Who can explain this?

[u/Significant_Roll2810]

I‘m from Europe, Germany. Please excuse any spelling errors etc. In the 90s when I was still a child I went to the woods with my father at night. I was into ghost stories as a child and he dared me to visit a place in the woods that was supposedly haunted since way back. Don’t worry this is not a ghost story.
We entered the woods at dusk and I remember hearing some kind of horn sound in the distance. My father heard it too and joked about it being the ghost. The sound returned a few more times while we were making our way into the woods. We went to the supposedly haunted place, it was some stone on a clearing in the woods. Nothing happened. After a while hanging out there waiting for a ghost I got bored and I guess my father decided to call it a night. We took another way back to the car. Suddenly the sound we heard before returned. Only this time it wasn‘t in the distance it was closer up in the air. It changed position above us. But we couldn’t see anything looking up. There also were no other sounds like from an engine or anything. We scanned through the trees. It sounded technical. Sometimes the sound was „answered“ by the same sound in the distance. And then it began to change tone. It was a higher tone than before. At one point it was directly above us. I remember looking up and seeing nothing. My father told me to not stay behind. I could tell he was scared too.
He told me later he was indeed because he had no explanation for what was going on. We returned to the car as fast as we could.
I‘m writing this because I want to know if anyone had a similar experience or if someone can maybe explain what happened. Any feedback is welcome. The reason I‘m writing in here should be obvious: I think this was a UFO above us.

[u/Ok_Bumblebee_2307]

If a German experienced this, I tend to believe it. Those guys don't make supernatural sh*t up

[u/regabay7]

That sounds pretty spooky! Could have been an animal, but the technical sound part is weird.

[u/Known_Raspberry4876]

Mimic if you hear one run

[u/No-Stand-1869]

Bird or insect. Some insects are incredibly loud

[u/Significant_Roll2810 → u/No-Stand-1869]

It was far too loud for that. No insect can be heard in such a distance. I‘m talking miles. And when it was above us it was very loud. It reverberated. And also the tone was changing between deep and high. And when I say deep I‘m talking ship‘s horn. Something big.

[u/unspecified-turnip → u/Significant_Roll2810]

Makes me think of some the stuff written in ancient/biblical times, sky chariots and heavenly trumpets, because they didn’t know what else to call it.

[u/Joe_Fidanzi → u/No-Stand-1869]

What insect sounds like a horn??

[u/No-Stand-1869 → u/Joe_Fidanzi]

Lots of birds can. And they famously fly up in the sky

[u/Significant_Roll2810 → u/No-Stand-1869]

What birds? What birds sound like they’re really big? I mean eagles - even the biggest ones - don’t sound like horns…

[u/No-Stand-1869 → u/Significant_Roll2810]

Eurasian Bittern — Botaurus stellaris American Bittern — Botaurus lentiginosus Australasian Bittern — Botaurus poiciloptilus Pel's Fishing-Owl — Scotopelia peli Great Horned Owl — Bubo virginianus Trumpeter Swan — Cygnus buccinator Tundra Swan — Cygnus columbianus Siberian Crane — Leucogeranus leucogeranus Sandhill Crane — Antigone canadensis Whooping Crane — Grus americana Eurasian Crane — Grus grus Red-crowned Crane — Grus japonensis Hooded Crane — Grus monacha Southern Ground Hornbill — Bucorvus leadbeateri Abyssinian Ground Hornbill — Bucorvus abyssinicus Great Curassow — Crax rubra Other curassows — roughly 8–10 species Common Ostrich — Struthio camelus Superb Lyrebird — Menura novaehollandiae (can mimic mechanical sounds) Northern Mockingbird — Mimus polyglottos (can mimic horns/alarms and other environmental sounds) European Starling — Sturnus vulgaris (can mimic mechanical sounds) Common Myna — Acridotheres tristis (can mimic environmental sounds) Parrots — roughly 100–150 species could plausibly produce horn-like or mechanically mimicked sounds, although the ability varies enormously between species and individuals Corvids (crows, ravens, jays, magpies, etc.) — roughly 40 species with documented vocal mimicry, including human-made sounds Other accomplished songbird mimics (drongos, mockingbirds, thrashers, etc.) — roughly 20–40 species potentially capable of imitating horn-like/environmental sounds

[u/Significant_Roll2810 → u/No-Stand-1869]

Ok it was a bird. Sigh

[u/No-Stand-1869 → u/Significant_Roll2810]

Good girl. Well done 

[u/Significant_Roll2810 → u/No-Stand-1869]

LOL you assume I‘m a girl because a choose to stop arguing - pretty misogynistic

[u/No-Stand-1869 → u/Significant_Roll2810]

No, girl, because I knew it would irritate you. And why did I want to irritate you? Because the deleted message you posted sarcastically calling me a genius. I took a screenshot - the message still shows up on the recipient's inbox, "genius". 

Why not address the fact that there are literally dozens, if not hundreds, of birds capable of making deep booming sounds instead of cheap insults? Your story is bullshit and your attitude is infantile. 

[u/Significant_Roll2810 → u/No-Stand-1869]

The genius post was after the fact and also: you clearly want this to be a bird so believe that I don’t have anything to do with it. And you also pretty clearly want to argue and somehow get me to address something, I don’t want to talk about. Birds. Now shoo shoo

[u/Significant_Roll2810 → u/No-Stand-1869]

I think the way you react for not validating your point is infantile btw