Survey: Alien and UFO experiences

[Sorceress Sphinx]

Hi everybody!

It's been a real while since I have been here. I used to be an active member of the Ridgeway forums wayyyy back in the day (username lil_psychic) for those of you who remember, and I was briefly active here about five years ago.

Anyway, I am currently writing a research paper on new age takes on alien apocalypse hypotheses (I know, specific) and I was hoping to talk to some people about their personal visions/experiences to balance out my more formal academic sources. I'm pretty sure there used to be a special forum for UFO stuff, but I don't see it anywhere, so I apologize if this is the wrong place. Anyway, if you have ever had a personal experience with aliens or UFOs that you are willing to share, especially if it involved AP/remote viewing, I would really love to hear about it. Feel free to PM me or post in the thread, in which case I may PM you requesting more info or with specific questions.

I want to be clear that I will make sure all stories are treated respectfully, both here and in my paper. As an agnostic, I have no interest in debunking - my main goal is to obtain records of people's personal experiences as described by them.

It's good to be back!

- S. Sphinx

[Lionheart]

Hello and Welcome back!   

I will state for the record that "Aliens" are not here to create a apocalypse. Mankind might get near, but this world is not "ours" alone to destroy.

"We" will be wiped out before it will.   

[Volgerle]

... a research paper on new age takes on alien apocalypse hypotheses ...

There is such a huge bag of negative preconceptions in this term "New Age". Even many spiritual practitioners like most people here don't like it. I also think there is not just "one" take.

It's difficult to get one conclusive picture if you take into account the different sources of information such as channellings, mediums, historic Annunaki / "Ancient Aliens" theories, direct encounters by abduction or encounters in the astral, hypnotic regression, etc.

The continuum ranges from evil New World Order man-eating Reptilians to god-like angelic blonde Pleadeans coming (or posing?) as saviours. And much in-between. Take your pick.  

[no_leaf_clover]

I saw a UFO once, but it was just that: a UFO.  It stayed in the sky and I still don't know what it was.  But it was NOT the following:  star, planet, airplane, helicopter, hot air balloon, satellite, space shuttle....

I submitted a report to the national UFO reporting center here: http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/104/S104279.html

This is the report I submitted:

Saw an orangish fireball moving in erratic patterns in the sky for approximately 10 minutes over Carvins Cove.

It was around the spring or summer of 2008. I was working as closing manager at the BlockBuster in Daleville, Botetourt County, Virginia (now closed) and was working with two other people. We closed the store at 11:00 and were ready to leave by about 11:15 or 11:20 or so.

When we walked out into the parking lot (the Botetourt Commons parking lot where Kroger is), we stopped at my co-worker's truck to talk. While we were standing there talking, one of us looked toward the West and saw the object and directed our attention toward it. He said something like, "What is that?," and we watched it but could never figure it out. It was the topic of our conversation for the next 5 to 10 minutes, and just about the time we were losing interest in it, we noticed that it had disappeared. We had not actually seen it leave.

Here is my description of it. It was an orange ball of light. It did not appear to me to flicker like a fire, but just a steady orange glow, like a street lamp. Sometimes it stood still, then would slowly move in one direction, start turning in an arc, stop, move in another direction, and just generally moved erratically at different speeds in a relatively small area of the sky.

It was very high up but I couldn't tell how high or estimate its size, but it was significantly bigger than a star or planet. I have lived near airports and seen all sorts of aircraft, but this did not behave like any of them. It didn't seem to have a specific destination but just circled around erratically in the sky, turning too abruptly and moving too rapidly at times to be a helicopter or plane.

It also made no noise. For a helicopter to be so far away as for me not to hear it (because they are very loud), it would not be able to appear to make the kinds of movements that this object was! easily making. The best way I can describe the pattern it made is like lazy figure 8's that abruptly stopped and started and reversed direction at times.

When I looked on Google maps later at the location in the sky where we saw the object, I realized that we were looking directly towards Carvin's Cove, where most people in the Roanoke area get their water. It was directly on the other side of the mountain that the object appeared to be "dancing" over.

None of us three thought too much of it at the time except that if we told people that we had seen a UFO (since we literally couldn't identify it) they would just think we were joking or full of it. I still don't know what it was, I only know what it wasn't.

[EscapeVelocity]

The Blue Ridge mountains in Virginia, the whole Appalaichian range,  have historically had reports of fireballs of various sorts.

The number of fireball sightings, especially red and orange ones has been on the uptick over the last 20 years; or the number of reports, at least. I've been watching. My particular interest has been the blue/green fireballs/spheres.

NUFORC is a great collection site for such reports but I have serious doubts about the integrity of its information, specifically and generally.

Personal experience, just sayin'...

[no_leaf_clover]

Well I posted that particular report, and I can testify that it actually happened, and find the other two witnesses too if I had to, and they'd confirm the same story.

When I read through the other reports on that website I try to pay attention to what details they're reporting and ask myself, "is this something I'd be focused on/remembering if this actually happened to me, too?"