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Think you’ve seen a UFO? Please read through this checklist first and look for other explanations. Even some of the most dedicated UFO researchers have never seen one in person.

  • Object visible in daylight
  • Seems to drift, move slowly, or hover
  • May appear to change shape
  • May appear to be blinking or flashing
  • No rapid acceleration without cause (such as wind)
  • Silent

Probable explanation: Balloon. Mylar balloons in particular are extremely reflective and often oddly shaped.

  • Object moves erratically, but appears to “swing” through a direction change
  • Object may hover
  • Flashing or steady lights of various colors
  • Changing colors
  • Produces whirring or buzzing noise at close range

Probable explanation: Drone. Drones are becoming increasingly common, and it can be extremely difficult to determine scale, especially at night (this is why the moon appears much larger when it is close to the horizon).

  • Seen at night
  • Object appears to the naked eye to fly only in a straight line
  • Has at least one light that blinks on a regular occasion, usually spaced a second or two apart
  • Object moves slowly
  • A deep roar may be heard

Probable explanation: Plane. If a plane is coming towards or going away from you, it may appear to be barely moving at all. Even from great distances, some noise is usually evident.

  • Seen at night
  • Object is dim, but may occasionally seem to slowly brighten and then fade
  • Object moves in a straight line and never turns, even on video
  • No sound

Probable Explanation: Satellite. The sky is filled with thousands of satellites zooming in every possible direction. Some may be visible to the naked eye under certain conditions.

  • Object is visible at dusk or dark
  • Does not move at all in relation to other celestial objects
  • Object may have some color, but it doesn’t change
  • Object appears to twinkle

Probable explanation: Mars, Venus, or other celestial object. At certain times, planets in our solar system can be quite bright and easily visible to the naked eye.

  • Object seen at night
  • Multiple objects visible
  • Objects appear to be slowly ascending or drifting
  • Objects appear to flicker
  • Direction does not suddenly change

Probable explanation: Chinese lanterns. Sounds ludicrous, but check some videos out on YouTube. They’re surprisingly common and very deceptive if you’ve never seen them.

  • Multiple objects may be visible
  • Objects appear to be steadily lit
  • Objects may suddenly change direction, but usually don’t
  • Objects drift erratically in relation to each other, but often going the same direction

Probable explanation: Birds. At night, they can be lit up from below, particularly over cities.

  • Object may move at “impossible” or very high speeds
  • Travels only in a straight line
  • Leaves a trail behind it
  • Object may split apart
  • Appears to get much brighter, then gradually dims

Probable explanation: Meteor. The trail is often the best giveaway, although some may be shorter than others.

  • Object(s) seen at night or dusk
  • One or multiple are seen as a point of light
  • They either stay the same position relative to each other or they move relative to each other
  • 3 of them can appear as a triangle shich can rotate in the sky and change into different sized triangles
  • Object(s) when observed long enough are always going in a downward direction
  • Object(s) eventually always dissappear at the horizon ground level.

Probable explanation: Parachute sky divers with flares burning. These are often spotted at events or occasions, such as the 4th of July

  • Object only shows up on camera
  • Very bright light, seen adjacent to light source in photo
  • Not visible to naked eye

Probable explanation: Lens Flare. The optics of the camera lenses can cause internal reflections.

  • Moves at “impossible” speeds
  • Silent, or slight buzzing at very close range
  • Changes direction as if it is bouncing, like a pinball
  • May suddenly disappear or appear somewhere else
  • Object may be seen to enter or leave water
  • Object lands somewhere other than an airport and is seen to take off again
  • Moves and stops and/or changes direction with precision

Probable explanation: UFO/UAP. If the object meet at least three of these criteria, you’ve seen something worth reporting. Note the date and time you saw it, and if possible mark your location on a map and note the direction you were facing (if your phone has a compass app, open it and take a screenshot!).


I previously posted this pic but only had a copy from the day i uploaded it to my Facebook which was considerably less quality. After some open heart surgery on my Seagate HD (never buy one) i got the original back!!

To reiterate (as i had about 120 football/rugby comments) I saw this around midday-ish when i visited York (UK) in 2012.

