I thought this is a good topic to make at gw because some of the members here are critical thinkers who I know just don't believe something the minute they hear it (except doktormartini) and may be able to explain this phenomena to me, this has bothered me for a while because I'm pretty sure that I personally have seen proof that U.F.Os exist, NO SHIT! Also I think UFOS in terms of spacecraft or advanced aircraft that are secretly being tested, not aliens!
** The following story happened about four years ago on a camp up north in a rural area.
Ok so it was a few years ago on this farm and there were about 30 of us sleeping under the stars, I was one of the few people awake at the time and I was talking to a female (im a pimp).
I heard a noise in the distance at first, it sounded like the sound barrier being broken by like a jet or something but it also sounded like a hovering noise. I found this particularly weird as I don't know any helicopters that can go that fast. So anyway I heard that noise and also as we were looking up at the stars I started seeing shooting stars, I saw about four of them in a row and had never seen one before nor have I seen one since. I looked at these stars in the distance and they would appear in one area and then re-appear in another like they were moving at really fast speeds or something, eventually it looked like the stars (about ten or so) we moving closer towards us, at this stage I didn't think much of it until I noticed I began being able to see them a bit better and that they were some kind of air crafts. The logical part of me still didn't think anything weird was happening other than that I had seen a few shooting stars so I went toilet in a nearby bush.
When I came back out we saw that the aircraft were even closer so we decided to run up on a near-by hill to take a look. They came very close and then I saw the most ridiculous impossible thing ever. They looked like UFOs out of a fucking movie, like I mean they were the cliche pod shape, had three rotating lights which spun around them and had a clear screen over the top and were made out of some kind of metal stuff. Normally when you see those bullshit ufo pictures they are just some blurry shape or light of a kind, but this ufo was literally right above us and so close it was about the size of a lemon in the sky. So I could see it in really fine detail. Quickly I ran down and woke up another one of my friends because I knew no one would believe me and be like "heh he's just being a prankster again", So I woke up this guy which meant three of us were viewing these aircraft at the same time. After a minute or so they sped away again and dissapeared.
Now I don't believe in aliens or anything like that but I do believe maybe it was an advanced airship being tested in rural new zealand? Can anyone explain this to me? I never believe this stuff but this was real weird and I can't really think it was anything else. I'm also ready for some HILARIOUS joke posts like "lol were you high y/n".