Time: July, 1986, about 10 PM Location: Iowa City, Iowa A friend and I were walking back from the University of Iowa library, and we were both admiring a cloudless summer night sky. We saw a light moving toward us across the sky gradually, and I assumed it was the taillight of a plane. Then the light abruptly stopped moving. Then it almost instantaneously darted right (perpendicular to its previous flight path) about 1/2 of the way across the night sky, and came to another abrupt stop. Nothing man-made (or of this natural world) could have both accelerated so quickly and decelerated so quickly to a pin-point stop in mid-air. And then in took another 90 degree turn (in the direction of the original flight path) and disappeared beyond the horizon — again, faster than anything man-made or of this natural world. I turned to my friend and I said, “Did you just see that?” Her reply: “Yup, I just saw that.” Both of us were completely sober. We were studying in the library, not drinking or doing drugs. i am a hard core engineer and facts driven person. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. The only vaguely plausible explanation was something like a laser pointer projecting the light into the sky. But there were no clouds to project on to. Someone might say it was a shooting star. But shooting stars don’t take sharp 90 degree turns and rapidly accelerate/decelerate. The still images of all these UAPs are though make heads or tails of. But the inexplicable movement — incredible acceleration and stopping on a dime afterwards, no visible means of propulsion (ie, burst of flame or contrail) — are very, VERY consistent with what I saw, what Commander Fravor saw in the tic tac incident, and in many orb sightings as well (eg, Pacific Northwest sky a couple of years ago, seen by multiple pilots). One data point is a just an arbitrary dot. 2 data points are an arbitrary line. many more data points than 3 — you have something that creates a fact pattern of a phenomenon that simply cannot be dismissed. In other words: We are not alone. I’m not saying we have strange aliens visiting in metallic craft. At a very minimum, we have clusters of energy in our atmosphere that appear to be moving in some controlled (possibly sentient?) way. Who or what controls that energy — we just don’t know. And, that doesn’t preclude aliens from another planet/time/dimension visiting in a metallic craft. We are definitely not alone. submitted by /u/Imaginary_Chemist386 [link] [comments]