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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1976 August: Its was about 6pm and it had been an overcast day with some blue sky. As I rode my bike I could not help but to notice 200 meters away in the sky a bright Yellow object.. No Not the sun; It had what I recall like the pupil of the eye in the middle it also had like this pulsating glow off the black dot in the middle. As I watch My attention for detail wanted to know more.. closer I went I became calm, then from the distance to my right from the window of my home, my mothe and father call frantic get in get in.. But for me it was amazing.. then as I walked closer the sides vanished and all that was left was the part yellow and this black dot.. then I looked on and it was strange feeling that came over me.. then I wacthed it vanish in a slow motion just like how the men on star-treck would do on their platforms.. To this day I talk to my Father and cHildren. But as my father says no one will ever take us serious because they did not see this.. Funny thing is That this was not the only encounter there were more.. however they will be mislead to be called dreams.. This true story is safe as their was witness to what happend.. However to the other happenings well maybe they were dreams.. Who know's..

- Adrian, Wales, 08/09/2011 11:32
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It was fall 92 when i was 10 , me and my friend were heading to the church in Poland ,small village near Wroclaw . the sky was clear it was late afternoon and sun was low on horizon almost gone. we looked up because something was there shining. We thought -Moon. Then there was me other friend calling us to wait for her from behind so we did turn our faces her direction- and there it was The Moon - shape you could never mistake with anything else, so what was that on the other side of the sky? It was definetly metallic object because it did reflect the light from sun just like moon does and it was really big and very high if we mistaken it with Moon . We end up running back home for binoculars checking the object constantly and as we were almost home it moved a little bit up looked bit like a ciggare or soucer tilted on side , and then moved so fast streight up , just vanished in a sec. the sky was clear so we would see it going up but the speed was so great it looked like it vanished only we knew what direction. Ever since I watch the skyes every day even bought telescope . Seen few lights at night that were unidentified but never something like that again. Learned that nobody will trust what you saw until they will see themselves . keep your eyes open couse you never know where nor when you see another one.

- eva jm, bristol, england, 25/08/2011 16:56
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They say illusion, you can trust me to say intelligent.

- Scar7, florida, 07/06/2011 18:29
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i saw those craft the day before and 2 out of the three started to communicate with me about showing themselves while heading toward the Channels. All "predictions" recorded day before Mr. Bower saw them. Glad to know I am sane. Now the problem is people to get over the worry of their sanity and see "they" are here. I felt like I was in a movie for many reasons you guys could imagine; communication, speed, size. I know know that size was the biggest factor. It was suppose to be a point of light where it was at but it was elliptical. Guys, this should be the big cheese. What's next?

- Scar7, Florida, 07/06/2011 18:19
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I would like for anyone who has experinced any phenomena involving ufo's to contact me. I would love to hear your story, VAMPYRO77@YAHOO.COM

- Steve, Indianapolis, IN, 03/06/2011 05:42
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i didnt see anything and i didnt believe in ufos but my sister just phoned me, she just told me she see a ufo over her house today, as high up as a plane, it was a doughnut shape with a hole in the middle and red lights around the middle, i wonder what it was? cos i don't believe that she would lie about it. I keep looking out my window now, it has freaked me out.

- madimay, england, essex, 23/05/2011 10:47
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1979, Mohave Desert, night. We had just driven out into the desert to camp. I walked off by myself to take a leak. Far in the distance I could see moving toward me extremely fast a bright white light. It moved faster than anything I've ever seen other than a comet. It stopped right over my head..split into two perfectly shaped round white lights and then shot straight up into space. I stood there watching it until they were out of view. True story!

