have become convinced that we are being visited by extraterrestrial craft. I think that one possible reason for the increased visitation our planet is getting from UFOs since WWII, is due to the fact that we humans have recently developed the technological power to destroy ourselves and much of life on this planet. Although we have suddenly become a thousand times more technologically powerful in the last 60-70 years, we haven't matured emotionally very much. I would guess that extraterrestrial beings capable of interstellar travel would also recognize the preciousness of life on any planet, and if they heard about our development of nuclear weapons and other weapons, they would want to do what they could to prevent us from harming ourselves and the rest of life on this beautiful, amazing planet that we live on... Perhaps some of those UFOs have bumper stickers which say, "Save the Earth."

- Ellis, Maui, USA

Hi Agree now with most of the people who say they have seen a spaceship. It has happenned with me last summers (oct 2008) when it was 11:30pm I was enjoying my quality time lying outside in my garden at night while my husband was with me but busy reading his book. I nitoced something different high up in the night sky. Since I live very close to the airport I showed this object to my husband and asked him if planes could fly that high. Then we both observed it and it was actually going in a ziz-zag motion and at a very good speed. It went a long distance and then it came back in ziz-zag motion close to the same spot where I had started noticing it. We kept observing it and after staying still in that position for a few minutes it started going up and up until it dissappeared with distance. It had very bright orange, blue lights and orange light that was piercing through the sky upwards when it was moving up. The whole thing would have alsted for about 45 mins. but it being so late it did not come in my mind to call anyone else to observe the same thing. I wanted to capture it in my video camera but my camera was not charged. Hard luck ! But whoever we both tell about this event do not believe in what we saw and simply say must have been an aircraft. Well atkeast we are lucky enough to have seem it with our own eyes and thats what matters !!

- Shruti, Sydney, Australia

i was a lil younger at the time but i feel the event was strange, I was 16 or so 22 now but a friend and I were skateboarding in the middle of our corner in the city, Its about 12:30- 1 am. As we were skateboarding i looked up and noticed at ball flyin a couple hundred ft. above us, It was changing colors and moving in a Northwest direction at a nice rate of speed, The ball at my first sight was a neon green then turn to blue, as it got a lil farther out of sight it looked like it was turning orange, i looked at my mother and friend and asked them if i was going crazy they said no they saw it 2, now i though that ball was wierd but less then 10 mins later a Military Fighter jet was following the same path same alt. just slower that was the weirdest thing i saw

- Jason, Dorr MI US

Sooner or later there will be positive proof showing the existence of these crafts and aliens. Eventually the Govn'ts will have to expose the truth that these crafts do exist. Back in 1967 I observed a craft for about fifteen minutes while I was camping out and I was 15 yrs of age. It was stationary then move and stop. it did this many times during the fifteen minutes up at about a mile high, then after fifteen minutes shot due north and disappeared over the horizon after about a half minute and there is no one that can tell me I was seeing things. I know what I saw and when I tell people they all give you a look of disbelief and a grin, well people can laugh all they want but I know what I saw was a flying disk, glowing and saucer shaped. I couldn't distinguish any windows, but it was no meteror, plane, helicopter or satellite, thank you, Bruce

- Bruce, Gardiner, Maine - UNITED STATES

Has anyone ever noticed that none of the UFO reports involving actual aliens ever mentions women aliens? I would be very suspicious in the event. And what about their kids? Or are they kids? Maybe they have all carjacked pappa's craft and gone joyriding to earth.

- Phillippe, Hawke's Bay/NZ

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- Norm Callihan, Tyler County, Warren. Texas Usa 77664, Warren, Texas USA 77664

cool a ufo i m waiting to see one!!

- Aditya, middlesex, U.K

Has anyone ever seen a beings face that may have appeared flat against a wall that was white and owl like in appearance? The sound of it sort of like a tape recorder played fast but able to make out its words?

- Shawn, Chandler Arizona

On the 1/1/09 (new year's day) i was at a restaurant in Sawbridgeworth, when i decided to go outside for a smoke on the patio. (1:00am aprox).
While outside, for no particular reason, i looked up at the night sky because there were no cloud's and the star's were visible.
Almost immediately i caught sight of an orange light, which was completely spherical in appearance, travelling in a perfectly straight line, nearly over my head. It made no sound, and it was hard to judge the distance and size of the object. The speed and direction were constant for about 30 second's, then it seemed to gradually slow down and come to a complete stop. It hovered for about another 30 second's, then slowly decreased in size until it 'winked' out.
I must admit that new year's always is a time which firework's are present in the sky, but what i saw traced a perfect line of movement, whereas firework's follow a trajectory.
I do keep an open mind about these thing's and i'm certainly not going to suggest that this was an alien craft.
But i will stand by the facts that this was definately something which was of intelligent creation.

Lastly, i wish that i could have called someone in the restuarant to witness this phenomenon with me, but the whole event kept me absolutely rooted to the spot. The sheer wonder of the event made me freeze, as i did not want to miss a second of it.



