Note that I didn't say aliens, you weirdos. I said a UFO- an "unidentified flying object." No serious conspiracy peddling from me; I just want to share a cool experience.
As I was coming from my sister's house after venting about my job, I looked up and saw two crafts that were parallel to one another. I thought "planes," but the way they stayed in formation threw me off; neither one was trailing off on its own path as you'd expect from seeing two planes incidentally in the same vicinity (maybe military jets then). I slowed down in the street and just watched them slowly fly through the sky together. After a few "What the fuck"s, I started speeding down the street to the main freeway because trees were beginning to obscure my vision, and by the time I merged onto the street and parked at an empty warehouse, one of the lights turned around and left over some trees. I kept calm and thought it's probably a plane considering the altitude and general "plane" shape of it. Maybe homeboy's flight path was off and needed to turn around at a weird angle to land properly.
But what sparked my imagination the most was that the second one. It just remained hovering in the sky. It was pretty small at this point, suggesting it was far away, but it wasn't moving, or at least I couldn't perceive it to be moving. Maybe it was flying directly parallel to my vision so where I wouldn't easily perceive the motion, but it didn't get smaller. I stayed for two radio songs, so around 6-7 minutes, and it never moved. It was a row of three lights, with the two on the end pulsing between red and green, and it stayed in place for as long as I decided to look at it.
Once again, probably a plane, military or otherwise. Probably a drone. Something man-made. I mean, I live around some pretty busy flight paths. But it was thrilling to see something I couldn't easily explain! We live in a time of unprecedented access to information, different viewpoints, and thus an unshakeable skepticism and rationality towards the world around us (most of us anyway). Hell, I'm not one to believe in paranormal or cosmic stuff myself. The supernatural, at this point in human history, is just fantasy. But that understanding didn't matter in the moment. Having a purely visceral experience with the world, to see something off and not be able to definitely point to an answer, was fascinating to the point that it became calming! It's nice being reminded that there's a hell of a lot we don't know, that maybe there really is weird shit out there beyond our comprehension. I don't know. Mysteries are cool.
As I was coming from my sister's house after venting about my job, I looked up and saw two crafts that were parallel to one another. I thought "planes," but the way they stayed in formation threw me off; neither one was trailing off on its own path as you'd expect from seeing two planes incidentally in the same vicinity (maybe military jets then). I slowed down in the street and just watched them slowly fly through the sky together. After a few "What the fuck"s, I started speeding down the street to the main freeway because trees were beginning to obscure my vision, and by the time I merged onto the street and parked at an empty warehouse, one of the lights turned around and left over some trees. I kept calm and thought it's probably a plane considering the altitude and general "plane" shape of it. Maybe homeboy's flight path was off and needed to turn around at a weird angle to land properly.
But what sparked my imagination the most was that the second one. It just remained hovering in the sky. It was pretty small at this point, suggesting it was far away, but it wasn't moving, or at least I couldn't perceive it to be moving. Maybe it was flying directly parallel to my vision so where I wouldn't easily perceive the motion, but it didn't get smaller. I stayed for two radio songs, so around 6-7 minutes, and it never moved. It was a row of three lights, with the two on the end pulsing between red and green, and it stayed in place for as long as I decided to look at it.
Once again, probably a plane, military or otherwise. Probably a drone. Something man-made. I mean, I live around some pretty busy flight paths. But it was thrilling to see something I couldn't easily explain! We live in a time of unprecedented access to information, different viewpoints, and thus an unshakeable skepticism and rationality towards the world around us (most of us anyway). Hell, I'm not one to believe in paranormal or cosmic stuff myself. The supernatural, at this point in human history, is just fantasy. But that understanding didn't matter in the moment. Having a purely visceral experience with the world, to see something off and not be able to definitely point to an answer, was fascinating to the point that it became calming! It's nice being reminded that there's a hell of a lot we don't know, that maybe there really is weird shit out there beyond our comprehension. I don't know. Mysteries are cool.
It was probably just planes lol.
