14% of Americans have seen a UFO ~ Have you?

[Why Syzygy]

Poll question: 14% of Americans have seen a UFO ~ Have you?

According to this news story 14% of American polled last year answered they have seen a UFO.
I have not. Have any other DUers?

Please vote and comment.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/15/wufo115.xml

EDIT: UFO refers to any object which is flying and unidentifiable.

2nd EDIT: oh my. We can go ahead and throw "alien spacecraft" in with UFOs for the purpose of this poll.

[Mojambo]

1. Nope. But I don't get out much. n/t

[fenriswolf]

2. nope

but i am a firm believer in probability.

[Xipe Totec]

3. Yup

I saw an object, it was flying, and I did not know what it was.

[blondeatlast]

9. Me too. nt

[Der Blaue Engel]

4. What do you mean by UFO?

Alien spacecraft or just the term as it's actually meant: Unidentified Flying Object? I'm sure there are many more people who would vote the latter than the former.

[Xipe Totec]

6. There are alien life forms living in the Great Lakes

zebra mussels, mostly.

[Buzz Clik]

11. And there's this awful creature on the East Coast.

[Xipe Totec]

15. Gah!

and I thought dinos had died millions of years ago!

[mrdemocrat78]

47. Don't forget about Gov. Granholm

Oh wait, she's just a Canadian; which explains why she lets Canada dump all it's garbage in Michigan.

I wish we had real Dems in michigan.

[Buzz Clik]

8. If you determined that the flying craft is an alien ship, it's no longer unidentified.

And, under those circumstances, I have seen no UFOs.

[Der Blaue Engel]

17. Well under that definition (yes, the actual one)

wouldn't everyone in the world have seen a UFO? I've seen many things in the sky that I personally couldn't identify, but were most likely planes.

[Buzz Clik]

20. Exactly. And some flying objects have been only broadly identified.

[El Supremo]

5. I used to make them.

Plastic bags from the cleaners inflated and put aloft with candles.

[Uben]

54. Me, too!

We actually saw the cops shoot one down one time. Those were the days!

[jschurchin]

7. Yep, and to be honest.............

It scared the fucking shit out of me. If it would ever happen again, it would be way too soon.

[Missy M]

10. Every time I thought I saw one.....

as it got closer to me I realized it was just an airplane. I would really love to see one, it would be exciting.

[tekisui]

12. I saw something, once. In daylight. It was high in the sky

very high. It wasn't moving, I saw it motionless for probably 10+ minutes. I took a picture of it. I still don't know what it was. It could have been a blimp, it was that shape, but to high up to see details.

Still have the picture. Still don't know what it was. Many others were there, and watched it with me.

[Bigmack]

13. Nope... Nor an honest Repub...

.. officeholder.

In either case, that doesn't mean that there is no such thing.

[Richard D]

14. Nope,

But I'd love to . . . beam me up already dammit!

[bigwillq]

16. Yes

I saw something flying and I didn't know what it was. Unidentified flying object. They really do exist.

[Kali]

18. UFO's? sure. did I think they were ships piloted by aliens? nope

Just couldn't identify them.

[Pavulon]

19. Yep. I could not tell if it was 777 or Airbus

but it was really big..

[Lilith Velkor]

21. Yes, but it was identified later

The Unification Church (aka Moonies) had a blimp.

[JFN1]

22. I've seen several UFO's

But I don't know if they were "aliens" or "flying saucers." I've seen some weird things floating through the skies, even took pics of a couple of them. One is a thing that looks like a box - it was floating over my house in Parkrose (Portland) for about half an hour - didn't move, was pretty high up, and could not tell what it was. I took a couple of pics of it, went in to get my telescope a bit later, to see if i could identify it, and when I came out again, it was gone.

Well, you tell me what it is. The first pic is a shot from my front yard of the object - the second is a shot of the object at maximum zoom.

[crikkett]

27. WOW

It almost looks like a TARDIS

[JFN1]

31. You're right

It does, I guess. Interesting...

PS - For those who don't know what a TARDIS is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TARDIS

[Why Syzygy]

35. Was it moving? n/t

[JFN1]

40. No, it never moved

It stayed there, like it was nailed down (up?) for about half an hour and then was gone - I didn't see it leave, never saw it move.

[ThoughtCriminal]

64. Garbage Bag Balloon?

Impossible to really say from the image, but it's the first thing I thought of. The air would have to rather still for it to remain in one place for that long.

Here's a video (there are several).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV05VFgLNkc

[librechik]

65. it was generating some kind of energy, possibly heat or air movement

you can see a disturbance around the object registered as moire patterns in the digital photo.

cool.

[Zorra]

23. I've seen flying objects that I could not identify. So I have to say yes,

I've seen unidentified flying objects.

I'm not saying they were alien spacecraft, just sayin' I don't know what the hell they were.

