a little off topic- but has anyone ever seen a ufo or something similar?

[Dan]

i always wonder... my wife has a friend that copilots international flights; he has told me some crazy ****- particularly that he has seen ball lightning inside the plane quite a few times (not so comforting); but he has also seen an aircraft that did maneuvers not possible for any of our technology. my dad was on an aircraft carrier in vietnam- he said that a sphere stayed with them for half a day... just hovering ~ a mile away; nothing on radar; they sent out fighters, etc.
again, just curious.:confused:

[Waterman]

i never seen anything crazy. still lookin though

[Krazd360]

dude !!!where did you get your shrooms i want some please

[Soul Surf]

Lots of fields north of Tampa

[surfer311]

out here we got some fields but I they are all treated with some stuff. i had a friend get busted in sebastian two years ago. he got charged with tresspassing and had to pay a $500.00 fine.

[14thStSurf]

i always wonder... my wife has a friend that copilots international flights; he has told me some crazy ****- particularly that he has seen ball lightning inside the plane quite a few times (not so comforting);
what is ball lightning?

[Dan]

i went to school @ usf in tampa; and, yes, the fields are abundant (be careful, the larger farmers put anti-fungal in the cow feed now); however, i was not bull****ting by asking about ufo's, etc. i am sincerely curious about this kind of phenomenon- and i have heard some interesting and some retarded stories. as for ball lightning, check out this web page...
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/040917.html
or this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning
everyone thought pilots were crazy when they saw blue and red lightning going up rather than down around storms... and then this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning#Sprites.2C_elves.2C_jets.2C_and_other_up per_atmospheric_lightning
this is the kind of stuff that fascinates me when i have free time or the waves are ankle-slappers.
here is the best photo of ball lightning i could find:
http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/1513/untitled0me2.png

[Sprocket]

Don Garlits as in Big Daddy Swamp Rat fame, used to have a UFO page up but it's not there anymore (guess people told 'em he was crazy) and after 2002 dusting off the cob webs and running Swamp Rat 34 up the road in G-ville at 323.04 he's a hot commodity again.

[Sprocket]

actually I'm interested more in ghosts. I know 4 people that have seen 'em, none of the three people know each other, but all four have very interesting stories.

I've not seen one yet....

[Krazd360]

I am a firm believer that I have to see it to believe it

[14thStSurf]

I am a firm believer that I have to see it to believe it
well that blows my Santa Clause theory :rolleyes:

[Dan]

i have actually never seen anything where i said "that is a ufo" or anything like that. when i was in orlando, 4th of july 2004, there was one of those amazing thunderstorms that went through. jen and i were driving to a friend's and the entire freaking sky turned a gold color and we heard the most bizarre thunder i have ever heard... it reverb'ed for at least a minute. anyhoo... i got curious because i had all of my friends saying that they had heard/seen the light and sound... somehow, the whole thing made it on snopes (haha)... check it out.
http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=106;t=000697;p=0

i had also brought up my dad... he was on the kittyhawk in the atlantic; during the cold war, russian bombers would do very, very close fly-by's to the ships just to give them a metaphorical piss-off; my dad said we did the same thing to them- part recon, part intimidation. sooo... he said that one day he went out and saw the rescue helicopter and some f-4's trying to get near some sort of glowing sphere that was ~1 mile away. nobody could see it on radar; aside from seeing it, there was no other proof it was there. there are no shrooms in the atlantic and i am fairly certain my dad is aware of the sun vs a sphere floating a mile away.
i have a degree in meteorology, so my eyes immediately go to the sky when i go outside. and i think it is incredibly arrogant for us to think that we are the only life out there. thus my interest- and it seems pretty appropriate to ask people who spend a great deal of time outside and in the elements.
http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/696/alien8oa4ef.jpg
peace- dan

[breakingsociety]

oh boy fellows

[14thStSurf]

well, bring 'em on as long as they've got common sense .. line on up!

[Madame of Fact]

Perhaps the mormons are right about us getting our own planet when we die with the people we've married in our lifetime.. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing..

Well, I practice feng shui and firmly believe in the power of energy. I don't discount spirits, life on other planets, etc... because if we've got energy here, we've got it out there (in space) in some similar or different form.

[Dan]

i understand the shroom/skeptic side of what i brought up; however, i can think of nothing more boring than knowing everything and never being completely surprised. i want freak waves, aliens, ball lightning, etc.- you grow mentally everytime the **** gets stirred up. think about 9/11- anybody the same after that day? regardless of politics, every one of us lives in our own new paradigm.
on yet another note, i heard a snip on NPR yesterday that the recruiter in Farenheit 9/11 (there was two in the movie, i'm not sure which) was killed in Iraq. ironically, the movie was on bravo last night- i only saw that movie when it first came out and to watch it now- especially knowing that recruiter went to war instead of staying in the strip mall recruiting office- left me feeling a little disturbed.

[jaco]

This topic is way to easy.. :rolleyes:

Love the family picture though :eek:

[Dan]

i am in no way being a dick- but how exactly is this topic too easy? i wrote it after i became acquainted with a new sticky, purplish friend that made for a very anxiety-ridden, smelly drive home. after surfing, asking complete strangers if they have seen ufo's or ball lightning is my favorite activity. please don't take this away from me!!
thank you for the compliment on the family pic; google images has always surpassed my expectations.
always...
http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/9228/chip20or20dale9xg.jpg

[Dan]

sprocket- i didn't expose myself to shroom jokes to hear "about" the stories... what happened? second-hand info is cool; the closest i came was a place i rented where it was an apt above a garage in ft. myers, right by the river and the best snook fishing i have ever seen; there was one place in the closet that would leak every time it rained. the landlord and i got on the roof and sealed it; it kept leaking. the landlord called out the pros; it kept leaking... long story short- the guy before us was a retired german guy that hung himself in that closet. i had to go to the newspaper and do research to find this out. the place was in ok shape and the landlord owned the house- but he bought it a week before i rented- and the german guy's death was ~5 yrs before. who knows? i lived there for a couple years... i felt safer there than driving on the turnpike every day here.
hopefully tomorrow/thursday will be like when i first moved here... getting excited
http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/6546/surf61806136bk.jpg

[Sprocket]

each story is way too long to go into detail but here is the jist of each one:

guy buys house from widower. Wife died in house. Feels spirit of dead lady looking for hubby. Explains that hubby sold the house and is gone, never feels presence again.

Child sitting with parents in sitting room, sees unknown person walk in, go down hall and disappear around corner. no other doors open or close. they are alone. Asks parents if they saw it, dad says yes, it's the servant. Years later as the father lays dying the son asks about it. Dad says yes, it was not the servent, scared the crap outta mom and me, didn't want you to worry.

Girl in bar with friends. Brother murdered several weeks before. Looks across bar sees brother sitting at bar hoists a frosty one to toast her. She freaks and flees the scene. I was with her that night, didn't tell me about until about 10 years later. Found her outside shaking totally freaked out and ironically made some lame comment about looks like you saw a ghost (no **** true story) and she just stares at me and says nothing on the ride home.

Young boy occaisionally sees people who float through solid objects, don't talk but always smile and wave to him...(least credible of all stories, but 100% convinced he's seen 'em)

Call BS or whatever you like but that's them in a nutshell.

[Dan]

cool- i truly hope that the kid is seeing something real. honestly, i really wasn't troubled by the fact that the roof kept leaking. it sucked in the "i have a closet i can't use" sense; but it also made me think...
thanks for the reply.
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