UFO's in the backcountry?

i think they seek out blue nylon, I use yellow and havent had any encounters.

If you don’t use TP you’ll start seeing UFOs : )

(I forget the name of the guy that advocates not using TP that moved on to UFOs)

edit: Cleland

Definitely a more chaff oriented thread.

A couple of friends, my girlfriend at the time (now spouse), and i drove up to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in one of those very large vans.  We did a lot of camping, but at campgrounds.  One night when we were in New Brunswick, we were all laying on top of the vehicle looking at the stars.

We saw some lights move across the sky at very, very, very high speeds, and a couple of times, they stopped and radically shifted directions.  We all saw them.

Whether or not they were ET craft, i don’t know.  Conservatively speaking, the US military (and now the private sector that sells to same) is usually some 10 to 20 years ahead in technology than what they let the public know about.  It’s possible that they have technology that could accomplish that.

However, i do “believe” that there are ET’s and that they visit here because i’ve had some other experiences, which very strongly suggest that. I have a very strong hunch that in the next few years or so, one group will finally go public in hard to deny ways.

As to fear, what’s the point?  If E.T.’s that travel to here exist, then likely they have much, much more advanced technology than us, and could have wiped us out, enslaved us, etc any time in the past.

Dr. John E. Mack is one of the more credible sources to look at for this subject, and a very common pattern in a lot of his patients that experienced alleged abductions is, at the beginning there was A LOT of general fear, and/or anger towards the ET’s.   But, many of them, as they went deeper into their regressions and worked through the traumatic aspects of these, realized in many cases, that they had strong Soul/consciousness connections to the particular ET’s that were abducting them.   Many learned that they were originally of those particular groups before they became human and pre agreed to have these experiences as humans.  Many came to realize that they loved the ET’s despite the traumatic experiences that were hard on their physical bodies and personalities (which are very fear based in essence).

However, i am not saying that there aren’t any negative and ill intentioned ET’s out there.  It’s a very big universe.  But i strongly suspect that the friendly, positively intentioned ones look out for us.

I’m in to the calculation that there are 50 ga-zillion stars out there, and if only 10% had planets, and 10% of those were earth sized, and 1% have randomly created life forms, and if civilizations were only able to communicate for 100 years after evolving for 4 billion before self destructing that would be 100/4billion chance that we would see them during our 100 years – there are a zillion stars out there that we’re looking at that actually have life we could see – if we could see it

Good morning, I have seen two so far. But no on abductions. I also refuse to use blue equipment.

Aluminized cuben fiber scrambles their heat sensors.

We saw some lights move across the sky at very, very, very high speeds,

Sometimes called meteorite showers. They happen. Think Chelyabinsk.

Cheers

Nice to take things out of context there Roger

“and a couple of times, they stopped and radically shifted directions. We all saw them.”

“Sometimes called meteorite showers.”

Those would be Identified Flying Objects, IFO.

Of course, maybe what you saw was just a Russian Rocket…

http://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2015-12-23/fireball-crossing-western-sky-was-debris-from-russian-rocket

I saw the Challenger blow up. Does that count for anything? Also saw the ValuJet flight 592 crash. Never saw a big plane like that bank so hard. Freaky

I saw the space station

My wife and I were “beamed” by a satellite once. We were hiking by starlight in the desert when all of a sudden it got bright enough to see very faint shadows from the bushes and rocks around us. This faded in a second or two. Looking around for the light source the only thing we could see was a satellite passing overhead. Very strange.

^^^

A bigger version of an “Iridium Flash”?

An ISS Flash?

don’t know. just guessing.

I’ve seen a very bright, very sudden flash in the sky that I wondered briefly if it was a meteorite heading right towards us, but then it faded.  And, looking very closely, I could make out a magnitude 4 or 5 satellite traveling across the sky.  I believe the term is “satellite flare” when their solar panels reflect sunlight directly at you.  Like everything else, “there’s an app for that”, so any of the satellite fly-by sites or apps can predict those for you.  (Of course, flares are rarer (or involve travel), compared to routine satellite sightings at any given location).

From a  mountainside in Sequoia NP, I saw a meteorite get so low and slow, it went from hot, blue-white to more yellow in color and then broke up into 3 or 4 pieces.  Usually, it is pointless to say “Look!” because it’s gone before people can turn around, but this one lasted long enough.

