8 Amazing Stories From People Who Have Met Aliens

4. 1997: A Good Year For Aliens

One Reddit thread got a fair bit of attention, as it would seem that there was a bit of a spate of UFO sightings around 1997.

1997 Colorado Springs, CO. I was 8 years old, playing in the sand volleyball court [...] but decided suddenly that I needed to look up because the world around me had lost all sound.

There was no longer any ambient noise. No traffic noise from the busy streets just a block over. No more dogs barking. No more birds chirping.

I looked at the street that bordered the park, and that is when I saw it.

It looked like a stealth bomber turned sideways (nose leading, one wing down toward the road and the other pointed up at the sky). Completely shiny-black in color, as tall as a house, shaped like an arrowhead. It was cruising the street at 3 MPH. Just gliding over the road....I watched it for maybe 20 seconds. As soon as it had passed behind some 2 story houses and out of my sight - I got my hearing back full force.

EDIT - Here is a quick sketch I made, in all of my talented glory.

So far, so normal for a UFO story, but then the post got a load of comments saying they saw similar things in the same year, in roughly the same place. Now, it could be that 1997 was the beginning of something, perhaps those were the scouts and we should be expecting a full-scale invasion any time now.

Or, the demographic of people who had vivid imaginations in 1997 are now old enough to be posting on Reddit about the stealth bomber they saw.