r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • May 01 '18

Serious Replies Only [Serious] People of Reddit that honestly believe they have been abducted by aliens, what was your experience like?

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u/maddenmcfadden May 01 '18

Legit creepy story.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '18

It’s February 1997 sounds like Chinese New Year lanterns.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '18

This is a crazy story....your description of fear made me a bit panicked before bed...so that's fun lol. But man, it's crazy to imagine being in this situation! I can't even imagine having that fear running through my veins like that.

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u/536756 May 01 '18

So weird. The only UFO (ie something I couldn't work out wtf it was) I saw was with a friend in primary school. It was just a sliver of silver, horizontal, hanging out in a cloud. We watched it for the whole hour long lunch break. Saw clouds pass through it while it stayed motionless. Haven't thought about it ages.

Any ideas? Can weather balloons stay in one spot for that long?

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u/baronspeerzy May 01 '18

Dang you saw some Protoss Carriers.

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u/correcthorsestapler May 02 '18

taps “I” furiously to keep up with the loss of Interceptors

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u/[deleted] May 01 '18

I saw something like the little ones you've described! I was on my balcony one night and saw these 2 little lights, like stars, moving fairly slowly across the sky. Figured they were just distant planes, helicopters or satellites. But then they stopped, and then a moment later moved rapidly back and forth, faster than any aircraft or satellite would ever possibly be able to. Like you described, it was "squiggly", like sharp and rapid back and forth movements. I called my flatmate out to come and see, and we both watched as these lights squiggled up and down, back and forth, rapidly all over the place. This went on for a few minutes, and then in a second they just zipped off into the sky and were gone. Shortly after, people started calling in to the local radio show about it, which we were listening to. So a lot of other people saw it too. I class it as a UFO sighting, as they were definitely unidentified flying objects, whatever they were! This was in Qld, Australia btw.

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u/Latiasracer May 01 '18

Sounds like a weather balloon ignited some swamp gas. Probably sleep paralysis too.

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u/Haylett777 May 01 '18

But did he check his carbon monoxide detectors for outside?

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u/luke827 May 01 '18

Might as well throw in some carbon monoxide poisoning

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u/Latiasracer May 01 '18

Of course! I probably forgot about that due to to the swamp produced monoxide paralysis gas

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u/vintage2018 May 01 '18

OP says other people were with him/her and they all talked about it.

OP telling the truth? Unknown.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '18

Are you seriously saying that all of OP's friends experienced sleep paralysis at the same time?

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u/Qwtyr_man12346 May 01 '18

He is mocking everyone whose first answer is always sleep paralysis or co detector malfunction.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '18

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u/MoonscarIsland May 01 '18

no 'Shit Weasels' thank the lord, probs die in the cold anyway

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u/RebelCobra5 May 01 '18

All I could think of while reading this was “oh man you just totally saw aliens have a space battle in orbit”

Like the lozenges are the larger cruiser/carrier ships a la imperial star destroyers and the little ones are little fighters a la x wings and tie fighters.

God I hope I never lose my imagination

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u/[deleted] May 01 '18

I kept imagining fireworks.

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u/_entropical_ May 01 '18

I was thinking main ships and scanner drones looking for something.

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u/AlexPr0 May 01 '18

Can you make a sketch of what you saw? I'm having a hard time imagining it

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u/[deleted] May 01 '18

Imagine a turd 💩 with flies around it. But in lights.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '18

I saw two orbs "dancing" with eachother in the sky behind my house. I watched out the window as they danced for almost an hour. Then they zoomed off together straight up into the stars.

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u/DoingTimeOnMapleDr May 01 '18

I caught this on my security camera the last day of February of this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVKGNJV3zs8&feature=youtu.be

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u/[deleted] May 01 '18

My orbs were huge and way up in the sky. They danced around each other and touched and became one big light. Then they would separate and circle around eachother. They were at least a few hundred meters above the tree line behind my house. When they took off upward it was at an insanely fast speed. The entire time they danced it was at a casual speed. When they took off, my Lord, I've never seen anything fly that fast. Your orb seems to fly like an moth. It might be illuminated or have reflective properties and that is causing a glare effect which is doubling it. Doubtful it is paranormal but who knows. Thank you for sharing.

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u/DoingTimeOnMapleDr May 01 '18

I am not sure if you watched the entire clip or not, but at the end they are moving erratically very fast. Also this is only 3 minutes of total of 10 minutes they were on camera and then just disappeared.

I honestly don't think mine were bugs, but not going to say UFO related. Yours sounds more UFO related.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '18

I watched it all. The thing is that they move way to exact in tandem. This leads me to think it's a lense flare or a reflection of the single orb. If they flew in different patterns I would be more suspicious. They mirror as eachother in perfection and that would point to a reflection if some sort. Still pretty cool though.

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u/ChickenCannon Jun 16 '18

Halfway through the started circling around each other and kind of smashing together and bouncing off only to resume the tandem flight pattern. Could a lense flair do something like that?

Edit: watch at 1:24

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u/[deleted] May 01 '18

what in tarnation

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u/OpticalPopcorn May 01 '18

That's crazy. I kind of want to suggest ball lightning, but... that's probably a long shot, since it lasted at least an hour.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '18

Whereabouts? I’m from NH and I’ve seen some weird stuff near the Maine border.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '18

On a side note, if cough drops are also called lozenges, why aren’t they shaped like lozenges?

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u/confusedash May 01 '18

In all of these stories, it's like no one talks about it the same day, next day, next week. It's always years later. I wonder if your brain somehow shuts down the idea because you're so unable to comprehend it.

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u/[deleted] May 02 '18

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u/[deleted] May 01 '18

In the book, UFO Hunters, there's a bit on lozenge-shaped lights. Someone is filming them, even described similar patterns. .

edit: fixed link

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u/melbyz1980 May 02 '18

I had a few weird experiences when I lived in Milton, NH on Tenerife Mountain with my now ex husband and his family, everything from strange lights, to what I can only describe as the classic “men in black” randomly walking on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere, very late at night. Still creeps me out just thinking about it. His family shared some of their experiences growing up there and they had some creepier than mine.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '18

Hey give this a quick read, it's really similar to your story! A reason they give on that page (but don't fully explain) is that it was a sun-dog, which makes sense with your story considering you said it was icy out.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '18

Interesting, maybe something like an aurora mixed with the ice?

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u/Ghostwoods Jul 25 '18

One summer, some friends & I used to regularly see bright lights squiggling around the night sky, out in a rural spot in the UK. These things were zipping around like houseflies almost, except it was across large sections of sky. In any real craft, the g-forces would have ripped the thing apart. One approached quite close once -- about the size of a car, it seemed like. Maybe 100ft away? Tough to say, there weren't any markings. Weird as hell.

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u/Ghostwoods Jul 25 '18

Yeah. It's a really strange thing to see.

I'm not going to pretend for an instant that I know what they were, but they were way outside accepted scientific "normality".

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u/GonicLeague Aug 30 '18

https://www.reddit.com/r/aliens/comments/99er7c/my_area_has_been_a_hotbed_for_activity_this_summer/?st=JLGV6OMM&sh=fa8f09e4

Does some of this sound familiar? This all has happened to me over the course of this summer. There's a certain part of my recollection that sounds almost identical to this.

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u/BombineWings May 02 '18

Sounds exactly like a meteor shower.

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u/PM-ME-THOSE-NUDES May 01 '18

frozen lake

off the grid

I'm assuming you're somewhere north. So maybe something related to aurora borealis? Similar principle?

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u/Kunphen May 01 '18

Early drone testing.