To give you some info:

  • Myself and a few others (people whom i saw around me - possibly others saw it?) watched the object slowly but steadily glide from an easterly to westerly direction over the city center of York for around what seemed to be a minute or so (allowing me enough time to get the picture and heavily zoom in) before it flew out of sight like a bullet.
  • It never made a sound that i heard (though i was in a heavily populated area)
  • It never lost altitude the entire time we watched it
  • I would guess it was somewhere between 600ft and 1000ft in the air.
  • The speed in which it flew away was incredible, i could only liken it to something like a bullet. In a second it was gone completely zipped away!

I have also uploaded a screenshot of the image data so people can see its the original file.


Just wanted to share this somewhere.

I was driving home on the 12th around 9:45 at night. I'm on the highway, so there's no lights, and the sky is pretty dark. There's no other traffic outside a car a distance behind me. I have a versa note so I have a high windshield; near the top of it I saw a dull gray shape flash overhead, going the same way I was. It was going fast as well, I was doing 100 km/h and it just flashed by. It was circular from the edge I saw, and fairly high up, just below the few clouds there was. There were no lights on it, so I know it wasn't an aircraft, and there's no military bases anywhere near where I live anymore.

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Did I see something? Granted I may have been under the influence of UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record on Audible on my drive to work on the 23 but I saw a bright ball visible in daylight, it looked like a bright star and there were at least three fighter jets in the area with chem trails.

It was there one minute and gone the next...just gone.


This thing pops up any time someone brings up lazar, and the level of loud ignorance on the subject really irks me, so I thought I'd do a write up of what the scientific concensus is so far.

All elements are isotopes.

  • The element is given by the Proton count, Z
  • The isotope is given by the Neutron count, N

If you look at this visualization of the distribution of stable isotopes, you find Moscovium as the fourth pixel from the right, in the top right portion of the graph. As you can see we only have four pixels or data points(observed isotopes) in moscoviums column. And as most of you will probably intuit from the pattern within the graph, if a stable or semi stable isotope exists, it probably has more neutrons in its nucleus than that of our four points of data.

A more detailed visualization

Interestingly enough elements 109 through 117 (with the notable exception of 111 and 115) all get longer half lives as the neutron count increases for as far out as we've been able to look.

So to sum things up, the island of stability is still very much a thing, and there might be a stable isotope of 115, in the N=180 range perhaps.

We wont know for certain until somebody figures out how to cram a whole lot of neutrons into an already crowded nucleus.

Edit: Found the perfect ELI5

NOVA scienceNOW : 19 - Island Of Stability


I read something recently that was saying one reason aviators shy away from truthful descriptions over comms and backoff whenever hearing "So do you want to report a UFO?" is because the paperwork does exist is and is, so i've read, a very long form to fill out. This seems odd if UFOs are all bs or, per blue book, "Not a security threat". Wouldn't the form just say "So, you saw a UFO eh? Check a box: Orb -- Disc -- Cigar. Have a nice day!" If, in fact, there is a very long form for a pilot to fill out to report a UFO, wouldn't that indicate either A) The powers have legit concerns about unidentified phenomena or B) They don't care about the info, they just want an obnoxious form to discourage pilots from making reports in the first place. The only reason I could imagine it being B is if the powers already knew what they were dealing with and just want to hush "rogue" sightings.


Have we received a reason why the NYT came out with the story last December and have yet to publish a follow up?


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About the UFOs on July 19–20 and July 26–27 in or near Washington D.C.

1) Is the video showing eleven small circles of light moving left to right over the Capital Building legit? Here's a link to one of many examples of it on YouTube

2) Were there many reports from civilians on the ground seeing lights in the sky those two weekends? If so please give me a hint on where to find them.


Just seems a little odd that we're still stuck with classic fake/low quality videos and grainy pictures in 2018..

Edit: No idea this was a common repost and wasn't intending to stir shit.


I've only seen one UFO in my life and it was 4 years ago but i remember it as clear as day because it was Oct 9th 2015, and in front of my house i saw what i thought to be a shooting star, But the object stopped dead in its place, And stayed there for 20 seconds, I was able to catch one quick picture of it but i didn't know if i should post it because it pretty bad quality, But as soon as i took the picture it shot directly up and out of sight, So fast it was incomprehensible. But as it was stopped i noticed it was like a slanted Line, Literally like a \ , with what seemed to be reddish yellow light going around it, It couldn't of been a firework because i literally seen it come out of the sky from a different direction then when it shot up, This has literally been in my mind for 4 years and just had to get it off, All you can really do is take my word, And ill try to post the picture in the comments if you guys want it (I know the exact date because it says on the photo, I'm not that weird) I have no other theory's on what this could be.


