In like 2003 my sister and I were driving home through a big stretch of country and we saw a fucking huge ass disc with lights around the edge jet up from the tree line and disappear into the clouds at an extreme speed. I don't think it was aliens but damn I sure will always wonder wtf that thing was.

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I saw something like that back in the 90s. The formation, zig-zagging, and flying off in one direction at ridiculous speed. The one thing I can never forget is the way they didn't look like they were moving so much as appearing in a new position leaving a trail behind them that I can only describe as like the shifting colors of the light spots you see after looking at something really bright and then closing your eyes.

      I'm also highly skeptical of actual alien visitors but that experience stuck with me. Whatever it was enticed a ton of people to pull over to the shoulder of the highway and watch, and one of my uncles described seeing something similar that same day dozens of miles away (we were all traveling to another relatives house for a big family gathering and I heard him talking about his sighting without having mentioned what we had seen coming from the opposite direction).

      • Darthsenio_Mall [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        they didn’t look like they were moving so much as appearing in a new position leaving a trail behind them that I can only describe as like the shifting colors of the light spots you see after looking at something really bright and then closing your eyes.

        Wow that rocks. That’s crazy people were pulling over to look

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I always wonder if those instances are super high energy particles ionizing air. If they travel fast enough, you'd basically see everything all at once and it would look crazy.

        Like imagine someone throwing a glowing bouncy ball at a window and how it would look first traveling at you then ricocheting off the window and into walls you can't see.