Ask HN: Have you seen a UFO?

The neatest UFO I saw turned out to be from a rocket launch a bit after sunset. We were in Florida near the Cape.

Actually, yes. My mother and I were driving late one night on a deserted road. We saw a light in the sky, like a spotlight but very small. I remember how strange it looked, completely unlike anything in the night sky.

The most remarkable part was next. The Spotlight was hovering in the sky completely still. Then it started moving to the right. And finally it accelerated and then went out. We both just looked at each other.

I've thought about it a lot over the years. There is a completely benign, logical explanation. I just can't quite find it. It definitely didn't look anything like a meteorite burning up.

No.

I quite often see objects in the sky that are unidentified to me. Whether they are unidentified to mankind is probably doubtful. I'm still new to ornithology.

As a middle school kid, on a boy scout trip I saw a stationary "star" gradually brighten, before a triangle of light extended beneath it in the clouds, then faded away the same way it'd appeared, star included. I've always assumed there was a reasonable explanation, this was near Massachusetts around 2006. I'm hoping somebody here may be able to identify my flying object.

When my sister and I were younger, before the days of cell phones and cameras, we saw a UFO hovering over our small town in Linden, New Jersey.

We knew this was a UFO because it made no sound at all, was hovering about 200 feet above the ground, and was not moving fast at all, almost as if it was drifting, looking and checking things out. It was turquoise in color, diamond shaped, with a window on top of the diamond-shaped vehicle. This was nothing that could have been created by a human being, at least not that we knew of... no sounds coming from it, too small to be a blimp, and moving way too slow to be a small aircraft.

I really do wish I had a camera, but there are just some things that I have seen that can only be explained with words. At least I had my sister there and we now share that memory together.

I used to live in an apartment with good distant views. Soon after moving in noticed small spots of light seemingly hovering in the sky and then suddenly moving at an angle and disappearing. At that point in time they were UFOs to me. Eventually I discovered that the lights were in fact headlights from distant aircraft coming in to land at an airport about 20 miles away. Due to the distance and the height of the apartment the lights didn't appear to move up or down, nor get brighter. Of course, once the planes turned the lights disappeared. At that distance and with the general light pollution, I couldn't hear the planes nor see their strobe or nav lights.

NASA have a have a page that shows you when the ISS is flying over your house.

And that's the story of how a UFO became a "known flying object" after I spent an evening researching what I may have seen.

My guess is that Obama disallowed of any testing of nuclear-powered aircraft but Trump has since reversed that order. And this is a disinformation campaign by the US gov to create a cover for new testing programs.

Now, if anyone spots the nuclear drones being tested, they'll assume it's a UFO.

These people releasing the footage are "useful idiots" that will be embarrassed at a later date to discredit them.

Once saw a tan colored disk silently fly overhead. Maybe 200’ up, but hard to tell scale because no frame of reference. Clear day, great view. Flew east to west observed for the 2 minutes or so it took to get past line of sight with trees. No lights, markings, sound. Typical flying saucer except tan colored.