In 1947, Kenneth Arnold was flying his CallAir A-2 between Chehalis and Yakima, Washington, when he took a detour to search for a downed Marine Corps aircraft. There was a reward for anyone who could find the plane, and who couldn't use $5,000?
Arnold flew around searching for a while, and accidentally found something else—something much stranger than what he'd actually been looking for. As he watched, rapt, nine objects flew through the air in formation.
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The Navy tracks UFO sightings. Scientists explain what's really going on.
No one doubts that the pilots are seeing something, but psychologists and specialists in aviation medicine say there are plenty of reasonable explanations for such sightings other than extraterrestrial beings. Earthly sources of light reflected by clouds or haze, for example, or optical illusions wrought by fatigue after staring through a cockpit window for hours on end.
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Though we treat our sense of vision as if it provides an exact representation of our surroundings, it is far from perfect in many respects, said Alan Stocker, a University of Pennsylvania associate professor of psychology who studies the neuroscience of perception.
Bill Nye's explanation for strange UFO sightings - CNN Video
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Earlier this year, the US navy revised its pilot guidelines on how to document "unauthorised and/or unidentified aircraft", after a spike in such reports.
"If naval pilots are running into unexplained interference in the air, that's a safety concern Senator Warner believes we need to get to the bottom of," a spokesperson said.
Interest in unidentified aerial phenomena has been building since 2017, when the Pentagon established a programme dedicated to analysing the subject, interviewing sailors and pilots about their experiences.
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Mysterious case of the vanishing UFOs | Comment | The Times
P ort Talbot is inundated with UFOs. The Welsh steel town is a magnet for alien spacecraft. The place is positively awash with flying saucers. This is according to the actor Michael Sheen, who claims to have had a close encounter with a formation of alien lights on his way home from school in the 1970s. The lady next door apparently spotted a flying saucer hovering over the garden. Sheen's dad also saw a UFO, on New Year's Eve, sober.
U.S. Navy Wants Pilots to Report UFOs, Despite Stigma - The Atlantic
Pilots are about to receive a new memo from management: If you encounter an unidentified flying object while on the job, please tell us.
In some cases, pilots—many of whom are engineers and academy graduates—claimed to observe small spherical objects flying in formation. Others say they've seen white, Tic Tac–shaped vehicles. Aside from drones, all engines rely on burning fuel to generate power, but these vehicles all had no air intake, no wind and no exhaust.
History's Most Infamous UFO Sightings of the Modern Era - HISTORY
UFOs aren’t new. Indeed, humans have been describing unidentified flying objects for millennia, with depictions of disk-like objects and unusual atmospheric objects found in the art and literature of ancient civilizations from the Sumerians and the Egyptians to the Greeks and Romans.
But the modern era of UFOs took off in the middle of the 20th century, right around the time rockets and high-tech aircraft were being devised, often in secret. Coincidence? Paranoia? Perhaps. In any event, these seven UFO sightings gained a lot of attention—and raised a lot of eyebrows.
Santa's sleigh or UFO? SpaceX launches 60 satellites Monday night
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) -- San Diegans across the county witnessing a row of fluttering lights in the night sky were left pondering possibilities, including the existence of aliens and, well, Santa.
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The glow from the satellites were visible across San Diego ... all the way to infinity and beyond .
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