[Kucinich4America]

24. Put me down as a maybe

Probably when I was 12 or 13, I looked out my bedroom window and saw some lights up in the night sky. The arrangement of the lights didn't look like an airplane, nor was it moving like a plane. At the same time I saw this, the lights in the house blinked off and on a couple of times, and there was nothing unusual about the weather at the time.

Not the most conclusive evidence by any means, but I don't have any better explanation for the odd sequence of events.

[MorningGlow]

25. Nope, never have, but I want to n/t

[Kingofalldems]

26. Yes in 1978

At 1 am. Oblong, flying just above the treetops and barely moving. I slowed down my car to listen for an engine and heard nothing. Then I decided I must be mistaken and started to drive away. As I drove away I noticed a man who had pulled over, he was leaning on his car's trunk and observing the object. I will never forget the look of terror on his face. I got the hell out of there.

[screembloodymurder]

28. In 1979 my nine-year-old twin boys saw a black "triangle"

just 300' above a barn down the street. They said it was huge (2 football fields), shaped like an arrowhead (a triangle with a slight projection in the rear), and made no noise. When it did start moving they said it smoothly accelerated and was out of sight w/i seconds. I had them draw pictures and was quite skeptical because I had never heard of a triangular UFO. I had completely forgotten the incident until recently when I discovered the drawings while cleaning the attic.

The boys had been walking our dog and were gone for over an hour, we searched the neighborhood and found no trace of them. My wife and I were in the house discussing calling the police when they walked in the door. They said they thought they were only gone 10 minutes and only walked to the corner and back.

30 years later, when my first grandchild was staying at our house for the first time, I awoke one night to a strange noise/vibration. I sat up in bed as the sound got louder/closer and seemed to be coming from just outside my window. Suddenly, a very bright light came through the window (I thought it was a police copter) and filled the room. I felt my muscles weakening with the ever louder vibration and I looked into the hall in time to see my dog fall in a heap upon the floor. I collapsed back into bed and though I tried, I could not even keep my eyes open. In the morning I asked my wife if she'd heard the noise (she hadn't) and after hearing my story she laughed and went into the kitchen to make coffee. She returned with the sheets to our bed which had somehow been stripped from beneath the covers while we slept and wound up on the kitchen floor. I might have been sleepwalking (no history of it), but that was the wildest dream I ever had.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

29. Sure. But, I never believed for a moment that they were space aliens.

Merely things that I couldn't readily identify.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

30. Yes, I have and I was not alone when I saw it. I called the local police station and couldn't

get through as the phone must have been ringing off the hook. It wasn't a nebulous light in the sky either. It was a low flying huge object that hardly made a noise. Along its perimeters were lights.

Out of curiosity I just decided to do a search on the net, and found someone who posted about the same incident! Cool!

http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/052/S52400.html

Occurred : 9/15/1989 22:30 (Entered as : 09/15/89 22:30)
Reported: 9/8/2006 6:30:19 PM 18:30
Posted: 10/30/2006
Location: Peekskill, NY
Shape: Unknown
Duration:1 minute
Massive, low flying, slowly moving craft that emitted no sound.

While travelling a back road through a wooded residential area, I observed a very large object in the sky that appeared to be just above the tree tops. I slowed my car to a near stop. My impression was that it was massive; football field in size. I could almost sense its mass before seeing it.

It moved extemely slow, there was no sound. There were lights,but I can no longer remember if colored or white nor the configuration. The lights were not exremely bright. Its color was dark and shape unknown because of tree cover.

I could not clearly see its details, only a partial outline and impression of tremendous mass. I was perplexed and frightened.

I was following a friends car. When we reached our destination, her first words to me, unprovoked,were "Did you see that?" We were stunned.

I remain stunned to this day.


((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD))

It's possible that this person didnt' hear the low noise that I heard because they were in a car. I saw it from my front steps.

[BuyingThyme]

32. I really don't have the time to be identiying all the flying objects.

I can't even tell a 707 from a 747.

[bridgit]

33. yes...

[karlrschneider]

34. When I worked for Senator Tom Coburn's daddy in the 70s, I would often fly

the company plane by myself...after dropping off some people somewhere for example. Often during a night flight I would shut off all electrics...if the weather was clear. It is a fairly amazing sensation at high altitude with no lights except those on the ground and those in the sky and it's impossible to tell where the line of demarcation is. Even discerning which way is "up" is difficult. I did that one night coming back from Toronto, it was a crystal clear night, I was by myself and I flipped off the master switch (technically an illegal thing since it shut down the outside navigation lights) and immersed myself in what seemed like a bigger than usual universe. And after a few minutes I saw 4 bright lights that -appeared- to be about my altitude (very hard to judge this) that moved VERY fast (relative to my field of vision) toward then past and to my right rear. Have no idea what I was seeing. No LGMs involved though...

