I believe that there is extraterrestrial life with far superior tech to our own, that they have mastered interstellar travel and can counter the effects of both gravity and spacetime, and that they are observing us. I've seen five instances of UFOs in my life. In order: Two of them were a classic black disc with white lights, flying rapidly at low altitude through the mountains, on two different evenings (sometime around 2002 or 3). I've seen a high-flying red orb in the middle of a night (around 2005), a cluster of them on another (around 2010), and a bright silver "tic tac" flying erratically above me at noon, 08/21/2017, before flying into the clouds and zipping away at high speed, with impossible acceleration.
The last one I caught on camera.
Edit: All of those were in the Appalachians, with the exception of the cluster, which was in Florida. Come to think of it, I did see a weird, very fast-flying green object flash past me in New Jersey this year, nearby the Newark airport. Although that instance happened so quick that I can't say if it was a trick of the light in stormy conditions.
While camping in Vermont, my friends and I saw several lights zig zag back and forth across the sky (nighttime). They looked like stars and would move slowly in one direction, pause, turn at a sharp angle and continue. They did this erratically until an actual plane floated past, then they all turned in the direction of the plane and followed it briefly.
Another time I was with the same friends in CT. We went on a walk through a forest at night to smoke a spliff. At one point we reached a large field and stood somewhat in the middle of it, it was night but our eyes had adjusted so you coud see the surrounding area pretty well. Again, we saw those strange lights in the sky. We stood there looking at them when suddenly the entire field briefly lit up as if someone used a flash camera. But the field was 1/2 the size of a football field. We all agreed that there were 2 lights and the source came from just above the tops of the very tall trees. A white and red light. We booked it out of there pretty quickly.
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