While driving over Turnagin Pass on a dark Winter night, another meteorite got so low and slow, it also changed colors and pass in front of mountain.  I hopped out of the car expecting, I don’t know, to hear sizzling in the snow*? but didn’t.

*Yeah I know, they aren’t very hot then they land.

Northern Lights – dozen from times, from 33,000 feet, from rural highways, and from my front porch.  Usually an eiree green but sometimes red.  Twice filling up the entire sky in all directions.

The one in the UFO category the longest was a glowing strip of light with bright spots along it.  Not knowing the distance or size, it was possible to imagine it anywhere from a mile long and close or vastly larger and further away.  I was on Highway 50 in Nevada, the “Loneliest Road in America” and it took 10 minutes or more to discern it as 5 planes, traveling in a line, illuminating each other’s contrails in the night sky.  If I was predisposed to see aliens as the cause, and my viewing didn’t last long, I could have honestly have assumed it had to be other-worldly in origin.

I’ve been probed with stainless steel by masked creatures but I’m over 50 and if you are too, you should get in to see your doctor and ask what screening exams are appropriate.

I’ve run into actual aliens. South San Diego County. They were polite.

I too eschew blue gear.  I adopted this strategy to repel vampires and werewolves, and it has been highly effective in this role, despite a couple of close calls when hiking the JMT while sleep-deprived at full moon, which may have been attributable to a teal hiking shirt.   I now realize that I, too, have never seen a UFO.  So we may have discovered a multi-purpose gear strategy in the spirit of BPL.

OK, OK, OK (as Joe Pesche would say), yes, I’ve had ONE little UFO experience – and it was car camping too, like Justin. My wife and I, my buddy and his wife were car camping at the northeastern shore of Kinzua Reservoir in northern Pennsylvania.

A clear, entirely cloudless cold late August night with the Milky Way faintly in view. Suddenly Dave M. says, “Look over there at that weird light.” His wife Maria said, “Oh, yeah, I see it. What’s that?”

I said, “What? What are you looking at?” My life Luz says, “Over there dummy! That light is moving around weirdly.” Finally I saw it too and it was far away but moving fast, then stopping then moving again than VERY quickly changing direction to the left.

Suddenly it took off straight up and disappeared and we DID NOT talk about it ever again. It was just too d@mn strange.

Alright, now I’ve said it and won’t refer to it again. Don’t PM me about it.

Look, there’s a lot of skepticism on here, but has anyone considered the effect of survivorship bias?  I mean, BPL members who were abducted by aliens and never escaped can’t post their experiences.

Plus, I have my suspicions that a couple of posters ARE aliens.   And obviously they aren’t just going to give it up, unless we trick them.

 I mean, BPL members who were abducted by aliens and never escaped can’t post their experiences.

That’s where having access to the membership database helps. I can see when someone abruptly stops posting.

Cheers

Visitors from outer space tend to like cities. Maybe it’s because of the lights. I suppose if I was an alien visitor and wanted to learn more about the inhabitants I probably wouldn’t go look around in the boonies either.

The 1997 Phoenix Lights is still the most important mass sighting ever recorded. I didn’t live there at the time, but I’ve talked to long time residents who saw the mile wide V shaped craft and they say they’ll never be the same again.

Haven’t see anything.

I rarely look up and am in a building or tent for most of the dark hours of each day.

I’ve never had much interest in the sky.  I’m usually looking at the ground but haven’t seen any unidentified crawling objects (UCOs).

Two days ago I got probed, per David’s suggestion.  I’m pretty sure the prober was human.

Phoenix Lights :
“As I first revealed in the Phoenix New Times, a young man with a 10-inch Dobsonian telescope, Mitch Stanley, spotted the vee from his backyard, and saw that it was a formation of airplanes. Using a magnification of 60X — which essentially put him 60 times closer to the vee than people only using their naked eyes — Stanley could see that each light in the sky was actually a double, with one light under each squarish wing. The planes still looked small in his scope — suggesting they were flying at high altitude — and he didn’t know what type they were. But there was no doubt, he told me, that they were planes.”
http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/08-05-21/

I’m 44, and I’ve been keeping an eye out for evidence of aliens since I was around 8. I haven’t seen anything which I couldn’t explain. The strangest things I have seen include a fireball meteor near the horizon, and a military plane with its landing lights on in the fog.