What are they? Unidentified Flying Objects of course, but what are they really? I usually have to put up with people who write em off at something mythic. I'm the one laughing, because ufos have been caught on film and in pictures. Obviously most people are not that famaliar with the phenomenon.

The military has written off ufo sightings as swamp gas, the planet venus, stars, and weather balloons. If you hear the stories people give, you'll know those explanations are absurd. What is embarrassing, is that there are plenty of miltary personal sightings. It makes it hard for the military to quiet their own. Not only the military, but COUNTLESS of airline pilot reports, and even police officers chasing these objects in the night sky (yes chasing). Along with countless people ranging from crazy to ordinary. Why do we ignore what is really out there?

I think they're really just ghosts.

are you being sincere or being sarcastic, because I could go for almost anything here

is it possible these machines are military aircraft being tested?

It is most certainly possible and some of the time they are gov't aircraft. But you have to look at it from the viewpoint of the military. They themselves have admitted seeing things they couldn't explain. Also ufos have been reported in many areas that don't have a military base facility in the area. Plus if the gov't wanted to keep what they were flying a secret, they wouldn't put on a show for the public.

friend, do you have backup for the military saying they've seen stuff they can't explain?

Oh yes of course. Plenty of unsolved mysteries, discovery channel, history channel etc and plenty ive learned growing up. Actually later on tonight there is something on the history channel. Has military personal talkinga bout it. Runs later in the night...i think maybe around 1 am here in the midwest? Probably one of the most famous ones is the the Bentwaters UFO.

i'll see if i can catch it. i'll look up bentwaters.

And so the penny drops...

Ultimate Fighting Organisms.

They're here for the UFC, but got lost. Now they're just wandering around giving anal probes to over-imaginative nerds.

They are all just swamp gas. PAY NO ATTENTION TO THEM.

This is the most famous/creepiest UFO sighting, in my opinion.

http://ufocasebook.com/phoenixlights.html

Similar things have happened in Mexico City and Belgium, among other places.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Lights

http://brumac.8k.com/phoenixlights1.html

the special on the history channel last night was good. and that phoenix lights thing definitely is good. i find it hard to not believe in UFO's.

History channel or the travel channel? Because I watched a special on the travel channel last night.

this one was on the history channel at 3 a.m. EST.

Neat Story

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22656172/?gt1=10755

Dozens in Texas town report seeing UFO
Large silent object with bright lights was flying low and fast

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By Angela K. Brown

updated 7:51 p.m. CT, Mon., Jan. 14, 2008
STEPHENVILLE, Texas - In this farming community where nightfall usually brings clear, starry skies, residents are abuzz over reported sightings of what many believe is a UFO.

Several dozen people — including a pilot, county constable and business owners — insist they have seen a large silent object with bright lights flying low and fast. Some reported seeing fighter jets chasing it.

"People wonder what in the world it is because this is the Bible Belt, and everyone is afraid it's the end of times," said Steve Allen, a freight company owner and pilot who said the object he saw last week was a mile long and half a mile wide. "It was positively, absolutely nothing from these parts."

While federal officials insist there's a logical explanation, locals swear that it was larger, quieter, faster and lower to the ground than an airplane. They also said the object's lights changed configuration, unlike those of a plane. People in several towns who reported seeing it over several weeks have offered similar descriptions of the object.

Machinist Ricky Sorrells said friends made fun of him when he told them he saw a flat, metallic object hovering about 300 feet over a pasture behind his Dublin home. But he decided to come forward after reading similar accounts in the Stephenville Empire-Tribune.

"You hear about big bass or big buck in the area, but this is a different deal," Sorrells said. "It feels good to hear that other people saw something, because that means I'm not crazy."

Sorrells said he has seen the object several times. He said he watched it through his rifle's telescopic lens and described it as very large and without seams, nuts or bolts.

Maj. Karl Lewis, a spokesman for the 301st Fighter Wing at the Joint Reserve Base Naval Air Station in Fort Worth, said no F-16s or other aircraft from his base were in the area the night of Jan. 8, when most people reported the sighting.

Lewis said the object may have been an illusion caused by two commercial airplanes. Lights from the aircraft would seem unusually bright and may appear orange from the setting sun.

"I'm 90 percent sure this was an airliner," Lewis said. "With the sun's angle, it can play tricks on you."

Officials at the region's two Air Force bases — Dyess in Abilene and Sheppard in Wichita Falls — also said none of their aircraft were in the area last week. The Air Force no longer investigates UFOs.

One man has offered a reward for a photograph or videotape of the mysterious object.

About 200 UFO sightings are reported each month, mostly in California, Colorado and Texas, according to the Mutual UFO Network, which plans to go to the 17,000-resident town of Stephenville to investigate.

Fourteen percent of Americans polled last year by The Associated Press and Ipsos say they have seen a UFO.

Erath County Constable Lee Roy Gaitan said that he first saw red glowing lights and then white flashing lights moving fast, but that even with binoculars could not see the object to which the lights were attached.

"I didn't see a flying saucer and I don't know what it was, but it wasn't an airplane, and I've never seen anything like it," Gaitan said. "I think it must be some kind of military craft — at least I hope it was."

Okay, so Dozens of people saw this. It's been happening over the course of a few weeks. It's SLOWER and LOWER than a plane. But not one person has snapped a picture? Not one grainy cell phone video? I'm pretty open minded, but this sounds like a bucketload of crazy to me.

ow, the US is very gay about it, but you can find cases EVERYWHERE

the brazilian army has a document ready for the pilot to fill, everytime he locates one