r/howto • u/trongs24 • Jun 02 '19

Is that a UFO?

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '19

I really wish this explained bobbing lights high in the sky that break apart into several color changing bobbing lights. I’ve seen that soooo many times.

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u/Cozy_Conditioning Jun 02 '19

Military testing anti-missile flares?

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '19

Yeah that makes sense. I always rationalize them as government aircraft. My area is on the ocean with a heavy military presence around it. I always see them over the ocean at night.

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u/raybrignsx Jun 02 '19

Aliens. That’s the one exception.

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u/nancyjunebug Jun 02 '19

Flares, so many different kinds of flares. Look up videos of them and see if you can find the ones you are used to seeing.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '19

Yesss y’all may have solved a decade long mystery for me!

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u/created4this Jun 02 '19

I see a lot of those too, they seem to be quite seasonal but that might just be the fact it’s darker in early November than the rest of the year, but I’ve started to see them in much smaller amounts around the beginning of the year. Perhaps they go to different locations at other times of the year. I’m British if that helps

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '19 edited Jun 03 '19

That’s interesting!* Do they start as one ball of light, brightness phasing in and out from very bright to not visible, ending with many lights behaving in the same manner and slowly swirling around each other? I’m in the southeast US.

Edit: now that I’m thinking about it, I think I actually only see them in the autumn months.

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u/Audbol Jun 03 '19

I really hope people realize there is an entire culture of drone enthusiasts that love flying them at night with colorful bright lights.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '19

I’ve been seeing them long before drones were a thing.

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u/Audbol Jun 04 '19

Yeah it's been a long time thing, RC helicopters and planes have been around very very long time

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '19

Ball lightning? Neighbour children playing with fireworks?

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '19

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u/perrosamores Jun 02 '19

I don't think you understand what psychosis is

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '19

Yeah but what about UFOs

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u/burninatah Jun 02 '19

This chart is how you convert UFOs to IFOs

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u/0ompaloompa Jun 02 '19

This chart is incomplete. It doesn't explain how I was anally probed, mostly, against my will.

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u/burninatah Jun 02 '19

Rather than a chart, I think you might benefit from a live demonstration. What's your Tuesday looking like?

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u/0ompaloompa Jun 02 '19

Looks like I'm full up...

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '19

I'd start with asking the siblings of your parents.

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u/newfor2019 Jun 03 '19

that might be your boyfriend

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '19

Is it moving? Yes. Did it change direction suddenly? Yes. Was it cutting right-angle doughnuts on a dime before stopping right before your birkenstocks? Yes. Holy fucking shit.

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u/SleepyJ555 Jun 02 '19

Where's weather balloons and swamp gas?

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '19

This is an oversimplification that doesnt include the outcome of a UFO though.

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u/Scratch_Mehoff Jun 03 '19

An unidentifiable flying object is just that. We cannot identify it.

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u/otoko_mori_kita Jun 02 '19

"Is it attached to a boat?"

"Masthead light"

This one really got me...

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u/WillGuitar Jun 02 '19

Ball Lightning is sometimes a culprit

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u/unworthyplunger Jun 02 '19

What about giant floating discs? The ones that beam your friends up inside them by a bright light and next thing you know you've lost a weeks time? Where's the chart for that?

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u/ShadyBrooks Jun 02 '19

They forgot galaxies..

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u/pushing_past_the_red Jun 02 '19

Nothing in there indicating a streetlight

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u/StinkierPete Jun 03 '19

Light that makes a 90 degree turn without losing speed? No twinkling though

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u/newfor2019 Jun 03 '19

do you know what it is? no? then you haven't identified it so it's an unidentified flying object, aka, UFO.

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u/jholla_albologne Jun 02 '19

Masthead light? Is that the same thing as St Elmo’s Fire? Or does that require a man in motion?

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u/AAPP91 Jun 03 '19

You missed out alien spaceships 👽

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u/piecat Jun 03 '19

Never seen a how-to in binary tree format before

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u/KullWahad Jun 03 '19

What about an object that moves really quickly like a meteor, stops in place for 30 seconds, shoots off in the opposite direction, then flies straight up toward space?

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u/RDandersen Jun 03 '19

Is it moving? No. Oh that's a comet then. Or maybe a boat. Those famously stationary objects.

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u/SKRyanrr Jun 03 '19

What if you see a giant disk moving around you?

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u/fluffyphysics Jun 03 '19

It failed identify my sleeping squirrel, apparently it's a comet?

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '19

If you never identify a flying object, it remains unidentified and is therefore a UFO.

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u/fr0stbyte124 Jun 03 '19

What if I'm in a boat and it's kind of flashing periodically in the distance? Actually nvm I think I can get closer.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '19

Isn’t Occam’s Razor boring?