26 years later I FINALLY have my answer!!!!!!!!!
Posted by enjoiee@reddit | aviation | View on Reddit | 22 comments
I’m literally shaking right now. I’m also emotional and so relieved. I want to start by saying that I know absolutely nothing about aviation, I don’t even understand how planes can take off so this might be something I could’ve found sooner if I knew where to look but anyways. Holy fuck my heart is racing and my hands are sweaty.. Here’s the story:
26 years ago my grandma and I were walking across the road that separated a field and the gate to their house. It’s very sunny and I remember the snow was probably gonna melt in a week or two as spring was coming. So I decided to make a snowball as it could probably be gone tomorrow my grandma said. It must’ve been around 1PM, all of a sudden there’s like a loud whooshing/ “sucking” sound almost, don’t know how to explain it but you could feel like the force in the “air”. So hard to explain but imagine when you jump into a pool, like just when you crack the surface given you down dive in but just jump. That’s what it felt like but very very faint. Me and my grandma look up and I’m a kid so my mind is BLOWN, my grandma is scared as hell (she’s worked for the church her whole life and then was a housewife) so I guess she thought the rapture was coming or some shit. Above us we see a triangle shaped aircraft with three red lights and it just whooshes by, sound was way louder then a regular plane at first but then it was that sucking noise mixed with a plane, don’t know if that makes sense. Anyways, it looked like it was flying super low or was really big. I can’t imagine we saw it for more than 5 seconds if even that. I wanna say maybe three from looking up and then it was gone.
We both couldn’t believe what we had seen and my grandma told me it was probably just a fighter jet that sometimes pass over the field next to their house since it’s an airfield close by. It’s true that there was one but I knew she didn’t believe it for a second from the scream she let out lol. Anyways we hurry back excited to tell everyone I wanted to tell my mom right away that I had seen the coolest thing ever.
Coming back in was one of my worst core memories. I think that’s my first experience of feeling betrayed and hopeless. NO ONE believed me or my grandma. It was the worst feeling as a kid when your own mother think you made up stories about a black triangle in the sky with red lights. Sure as I’m older I get it but I’ll never forget that feeling.
The sighting has been with me forever, not actively but it has come up from time to time in conversations where people have talked about aliens and what not, I don’t believe in that and my answer has always been, well if UFO’s exist I saw one as a kid and just laughed it off. The times I’ve said that it’s gone over as well as the first time I told my mom.
One person I told about.. Hm maybe three years ago was my wife. She supports me in everything so she said was more like: That’s crazy, wonder what it was. But was probably more concerned about how I felt betrayed when I was not believed by “my own mother!”. You know how wives are lmao.
Anyways, so I’m scrolling on instagram and I see a video where it says like this is what Venezuela saw or some shit and as the video cuts my heart DROPS! THERE IT IS! THE THING I SAW CLEAR AS DAY 26 YEARS AGO! Sure it’s a drawing of it but it’s EXACTLY LIKE I REMEMBER IT AND EXACTLY AS IVE DESCRIBED IT TO EVERYONE WHO WOULD LISTEN FOR THE PAST 26 YEARS.
I’m in shock, I go to the comments and the top comment is something “oh so this was what people must’ve seen in the early 2000’s”.
Hello?? That’s exactly the year I saw it. 2000. I wake my wife up talking so fast I can’t even make sense and then explain. I get vague “wow I can’t believe it” “I’ll look it up tomorrow babe” and then she pretty much rolls over and starts snoring. I repeat the process three times and then I just gave up and started googling. Apparently there is a debate if these things even exist. Let me tell you THEY DO! I SAW IT AND I THOUGHT I WOULD DIE BEFORE I FOUND OUT WHAT THE FUCK IT WAS! AND IM SO GLAD MY GRANDMOTHER IS STILL ALIVE AND IM GONNA CALL HER FIRST THING IN THE MORNING! And yes I will stay up all night and call out of work because this, this is the most intense thing that’s happened in a while! I didn’t know where else to post this so I hope this is interesting to someone in here!
And before you ask: No I don’t drink or do drugs. I’m not a conspiracy theorist and I don’t have mental issues. This is real.
Thanks for reading!
davesbrown@reddit
B-2
hutch_man0@reddit
You might want to calm dpwn first before posting a rambling message in r/aviation. You will have better responses in r/ufo and also look at the videos from Sandboxx news on the topic of flying triangles.
enjoiee@reddit (OP)
It was also in Scandinavia for anyone wondering about location. Saw that you should put location
Necessary_Sock_4967@reddit
Let me tell you, it must be a great feeling, but reddit is not going to give you the answers and support you want. If I were you I'd be happy knowing for myself that it is true and live life to the fullest. A lot of people here just want you to call you crazy or play an ai game. It shouldn't matter what anybody says, happy you got your answer and found some comfort and relief.
enjoiee@reddit (OP)
Lol yeah I honestly thought this would be interesting to share since I saw the debate on if it existed or was an urban legend. Thought someone with no interest in aviation seeing it and taking the time to post about it would shed some light on it but BOY was I wrong haha. You should probably delete your comment so they won’t downvote you to negative -1000 ! But thanks I appreciate it. Doesn’t matter if it’s genuine or to be nice. All the best!
No-Brilliant9659@reddit
You might have a better response posting this in r/ufo
enjoiee@reddit (OP)
But I don’t believe it was a UFO nor do I believe it was something used in Venezuela haha. I also did some research after everyone was super negative and I see that this topic has been discussed here before. So this reaction was really unexpected tbh. But I might as well give it a shot to be honest.
No-Brilliant9659@reddit
Did you identify it? No? Then it’s unidentified.
LeBronGOOD@reddit
LOL, gotem
enjoiee@reddit (OP)
You’ve got a point! I’ll try there :) thanks
dohzer@reddit
If it's not a UFO, then what have you identified the flying object as? What is it?
airport-codes@reddit
I am a bot.
^(If you are the OP and this comment is inaccurate or unwanted, reply below with "bad bot" and it will be deleted.)
SuperSonicGamer29_YT@reddit
bad bot
old_righty@reddit
Bot is on some good drugs.
Physics_Unicorn@reddit
What exactly did you prompt ChatGPT to come up with this?
tobascodagama@reddit
Nah, this is just regular human schizophrenia.
railker@reddit
"Anosognosia is a condition where your brain can’t recognize one or more other health conditions you have. [...] Experts estimate that it affects between 50% and 98% of people with schizophrenia, about 40% of people with bipolar disorder, and more than 80% of people with Alzheimer’s disease."
Can't accuse OP without a proper diagnosis but these people's idea that 'I don't think I have a mental illness therefore I don't' is hilarious.
enjoiee@reddit (OP)
Yeah that’s gotta be it. Thanks, I’ll go and get checked out first thing in the morning. Lord.
enjoiee@reddit (OP)
Ofcourse the first commenter is gonna be negative. You are not gonna ruin this for me how hard you even try but I appreciate the effort lmao
eatmynasty@reddit
Cocaine
doom_pizza@reddit
TLDR
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