Did a seeing a UFO change your life?

[Unknownparadox]

I know some people are being abducted, which I have no doubt would change your life.

As far as I know I am not being abducted, there was some peculiar things that happened after I saw the UFO. But just seeing that thing was enough to etch it in my brain. Like Morpheus says in the first Matrix. There is something wrong with the world, you don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind driving you mad.

I really feel that way like there is something wrong with the world, and people. Good grief I can not get along with people. I just do not think along the same lines as other people. I can not say for sure that is due to seeing the UFO. I can say I have never stopped thinking about that UFO. I have watched a lot of UFO documentary's and read a lot of UFO forums. Some of the stuff I buy, some of it I don't. But I have never stopped looking for a answer.

I was looking through some pictures of my son this morning. It dawned on me, I really couldn't remember what my son looked like when he was a baby. It came back to me after looking at the pictures. Keep in mind he was born 36 years ago. But I remember exactly what that UFO looked like and I only saw it briefly 45 years ago.

I thought I would text my son after looking at his pictures. While we were texting I asked him twice, had he ever seen a UFO, and he would not even acknowledge the text, he just kept on talking about other stuff.

Do you think seeing a UFO changed you? Or changed your life? Or am I just off my rocker?

[Sirius]

My reaction to seeing a UFO was "weird thing up there, we are motes of dust" finished my cigarette went inside and had supper. Can't say seeing it changed me.

[PhyloCFly]

Seeing my first UAP did not change my life as I was only 9 years old in 1956. I was not old enough to have become  set in my world view so took my sighting as just one more new experience. I knew it was something I could not explain from my knowledge of the world at that age so placed my hope on it being an alien craft as that was the only explanation available to a nine year old.

Nor did my third sighting nine years later as I entered adulthood change my world view either. High in the mountains in the  same pass I was hiking I was  passed by a saucer flying past the far slope and in view for around fifteen seconds before it passed from sight behind a grove of trees. This too I took to be an alien visitor in flight.

What has changed my life over the years is that I have never seen anything like those  again though I have spent much of my life out of doors while camping in remote areas. At that age, my supposition was that there was a slow unveiling happening, that sooner or later aliens would make it clear with an official greeting. This has not happened nor do I now think it will. What we have are anomalies and second hand story telling.

Our inability to discern just what these experiences really are, be they alien or advanced human tech or some other form of unknown something or other has me thinking that as a species we may never know. But as individuals, we have  our options on accepting any of the score of hypothesis behind these experiences OR, coming to terms within ourselves just  what they, if we have our own experiences have meant to us.

[Unknownparadox]

My reaction to seeing a UFO was "weird thing up there, we are motes of dust" finished my cigarette went inside and had supper. Can't say seeing it changed me.

Up there how far? You saw some lights? I see odd lights on occasion.

The UFO I saw when I was 12 was a block away. And from my vantage point on a hill it was almost level with me. I could have hit it with a rock. But I was to memorized to do anything. I watched it for 45 to 60 seconds. Then it either shrank down to a point of light or accelerated away so fast it was just a point of light. Without a sound.

[Unknownparadox]

Seeing my first UAP did not change my life as I was only 9 years old in 1956. I was not old enough to have become  set in my world view so took my sighting as just one more new experience. I knew it was something I could not explain from my knowledge of the world at that age so placed my hope on it being an alien craft as that was the only explanation available to a nine year old.

Nor did my third sighting nine years later as I entered adulthood change my world view either. High in the mountains in the  same pass I was hiking I was  passed by a saucer flying past the far slope and in view for around fifteen seconds before it passed from sight behind a grove of trees. This too I took to be an alien visitor in flight.

What has changed my life over the years is that I have never seen anything like those  again though I have spent much of my life out of doors while camping in remote areas. At that age, my supposition was that there was a slow unveiling happening, that sooner or later aliens would make it clear with an official greeting. This has not happened nor do I now think it will. What we have are anomalies and second hand story telling.

Our inability to discern just what these experiences really are, be they alien or advanced human tech or some other form of unknown something or other has me thinking that as a species we may never know. But as individuals, we have  our options on accepting any of the score of hypothesis behind these experiences OR, coming to terms within ourselves just  what they, if we have our own experiences have meant to us.

I have never seen anything like the saucer kinda shape thing I saw that day. I have however seen strange lights in the sky on a few occasion in my life. But nothing like the saucer thing. I did have a sleep paralysis event once. Where I saw a thing similar to the lady in white. But I hardly give that a second thought. 

I have read and seen where people have claimed that it changed their life IDK. I just know after 40 plus years. I can't get it out of my head, hardly a day goes by that I don't think about. I don't post much about, or tell many people. The one's I have, I am sure they think I am nuts.

To be honest, I wish I had never saw it.

[argentus]

I was 10 years old when me and my parents saw our first UFO.   We were outside tending our bees and my father looked up and said, "what the fuck is that?"   We looked eastward and above the promontory that we called "Castle Gate" was a greenish glowing object.   The "Thumb" -- the  large rock of the gates was about three miles from us.   There was a light green glowing object that was stationary and appear to be over the Thumb.  My Dad, my Mom and me watched the object for ten minutes.   After that, it moved upward and lazily moved off to the south until it was out of sight.  The object appeared to be a glowing ball, a sphere.  

I have seen UAP two other times in my life.   That was the first one, and yes, it changed me.   It changed all three of us.   It made us people that read a lot and researched and had a voracious quest for knowledge, me especially.  My father forbade me from riding my mare anywhere near the Gates or the Thumb.

[PhyloCFly]

I have never seen anything like the saucer kinda shape thing I saw that day. I have however seen strange lights in the sky on a few occasion in my life. But nothing like the saucer thing. I did have a sleep paralysis event once. Where I saw a thing similar to the lady in white. But I hardly give that a second thought. 

I have read and seen where people have claimed that it changed their life IDK. I just know after 40 plus years. I can't get it out of my head, hardly a day goes by that I don't think about. I don't post much about, or tell many people. The one's I have, I am sure they think I am nuts.

To be honest, I wish I had never saw it.

For me unknown, it's the everyday experiences and actions that are important to our lives, not these ''outlier'' events that come maybe a couple of times in our lives. Again for me, leaving them there as question marks may be more valuable as just unanswered mysteries. So though I cannot wish I had never had my own experiences, I think I can understand how you feel. 

[Sirius]

Up there how far? You saw some lights? I see odd lights on occasion.

The UFO I saw when I was 12 was a block away. And from my vantage point on a hill it was almost level with me. I could have hit it with a rock. But I was to memorized to do anything. I watched it for 45 to 60 seconds. Then it either shrank down to a point of light or accelerated away so fast it was just a point of light. Without a sound.

Not sure exactly what I saw that time, it was directly above me and high up.

All the other stuff I saw/experienced changed my life, not just the one event and only when I started paying attention to it.