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Quotes About Sighting

The first man to sight land was supposed to get a yearly pension of 10,000 maravedis for life, but Rodrigo never got it. Columbus claimed he had seen a light the evening before. He got the reward.
~ Howard Zinn
It's a very typical UFO sighting. Carter said it changed color and, in the physical report, described it as being about the size of the moon. And he saw it with about twenty-five other people.
~ Dwight Schultz
the platoon moves out to the rifle range barracks for basic rifle training . The gospel according to Parris Island is that shooting accurately is a matter of discipline: Even the clumsiest recruit can do it well if he follows the prescribed steps, from sighting and aiming, to proper positioning, to trigger control and sight adjustment. "Any person in the world can be a marksman if he applies himself
~ Thomas E. Ricks
There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.
~ Mark Twain
But the mind had its own ideas, and Kihn's opinion of what I was already thinking of as my "sighting" rattled endlessly, through my head in a tight, lopsided orbit. Semiotic ghosts.
~ William Gibson
Two passing jetliners reported to controllers they'd seen a man with a gun seated on a deck chair at eleven thousand feet…
~ Unknown
At about 8.15 p.m. Cargill thought he saw something pass through one of the gaps in the boom net defences and rowed across to the centre portion of the nets, near the Western Gate, to investigate. He saw what appeared to be two oxygen bottles floating just below the surface and decided they belonged either to a mine or a submarine.
~ Unknown
1890s when a farmer walked into his backyard and over his field saw a cigar-shaped craft floating about forty feet off the ground. Below was one of his cows dangling by a thick cord.
~ Unknown
Tom had seen something few humans have reported. He had seen a flying object, black and possibly triangular shaped, flying from a great distance from the "other side" of the orange structure to his property. This incident convinced Tom that his ranch was the site of some kind of dimensional doorway through which a flying object entered and maybe even exited this reality.
~ Unknown
These five teens are convinced it was not a prank. They all believe this is the beginning of the zombie apocalypse we hear so much about. But I'm not so sure I believe their story - not this close to Halloween. The girl with the ponytail frowned at him. I know what I saw, she said. They are here!
~ R.L. Stine
The next morning we saw nothing of the enemy, though we were still lying to.
~ John Byng
I thought I saw him once, but it turned out to be a yeti
~ John Scalzi
Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.
~ Lizzie Andrew Borden
Possible ID, leather jacket." In his ear, the team confirmed the sighting. On the bench, Luisa set down her salad and put a hand on her purse. Vasquez turned to face the guy, his eyes a question. The man in the leather jacket slipped his hand into his right front pocket.
~ Marcus Sakey
I did. I did see Bigfoot when I was a kid and I still believe it to this day. I saw a big furry man outside my window. It's not funny! It was real.
~ Barry Watson
Shortly before 7 p.m., Captain Jean Lucas of the Redoutable caught his first glimpse of Nelson's fleet to starboard:
~ Unknown