What do you think this thing in the sky was?

The reason why I never believe those things are aliens, is because of the practical and logical implications.

The universe is so huge, even this one galaxy alone is so big it would take 100'000 years traveling at the speed of light to cross one end tithe other.

The nearest star is 4 light years away, meaning it would take 4 years traveling at he speed if light to get there (you can't accelerate past the speed of light according to the laws of physics) are no planets within range of Earth are capable of sustaining life.

The distances are just so huge, it's hard to imagine any living thing crossing them in a practical time frame.

Also, think about motives. Any spiecies that can traverse the cosmos with such speed and efficiency must possess technology (some estimate) millions of years ahead of Earth technology. We have nothing to offer them, there's nothing they'd want from us. They would have likely observed countless other aliens worlds with primitive people on them.

They wouldn't be interested in our water or resources, they could surely manufacture their own resources using their technology, perhaps they could somehow manipulate the structure of individual atoms in order to create water molecules or any element they desired.

It just seems weird to me that an intelligent force would cross interstellar space just to hover over people's houses Ect.

Alien abduction is often just mistaken cases of sleep paralysis (a naturally occurring experience).

But even if it's all true, the abductees are never harmed or killed. They're always returned safely usually with a memory wipe apparently.

Please learn to summarize. That is, eliminate unnecessary detail that bogs down the reader and dilutes your story (e.g. it doesn't matter how much your PE teacher talks). And remember that paragraphs are your friend. However, at least you have the courtesy to use whole words, and you know how to put sentences together, so thanks for that. Anyway, short version: You say a circle of lights in the sky, and didn't know what they were, and your friend took a picture to which you didn't post the link. That's about the whole story, in about 1/10th the words.

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You are young, were younger then, and as you say, terrified for some reason, which doesn't improve observational quality. If you would post the link to the online image we could at least see that.

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I can't imagine what about this made you so terrified, other than that you were an impressionable child who had seen one too many alien movies.

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"the circle was the same color as the sky" It was nighttime, so you don't know what color it was, other than that it was dark. If you had been observing more closely you might have noticed that there were stars shining through it, so that there wasn't an object at all, just a circle of lights. You also said that it was there for at least the length of time it took your friend to talk about it on Facebook (after having seen it herself), then post a picture, and then for you to go outside and spot it. That means is wasn't a fast moving object, and was pretty much just hanging there.

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It's a pretty common prank nowadays to buy a mylar balloon or two, wire up some LEDs (light emitting diodes, of which red is a very common and cheap color) to a battery, probably with a little aluminum foil behind them to reflect more of the light, and let it fly. Instant UFO. I'm not saying *I've* ever done that, mind you <harrumph, harrumph>, just saying it's been done far more than once, in large part because it's hilarious to see people absolutely freak out over four dollars worth of electronics and helium. From your description I don't see any reason to believe it was anything other than that. Your friend doesn't happen to have an older brother, does she? Because this sounds just like something an older brother would do, and then tell is sister "Quick! Go look outside! I think it's a UFO!" Not that I would ever do anything like that, of course.

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Just look at your reaction to this banal stunt, though. You have magnified this thing into epic proportions in your mind. Words like "terrified, aliens, abduct, freaking out, crying, scared, and spaceship" pepper your description such that it's almost easy to imagine the meat-eating alien hoards descending upon us as I write this reply. Reactions such as this are one reason I find it so easy to dismiss the vast majority of UFO claims. Most of them have perfectly rational real-world explanations once we cut through all the hype and hyperbole.

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OK. Firstly, if you could see it, then everyone else in the area could also. Since it looks like there was no local panic, it looks like the other people who saw it knew what it was, or at least what it wasn't. You were young, so you were more likely to believe what you were told, and you went outside expecting to see an alien spacecraft. So, you did.

Also, being young and expecting to see an alien spacecraft, you may not have remembered exactly what it looked like. Were all the lights red? Were they actually in a circle?

If it was night, you don't know what colour the "circle" was because you couldn't see it in the dark. It may have been a flight of military aircraft in formation, because the most noticable of their navigation lights are the red ones. Come to think of it, if you could see something the same colour as the sky, it's probably the sky, and you only saw the lights of the distant aircraft.

Please recognise that the planet is surrounded by aircraft. If you see moving lights in the sky, that's what they are.

Helicopter, plane, meteor, satellite, ball lightning, will of the wisp, there are hundreds of things it could be but the fact is, aliens would have very few reasons to visit us like that. If they were visiting, it would be a fly by probe, an orbiter, a lander and then a rover, it would not be crop circles, cattle mutiliation and sexual acts on abductees.

I think it was a UFO. The government once said that a UFO was a weather balloon, and people believe that the gov hides alien things like UFOs. But you shouldn't be scared. Since no aliens have ever came and tried destroying the human race.