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I have only had one interesting experience with an unidentified flying object, when I was about 14 or 15 years old. I would go out to a large field on clear nights with my 3-inch reflector telescope to look at planets, nebulae, etc. One night I observed a point of light traveling across the dark sky in a straight line. Naturally, my thought was that it was either a high-flying jet or a satellite. I watched it for awhile, then it did something unexpected. This point of light made a very tight U-turn around the apparent position of a star... and faded out. A jet could not have made such a tight U-turn, and a satellite could not have turned at all. So what was it? (Obviously, its turn around the apparent position of the star was just a coincidence since the star was many light years away, but the star did provide a very good reference point for the movement of this UFO.)

<blockquote data-quote="Stephen A Wagner" data-source="post: 245219" data-attributes="member: 8633"><p>I have only had one interesting experience with an unidentified flying object, when I was about 14 or 15 years old. I would go out to a large field on clear nights with my 3-inch reflector telescope to look at planets, nebulae, etc. One night I observed a point of light traveling across the dark sky in a straight line. Naturally, my thought was that it was either a high-flying jet or a satellite. I watched it for awhile, then it did something unexpected. This point of light made a very tight U-turn around the apparent position of a star... and faded out. A jet could not have made such a tight U-turn, and a satellite could not have turned at all. So what was it? (Obviously, its turn around the apparent position of the star was just a coincidence since the star was many light years away, but the star did provide a very good reference point for the movement of this UFO.)</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Stephen A Wagner, post: 245219, member: 8633"] I have only had one interesting experience with an unidentified flying object, when I was about 14 or 15 years old. I would go out to a large field on clear nights with my 3-inch reflector telescope to look at planets, nebulae, etc. One night I observed a point of light traveling across the dark sky in a straight line. Naturally, my thought was that it was either a high-flying jet or a satellite. I watched it for awhile, then it did something unexpected. This point of light made a very tight U-turn around the apparent position of a star... and faded out. A jet could not have made such a tight U-turn, and a satellite could not have turned at all. So what was it? (Obviously, its turn around the apparent position of the star was just a coincidence since the star was many light years away, but the star did provide a very good reference point for the movement of this UFO.) [/QUOTE]

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