Showing posts with label ufo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ufo. Show all posts

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Bizarre stories of the strange, part 2

Location. Kingston Springs, Tennessee
The witness was just preparing to go to bed, when he heard a very loud
noise over the house. Thinking it was a low helicopter he looked out
the window and saw nothing. The noise was deafening and all of
the sudden it stopped. Later in the early morning the witness was
suddenly awakened by a presence getting into bed with him. He felt the
heat next to his body, and he was totally unable to move. Moments later
the blanket started to slowly come off his shoulders, and he saw an alien smiling down at him. The creature reportedly said, "This is for the good of the planet" and "don't worry, I'll use protection." The next moment, his pants came off.
The next morning, he awoke with a sore buttocks, a mysterious rash, and an intense desire to buy womens' shoes at the GAP.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Overland Park UFO

It's local to my area, and better than the other local "paranormal stories" I've read, so I'll post it here.
From evidence@ufosoveramerica.com, Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Title "Daylight Sighting."
"It was 1980-81 I can't remember exactly but it was mid summer, mid day with a cloudless sky. My wife and I had just stopped at a dairy store in the middle of Overland Park, a suburb of Kansas City, Ks. I was parked facing West when I noticed an object heading North at about the speed of a small
plane. It was long and slender and as it traveled North it seemed to also be rotating because one side was reflective and the other was flat black.
My wife came out of the store and I pointed it out to her and she said to follow it. We headed North on the nearest street and kept it in sight for about 15 blocks when the object slowed to a stop. By this time it's angle and mine had brought us closer together. If you hold a ballpoint pen at arms length half of that would be size of the object from our position. We had pulled into a grade school lot to keep an eye on as it stayed in one spot for about 3 minutes. I mentioned before it was rotating and it
continued to do so as it held it's place like a helicopter. It was like a two color pencil rolling slowly on a desk top, silver then black and back again.
As we watched a young guy of about 13 came walking by. I got his attention asked if he could tell me what the thing was. He said he didn't know and kept an eye on it as he walked away. Then the object started moving again but this time to the South-East. We had to drive back South a couple of blocks
to the next E-W road it hidden by the trees. By the time we got to a clearing and the next N-S road it was out of sight. It didn't zoom off with blazing speed but it did move faster than before. When we got home a few minuets later we called Richards- Gabauer Air Force Base in Mo. to report what we saw.
Of coarse their radar never tracked anything odd. Later that night on the local news the weather man said the thing people were seeing earlier was a weather balloon. Well, I know what I saw and it happened just as I have describedit.
Chuck J. - Lawrence, Ks.

Friday, December 19, 2008

Close encounters of the identified kind

S. Benson writes a story at http://www.qsl.net/w5www/stories2.html that sounds a lot like a case of nerves and scary identified objects.

"Sighting #1: It was the year 1999. I was homeschooled, so I could stay up late ( I am a night owl). One night, I turned off the t.v. at around 1:30 A.M. I went into my room, and started to make my bed. I felt a breeze, and turned around to shut the windows. There, in front of me, in the left window, was a face. The face was beastly, yet had a manly air about it. Hair, like a mane, surrounded it's pale brown face, and faded as it reached the face features. It had glowing yellow eyes that stared directly at me. It had a curved nose, like a dog's, and an open mouth. Black lips pulled back, revealing long, sharp. yellow-stained teeth. I could hear it's breath through the screen."

If it's a window and it's dark, that could be your scary face superimposed on an object outside. It could also be a raccoon or a possum. In the dark, a dog can look like the grim reaper. The noise could have been the wind, the animal breathing, or an object in the house that amplifies sounds, like the sound of your breath.
"I had frozen in fear, and didn't faint only with the wonder of what might happen to me if I did. I finally ran from the room, and spent a sleepless night in the guest bed. Since the first sighting, I kept all of my shades closed, and reclined from going in my room, but my mother would often open them to let light in."
Did your reclining position prevent you from going in the room?

"One night, I entered my room to see that the shades were open. I checked each one, and when I came to the third window, the window that I had previously seen the beast in, I saw it once more! It was just staring at me! This time, I gathered my courage, and decided to stay, and see what it would do. After a while, it just left!"

There could be a mirrored surface outside the window and you can't see it through the screen very well. If you live in a scrap yard, or a place that's filled with junk, perhaps a piece of reflective debris is stuck in front of your window. Or maybe your brother is playing a prank on you.

"The last sighting... hopefully. I had started to trust the room again, believing that there was no chance that I could see it again. I was laying on my bed one night, reading. I started to open the shades to let the cool air in. I came to the third window, and hesitated upon opening it. When I finally did, though, the face was there once again! I stepped back, and waited for it to do something. Once again, it just left! This all happened in a period of four months. I haven't seen it since."

The fact that it didn't do anything lends credence to it being one of the possibilities above, or something else equally mundane.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Identified "flying" object

Jose at http://www.qsl.net/w5www/stories2.html gave a description of an uncanny light that more than likely came from something inside the car, or a street light outside the car.
"Next observation I had was when going I a car just a few years ago with my friends. Just for a brief moment between some trees and woods while riding in a car I manage to got a glimpse of the TV tower in Stockholm (Kaknästornet). I cant believe this is happening to me I remember thinking to myself. A big ball shaped object is hanging over the tower."
Anyone who has ridden as a passenger in a car for a long enough period can notice strange objects "hovering" over whatever they see in the window. This is called an "optical illusion." For example, if your dome light is on, and you look at a mountain in just the right angle, it looks like a "saucer" is floating over the mountain. Wow! A close encounter of the third kind! Except different. It's sort of like that "paranormal" novelty bowl that presents the illusion of a penny that magically "floats" above the bowl. It's all done with reflections.
"There I was, in the car with my friends, and I'm the only one looking at that direction. Í was shouting to the driver to stop the car but it was impossible to do it because we were driving on the highway with other cars and vehicles around. The shape of the object was round and had no sharp edges, it was kind of blurred. The color was orange glowing and it was pretty big to."
So you saw the reflection of a sign or something orange in the car being reflected on the object.
"It was raining that night so the sky was one big cloud. the objects orange light illuminated the clouds above it."
A reflection can also "filter" things being seen with different colors and patterns. You can "map" a plaid pattern on a white building, for example, if your shirt is close enough to the window.
"We were four persons in the car, but only one witness..."
This lends even more credence to it being a reflection.
Jose includes an illustration involving a "UFO" resembling the side of a quarter, which turns in a static rotation pattern as it travels across "the sky." After examining the illustration, I deduced that it is extremely possible that the "UFO" is actually a reflection of a certain type of hubcap on somebody's car, or the wheels on a semitrailer. If you have a shiny metal hubcap with just the right shape to it, and if an orange light from a sign or a car hits it just right, the reflection will rotate in exactly the way described.