I don't usually bother telling people this, but I've also seen a UFO. X-Ray's sighting reminds me a little of what I saw. I was walking home from a friend's place at night, and took a shortcut through a repatriation hospital. There was no moon to be seen at all that night, and this hospital, as far as I can tell, is completely deserted after hours. There was no lamp lighting in the area, and all buildings were closed down for the night.
As I walked through the complex, I started to hear a low humming noise, very smooth and consistant in its timbre. I judged I was approaching the source of the sound, and thought I would check it out. I was curious, because it didn't really sound like a transformer (please no one mention our friends from Cybertron), and I also couldn't see anything which would be draining much electricity in the area, so as to require an audible source (well, I often think this way, being an engineering student). So, I veered to the left of the path, following the sound, through a copse of trees, and saw something which I had some difficulty in interpreting. The bit about unidentified certainly was true, and absolutely alien in the sense that it was dissimilar to anything I had seen before.
Above the top of an ~10 story building, there was a large, featureless rectangular white light, very similar in area to the building plan (that's as best I can say). The edges and angles were very sharply defined. I was trying to work out how that shape of light could be emanating from the building, as the nature of the perspective and partial obstruction of the light by the building were incongruent with any normal building lighting. Additionally, the building seemed to be otherwise completely shutdown, as were all the others. So, after staring at the object for several minutes, I came to the conclusion that it was hovering above the building.
I considered it was probably not prudent to get too close and be noticed, but I certainly didn't want to go away either. I was looking for any activity on the rooftop, but couldn't see any. After just a short time, the object seemed to instantly accelerate from stationary to a considerable, and apparently quite constant horizontal speed. This is the thing which grabbed me most: such rapid change of velocity, as I have never seen before or since. Also, it left in the opposite direction from that which I was coming. It gave me the sense that I had disturbed it when it had not intended to be observed.
It aroused my curiosity somewhat more, and I chased after it, but couldn't see any trace of it at all. Throughout the whole time, the humming had been constant, and smooth, though when the object departed, the humming very quickly ceased along with it. Upon inspection, the building was indeed closed down, and locked from the outside (yeah, I checked all the doors around the perimeter, just to be sure).
Well, a hell of a night that was. I was pretty ecstatic for the evening, but decided not to tell anyone, unless it came up. I figured if I went around telling people off the cuff,it would not lend any credibility to the telling.
I've also seen footage from weather satelites on documentaries, showing some pretty odd stuff flying around in orbit. There weren't supposed to be any other satelites in the area, at the time (the weather satelite owners checked this out). If they were millitary satelites, I suppose authorities could just have denied their presence, but it wouldn't make sense to fly them so close to weather satelites, and have such near misses as were caught on footage.
Anyway, after reading the government reports, I convinced that these are all just atmospheric phenomena, and weather ballons. :roll: Can't they come up with something remotely convincing?
