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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I saw an alien.

It was between 2010-2014 and i was recently gifted my first phone. A used Sony Ericsson w300i. Fast forward a few weeks later, i was on the roof playing with the filters on the phone camera. One of them was a Sepia filter and as tried it, i randomly pointed it toward the sky and then toward the sun. That's when i saw small dark object hovering near the very bright sun as to hide using it. It was shaped like a sphere and seemed very far up in the sky. It was very fast, it's movement unnatural as it was doing oval shaped circles around the sun.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

People think that things like cameras and radar are perfect instruments. They can be overloaded by things like pointing them at the sun, internal reflections, radar can have false signals, etc. I once thought I saw a UFO while in a car and then realized it was just an internal reflection of a light off of the glass. It looked like it was moving super fast and everything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wait, so you were using an old phone that had an ancient sensor? You then pointed that ancient sensor at the sun and a dark spot showed up? Most likely at the most exposed portion of the sensor and you're saying that was a UFO?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Then why did it disappear later ? If it was an over exposed camera shouldn't it show up every time not once ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I like that someone downvoted you.

But in all seriousness, me and a friend of mine once saw a flying object that matches your description, except it was around 4am and we were on the beach, camping. At some point, it flew into the horizon (really freaking fast, headed to a different country, so I doubt it was a drone). No drugs were involved.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

When I was a teen I was outside with my step-brother playing catch late at night in the street and we saw one. Never talked about because we felt like idiots. I still do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I like the "no drugs involved" part. We're describing something we saw with our own eyes and yet is so outlandish we can only accept that people wouldn't believe us.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I am not judging you and when I was a kid, I too saw some shit. Many people have, it's very common. What's up for debate is whether it's aliens or not, is all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You say you saw it with your own eyes, but you were looking through a camera. That's not the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll give kind of the opposite story. An Illinois town's PD has made the news at least twice for chasing a UFO. In the 80s they were on some TV special about unexplained events, talking about the time they chased a triangular-shaped UFO for a long time. I remember watching that, and then going to the nearby air base for an air show, complete with a triangular-shaped stealth bomber...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_tcyQbfRo8

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=p_tcyQbfRo8

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't tell if this is a joke or not. I mean no reasonable person would conclude aliens from a flip phone camera using filter pointed directly at the sun with one of the worst lenses ever built for a camera in history.

I mean I laughed, so well done if that was the intent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If my have story made someone less miserable for a few seconds then am happy i shared it.