![]() ![]() ![]() After all, unknown objects over American skies could be a threat - whether their origin is Russia, North Korea or the Andromeda Galaxy. Given that UFOs are literally "unidentified flying objects," the Pentagon's interest in the topic is both understandable and appropriate. When UFO reports became more common (and in some cases achieved national and even international attention) the U.S. In fact, even airline pilots have mistaken Venus for a UFO. But like many, many UFO sightings, this one turned out to be the planet Venus. May 2012: A nephew of the famous Wayans brothers comedy team, Duayne "Shway ShWayans" Wayans, filmed a UFO over Studio City, Calif. (Image credit: April 2012: A UFO near the sun, spotted in a NASA image, turned out to be a camera glitch.Īpril 2012: A viral UFO video taken from a plane over South Korea likely showed a droplet of water on the airplane's window. Peter Lindberg's team found what appears to be a crashed flying saucer on the ocean floor. A second "anomaly" made the case seem even more bizarre, but no evidence has emerged to suggest alien origin. July 2011: The sighting of a UFO on the ocean floor was attributed to a Swedish scientist, but that researcher, Peter Lindberg, merely said the thing he detected in blurry images was "completely round," an assertion not supported by the low-resolution sonar image. 28, 2011: Videos of UFOs hovering over the Holy Land (the Dome of the Rock on Jerusalem's Temple Mount) was revealed as a hoax - the effects of video editing software's use were discovered. October 13, 2010: UFOs over Manhattan turned out to be helium balloons that escaped from a party at a school in Mount Vernon. The men who perpetrated the hoax, Joe Rudy and Chris Russo, were fined $250 for creating what could have been a danger to the nearby Morristown airport. 5, 2009: New Jersey UFOs that proved so baffling they were reported on the History Channel turned out to be helium balloons, red flares and fishing lines, all part of a social experiment. The hoaxer admitted it, and eyewitnesses reported seeing him do it. It was a hoax, created by road flares tied to helium balloons. 7, 2007: Strange lights over Arkansas fueled much speculation on the Internet until the Air Force debunked the UFO claims, explaining that flares had been dropped from airplanes as part of routine training.Īpril 21, 2008: Phoenix lights were reported again. Here are a handful that in recent years got a lot of attention, with links to articles from the time: Since then, a host of UFO sightings have been reported. (Image credit: NASA via YouTube Streetcap1) Though it is known that the military dropped flares over a nearby proving ground during routine exercises around the time of the sightings, UFO buffs dismiss the government's explanation of the lights and insist there's more to the story.Ī strangely shaped object near the sun in a new NASA image has drawn the attention of UFO believers. However, since there were no other eyewitnesses to the event and they didn't report the abduction at the time (only remembering it under hypnosis), many remain skeptical.Īnother famous UFO sighting occurred near Phoenix, Arizona, in March 1997 when a series of bright lights were reported in the night skies. The first UFO abduction case - and to this day the most famous - was that of Barney and Betty Hill, an interracial couple who in 1961 claimed to have been chased down and abducted by a UFO. ![]() The most famous UFO crash allegedly occurred when something - skeptics say a top-secret spy balloon believers say a spacecraft with alien pilots - crashed on a ranch in the desert outside of Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, and the debate rages to this day. Investigators think that Arnold probably saw a flock of pelicans and misjudged their size, their large wings creating the "V" shape he described. ![]() He described their movement as "like a saucer if you skip it across the water," which a careless reporter misunderstood as saying that the objects themselves resembled "flying saucers," and that mistake launched many "flying saucer" reports in later decades. The first report of a "flying saucer" dates back only to 1947 when a pilot named Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine objects resembling boomerangs in the sky. (Image credit: Ross Toro, LiveScience Contributor)Įarly newspaper hoaxes aside, there have been countless UFO reports over the decades, and a few of them stand out as especially important. GoFigure today visits the states where the most UFOs are sighted. ![]()
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