Yes, it's true, some some strange lights in the sky are just airplanes. When they have the bright landing lights on and are headed directly for you, they can appear to be a hovering light. You'll see that they're airplanes when they bank to come in to land.

However, a UFO ( as in unidentified) I saw several months ago, I initially assumed to be an airplane, then I thought it must be a planet, up until it dipped behind some trees about 300 yards away from me, and came shooting out in the direction of my house

Those aircraft lights can appear to hover for several minutes if they are on an extra long landing approach, too. Also, a stationary light (such as from a celestial body) viewed at night can appear to jump around due to movements of our eyeballs.

So, good point, things aren't always the way they appear, but not every light in the sky at night necessarily has a mundane explanation, either.

Thanks for adding to the thread guys. Thought this could be helpful for a lot of folks. Any more input is greatly appreciated!

I don't rely exclusively on any video or photographic evidence for proof, so I figure I'm already ahead of the game. The farthest I've ever gotten with any video or photo is, "I don't know." Some people see that as an affirmation of their belief that the image is of an alien space ship, but it's not. It's just a good, old fashioned, "I don't know."

That's not a plane, that's a anti-grav (you can tell by the plasma glow around it) vehicle, morphing into a plane - cunning!

/sarcasm mode off

S&F'd!

That's why I hate mucky video.............People get better cameras and put the VHS crap up.....................

This afternoon I was standing outside in front of my office. Its snowy so the visibility is limited toward the mountains. I was looking up and one of the shapes of UFO's I've seen in pic's was heading toward me. It then made a sharp turn went quickly left then went quickly to the right and sped up. I thought my God I'm seeing a UFO right now in the daylight.

Then it got a little closer and out of the haze its rotor and tail became visible. It was helicopter. Never heard a sound and could not see anything but the UFO shaped object moving rapidly in different directions.

It was closer than I thought, hence the impression of high speed maneuvers. The haze only hid the narrower parts. The haze and the heavy air dampened the sound. I realized I'd just tricked myself into seeing something as being something remarkable that was in fact just another helicopter.

It was a life flight that had just brought the victim from the shooting in Soldotna that made the national news today. It had popped up from the hospital. It had taken a zig zagging course to avoid traffic at our small plane airport, the busiest in the world.

What I first saw looked like this from my vantage point -




I learned something about peoples reactions. Had I ran inside before it got to where I could make out the truth, I would have argued I just saw the real thing. The atmospheric conditions made it look like it was in plain site when in fact much of the detail was hidden.

To add insult to injury I had no camera and I'm a photographer

I'm off to dream of tomorrows Pumpkin Pie.

Lower quality digital cams can do the same thing. You need something with a powerful "optical" zoom to get in close and clear. Digital zoom isn't that good for clarity, at least from my experience.

When you compress videos you can also get pixelated images.

When you buy a camera, get the highest optical zoom you can, if you are going for evidence. You basically want to use as little digital zoom as you can. My Handi-Cam got blurrier the more I zoomed in with digital.

You can also get add-on zoom lenses quite inexpensively to add even more power to your zoom.

Troy

great find. and people wonder why there are skeptics...