My daughter saw a UFO?

Question

I know this sounds silly but my daughter swears that she saw a UFO outside her window. She described it in great detail. I don't know if it was just a dream or what. What would you do if your kid said this? I don't want to hurt her feelings. By the was she is 6.

Answer 1

I would suggest she sit down with a paper and some crayons and draw the thing.....

Now a good question for you might be, "How does she know about UFO's?"

Where ever she got the information from, it was scary enough for her to affix a label on whatever she saw or thinks she saw.

Her drawing may give you some answers, or give you some questions.....

For instance when I was 5, I saw spiderman outside my window.  My drawing looks a lot like the many pictures of aliens people draw.  I did not know what an alien was, but the mouthless creature with big eyes reminded me of Spiderman, and so thats the label I put on it.  

My parents comforted me by telling me that I must be a pretty special kid, to have Spiderman checking up on me like that (and later in my childhood, when I found the alien title fit nicely on my creature of the night, I comforted myself in the fact that I must be pretty special to have someone travel a few billion light years just to look in my window and make sure I was alright)

Answer 2

I would just say the U in UFO stands for "unidentified" so it could actually have been lots of things, but you're sure that whatever it was wasn't dangerous.  Tell her next time to come get you so you can see it, too.

Answer 3

she is probably very high on marijuana

ps: its a drug

Answer 4

your daughter has a very active imagination which can be a good thing, just encourage her stories it isnt anything bad shes only 6

Answer 5

just tell her maybe she did..that's pretty cool. my daughter claimed the same thing once and i told her wow, that is awesome...not everyone gets to see a UFO in their lifetime. she wasn't scared then and it wasn't made into a big deal....

Answer 6

My daughter has also been claiming to see things since she was four years old.

She draws pictures and we talk about what she saw. It comforts her to know that she can talk about these things with mom and dad.

It could just be their perception of what she is seeing...who knows.