I have about four incidences that I can't explain. I've seen strange lights and movement in the sky. I even had a friend laugh at me when I would describe them, and he ended up seeing something with me he couldn't deny.

Both my parents have seen things as well, my dad claims 3 large disc shaped objects flew and hovered above his car one night after he got out of the Navy (1977), right near 56th and Keystone. What I saw was definitely a Unidentified Flying Object...but that doesn't mean it was aliens.

It's a big universe....people thought Giant Squids were fake for years, until they found one...and that's just the ocean.

I don't have any doubt that there's something out there. I only doubt that it's ever visited us. But, on a related note, I was checking out MSNBC and saw this story:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24604144/

Britain releases files on UFO sightings

More than 1,000 documents are from the 1970s and 1980s

LONDON - The men were air traffic controllers. Experienced, calm professionals. Nobody was drinking. But they were so worried about losing their jobs that they demanded their names be kept off the official report.

No one, they knew, would believe their claim an unidentified flying object landed at the airport they were overseeing in the east of England, touched down briefly, then took off again at tremendous speed. Yet that's what they reported happened at 4 p.m. on April 19, 1984.

The incident is one of hundreds of reported sightings contained in more than 1,000 pages of formerly secret UFO documents being released Wednesday by Britain's National Archives. It is one of the few that was never explained.

The air traffic controllers' "Report of Unusual Aerial Phenomenon" was filed from an unspecified small airport near the eastern coast of England.

The men, each with more than eight years on the job, described how they were helping guide a small plane to a landing on runway 22 when they were distracted by a brightly lit object approaching a different runway without clearance.

"Everyone became aware that the object was unidentified," their report said. "SATCO (code name for a controller with 14 years experience) reports that the object came in 'at speed,' made a touch and go on runway 27, then departed at 'terrific speed' in a 'near vertical' climb."

The incident is one of the more credible in the newly public files because it was reported by air traffic controllers, said David Clarke, a UFO expert who worked with the National Archives on the document release.

"They were absolutely astonished," he said. "It was a bright, circular object, flashing different colors, and after it touched down it disappeared at fantastic speed. The report comes from very qualified people, and it's one of the few that remained unexplained."

No report of alien activity

But while there are some unexplained cases in the papers, there is no reported instance in which the Ministry of Defense found any evidence of alien activity or alien spacecraft, said Clarke, who nonetheless expects conspiracy theories about a UFO cover-up by the British defense establishment to persist.

"The Ministry of Defense doesn't have any evidence that our defenses were breached by alien craft," Clarke said. "They never found one, no bits of one. That's all we can say."

Clarke said the released documents, dealing with the late 1970s and early 1980s, are the first batch in a series that will be made public in the next few years.

The National Archives is releasing the files because of numerous freedom of information requests seeking information about the government's UFO reports. Officials said that names of many individuals had been blacked out to protect their privacy and that the entire files had been reviewed to make sure their release did not compromise national security.

Cold War concern

Ministry of Defense officials indicate in the files that UFO reports were only investigated to make sure no enemy aircraft had illegally entered British airspace. This was crucial during the Cold War when Russian planes posed a threat.

Officials said they did not try to solve UFO riddles once an enemy attack had been ruled out.

The vast majority of UFO reports come from members of the public who see strange things in the sky and jump to the conclusion that a UFO is involved even though there are logical explanations for what they observe, experts said.

"The most common things are aircraft lights, bright stars and planets, satellites, meteors, airships and things like that," said Nick Pope, another UFO expert who helped the Ministry of Defense investigate the phenomenon.

That was the case when a number of people leaving a Tunbridge Wells pub one night reported seeing a strange craft "with red and green" lights, according to the released documents.

Asked by police where the object seemed to be traveling, the pub crawlers said it appeared to be heading for London's Gatwick Airport. It didn't take a scientist to figure out it was a commercial plane making a routine approach.

What about the lights and sounds over Kokomo last month? Something very fishy in the feds expanation.

And the Vatican said last week that it was cool to believe in aliens. Considering all the other wacky things they tell people to believe, I'm not surprised.

I've seen something, but can't explain it, I was about 12 maybe and I was walking a friend of mine home and we both looked up and seen this football shaped thing hovering above this yard we always walked and played in it had red, gree, blue, white and yellow lights and was too close to the ground to be an airplane or helicopter also there was very little sound.....I asked him what it was and he said he had no idea, at that poing a bright light shown on the ground for a few seconds then the light went away, we looked at each other and started towards the thing in the yard and it went straight up super fast and was gone.

4-6 years later I am in high school in a class called "Current events" or something and we were watching a PBS Special on Nova or something the teacher had recorded and they were talking about UFO's and were showing the same exact thing I seen and were interviewing people who had never met before who were also describing this same particular object.

Do, I dunno, but it was pretty cool at 12 years old. I believe there is other life out there, why not?