Who would you tell about your UFO sighting??

[TClaeys]

As I was thinking about Greer and the people who put their trust in him some interesting things came to mind. Lets say you have a UFO sighting, which I presume some of you have had. I have not, but that is beside the point. Lets say you want to share this story with someone or some group to begin to explore the what the hell you may have witnessed. And also, perhaps, to officially document the event.

Who do you go to?? I mean there are many groups and people and avenues to take all with their own downfalls. Maybe you might keep it to yourself to eliminate any aftermath to your reputation and validity of the sighting. And as others begin to report the same phenomena you witnessed, you may become compelled to "come out" which may leave a questionable justification for your "band wagon" approach. Certainly we need truthful accounts of these objects to begin to make any sense of it, but in the meantime you may feel as if you or your sighting is thrown to the lions so to speak. And is that worth it?

I'm not sure what I would do. NUFORC? MUFON? YouTube? Blog? The police? Media? Friedman? James Fox? Richard Haines? Linda Moulton Howe? Huassan(spelling?) Other? The list is endless, but I thought I'd throw this question out because it may be interesting. Of course I will submit many of the above listed will provoke a giggle factor to some degree, or perhaps to a great degree.

And now consider a person or persons that may have no knowledge of these groups or people. Talk about stepping into another dimension. But really, what do you do?

And excuse me if there has been a thread on this before, I don't know. But in the case of the polarized UFO world, I thought it might be worthy of discussion.

[Aaron LeClair]

I would have to have a very impressive sighting to want to report it. So far, my sightings have been unimpressive.

[Poi]

I went to NUFORC and Peter Davenport. We discussed the sighting in email after I submitted my report. He's so good about knowing a lot of what is in the sky on a paticular date that I felt he might have some explanation. He didn't.

I also reported my second sighting for the same reason, but was very frustrated with him because he wrote it off to Russian rocketry reentering the atmosphere that night and its having been sighted across the midwest.

I don't live in the midwest and the lights had no tail as the rocketry did. They were stationery for at least ten minutes before I lost sight of them due to the trees I passed by in my car.

But what I still find interesting is that what I saw was so mind blowing that I didn't want to believe it. I think that's why I never told Davenport that the lights were stationery. I never told him the whole story because it was too Speilbergesque.

Edit: Thought I'd add a couple of things. First, sightings are so strange that it takes quite a while to process them in some coherent way. It's very difficult to bother telling anyone so NUFORC is a good way to go. Davenport, while skeptical, is also very accepting of the reports.

Second, after my first sighting, I couldn't remember parts of it for my report. I measured the craft with my finger at arm's length, determined it's flight path, noted the instant cloud it disappeared into, noted the description of it and compared that description during the sighting with my husband. At the time, our descriptions matched. They no longer match. He's sure he saw something else entirely which baffles me.

But I wrote everything I could remember at the time down right after the sighting. I just didn't remember all of it until some weeks later, too late to add some of the observations to the report. Wacky, but true.

[Siani]

I've experienced a number of strange things, starting from the age of 8 or 9. I've only started to discuss them with others over the last two or three years, and then mainly online, rather than face to face with family or friends - I'm now in my early 40's. I tried to report one possible UFO sighting as it was occurring, to a British ufologist who I'd rather not name, but he was abrupt to the point of rudeness, so I quickly terminated the call. Perhaps I caught him at a bad time - I don't know. This was about 12 years ago, and I decided at the time never to report anything to anyone ever again. However, I relented, when I had an anomalous sighting in early 2000. I reported it to UFO Magazine (the now defunct UK publication edited by the late Graham Birdsall), and my sighting had a couple of paragraphs devoted to it. When I was a child, I wasn't aware there was anyone you could report these things to, so the weirdest experiences were never reported at the time. If, heaven forbid, I had further sightings/ experiences, if they were significant events, rather than amorphous blobs of light in the sky, I would probably contact a reputable researcher, whilst insisting on anonymity, as I would only seek publicity for my sighting, and not myself.