Science I think I detected a UFO. - Page 3

**Rain Man** · 09-01-2022, 08:56 PM

I was driving in a really rural area a couple of days ago. It was a bright day with scattered clouds that were really high.

I was on a quiet country road with agricultural fields on both sides of me. So if you think about my field of vision, it was essentially this:

crops
ditch
road
ditch
crops

There were no trees nearby, though you could see them at a distance, maybe 1,000 feet away in various copses.

There were no other cars visible.

So I'm driving, and all of a sudden I see a shadow moving from left to right. It was maybe 30 or 40 feet in diameter, kind of round but not exactly. It was the shape of a manta ray without the wings.

It moved left to right at a notable speed, but not extremely fast. It moved at maybe 20 mph from left to right. I didn't notice on the crops, but I noticed it at the ditch on my left and then it was clear when it crossed the road, and then onto the ditch to my right. It lasted maybe 3 or 4 seconds at most.

I immediately looked up, because I wondered what it was. I heard no noise at all that would indicate a plane or drone or helicopter. But there was nothing in the sky, nothing at all.

The shadow was very clear and obvious. It was free-moving, with no long tail like a tree shadow or something. It was far too big to be a bird or drone, and not the right shape for a plane or helicopter. It was too fast to be a cloud, and there were no low clouds anyway. The shadow was discrete and roundish and clearly moving at an unnaturally fast pace.

My only conclusion is that it was an alien scout ship with a cloaking device, but even with the cloaking it still cast a shadow.

Can anyone offer an alternative explanation?

**PHOG** · 09-02-2022, 01:26 PM

Was that a knock on your door?

Dunerdr · 09-02-2022, 01:39 PM

It's clearly a time lapse/alternate reality merger. The area you were in was once a shallow ocean, or is in another reality (see the Mandela effect). Your brain in this reality cannot comprehend that you were under water with light being blocked by a manta ray in another reality.

In all seriousness on the expanded perspectives pod cast there are reports regularly of people seeing manta rays in the sky. Its interesting that so many people would see them. It could be project blue beam (look it up) or a time lapse. Or reality merger. Or an alien ship.

ToxSocks · 09-02-2022, 01:53 PM

Sounds like you had a run in with Mothman.

wheeler08 · 09-02-2022, 02:11 PM

Pics or it didn’t happen!

displacedinMN · 09-02-2022, 02:47 PM

This just popped up for me

ToxSocks · 09-02-2022, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by displacedinMN

This just popped up for me

And this is why i leave the possibility of ghosts/demons/supernatural etc open.

**Rain Man** · 09-02-2022, 03:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by displacedinMN

This just popped up for me
...

That stuff's weird to think about. I've read that different species pick up different wave lengths, so they live in a different world than we do even if we're right next to them. I think it's particularly true of insects.

kccrow · 09-02-2022, 03:38 PM

I'm as much a believer in the extraterrestrial as there is but it seems there is probably some other explanation. A high cloud you didn't notice perhaps. I'm not sure about the possibility of a brief planetary shadow from Venus. I'm not an astronomy expert.

ToxSocks · 09-02-2022, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by kccrow

I'm as much a believer in the extraterrestrial as there is but it seems there is probably some other explanation. A high cloud you didn't notice perhaps. I'm not sure about the possibility of a brief planetary shadow from Venus. I'm not an astronomy expert.

I already said it was Mothman. Case closed. Sheesh.

Dunerdr · 09-02-2022, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Detoxing

I already said it was Mothman. Case closed. Sheesh.

The brohio podcast had some great mothman erotica sent in the other day. Did you know his peenor has little feathers?

rtmike · 09-02-2022, 06:51 PM

No you did not!
It was a plane.
-guvment.

Wisconsin_Chief · 09-02-2022, 07:25 PM

All I can say is with everything that has been declassified the past few years and all the new data NASA is releasing, if you think it’s impossible that the OP saw a UFO, you’ve got some serious cognitive dissonance going on.

Not saying it was, I wasn’t there and there’s no definitive proof. However, the chances that it was some kind of otherworldly craft are not even really unlikely at this point. Probably more likely as it was just a military craft, but not impossible by any extent.

SuperBowl4 · 09-02-2022, 07:32 PM

I saw UFO with Michael Schenker in the 80's! AWESOME!!

MarkDavis'Haircut · 09-02-2022, 08:08 PM

Get a gang of teenagers in a funky van on the case.

kccrow · 09-02-2022, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Detoxing

I already said it was Mothman. Case closed. Sheesh.

I'll take your word for it but it just seems like a moth wouldn't leave a round shadow. He's probably pretty slick though and has some shape-shifting device.

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09-01-2022, 08:56 PM
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Dunerdr MVP Join Date: Oct 2012 Casino cash: $-2910000	It's clearly a time lapse/alternate reality merger. The area you were in was once a shallow ocean, or is in another reality (see the Mandela effect). Your brain in this reality cannot comprehend that you were under water with light being blocked by a manta ray in another reality. In all seriousness on the expanded perspectives pod cast there are reports regularly of people seeing manta rays in the sky. Its interesting that so many people would see them. It could be project blue beam (look it up) or a time lapse. Or reality merger. Or an alien ship. __________________ Adopt-A-Chief- Rachel Santschi
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