I think the aliens will be more likely to send remotely controlled ships or drones which will just observe and record our world for them to view and study while staying on their home planet. Why would they risk coming here physically in person to a primitive and potentially violent place? Especially if they may not even be able to survive without special protective gear and environmental suits which protect them from our chemical atmosphere, viruses and microbes which may be harmful to their health?
Some years ago I was driving to work on the highway loop that goes around my town. It was a sunny day. I wasn't thinking much just driving and there are some sign posts that go across the highway in spots. I looked up at the sky through the driver's side window for some reason and I saw a round object, maybe basketball sized or a little bigger hovering in the sky. It had a dark grey dull metallic appearance, with this raised bumpy strange pattern all over it. The bumps were actually more like a bumpy maze pattern, like bumpy raised lines in some random looking pattern. I was shocked, I felt I needed to look at the road again briefly but then I immediately looked back to see if it was in the same spot. It was gone. I only looked away a second or two. It just disappeared. I thought about this brief moment of time a lot and it seemed to me to be like a alien drone of some kind, small and capable of observing things. It must have either moved very fast or made itself invisible. If I hadn't looked up at just that moment I would never have seen it. I didn't see a lens for a camera so I don't know how it could record any images or what it was capable of but I saw it in some detail. I later wondered could I have hallucinated it? Did I see something from another dimension that "disappeared" back to its own dimension or was it able to cloak itself? If it could cloak itself to be invisible, why did it show itself above a busy highway, even if briefly so that I could see it?
Hi, We had an incident like that in the coastal town I live in, in the UK. About 30 years ago. A large, beach ball size globe, identical to the one you described, appeared right at the end of the town pier, hovering maybe 150 feet up. It was motionless, in spite of a mild wind, so was not a balloon. It stayed in place for about two hours. Local paper sent a photographer and published it on the front page. I saw it myself. Quite a crowd built up, people taking photos. Well documented. Then it abruptly vanished. But people who were not there, were very critical, said the photo in the paper was a hoax, and were determined to debunk it. They found the possible existence of the UFO very threatening or disturbing.
it was boring listening to the ridiculous excuses that were made, to "Prove" that it was a hoax, or a delusion. The town talked about it for a while. I used to tease the deniers by telling them it was a Russian communist spy weapon.(USSR was still there then). Weirdly they accepted that! it seems that social conservatives were most likely to try and debunk, liberals were more open minded.
I didn't tell anyone what I saw except my two adult sons. I felt since I had seen it so briefly while driving that some part of myself could hardly believe it but since I saw it in such detail I couldn't really deny it either. Seeing something like that firsthand does test one's open mindedness...I feel like much of humanity is so close minded that they would have a psychological crisis if they were given proof of aliens in some manner that was irrefutable. The human part of us wants to cling to what we know as a kind of security blanket, the soul does not feel this insecurity and can look at things with that open mindedness. Conservatives want to cling to a history that they agree to as being the correct way to be as a human. Liberals perhaps see the reality of diversity as a natural process, and a natural way to be. Diversity is the flowering of life, and why wouldn't nature make diversely different forms of life all over the universe?
Star path I too saw a huge spaceship back in 97. It was the size of a football field with orange lights on the bottom, the craft was not smooth kinda like the undercarriage of your car. I had fallen asleep on my couch and my dog wss sleeping on the floor under me and his low growling is what woke me up. It had no sound and was flying slowly above the tree line. I was so scared I didn't want it to know I was awake so I waited till it was out of sight to wake my husband which I regret now cause he could have witnessed it with me. I lived in a small town in Buckley Washington at the foot of the cascades. I too never told anyone but close family and friends.
I'm not sure if I've this on this site, but one time when we were attending Oklahoma State, about 1966, my husband and I went home to east Oklahoma for the weekend. Being spring , it was cloudy on the return trip. There were no stars, no moon. Outside of Sapulpa, Oklahoma, we made a right turn north, and right in front of us, was a big bright star, and as we watched, 3 tiny white dots, one by one, fell out of the star. each fell straight down a ways then turned red. When they turned red, each quit falling and made a right turn, and flew across the horizon.
The behavior of UFO's like you saw, Kim Cooke, makes me wonder. Why do they choose to swan around like that, terrifying the natives?
I have two conflicting theories: Either aliens hold us in such low regard that they don't care if they freak us out, OR
Things like you saw are actually human-made, as humans are notoriously callous about freaking out the neighbors.
If aliens are trying to observe us unobserved, they're doing a lousy job of it. What are the implications? R1
I was thinking UFO at the time this thing was huge did we have the capabilities of making such a huge ship that was silent? I live near Lewis McCord now and I'll tell you the jets and planes they fly around here are loud. I don't know why they do what they do but I am a firm believer in ancient aliens since my sighting.
Kim that large UFO ship sounds pretty scary. I would have been frozen in place also, waiting and hoping not to be noticed. In fact I bet it would be hard to pull one's eyes away from such a sight. I wonder what such a big ship was doing flying so low and over your house! I guess it would be hard for me to believe that such a large ship would be flying remotely--why the bright lights unless they want to be seen?
R1 your two theories are interesting. I wonder if they watch our sci-fi movies to understand our psychology. Maybe the aliens know most humans will either freak out and stay silent or won't be able to believe in them (they probably think of most humans as being to fear-based to react). So maybe they only worry about staying away from our government and military bases or areas of heavy commercial plane traffic.
If there are diverse types of aliens visiting, they could all have different views of what is appropriate behavior with the natives and what is not.
It was 11 pm, the lights where orange it wasn't like a beam they where on under the craft. I lived in a little single wide with big windows on the back and front in the middle of farm land. The next morning we heard on king 5 news that there where sightings in 3 states. I didn't call the cops that night because I didn't want them to think I was a nut.