I heard a recent interview with Lear where the interviewer was asking him why he wasnt in the Bob Lazar doc. Lear basically said he didnt know exactly, other than the doc wasnt about him it was about Lazar.

Corbell briefly referenced during the promo tour for the Lazar doc about Lear's connection to the Lazar story and following Lear around for the Lear movie, but sort of implied it probably was never gonna see the light of day, for reasons undisclosed. There's just the one 20 minute video on Corbell's website.

But Lear mentioned that he noticed that a bunch of clips and video from his archives that were gathered by Corbell for the Lear movie made their way into the Lazar movie. Lear seemed slightly annoyed by that, but quickly moved past it.

Side note: in this interview, Lear also plainly admitted (albeit reluctantly) that Lazar did in fact have some Element 115 stashed somewhere and that Lear knew where. The interview in question:


My story will not have any bearing on whether you believe him or not but it's still fun for me to tell.

My family moved back to Las Vegas in 1987 and in 1989 we all watched this story unfold.

In 1993 I was walking down the street near my parent's house with my girlfriend looking at Christmas lights and the first house on the street had a jet car with Santa Claus in the drivers seat and a Corvette in the driveway under a carport. I was into cars at the time and this caught my attention. The homeowner happened to be bringing his trash to the curb and I struck up a conversation about the car. After a few minutes of talking it dawned on me that I knew this person somehow. I said this might sound stupid but have you ever been on TV before? At that very moment you could see the disappointment rush over his face. He replied yes that he had been on TV many times and I immediately realized who I was talking to. I exclaimed That's right! You worked at the test site! I mentioned that I was tasked with doing a report for one of my high school classes and expressed interest in doing the report on him and asked if he would mind that and maybe even interview him which he not surprisingly rejected the notion of doing anything on camera. At this point you would have expected him to say goodnight and have a nice life but he offered to make a VHS tape for me with his television appearances so I could use that in my report. I was shocked and grateful at which point he told me when to return for the tape. I returned for the tape and knocked on the door, this time alone, and he handed me the tape without really opening the door and I told him Thank you! The tape had all of his TV interviews as promised and I was just happy to have met him in person. His kindness was never forgotten and I never returned to his home.

The second time I saw him in person was just as much by chance but not nearly as exciting. It was about six months or so later and I worked at the Wherehouse Records store on Decatur and Meadows Lane in Las Vegas in the video department where they rented movies. I saw him one day returning movies and of course immediately recognized him. I didn't say anything since he was on the move and just wanted to return his movies like everyone else and get on with their day.

About maybe ten years ago I searched for Bob Lazar again on the internet to see if there was anything new about him and saw that he was operating his store United Nuclear and of course I had to buy a few things even if I didn't need anything.

Fast forward to 2015 and I watched the new footage of him and George Knapp recapping his story and you can see that he seemed beaten down. Nothing like the person we all saw in 1989.

I was VERY excited when I saw that there was a new documentary in the works and ordered it on iTunes as soon as I could. I stayed up late to watch it as soon as it was available and I have to say that I was a little disappointed with the exception of one scene. The moment that Bob was handed the picture of the hand scanner that he described so long ago. He seemed to really light up and smile.

I just placed another order at United Nuclear after seeing the post here about the poster.


I know you've said time and time again that you have regrets and if you had to do it over again you would have just followed the program and continued your work on this amazing technology and who could blame you. You were clear that you went public for your safety but I say thank you. Your story has had a profound impact on me and I wish you the best. I hope that one day complete vindication will come and undeniable evidence will present itself for the world to see.




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Hey guys! Quick question here. The other day I was driving to meet some friends after work and I saw this ball of light on this road with a few cars passing by me and with me, So it was fairly busy. I got close enough to be under it from a diagonal line of sight. It looked like a hovering stealth bomb shaped craft. Lights on al three points. Fairly bright af. Rolled down my window trying to record with no avail because it make look a tiny ball. I could hear and thought maybe a drone? Very quiet but sounded like it had blades? Drove past it and saw a dim light on the back end of it. Making me think it was a drone. Any ideas?