- Rick Katz, Los Angeles, CA USA, 13/11/2010 15:58
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I ain't seen nothing! Ya'll had me looking up in the cotton-pickin sky from one end of the sky to the other for forty years! Forty years and I and seen nothing.If you ask me this is all something that rhymes with Dr Smith!
Bob

- bob, willoughby,manchesterville, 11/09/2010 18:07
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I would like to help every one here. Under stand what is really happening. In the beginning a war in heaven, ... most know the story. God tossed a very powerful being out of heaven with his cohorts, the fallen ones. These beings were gifted with high abilities from God. The disagreement was manifold but primarily over the perversion of the beings, The "watchers" . These beings were watching us, you might say they were our baby sitters. Now as the babies grew up the watchers became illicit in their intent toward us the children.. In fact not only was their intention moving toward harming the children, they were developing a desire to mate with us. Something not allowed by God.. In fact it was stickily forbidden.
The watchers decided they would give up their eternal abode and descend to earth, to take what & whom they wanted. So in other words the baby sitters were molesting the children. The sad part is the children weren’t exactly innocent, as they were endowed with enough instruction and wisdom to know better. So the consequence was eternal damnation for the watchers and a slim second chance for the children, Being they had less culpability in the matter.
However the children had now become contaminated, or in clearer terms molested, damaged goods. An adornment had to be paid, Enter in the Savior, You all know him as Jesus. But the Disobedient beings the watchers were not conceding so easily.

These watchers are aliens.

- malachi Martin, Madison Wisconsin, 29/07/2010 06:29
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this is weird lol

- Corinthians Frye, bartlesville,oklahoma, 30/03/2010 16:01
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On the first Sunday in August 2008,it was a beautiful Summer day, the sky was a bright blue colour, it was lovely,all of a sudden everything seemed to stop,like time had stood still ,it was freaky, then I saw a huge object moving slowiy over our roof tops. I could not believe what I was seeing, I looked out in the road to see if there was anyone to witness what I was seeing,there was no traffic,nobody in their gardens having barbeques,no children anywhere it was eerie. I went into my sons room and asked him to come and see the object he said "Oh my god, what the hell is that, its huge!!!WE WERE IN SHOCK

- Caz, Erith,Kent,England, 26/02/2010 21:10
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On 31st December 2009 at about 5:45 pm I saw a bright yellow light moving at about helicopter/aircraft speed from the centre of Ludlow. There was no noise nor any warning lights as on normal aircraft and it seemed to be about 1500 ft above the ground. The light then ascended at an extraordinary speed and I lost sight of it. Later that same night at about 10pm about two miles from the original spot in Ludlow Shropshire I saw the same sort of yellow light with similar movement in the company of two other people. Still there was no enigine noises or flashing warning lights although one person said that they could hear some sort of wining noise. This is my first experience of this sort of observation and alway look up at passing aircraft being a pilot but have never seen anything from an aircraft.

- Peter Taft, Ludlow, 04/01/2010 00:03
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today at 17.45 i was watching the full moon quite low on the horizon through binoculars and saw a very long, dark, solid object move quite slowly in front of the moon. it wasn't a plane or a cloud. did anyone else see this?

- Russell Lane, london uk, 02/01/2010 01:48
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Some fifteen years ago I was driving with three friends at about 11:30 pm. We had left a moderate-sized community and were out in the country. There were no street lights, no houses except a couple of farms in the distance. There were no cars behind or in front of me. We had approximately twenty minutes to go before we came close to any city-type streets, lights or other illumination. It was a perfectly cloudless night, stars, no moon. Everyone was talking in the car, nothing weird or strange about our conversations. Of a sudden a blinding light came right over the top of my car. It felt as though it was as close as fifty feet. It lit the road in front of the car and then it wasn't there anymore, like it had 'shut off'. It happened so fast. I checked behind me thinking someone had come from some back trail out of the woods....but there was no one there. There weren't any cars anywhere. The woman sitting next to me in the front had eyes as big as dinner plates. I asked her what she thought it was and she just shook her head. The ladies in the back seat were quiet as well. When we got home we all agreed on what we had seen....if you can call it 'seen'. We didn't see anything....but we did have a zillion watt light turned on over the top of us and then turned off.

