True Story
My girlfriend and I used to fight a lot about how narrow-minded she used to be when we first started dating. She believed that this world was it and she never really thought of what else is out there. She laughed at the thought of aliens existing and made fun of me for having such beliefs. Then again, she also thought that aliens
had to be little green men with big eyes and a big head. I explained to her over and over again that their has to be more than just us. With all of the other planets, atmospheres, solar systems, galaxies, etc...do you really think that we're the only ones out there/here? I mean, I'm sure the thought of something being able to live underwater (fish, etc) baffled people at first too. Not to mention everything that exists in the deep waters that we don't know about because we can't go down there (yet) and they can't come up here (yet) due to water pressures and other obstacles. It isn't impossible for something to exist somewhere, just because we can't get to it or because the environment doesn't suit what
we need for survival. IMO, it's more impossible for their to be nothing out there. Anyways, I believe we're not alone. Not that aliens live among us (though I wouldn't exactly rule that out), but that aliens exist. Aliens not necessarily meaning little green men and not necessarily meaning human being look-a-likes on other planets. Just other lifeforms out there, in general. Enough back story. After numerous arguements about her being narrow-minded and myself being crazy, I finally had her believing that their could be something out there. Afterall, my whole arguement was that I could accept that their
might not be something out there (because I don't have proof), but she wouldn't (at first) accept that their
might be something out there. So one day, while leaving my place of work together, the door was nailed shut on the whole debate. Around the time that Mars was getting really close to the Earth, I was looking up into the sky with her to show her where it was (the whole Mars thing had my interests over-flowing). It was always easier to view at night and at the time, the sun was just starting to go down. Both of us were looking into the sky when we both saw this blue light flicker from blue to white to blue to red to blue (it was really fast). The light was circular and really small in the sky (not so much really small, as it was just really far), diagonal from where we were looking. When we first saw it, it was still (with the lights) and we both were just trying to figure out what the hell it was. I then said, "you're seeing this right?" To which she said something along the lines of, "yeah, what the

?" Without just believing it had to be an alien spaceship or something, we both just kind of were trying to figure out if it was a planet of some sort. Maybe we were just imagining the lights or maybe it was some kind of a plane or something. Though it wasn't moving....yet. All of a sudden, with us stopped and staring, the object moved. We knew it had to be something other than anything we knew about, because of the way it moved. It first went south just a little bit (put your finger in the air and move it just an inch, now think of something far away, the size of a bigger star that you'd see at night). Then it stopped (for about one second) and quickly moved back up north about double the distance, then stopped (again, only for about a second). It finally went south just a little more and then shot up north, the blue light flickering to white then disappearing. The sky was clear with no clouds in sight. We then just stared for about 10 seconds until we looked at each other like, "holy shit." Ever since then, we haven't had any arguements over the existance of something other than what's on Earth.
I hope that was along the lines of something that you were looking for.
[quote name='onetrackmind']Thanks for the contest Cheapy!
This is actually a true story... I was around 8 or 9 at the time. I am pretty close to my cousins and at the time they lived out in an area called West Alton, the area is basically a lot of farmland. Anyways i had spent the weekend at my cousins house and my dad had come to pick me up. We were driving home late at night (around 10 pm or so i guess) and my dad sees this really bright light in the sky, and he goes "Hey look at that."
The light was moving across the sky kinda slow from the left to the right (about the speed of a plane) then it stopped and hovered in place for a couple seconds then it started dropping towards the ground at about the same speed. It stopped hovered again for a couple seconds then it took off (seriously i've never seen anything that fast and move like this) and it was gone.
It basically disappeared out of thin air. The whole experience lasted probably 20 seconds. After it disappeared me and my dad both looked at each other and i asked him what was that and my dad goes "i dont know." To this day we don't have a clue what it was, could have been a plane but i dont know of a plane that could have done the things that this thing did.[/QUOTE]
wtf? that's just about the same thing that happened to me
i swear, i was typing mine up just after i saw cheapy's first post and noone had yet replied
that's crazy