I keep having a reoccurring dream about UFOs. In the dream there isn't one or two UFOs but thousands of UFOs. I look up into the sky and I see distant lights moving in every direction. The lights are extremely distant (almost like stars) and they're traveling towards the Earth in organized patterns. I have had this dream for several years and the UFOs rarely ever reach the Earth, because I wake up as they get close. Has anyone else had dreams that include a massive amount of UFOs that fill the sky? I wonder what it means.


I believe in the existence of life on other planets and the possibility that they may be visiting us as I’ve seen what I believe could have been extraterrestrial craft (triangle craft; completely silent and metallic with circles at the bottom appearing to be lights that were off and was too big to be a ‘drone.’) But researching UFO and alien related topics is hard because there’s so many batshit crazy people on the internet that fake things like Stan Romanek the child diddler and countless others lol. Anyone have any good suggestions from credible people who aren’t claiming to be pregnant with an alien baby?


Hello, I did 4.5 years in the Army. I would like to raise a possible explanation for US forces back in the 80's saying "Yeah, duh we have multiple S-4's." but then not elaborating any further. This also explains why someone would say "Well yeah, we all knew about S-4" or similar things.

Within the entire US military, there is a "staff" system. These are based on what Napoleon used for his Army. They are assigned according to custom and not "rank".

Within the US military, you have:

S-1: Personnel/manpower

S-2: Intelligence/security

S-3: Operations ("ops")

S-4: Supply/logistics

S-5: Planning (rolled into S-3 in the Army, maybe other branches).

S-6: Communications ("commo")

S-7: Training

S-8: Finance

S-9: Civil Affairs (new)

If I were on Staff Duty (24 hour shift answering phones at Battalion/Brigade HQ, a shitty detail passed around the junior enlisted guys with one NCO), and someone called me up and said "Hey, I'm with Channel 4 news, I'd like to ask you a question." I would request verification from that person, and once it was provided, I would say "Okay, what do you want to know?" If he said "Do you all have an entity, or site, or group of people, anything called S-4?" I would reflexively say "Well, yes, we have many S-4's." If he said, "Okay, what do they do?" I would say "I have to ask for clearance from my supervisor to answer that." And technically I probably should have asked for clearance from S-2 to even tell them we have an S-4, but I'm just being honest that we use the term S-4 multiple times per day, as in, "Sergeant I loaned out four of my magazines ("clips" to civilians) to PFC so-and-so, and he got put on a detail out at this outpost." "Okay, go to S-4 and get four more mags. Next time do an equipment transfer form." (I can't remember what it's called). My "Oh shit I shouldn't answer that" reflex wouldn't have kicked in until they asked what S-4 does. To clarify, every company (~200 soldiers, 5 companies per battalion) and every battalion and each brigade and each division (division and above is G-4, G-2, etc..., however each Army Post [and each Air Force Base/Marine Base/Navy Base] still have dozens of S-4's), they all have an S-4. You legitimately have like 20 S-4's in each Brigade (~4,000 soldiers), and 80 in every Division (~20,000 soldiers). Each division has one G-1, G-2, G-3... G-9, at its HQ.

Anyway, once I realized I should ask S-2 if it's okay to tell a civilian what S-4 does, my superior would likely call S-2 and ask for clearance to tell a civilian what S-4 does. Although this information is readily available on the internet, that doesn't automatically mean it is okay for us to officially confirm it. Telling a member of the press that we have an S-4 is one thing. Telling them what it does is another. We will also tell the press that we have an airborne school, but if they ask for our training itinerary, we might tell them to pound sand. Airborne school is not secret or even top secret, but all documents pertaining to it are FOUO (For Official Use Only) unless declassified. That means no civilian eyes. Something does not have to be classified as "Secret" or above to be kept from civilians. FOUO is stamped on basically every single Army training manual, even for something as mundane as the M-4 Carbine. Also understand that on an Air Force base running black programs, they definitely would not want to tell you that S-4 was in charge of providing fuel, nomex uniforms, tires, tools, air conditioners, paint, or whatever else is required for a black Air Force program. Also remember that this Knapp call was way back in the 80's, and things were a lot more primitive. But I can tell you that they certainly had an S-4. As is shown in this book, the Staff System in the US goes back to 1921.

This is one possible explanation of why George Knapp (who I do believe in this instance) said he called whatever Air Force base back when, and that base confirmed that they had multiple S-4's, but would not tell Knapp what S-4 was.


