I'm a drake equation guy. They probabilistically exist but we don't yet have the tools to detect them. If they do exist, without the right telescopes yet the only encounters we'd have with them are chance ones by their choice/accident. The idea of a UFO sighting is acceptable to me for that reason with a lot of scepticism because it's the least likely thing someone is seeing in a sky full of things.
That being said, I know of one really weird one which was widely witnessed. There was a police and military coverup. There was an electrical blackout as it passed over.
Around 2008-2010, there was black triangle which flew over central Indiana. I heard independent accounts of it across two counties, Miami and Howard. In Miami County the otherwise non-woo person saw a massive black triangle float silently over their house. The lights went out as it did. Her description matched the much more famous sightings in Illinois. Both of her sons saw it at their houses where it did the same thing. In Howard County it was associated with orange orbs. Two accounts I heard there described one crashing in a field south of Kokomo. The area was immediately cordoned off by the sheriff and some branch of the military to remove it. The orbs were behaving in the same way they're typically described- flying in formation and periodically merging together into a larger one. It was described by the local Air National Guard as discharged flares, but people in that area live near an airbase so that's something they're used to. These orbs were flying deliberately in ways that planes, helicopters, balloons, flares, ball lightning, or anything else I can think of can't. They merged and separated on an otherwise clear night and the site was cleared by morning.
That one always stood out to me as weird. Something big flew over and something else aerodynamically impossible crashed. If that isn't a legitimate encounter I don't know what it otherwise would be because none of the people who saw it are alien fanatics. They didn't try to capitalise on it, they've never described it in the media or done the UAP circuit. When they talked about it, they were unnerved and confused with a certainty of seeing some physical object none of them had seen before.
I'm a drake equation guy. They probabilistically exist but we don't yet have the tools to detect them. If they do exist, without the right telescopes yet the only encounters we'd have with them are chance ones by their choice/accident. The idea of a UFO sighting is acceptable to me for that reason with a lot of scepticism because it's the least likely thing someone is seeing in a sky full of things.
That being said, I know of one really weird one which was widely witnessed. There was a police and military coverup. There was an electrical blackout as it passed over.
Around 2008-2010, there was black triangle which flew over central Indiana. I heard independent accounts of it across two counties, Miami and Howard. In Miami County the otherwise non-woo person saw a massive black triangle float silently over their house. The lights went out as it did. Her description matched the much more famous sightings in Illinois. Both of her sons saw it at their houses where it did the same thing. In Howard County it was associated with orange orbs. Two accounts I heard there described one crashing in a field south of Kokomo. The area was immediately cordoned off by the sheriff and some branch of the military to remove it. The orbs were behaving in the same way they're typically described- flying in formation and periodically merging together into a larger one. It was described by the local Air National Guard as discharged flares, but people in that area live near an airbase so that's something they're used to. These orbs were flying deliberately in ways that planes, helicopters, balloons, flares, ball lightning, or anything else I can think of can't. They merged and separated on an otherwise clear night and the site was cleared by morning.
That one always stood out to me as weird. Something big flew over and something else aerodynamically impossible crashed. If that isn't a legitimate encounter I don't know what it otherwise would be because none of the people who saw it are alien fanatics. They didn't try to capitalise on it, they've never described it in the media or done the UAP circuit. When they talked about it, they were unnerved and confused with a certainty of seeing some physical object none of them had seen before.