I saw a UFO!

[erwin1978]

After 20 years of doubting whether I've seen a shooting star, last night, I can definitively say I have seen a shooting star. It was probably space garbage but amazing none the less. Wow! It was 1AM and was walking around when in my peripheral vision I saw something move. I looked up and there she was a yellow bright light crossing the sky. I'd say it was as bright if not brighter than Venus. I can tell it was burning because the light glow was flickering. I got a good 2 second view before it disappeared.

On two other occasions I thought I had seen shooting stars but it was so fast that I doubted whether I saw something or just a trick of the eye. I'm happy that I'm not delirious after all. You guys gotta see some before you die. Watching it in youtube doesn't count.

 

[randay]

uh

this is a much more common occurrence than you were led to believe.

 

[iamwiz82]

I'm guessing your profile is a lie, cuz in the Caribbean you can see dozens every night.

 

[OUCaptain]

Took you 20 years to see a shooting star? Seriously, you need to look up more at night. The night sky is beautiful thing.

 

[91TTZ]

If you know it's a shooting star, how is it a "UFO"?

 

[IronWing]

:music:
Waiting for a star to fall
And carry you back into my arms
That's where you belong
In my arms baby yeah.
:music:

 

[erwin1978]

Well congratulations to the four of you.

 

[ProfJohn]

Originally posted by: ironwing
:music:
Waiting for a star to fall
And carry you back into my arms
That's where you belong
In my arms baby yeah.
:music:

Wow... major points for the obscure reference to a late 80s song.

 

[Iron Woode]

:music:Shooting stars never stop
even when they reach the top.
Shooting stars never stop
even when they reach the top

There goes a supernova
What a pushover-yeah
There goes a supernova
What a pushover:music:

 

[Spacehead]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
If you know it's a shooting star, how is it a "UFO"?

I wondered this as well.


OP, never heard of a meteor shower?

 

[Sea Moose]

At my mates property he gets no light polution, he gets shooting stars, space junk etc all the time. Its fantastic, you can see the colours of the milky way

 

[manowar821]

On the subject of UFO's, I've seen several. Three of which performed maneuvers that no known man-made object can do. Pretty neat.

Shooting stars happen all the time though, I see two or three a night, and I have some nasty light pollution where I am.

 

[gdextreme]

Its pretty common to see shooting stars. Once while at an astronomy camp the instructor also showed us an artificial satellite! We saw it without telscopes with our bare eyes!

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
If you know it's a shooting star, how is it a "UFO"?

unidentified (he doesnt know what it actually was) falling (not flying) Object?


we see many a night out here. especially when camping or going to the drive in. kind of cool watching a movie and seeing a really big one fly across the sky

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

This is very common. Look up more.

 

[Sea Moose]

man i love my mates property. we get drunk hang out talk shit and lay out watching the night sky.... I am going back in two weeks

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

love just who you are
I ain't gonna try to change ya
You are my shooting star
That's why you are my favorite

 

[lokiju]

Go anywhere that doesn't have light pollution from a city and it's very common to see them.

When I was younger I'd go down to Key West a lot and sleep on the open deck of a catamaran and while lying there every night I'd seem this on a regular basis.

I could even see satellites moving up there.

 

[CKent]

I think the Perseids meteor shower is starting, should peak in another month.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Probably saw the ISS?

 

[skyking]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
This is very common. Look up more.

Way more common for those of you with less light pollution.
Around the big cities the skies are a pale imitation of what it is in the mountains.

 

[Baked]

Aliens don't use fire. Where you tripping on acid?

 

[Spacehead]

Originally posted by: CKent
I think the Perseids meteor shower is starting, should peak in another month.

Peaks ~Aug. 11-12. Typically only see them about a week before/after peak.

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
Probably saw the ISS?

ISS doesn't move as fast as a meteor.

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: skyking

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
This is very common. Look up more.

Way more common for those of you with less light pollution.
Around the big cities the skies are a pale imitation of what it is in the mountains.

I am surprised people in cities can see anything in the night sky. Where my brother lives is perfect for looking at the sky. It is so dark outside that other than moon light you couldn't see the person standing next to you.
I've been thinking about getting a telescope to use at his place, just not sure what to get, never really spent time researching .

 

[miketheidiot]

see them all the time