My Almost UFO Encounter
By Jeff Moffitt
@moffittjc (128824)
Gainesville, Florida
March 1, 2016 8:39pm CST
I had an interesting encounter tonight on my evening run. Unfortunately, due to heavy smoke in the area from controlled burns by the Division of Forestry, I couldn't hardly breathe, so I turned and headed back home. Off in the distance, up in the hazy night sky, I saw a large, glowing blue oval-shaped object sitting stationary just above the tree line.
My heart skipped a few beats in an almost panic stricken moment as I briefly pondered whether I was staring at a UFO! I stopped in my tracks and watched the object for several moments. Although it seemed to be drifting slowly, it was pretty much stationary.
Seeing that no one else around the area seemed to be in a panic over an impending alien invasion, I knew there had to be a reasonable explanation for what I was looking at in the night sky.
Sure enough, it dawned on me after a few minutes just exactly what I was looking at. Once I realized, the answer was obvious, although the hazy and smokey sky made it difficult to figure out at first.
Just down the road from where I live, the University of Florida mens basketball team was playing in a nationally-televised game against the Kentucky Wildcats. The object in the sky was none other than the DirectTV blimp!
I can certainly laugh about it now, but for a few seconds I really though I had spotted a UFO in the night sky!
Have you ever encountered a UFO?
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@VivaLaDani13 (60812)
• Perth, Australia
17 Apr 16
No that's what they want to make you believe. There's really aliens in that! The game is just a distraction to keep you from seeing the little green men inside the blimp! lol Nah I know what you mean. I've had SO many occasions where I think I have seen something in the sky but it wasn't what I was imaging. I think I let my imagination run wild on purpose just because it would be awesome and literally out of this world to see a UFO in the sky for a good amount of time.
I have however seen what I would like to believe was a UFO. Not sure if I already told you this story so I apologise if I am repeating myself.
It was when I was around 9 or 10 years old. Dad and I went for a drive for some reason, at night time and we spotted something in the sky. It was 3 lights that formed a triangle. We saw it for about maybe 3 seconds and then couldn't see it because trees got in the way.
We knew where it was though. Was hovering over a football field / soccer field. We kept our eyes on it as the trees passed and when we went to that area, it was completely gone. We didn't see it take off or anything. It just vanished. It was really odd. It wasn't small either. Wasn't massive but it wasn't small. My dad and I both saw it. If it wasn't a UFO, then what the hell were those lights and why weren't they there when we reached where we knew it was!
Anyway years later, dad and I were watching this old DVD we had that were about UFOs & aliens and the same 3 pointed triangle shape was on there. Which is apparently quite common. I couldn't believe it. We had never watched this DVD before. We had bought it but never sat down to actually watch it so it's not like this object was planted in our minds ya know. It was just odd.
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@moffittjc (128824)
• Gainesville, Florida
17 Apr 16
You are right! Lights in a triangle shape are extremely common occurrences among those reporting UFO sightings. The hardest thing about UFO sightings is that there almost always can be a logical explanation, or the government can lie and tell us some made up explanation. That's why so many people struggle to believe that the phenomenon is real. Personally, I believe their are advanced alien life forms somewhere out there in the universe, and I also believe our planet has been visited by them. Hell, maybe us humans were planted on this planet by aliens thousands of years ago and they are occasionally checking in on us to see how we're doing. Who knows? Like they say in the X-Files tv show, "the truth is out there somewhere!"
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@moffittjc (128824)
• Gainesville, Florida
19 Apr 16
@VivaLaDani13 I definitely don't trust anything the government says. And the problem with finding out for ourselves is that, if any body comes forward with credible information or proof, the government will either do everything they can to discredit them or make them look crazy, or simply make the person disappear. I think the government purposely wants us to be unsure and confused, because then it makes it harder for us to know if we're on the right path to discovering something big.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60812)
• Perth, Australia
18 Apr 16
@moffittjc Funny you say that because I have thought about that. About us being planted here by aliens. Like we were an ant farm kinda of pet to them lol But you're right, who knows. We can all have theories and opinions but we will never know until we see it for ourselves. I don't trust the government so whatever they say, I take with a grain of salt.
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
2 Mar 16
I was on a bus trip once. I looked out the window and saw some silver discs flying in and out of a large cloud with lightning flashing out of it. Also, one time, an object was shining a light on our car out in the country. The car would not go anymore until it left. The kids wrote about it in their school diaries.
@moffittjc (128824)
• Gainesville, Florida
2 Mar 16
Cue the theme music from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind!" You've had not one, but two unexplainable encounters. That's pretty intense!
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
2 Mar 16
@moffittjc I don't know what the discs were. There was a farmer in the field under it. He was peering into his tractor motor.
The other thing was just eerie. I did not like it at all. It had headlights like a flying car. Weirdest thing I ever saw. I started to think I imagined it until I looked at the kid's diaries. They both wrote about it on the same day.
@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
2 Mar 16
No, and I'm sure that no one else has either, although another member shared some photos on here within the last few months. It seems that there's a cloud that's known as a UFO as it tends to be spherical in nature and easy for someone to figure it as such.
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@moffittjc (128824)
• Gainesville, Florida
3 Mar 16
I think in most instances there is a logical or scientific explanation for most of the unexplained objects we see. Just because we can't explain it doesn't mean it's extra-terrestrial or something!
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@Poppylicious (11134)
• United Kingdom
2 Mar 16
I saw some lights in the sky once but realised after a few minutes that it wasn't a UFO at all, just some lights from a nightclub about six miles away. I believe that most UFO sightings can be explained.
@moffittjc (128824)
• Gainesville, Florida
3 Mar 16
I agree. I think there is almost always a rational explanation.
@JESSY3236 (22199)
• United States
2 Mar 16
I haven't. But I have heard other people talk about their experiences. I just saw an headline that the government is releasing UFO documents.
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@moffittjc (128824)
• Gainesville, Florida
3 Mar 16
You and I sound a lot alike. I also like logical explanations for stuff.
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@moffittjc (128824)
• Gainesville, Florida
3 Mar 16
Me too James! Not that I ever expect to find anything, I just think it's really fun to look out for things like that!