[Digit]

36. Interesting, thanks for posting this, vsm n/t

[Blackhatjack]

37. The 3 people who have had interaction with them --I want to hear from them! LOL

[begin_within]

38. No, but the famous Rex Heflin photos were in our house for one night.

My Dad worked for the Orange County Road Department, and he was friends with Rex Heflin, who took some photos on a road in an agricultural area of Orange County, California. (At least it was agricultural then, nowadays that whole area is built up.) My dad brought them to our house one night and I remember holding them in my hand. He took them back to work the next day and gave them back to Rex. Those photos have since become famous in the UFO world. Unfortunately I never got to meet Rex and both him and my father have passed away now. But that is the closest I have ever gotten to a UFO sightning.

[rumpel]

39. yes, n/t

[Why Syzygy]

41. 45% so far!

That's amazing. I wonder how accurate the poll was. Thanks for everyone's replies. All very interesting.

[pnwmom]

42. When I was only 4 or 5, I was sure I saw

Santa's sleigh in the sky on Christmas eve.

Does that count?

[deacon]

43. I thought I did but actually it was a pat roberston gonad from the time

he leg pressed 2000 pounds.

[Elwood P Dowd]

44. "I saw a UFO and nobody believes me."

From Connie Mitchell....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7cNI-0Ozr4

[Sanctified]

45. When I was really little about 5 or 6

I saw some strange lights in Arizona outside my parents window when I snuck into their room to sleep with when I was little. I remember these little white dots doing some crazy light show way off in the distance, it almost looked like a hospital health monitor in the sky, I did not realize at the time it could be a UFO but I have never seen anything like it since and that has been 30+ years.

[JMDEM]

46. No, but...

I've had several people who I respect say they've seen one. All accounts were discussed in a peculiar way, like the people didn't really want to talk about it, and you could tell by the look in their eyes that they were recalling something quite disturbing. Not like they were bragging or making up stories.

And what they briefly described were NOT airplane lights or Venus or swamp gas -- they saw large mechanical "things" hovering and moving silently a few yards to a few hundred yards off the ground. The attitude of these people was more along the fear line than anything else -- maybe like a deer feels when it senses humans around -- better get the F* out of here before something bad happens.

[leftynyc]

48. Yup, I was in Sedona, AZ

It was New Year's Eve around 6 years ago but this was waaaaay before the drinking began. Around dusk.

[I Have A Dream]

49. I haven't, but I wouldn't rule out that alien visitation occurs. nt

[Perry Logan]

50. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

[ellisonz]

51. I don't trust polls.

[Echo In Light]

52. No. I've seen plenty of sad, lunatic, screwy shit, but never anything I couldn't identify

[Tracer]

53. Yes. One night when I was sixteen, ...

... I was looking out my bedroom window and saw a large round, glowing orange object moving slowly from right to left, above the tree line at the end of my street. It made a buzzing sound.

When I told my family about it, they pooh-poohed my description and claimed I had seen the moon!

A few years later, I saw a small item in the newspaper about an engineer in Maine who had seen the same object. I kept that clipping in my wallet for years.

[youthere]

55. Not me personally but my grandmother...

swore she saw one, and my stepfather had been in the air force, stationed in Alaska, and he always said without a doubt that UFO's (in the alien sense) are real...though he'd never go into detail.

[japple]

56. Have never seen one, but I do believe others who have

reported their sightings, including my pres. candidate, Dennis Kucinnich.

[Phoonzang]

57. Nope, and I think 95 percent can be "identified"

There are some cases however that might very well be something alien spacecraft. There I said it. I think aliens are visiting Earth.

[JFN1]

58. I'm with you

I think about 95% of UFOs can be explained mundanely. But the rest...

[windoe]

59. Have seen disk

break off from a black helicopter once, then had strange dreams and physical symptoms for six months after the dreams, and the following spring in another country on the other side of the planet there was a dinner plate size disk floating above my head for about a minute silently. I feel I have been tagged somehow. I know people would not laugh if this happened to them, it is quite disturbing to say the least. Many of my posts about this are taken offline, since this is a sensitive subject related to surveillance.

[rosesaylavee]

60. Maybe.

When I was a teenager, my friend and I had just finished smoking the funny stuff and saw something. So unfortunately, I don't think that counts. We saw a huge round, grey metallic craft with incredible number of multi-colored lights and it flew over our heads without a sound.

[Breeze54]

61. I haven't but my mother swore she did one night...

She was totally freaked out about it and it was in a populated area. Not out in the desert.

[ThoughtCriminal]

62. Not exactly

I've seen identifiable objects that others have reported as UFOs

[BrotherBuzz]

63. Nope, But I definitely saw Chem-trails up until 2003