- Jeanie, Janesville, USA, 27/10/2009 14:30
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back in august of 1978, 2 buddies and I were on a cross-country trip. as we stopped at a mountain overlook in the bighorns, wyoming, we were fascinated by the night sky. unaccustomed to so many stars, we were all looking at the vast sky when we saw an object a bit larger than the stars moving and stopping, moving and stopping, like a squid lurches in water. as we pointed at it, the object came lower into the valley in front of us and hovered. it began to glow so bright and build up energy (best way to describe) and make a sizzling sound. at that moment we could see a distinctly large saucer shape object causing the horizon to light up. it shot off at a 45 degree angle at a rate of speed that i can only describe as lightening fast. one second it was right there in front of us and then just got smaller and smaller as it zipped away into the stars. it left us absolutely stunned. as for anyone who thinks these things are clouds, our aircraft, or something our military is experimenting with, i assure you that after 31 years of this sighting, we would beg to differ. there is no way a human could survive that kind of g-force. even though the few people we've mentioned this to, kind of snicker or think we need medication, we really don't care. we know what we saw was not from here. i would be willing to be hypnotized or take a lie detector test at any time. thank you. alan.

- Alan, baltimore, md., 24/07/2009 13:20
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I've seen something like that around the beginning of the year, I ought to keep a journal on things like this because I've seen several UFOs. The difference with this and the one I've seen is the the one I saw had appeared, from left to right as though it filled up with all the colors of the spectrum and ended up a very beautiful blue color, it stayed stationary and then vanished altogether after 3 seconds or so, this was about 2am. Another one I saw was what looked like three lighted stars, one of the only open areas uncovered by clouds at about 8am, I thought they were just stars until they started moving as though they were one, and then moved behind the clouds. Another time I saw something falling from the sky smoking as it fell. I couldn't make out the shape because it was a couple miles away and not very large, I haven't heard or read about any airplane crashes near here as the place I live is quite small and it would have been in the news and on people's lips. I have seen a few others but they are quite hard to describe so I just won't. I believe in aliens and God, and if I ever have the chance I'd also like to see a regressive hypnotherapist to confirm an abduction that may have occurred last month. I don't want to go into detail because it sounds fake, even to me. I think I just may write a book the experience, and put it under science fiction, because if it was just a dream, it was a very interesting one. Thank you for reading this.

- Megan, Alaska, United States, 13/07/2009 14:34
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This is a cloud illuminated by sunlight.

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., 29/06/2009 21:39
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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, 29/06/2009 13:00
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These are obviously vehicles controlled by highly intelligent life,they keep well away from us, and at high speed.

- Dave Morris, Sunderland UK, 29/06/2009 03:40
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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, 29/06/2009 01:39
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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, 29/06/2009 01:27
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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, 28/06/2009 23:57
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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, 17/06/2009 00:41
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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, 15/06/2009 23:32
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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, 31/05/2009 16:29
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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, 28/05/2009 23:01
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The UFO community is grateful to all persons in the world who have access to this FOX comment in which to report viable sightings such as JON WOODS of Enfield, London, England, UK has posted most recently.

I had the privilege of being an active participant in the National Investigation Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP-USA) in the years 1960-1975; I am at present with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) USA which investigates UFO incidents and maintains a quite extensive database of UFO sightings which is available to members online.

MUFON organizes and conducts annual meetings at which many of the world's top scientists and investigators exchange their views on the UFO
phenomena.

MUFON accepts new members who have an abiding interest in the subject; you may apply online at www.MUFON.ORG

- Norm Callihan, Tyler County, Warren. Texas Usa 77664, Warren, Texas USA 77664, 28/05/2009 21:14
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cool a ufo i m waiting to see one!!

- Aditya, middlesex, U.K, 09/04/2009 18:55
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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, 29/03/2009 21:48
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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, 25/03/2009 13:55
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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, 23/02/2009 15:21
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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, 16/02/2009 03:26
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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, 07/04/2008 05:44
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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, 02/04/2008 15:58
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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, 02/04/2008 06:54
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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, 07/11/2007 14:41
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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, 26/09/2007 02:36
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I hope this guy is never the pilot for one of my flights...

- Matt, USA, 26/09/2007 01:36
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Funny how Blair is stepping down this week, maybe they've come to pick him up and take him home... I wish.

- Andy, London, 26/09/2007 01:36
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This incident proves, no matter how intelligent we all think we are, there are phenomena occurring we cannot explain.

- J. Smith, London, 26/09/2007 01:36
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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, 26/09/2007 01:36
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