Anybody seen a UFO? (page 2)

rem

there are so many things we don't know and still can't explain...why not UFO's?

Or fairies, even!

rem

Englishman

I think that these 2 people had quite a close encounter.

Englishman.

Xena

lol Rem I DO still believe in fairies...and mermaids...and unicorns...

Xena of the True Believer Class

Spanner have you looked into other possibilities? Exactly who you could talk to I'm not sure but there is bound to be another explaination. I remember watching alledged siting shows and one time people claimed to see something like you are talking about and the millitary said they were merely using flares and practicing for paratrooping at night.I just think of the histeria caused by the war of the worlds episode in the 50"s and how people over react .It would be just as interesting to find out what really happened.

blondie

Not only seen one, but piloted one.

For those interested in UFOs, SCI-FI Channel will be debuting a 20-hour miniseries, Taken, developed and directed by Steven Spielberg. It starts Monday, December 2.

I have seen some previews and it looks good.

Blondie

Kenneson

When I was 14, my cousin and I were returning from the neighbors, when we both saw a round green object (like what a full moon looks like except it was green) across the bayou and over a forest. It issued no sound but descended rapidly and disappeared. Never saw it again. Anyrate, we were told it was swamp gas. But it sure scared the hell out of me.

On another occasion, when I was attending college in Kentucky, my roommate came in all excited saying he had just seen an object in the sky. I missed it. He wasn't lying. The next day it was in the newspaper--numerous people had also seen it. I forget what branch of the government issued a statement to the effect that what people had seen was a barium cloud ejected from a rocket launched at Wallops Island, Va.

Mary

Well it didn't happen to me, but when we were kids, my grandma lived in the other half of our house and my siblings and I all shared a bedroom.

One night both of my sisters woke up because there was a very bright light shining in the bedroom windows at both the side of the house and the front of the house. It was so bright that they couldn't even see the front lawn. They both said there was something "above" the house, but couldn't make anything out. They didn't want to wake up dad, because they were afraid he'd get his gun and go outside. There was no noise or anything, and they eventually drifted off back to sleep.

They weren't going to say anything (figuring no one would believe them), but the next morning my grandma told my dad that there was a very bright light shining in her windows the previous night, and that there was something hovering above the house.

We have no idea what this was to this day.

NewSense

Dear Spanner:

You say that you have heard that it is impossible to accept the concept of extra-terrestrial life and still believe in God. Well, pray tell, I want to ask what does belief (or non-belief) in one have to do with belief (or non-belief) in the other? As far as I know the Bible is wholly silent on whether we share the universe with other sapient creatures or not. I do know that traditionally the Catholic church was against the notion of life on other planets. I have read a very interesting treatise on this very subject by an eighteenth-century French writer named Fontenelle. He wrote on the the "plurality of worlds" - "Entretien sur la pluralite des mondes." The church was against this treatise; it claimed that Christ's sacrifice was a one-time-only deal that could never be repeated. However, as regards what the Bible says it must be admitted that the scriptures are silent on the matter. Moreover, I don't accept the Church's thinking on the matter. Anyway, I'm just curious as to what argument could be used to show that the belief in God is mutaully exclusive with belief in extra-terrestrial life.

Cheers

outoftheorg

Well I have never seen anything out of the ordinary in the skies.

But I sure would like to!

I think that there is a strong possibility of life on other planets and the descriptions and cave paintings and ancient artifacts seem to depict what could be called a form of ufo ships.

An author Zecharia Sitchin wrote a lot about the ancient evidence indicating visits by aliens.

Outoftheorg

Anybody seen a UFO?

rem