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I've seen two, many years ago, when I was in my teens / twenties, both in company with a group of responsible adults, both sightings were VERY convincing, no alcohol involved - and both ultimately resolved as non-alien.
In both cases, what we collectively saw was very bright, and moving in a way that seemed very "unnatural" (in the sense that we couldn't identify any logical phenomenon to explain what we were seeing), but both were resolved by standing and watching long enough to work out what was going on.
The first was when a group of us were cycling along a long, straight, undulating unlit rural road in open country. We saw a classic "flying saucer" rising and falling over hills near the horizon, gradually moving silently towards us, but apparently staying very low (to avoid radar detection, or to collect sample humans and cattle?) The circumstances were such that we were all very excited and somewhat alarmed by what we were seeing - particularly as there was no nearby refuge, so we dismounted and moved off to the side of the road where we could take some cover in the long grass if we needed to. When it was a few hundred meters away, it rose one more time, this time accompanied by two brilliant white "daughter-ships".
It turned out to be a taxi with its roof-top light illuminated, but the rolling terrain and our low line-of-sight meant that we only saw the roof-top light but not the headlights, until it got quite close to us. If we had turned and run a little earlier, I would have been convinced that I'd seen a genuine UFO.
The second was around sunset, on a beach at Redcliffe, with dozens of people looking out to sea (to the east) in wonder at several bright flashing lights that moved with astonishing rapidity, making sudden sharp turns, disappearing and reappearing, sometimes alone, sometimes in groups, sometimes as tiny points, sometimes as extended objects but with no clear shape or structure. This persisted for several minutes, with the lights seemingly getting closer, with no explanation forthcoming.
Eventually, the lights got close enough to make out some detail - it turned out to be a flock of seagulls in a fishing frenzy. Generally, they were too dim to sea against the darkening sky, but when one or more of the birds rose high enough to get into the direct light of the setting sun, and with the right angle, it would reflect as a brilliant pinpoint of light. When a group of them swung around to the right angle, we would see a brilliant warping "smear" of light for a second or two.
I haven't seen anything so convincing in the 30+ years since - probably because whenever I see anything a bit unusual, my first inclination is to assume it has a natural explanation, rather than to conclude prematurely that it has alien origins.
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