Have you ever experienced seeing a UFO ?

Hell back in the 70s we had them reported everywhere in NH. One freaking night while I was on Patrol as a State Trooper, we followed one of these crazy things all over the Seacoast. WTF-Over? That thing was flying everywhere and at least four other Troopers saw the same thing. Hell, we were being invaded.

Yep. I was on a ship down around Panama. A civilian ship, so there was only 3 of us on the bridge (this is typical). At night, you spend a lot of time looking up at the sky because you're bored and the computers, radars, and autopilot are doing all the work. I noticed what seemed to be a fluorescent light flying sideways -- in other words, it was REALLY long, and moving at 90 degrees off-axis to either end. Now, understand, you see lots of things in the sky at night at sea that most people never do, because of the rampant light pollution that civilization gives. You see a shit-ton more stars (life-long city-dwellers' jaws would drop if they ever went to sea at night), shooting stars, you can see satellites moving -- easily differentiated from shooting stars (meteorites entering the atmo), because they are wayyyyyyyyy slower, at least, relative to you and your vision of them. Also, they're tiny.

So here comes this fluorescent, sideways-flying light. I spent about 8 seconds watching it, and then turned to the other guys on the bridge to point it out, only to see them slack-jawed too. See, an airplane overhead goes from horizon to horizon in, generally, 2-3 minutes, depending on how high up you are (this effects how far your horizon is). Also, they're not solid, linear lights -- they're flashing lights, or, solid red and green, one of each. Satellites, while vastly faster of course, are also vastly farther away, and so if you spot one, they can take 4, 5 minutes to go from horizon to horizon. This light? Did it in 30 seconds. For any man-made aircraft to do it that fast, would have had to have been VERY low. Hundreds of feet low. Within HEARING distance low. And there was nothing. No sound.

I'm not saying it was aliens. But I was stationed on Yokota AFB as my first station, and I've seen every kind of aircraft imaginable. This wasn't one of them.

On a cloudy day at about 2pm last year I saw one of these guys or something similar to it (Popular Science says its an SR-72) fly over Albuquerque and Kirtland AFB. It made one heck of a racket (kind of like a machine gun of explosions going off) and shot from horizon to horizon in about 2 seconds. I would have missed it if I hadn't been looking out my front door straight at the mountain ridge line it was following.