- Jon Woods, Enfield, London, England

as to what these people have seen.
there is a vast amount of stars in our galaxy some with planets capable
of sustaining life and further more they have been there a lot longer than our planet earth to think that we are the only life form in the vastness of space would be foolish to say the least one day when we venture beyond our solar system we may discover other lifeforms a lot more advanced than ours

- Stephen Darlison, united kingdom

Last week i was returning home from an evening out, it was about 2:am. my car stopped dead while i was driving. i managed to pull off to the side of the street. i thought it was my battery due to the cold weather so i got out to retrieve my battery booster from the trunk of the car. while i was hooking the booster up to the battery, i noticed out of the corner of my eye, somthing big in the sky coming toward me. when i looked up, there was "something" in the sky about 50 feet up in the air above me just hovering motionless and had no sound. it was about the size of a mack truck & looked like a huge industrial fan, i say that because it had a big propeller on it the size of the craft itself and the propellor was moving fast like a fan yet i couldn't hear it. i felt as if i was paralyzed and couldn't say anything. (probably because of fright). then it flew off super fast, and seconds later, about 10 big helicopters went behind it in the same direction like they were chasing it. it doesnt end there. for the next two nights, i woke up at 2 am exactly and could see a bright light outside my window (i refused to go look to see what it was) at the same time i felt and heard a ringing in my right ear and a vacuum effect that caused my ears to pop. i don't know what to think or say about the whole ordeal. feel very agitated and snappy lately.

- Stefan, Chicago, Illinois

Hi,
It is fun to read these UFO reports, but I must give you a little advice on your reports. If you see a bright light in the sky then report it as a bright light. If you see something that has volume you explain what makes you think it has volume. If it is solid you explain how you know it was solid. Use words like it “appeared”, “apparent” in your descriptions of things that you view and are making your own interpretation. As far as your impression of whether it was an extraterrestrial craft or not you can make any conclusion because there are so many possibilities. The image that you saw could be a projection, an atmospheric phenomena, an electromagnetic phenomena, a refractive phenomena, local aircraft, ball lightning, experimental aircraft, US, experimental aircraft, foreign, inter-dimensional craft, extraterrestrial craft, time/space craft (from civilization in Earth's future). If you select any of these you should elaborate why. Thank you for your kind consideration.

- David Thompson, Arnold, USA

I had just got back from work about 7 years ago, I was in the back yard chatting to my neighbour, he said "you don't see planes like that very often" I looked to the sky (it was a clear day) I saw 2 long thin silver aircraft, no wings, no vapour, no sound, moving very fast, we watched them for approx 2 minutes, they must have been 50 miles away but were quite big, so I imagine close up they would have been vast in size, the speed they were travelling at was much faster than any conventional air craft, my friend said "maybe its a military test", I replied, "i hope not above a populated city"
To this day i think about it, the city was Exeter, Devon.
We watched them further and as they flew over some roofs of houses opposite where we lived they just disappeared, I shouted for other people near by to look as well, they saw them too.
We never reported it because we thought the whole city of 110 thousand saw it,
when we saw the newspapers and nothing had been reported we were amazed,
we left it like that in fear that people would mock us and think us mad or drunk.
I can honestly say this is what I saw with no emparement, and I am now a believer in life beyond Earth.

- Miche Johnston, Exeter, UK

I myself have seen several UFO's over the years, but the ones I saw up until about 3 years ago were distant/at great height, but over the last 2 - 3 years there have been many really good sightings, by myself and many people who were previously sceptics. Each year there are more and more seen by more and more people from all walks of life, it all just makes me wonder what the governments of the world think about all this. Sure some people see experimental aircraft and mistake them for UFO but that doesn't explain all of them I am sure.

- Fred, Cambs

At about the same time as these sightings I saw a UFO/something. I didn't make a note of time or date. Location would have been over the Atlantic west of Ireland. I viewed it near the Mull of Kintyre Scotland.

The object I saw was very high probably greater than 20 miles, it was a delta shape, very much like the shape you get if you put your two forefingers and two thumbs together and push hard. It was static for about 5 seconds and then moved off sideways at huge speed, it then slid in less than a second, into what I would say was a normal point first position. Size-wise it was huge, about the same size as a 747 would appear at say 15,000ft. No noise or vapour/con trails were evident.

I doubt that humans could have survived the G forces that must have occured during the transition from static to goodness knows what speed, in less than a couple of seconds.

- Tony Wood, Dunoon, Scotland

Too many secrets are kept about this issue. It would be rather stupid to think, that we are the only intelligent beings flying around in space. Many people forget, that we humans started exploring space just about half a century ago.

- Carola Perritte, United States

Both my husband and I have photographed UFOs here in the UK, so it doesn't surprise me that pilots are seeing them.

I wouldn't worry about him being my pilot; the fact that he has a sharp eye makes him a credible pilot.

- Rachel, Norwich

This incident proves, no matter how intelligent we all think we are, there are phenomena occurring we cannot explain.

- J. Smith, London

I hope this guy is never the pilot for one of my flights...

- Matt, USA

Funny how Blair is stepping down this week, maybe they've come to pick him up and take him home... I wish.

- Andy, London

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