I'm bored. Tell me stories.

[Lainey]

On my blog (link under signature), I asked people to tell me their stories regarding UFO's and other strange things (not ghosts, though, people, don't you want me to be able to sleep?!). I don't believe that aliens come to visit us, but who am I to say? Everybody seems to have a story, anyway, and I want to hear it! But it has to be something that happened to you, or a close relative or friend. No making stuff up just to tell a story!

I would like the responses posted on my blog, but posting them here is good, too. Or both!

[cnorman18]

On my blog (link under signature), I asked people to tell me their stories regarding UFO's and other strange things (not ghosts, though, people, don't you want me to be able to sleep?!). I don't believe that aliens come to visit us, but who am I to say? Everybody seems to have a story, anyway, and I want to hear it! But it has to be something that happened to you, or a close relative or friend. No making stuff up just to tell a story!

I would like the responses posted on my blog, but posting them here is good, too. Or both!

When I was in high school, circa 1967, I was on a campout with some friends at a local lake. I don't recall any other details of why I was there, but I think it was a church group; none of us were drinking, anyway.

Sometime shortly after midnight, I noticed a light in the sky; it was a white point of light, indistinguishable from a star - except it was moving.

I pointed it out to some of the other kids, and a group of us watched it for several hours (apparently there wasn't much happening around the campfire after the hotdogs and s'mores were eaten). It circled and moved around in apparently random maneuvers, clearly in motion against the backdrop of stars. It frequently came to a dead stop and hovered, then resumed its random motions. There was no way to guess its size, or its height, or anything else about it.

So far, nothing was particularly unnatural about this light; the lake was near a local military base (Fort Hood in central Texas), so we decided it was probably an Army helicopter, except it seemed odd that the light was white instead of the usual red and green running lights.

But, as dawn approached, it suddenly shot off toward the east, going from directly overhead to out of sight at the horizon in the space of no more than 10 seconds. There was no apparent acceleration; the light went from dead still to moving at full speed instantly. The whole group was watching by the time it went out of sight.

I don't know of any aircraft that can do what that thing, whatever it was, did.

End of story. Nothing else to report. I've never seen anything like that before or since.

[Lainey]

Hey, that sounds exactly like something I saw when I was a kid. Forgive me for cutting and pasting from what I already wrote on my blog--I actually have two stories:

When I was a kid, my brother and I saw what resembled stars in the sky, except they couldn't have been stars because they were zooming across the sky, stopping, and abruptly changing directions. There was two of them, I think. They also disappeared a couple of times, only to reappear in another part of the sky.

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My Grandma and Great-Aunt swore that they saw a big red ball float across the sky in the middle of the day, sometime in the 1960's. My Dad says there were also strange lights above one of the mountains during the same period of time, but at night.

With the lights that my brother and I saw, like you, they didn't seem to accelerate. They just moved really quickly in random directions. I read another account like that somewhere else, too, but I forget where.

I asked my Dad more about what he, my Grandma, and my Great-Aunt saw regarding the red ball (my Dad said he didn't see the red ball, just the lights at night), and he said that they said it was shiny and that it had four little red lights around it. When he saw the lights above the mountains later that night, they were also red and he said they showed up every night for a couple of weeks.

EDIT: The lights I saw, I don't remember them moving circularly. From what I remember, it was always in a straight line. This would have been in the late 80's, I think.

[JoeyKnothead]

EDIT: The lights I saw, I don't remember them moving circularly. From what I remember, it was always in a straight line. This would have been in the late 80's, I think.

EDIT: The lights I saw, I don't remember them moving circularly. From what I remember, it was always in a straight line. This would have been in the late 80's, I think.

Those were/are likely satellites. A good place to track such is at the following two sites (search through for specific satellites):

NASA ISS

ISS Now. For some reason I just love watching this one as it traverses the globe with the Earth below it (satellite imagery, not a real-time image).

[Lainey]

Those were/are likely satellites. A good place to track such is at the following two sites (search through for specific satellites):

NASA ISS

ISS Now. For some reason I just love watching this one as it traverses the globe with the Earth below it (satellite imagery, not a real-time image).

Maybe, but they moved awfully fast for satellites. And when I say straight line, they moved in a straight line really fast across the sky, stopped, and then shot off in another direction.