[mel80]

Does anyone look into the night sky and wonder if there is anyone staring back at us on planet earth? Also does anyone like watching the night sky for passing shooting stars I use that term very loosley ie.. space junk etc I love watching a great meteor shower and they actually make sounds as they are passing thru the atmosphere. Has anyone seen anything weird in the night sky ??????

[arcangel]

I look at the night sky frequently. I have seen one very odd thing but when I watch the night sky I'm not looking for anything other than what is there. The effect of moonlight on large banks of translucent clouds creates an imagined world of wonder and peace. Great pearlescent castles and canyons whose depth of beauty and subtleties of form are transient and unattainable...fills my empty soul for a moment and then breaks my heart.

[mel80]

Originally Posted by arcangel

I look at the night sky frequently. I have seen one very odd thing but when I watch the night sky I'm not looking for anything other than what is there. The effect of moonlight on large banks of translucent clouds creates an imagined world of wonder and peace. Great pearlescent castles and canyons whose depth of beauty and subtleties of form are transient and unattainable...fills my empty soul for a moment and then breaks my heart.

How right you are looking at the moon highlights the clouds and they sure do look pearly I tend to let my mind run abit and make creations in my mind just like being a child again

[shezbut]

Personally, I believe that there are other forms of life in our own solar system. Maybe not "intelligent" life, but it does exist.

So it feels automatic that in all of the galaxies in this universe ~ of course there are other intelligent forms of life out there. There must be! Galaxies upon galaxies with millions of solar systems. Really! I find it simply impossible to believe that we are the most intelligent lifeforms that have ever existed in this universe.

I think the show Twilight Zone was ahead of it's time and we've regressed since then. In the United States anyway. Modern civilizations are so focused upon ourselves and NOW, many people don't seem to even bother working with their imaginations & thinking about the future of mankind.

Like I said, those are my personal thoughts.

[Indie'sOK]

You guys are going to think this is extremely stupid but....seriously, one of my biggest fears is of aliens. Yeah. I watched this show a couple years ago called "Seeing Is Believing" - it was like some documentary or prime time special on NBC or something - and it completely freaked me out. I've had this phobia in the back of my mind ever since, and I dream about it sometimes.

[arcangel]

I agree the odds are incredibly high that there is more life somewhere in the universe if not in this solar system or galaxy. About that strange thing I saw...all I saw was a light about the size of a large star. We thought it was a star. Until it moved. It appeared to be moving randomly but who knows? After the moving around a bit it became stationary again for a short while. Then it appeared to zoom away. This all occurred in the space of a few seconds. If we hadn't been looking at the right spot at the right time we would have missed it. Maybe others have seen this happen too and just never said anything.
I hope we are not the most intelligent life extant

Lieutenant Rozanov: Very clever little boy. Very, very clever, to see that my friend and I are foreigners here, but of course not Russian, naturally. What would the Russians be doing on United States of America island, with so many animosities and hatreds between these two countries? It is too funny an idea, is it not? No, we, we are of course... Norveegans.

[unaluna]

When I was younger (late 20's, 30's - that is, MY 30's, not the 1930's!) I would often racewalk a few miles in the morning before work, ie before sunrise. I am zipping down a main thoroughfare around 6 am, I happen to look up and I see a glowing, yellowish, rounded, flat on the bottom and top, OBJECT in the sky moving swiftly in my direction! I about p00ped my drawers. I said, well, if I meet aliens, so be it. What did I read all that science fiction for as a kid, if not for this?

Then I realized it was a streetlight, and it was my movement toward it, that made it look like IT was moving toward me. But for a moment, it felt like the real thing! Wil Wheaton, eat your heart out!

[arcangel]

Originally Posted by hankster

When I was younger (late 20's, 30's - that is, MY 30's, not the 1930's!) I would often racewalk a few miles in the morning before work, ie before sunrise. I am zipping down a main thoroughfare around 6 am, I happen to look up and I see a glowing, yellowish, rounded, flat on the bottom and top, OBJECT in the sky moving swiftly in my direction! I about p00ped my drawers. I said, well, if I meet aliens, so be it. What did I read all that science fiction for as a kid, if not for this?

Then I realized it was a streetlight, and it was my movement toward it, that made it look like IT was moving toward me. But for a moment, it felt like the real thing! Wil Wheaton, eat your heart out!

racewalking...6am...mistakes a streetlight for a ufo...okay hankster...
I want to believe

[unaluna]

The air was very polluted that morning!

(dancingchilli racewalking)

[mel80]

Originally Posted by arcangel

I agree the odds are incredibly high that there is more life somewhere in the universe if not in this solar system or galaxy. About that strange thing I saw...all I saw was a light about the size of a large star. We thought it was a star. Until it moved. It appeared to be moving randomly but who knows? After the moving around a bit it became stationary again for a short while. Then it appeared to zoom away. This all occurred in the space of a few seconds. If we hadn't been looking at the right spot at the right time we would have missed it. Maybe others have seen this happen too and just never said anything.
I hope we are not the most intelligent life extant

I'd like to think that it was a visitor but am more inclined to think that it was perhaps some secret U.S. Army testing going on.Oooops I hope no one from the U.S. government reads this message

[shezbut]

Originally Posted by Indie'sOK

You guys are going to think this is extremely stupid but....seriously, one of my biggest fears is of aliens.... I've had this phobia in the back of my mind ever since, and I dream about it sometimes.

I don't think that you're stupid. Our imaginations can think up some pretty scary images and circumstances ~ ever seen that movie "Alien"? The original, with Sigourney Weaver? Scared the bejeezers out of me!

Another movie, Jaws, scared millions of people ~ and that was with shoddy graphics and special effects of the early 80's. Still scary to imagine evil things out there waiting to attack us!

[Indie'sOK]

Thanks Shez......I'd had this fear even before watching the show. It's just something that I'm afraid of.