UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

U.F.O.s are such a stereotypical topic to read about these days. Sightings seem to be quite common around the world. And while it’s interesting to read about what people are allegedly witnessing, it’s a bit unnerving to read reports of strange things that have been sighted in the sky in your province, your city or worse, on your own street.

We all know what UFOs are alleged to be.

Personally, I think there are three categories that the unidentified aircrafts people encounter fit into:

1. military-built crafts that governments are copying. (For example it is theorized the U.S. government copied stealth technology from a crashed spacecraft; unproven and denied, of course.)

2. vessels from outside our habitable solar system that have come here for reasons unbeknownst to us (authentic alien spacecraft)

3. mistakenly identified things in the sky that are probably our own space vehicles, regular aircraft, drones, and geographic, atmospheric and weather-related phenomenon from our own planet (easily falsely labelled as something alien)

I would like to interject here and go on record as saying if you have ever grasped the infinite size of the universe, then you must realize it is possible that life exists somewhere else beyond earth. Considering that, it is fair to say those life forms could have the intelligence to create vehicles and travel to other planets. We’ve done it. Someone else could, too.

Why would we ever be the only planet with life? What a terrible waste of space. It’s almost ridiculous to think no one else is out there.

  

To put it into perspective, this is a photo of our planet, the farthest picture ever taken: 

Taken in 1990 by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, the "pale blue dot" photo shows what our planet looks like from 4 billion miles away. Earth is the tiny speck of light indicated by the arrow and enlarged in the upper left-hand corner. The pale streak over Earth is an artifact of sunlight scattering in the camera's optics.

My point is, even though we see our planet as enormous, nothing could be further from the truth. We are but a speck in the universe. Scientists estimate there are at least another 100 billion galaxies out there.

However, this newsletter is not about what “I” think unidentified objects in the sky might be. Twenty people would have twenty differing opinions on that topic. The focus of this post is the sightings you don’t want to know about. You don’t want to know about them because you know they are true. They’ve already happened to your relative, friend, or neighbor. And you know they aren’t lying about what they saw, based on the sheer difficulty they had in telling you their story. Difficult because it was so unbelievable, so terrifying and so shocking that they get a chill now, years later, when people ask them what happened.

Maybe you also had an encounter.

  

This post will center on the close-to-home experiences of those unlucky enough to encounter what we refer to as UFOs. When I say this first one took place in my own backyard, I am not kidding or exaggerating. It was no weather balloon that came down my street one night and apparently flew right OVER MY HOUSE while I snoozed away at one in the morning.

I came across this report while researching encounters a few years ago. And I never forgot it. I don’t imagine you will either. It’s the kind of story that makes you not want to be home alone at night, even though everything seems normal. Things can change in an instant.

Bedford NS UFO (link)

Another in Bedford, NS in 2012:

Bedford Sighting

Report of a local sighting over the Lahave River (West Dublin, NS) in 2003:

Lahave River Sighting

Great video capture of unusual lights moving in formation in Bridgewater, NS in 2011:

The National UFO Reporting Center has a decent listing of Nova Scotia sightings (is your community listed?) but you also have to consider the fact that many incidents never get reported officially:

List of N.S. Sightings

(click on the dates for details)

  

 Please remember these are reports of unidentified craft and have not been officially declared otherwise. It is worth noting that last September (2018) a report was filed on that list to include a ufo sighting in Petite Riviere, very very close to my childhood home)

It would be neglectful of me if I did not mention the incident that put Nova Scotia on the ufo map. If you aren’t familiar with the famous “ufo crash” at Shag Harbour, NS, in 1967, here is the info:

What Happened in Shag Harbour?

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