I want a career in either studying history or being a ufologist/xenoarcheologist but I don’t know where to go to University or how I will be taken seriously. Unfortunately most people who actually look into this stuff are mocked or called pseudoscientists. I possibly want to study ancient astronauts/ancient aliens but many people already mock the show and believe this theory is racist. For a while I’ve been wanting to live in France and I heard their they actually take UFO’s and Aliens seriously with all of the sightings, abductions and religion of Raëlism there. Where should I go to study? Is there anywhere in France? Can I make money and actually advance our thoughts on aliens and ufo’s? Please give me advice. As of now I am 16 years old and a 3rd year in high school.


There are many mentions of a UFO crash in Spitsbergen in historical ufology. There are supposedly several newspaper accounts of the crash including an analysis of the crash debris released in 1955 by the Norwegian government. There's also suggestive evidence of red-herrings dragged over the incident including propaganda about the debris being a Soviet remote-controlled drone capable of dropping nuclear bombs. We need someone from Norway to research newspaper archives from 1955 looking for these articles.

translation from German newspaper, Ilessiscie Nachrichten, published on July 26, 1954


Norwegian military report of "unknown flying object" on Spitsbergen.

Only now a board of inquiry of the Norwegian General Staff is preparing the publication of a report on the examination of the remains of a flying saucer crashed on Spitsbergen, presumably some time ago. The chairman of the board, Col. Gernod Darnhyl, stated, during an instruction lesson for Air Force officers:

"The Spitsbergen crash was very rewarding. True enough, our science still faces many riddles. I am sure, however, that they can soon be solved by these remains from Spitsbergen. A misunderstanding developed, some time ago, when it was stated that the flying disc was probably of Soviet origin. It has--this we must state emphatically--not been built by any country on earth. The materials are completely unknown to all experts, either not to be found on Earth, or processed by physical or chemical processes unknown to us."

According to Col. Darnhyl, the board of inquiry is not going to publish an extensive report until "some sensational facts" have been discussed with experts from the the USA and Great Britain. "We must tell the public what we know about the unknown flying objects. A misplaced secrecy may well lead to panic!"


The Norwegian fighter pilots, Lt. Brobs and Lt. Tyllensen, who since the Spitsbergen event have been assigned as observers of the polar area, claim that, contrary to the American and other sources, the flying discs have already landed repeatedly in the northern polar zone.

"I believe that the polar area is an air base for the unknowns. Especially during snow and ice storms, when we, with our machines, must retreat to our base, it is my belief that the flying objects take advantage of this to make landings. I have, shortly after such bad weather conditions, seen them land and take off three times," said Lt. Tyllensen. "I noticed them, that having landed, they execute a very speedy rotation around their axis. During flight, and take off, or landing, the brilliant light prevents any view of events behind the wall of brilliance and on, or inside, the flying object itself."


Col. Darnhyl thinks that, within the next twelve months, a solution to these technical problems will be found, or, at least, science will be on the right track towards solving the UFO problem. "We now have material on hand, on which we can start. That means laboratories can start the work right away and they might give us preliminary results shortly. Norwegian scientists think that the material from Spitsbergen can only reveal its secrets by nuclear crushing: this because it does not change either at absolute zero, when air is liquefied, or at the highest temperatures technically possible with our technology. Also, every chemical treatment has been tried. Scientific results will only be released subsequent to a UFO conference in London or Washington."

The communication from Swedish TV-set owners, that their reception recently was interfered with every time flying saucers were reported over northern Sweden, caused sensation in circles of the Norwegian board of inquiry. In consequence of this Col. Darnhyl hopes, sooner or later, to track down the communication system of unknown flying objects. --Sven Thygesen


aside: there's an interesting old Hollywood movie from this era about a UFO under the polar ice cap that interfered with shipping. The US Navy sends a submarine to investigate. I saw parts of this movie on the Filmstruck channel. Here it is:


So, this was 4 years back, me and two other friends had bought some beers and wanted to drink in a place far from the city, a rural area, drove for a couple miles and stopped at a junction, there were some clouds in the sky, was looking up at the sky and saw a plane, clearly a plane, blinking lights, red, green and white, moving slowly around the sky, it went over some clouds, that's when shit went crazy, a big yellow ball of light appears in the sky, shines a beam forward and far reaching, like those lights used to hunt crocodiles at night but way more powerful, it did a 360° around the shining ball and disappeared. This has happened in Brazil.

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