Another one.
I saw a UFO.

Ah yes. Another crackpot, I hear you say. Well, I bloody did. I saw it with my own eyes, I was sober, I was sane and I was fascinated.

It was around 14 years ago now. I was standing in my local park with two of my mates, hanging around like kids of around 16 do. It was early winter, a freezing cold clear night, and behind us in the sports field a floodlit game of football was going on. For some reason, I looked up.

And there it was.

It was boomerang shaped, for want of a better description. It was around 150 feet off the ground, moving silently and had no lights...... it was very dimly lit by the lights of the playing field behind us.... had it been stationary, we might not have seen it at all. But it was moving..... and there was no way this was any kind of jet fighter I've ever heard of. It was travelling at, I would say, around 10 miles an hour at most. It also made slight direction changes here and there, sort of zig-zagging across the sky. It passed silently and slowly over our heads, all 3 of us stood there open mouthed and silent watching it. It faded from view as it passed over the playing field as the glare of the lights obscured it.

I don't know what it was. The nearest thing I can think of would be a hang-glider...... but in pitch dark with the nearest high hill around 10 miles in the direction the thing was travelling in? I've never heard of any plane that can fly so slowly and in dead silence..... well, it was quiet enough that we never heard a sound from it, even stealth fighters make noise, though we don't have many of them in rural scotland.

I'm not a crackpot, but I can't for the life of me explain it. Though they did return later that night and probe my bottom. Alright, I made that bit up, but the rest is all true.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Tue 8 Jul 2008, 1:59, Reply)