Anybody ever seen a UFO? I saw one last Thursday. First one I've ever seen.
Four of us were on a small ranch north of Laredo, TX. (One was on his cell phone, and missed the whole thing.) The owner of the ranch had told friends various accounts of weird things he'd seen on his ranch, and several of us had made fun of him and not believed him.
This night, we were looking up at the sky on and off since there was no moon, and the sky was clear. Many stars were visible, and we were watching satellites, and tracking them accross the sky. By "satellites", I mean singular white non-flashing lights that appeared to move in a single direction without altering course, and moving at a fairly rapid speed accross the sky.
We identified our fourth "satellite", and tracked it as it moved. It appeared to be moving from the west to the east in a straight line (if I have my directions correct). We were watching it move, and noticed that it rapidly appeared to be getting closer and looked like it was coming straight down and at us. It closed really quickly. I can't say how fast, but it seemed to change its course from west to east, to straight down.
As it was coming down, the white light we were following got really bright, and appeared to be larger. It's hard to say if it changed in size, or if it just looked bigger as it got closer (probably the case).
As it closed in toward us, my first impulse was to think that it was a meteorite or a piece of space junk. I was so convinced that it was going to hit our location, that I started to back up (I was standing). I expected the light to turn orange as the object "burned up", but it never did.
Just as I moved back a couple of spaces, the object seemed to hesitate for a split second, and just as quickly as it closed in on our position, it changed direction, and headed away on a diagonal line heading out to the sky and to the south. It seemed to move away from us faster than it closed in.
We were all amazed. The owner of the ranch was then saying things like "now do you believe me?" He also said something that I had been thinking, but hadn't said aloud. He said that it seemed like "they" took a picture of us. There is no way to support this, but it seemed as if they noticed we had noticed them, and came in to take a look at us. Seems like an odd thing to say, but that is what we felt.
I've never seen anything like this in my life. I don't frequent UFO sights. The whole thing, from when we started tracking the object, to when it left us, was probably about 30 seconds in total. However, the interesting part where it closed in on us and moved away from us was probably about 3 seconds. The three of us who witnessed the sighting, all agreed on what we saw.
Anybody have any UFO sighting experiences of their own? Also, does anyone have any links of UFO forums that don't have a bunch of stuff that happened back in the fifties? I'd like to see if I can find other similar stories, but with more current reports.
