The term unidentified flying object, or
UFO, was first used in the early 1950s,
coined by the United States Air Force
after a spate of reports of strange
objects observed in the sky. These
airborne objects possessed
characteristics which did not conform to
any known aircraft or missile type, and
could not be positively identified as a
familiar object. Thought by the observer
to have no ordinary natural origin, these
objects were labeled as unidentified,
which in the decades since has often led
to the assumption of alien origin.
However, it must be remembered that the
term UFO does not necessarily mean such
an object is related to
extraterrestrials but rather that a
sighted object is merely unexplained,
cannot be identified, and appears out of
place. In present times the search for
genuine UFO sightings, especially those
caught on camera, is frustrated by the
ease with which they can be faked.
As such the study of UFOs can be just as
embarrassing as it can be exhilarating.
Yet, with thousands of sightings reported
across the globe each year, not a day
goes by when a UFO is not spotted in the
sky. UFO phenomena is difficult to ignore.
Not all sightings can be easily
explained: many cannot be positively
identified. As such here are five pieces
of footage showing UFOs that remain
unexplained.
In 2004 David Fravor was the commanding
officer of a US Navy squadron. What he
witnessed whilst aboard a Super Hornet
fighter aircraft off the coast of
California would later be investigated
by a secret Pentagon program, established
to investigate aerial anomalies.
The footage captured by the most advanced
sensors and tracking systems available
at the time, was later declassified and
approved for public release in December
2017. Speaking to the press all those
years later David Fravor, now retired,
confessed that he still could not
explain what he saw that day. According
to him, the object he witnessed was
something not from the earth. Fravor was
on a training mission west of San Diego
some 60 to 100 miles off the coast when
he received a command to investigate an
anomaly in the water 60 miles from his
location. According to his testimony, he
was told that several unidentified
flying objects had been observed
descending from 80,000 feet to 20,000
feet before disappearing, phenomena that
the Navy had been tracking for a few
weeks. When Fravor got closer he saw one
of the objects for himself, flying over
the smooth ocean. He described it as
moving randomly. According to his account, it was shaped like a tic-tac and was 40
feet long with no wings.
Despite moving in a manner similar to a
helicopter, Fravor saw no signs of
air turbulence, which would have been
caused by the blades of a helicopter. As
commanded Fravor and his four-man team
pursued the anomaly - their tracking
system locked on to its movements.
After several minutes of chase, the
object accelerated rapidly to the left
and disappeared. Its speed was so fast,
that Fravor's sensors could not maintain
tracking. The velocity of the object was
unprecedented. Fravor remains convinced
that the unidentified object he
witnessed was extraterrestrial and that
there may be other similar crafts out
there. In his own words: "This is
revolutionary technology. Think about the
advances that would bring mankind."
The following footage was shared by the
British Earth and Aerial Mystery Society
after being filmed by Craig Megson in
early February 2018. The video appears to
show a formation of unidentified flying
objects cross the night sky. Megson was
changing trains at Preston train station,
in Lancashire England, on his way home
after a day out with his six-year-old
son. According to his testimony, it was
around 6:30 in the evening when he
noticed a series of lights in the sky. At
first he thought the objects were planes,
yet with no flashing lights or sound he
soon dismissed his initial assumption.
Then, when more lights appeared, also
moving in silent steady formation, he
knew he was witnessing something
extraordinary. The peculiar objects
quickly drew a crowd of at least 20
people, all with their eyes turned to the
sky. Like Megson, they could not explain
what they were seeing. In his own words: "I
asked the man next to me what he thought
they could be, and he simply said, 'They're
not planes, mate, that's for sure.".
One explanation that has been proposed is
that the mysterious lights were simply
Chinese lanterns. However, Megson has stated that the
weather conditions that evening were
windy. It is highly unlikely that a group
of paper lanterns could have moved in
such a steady, evenly spaced, formation
under such windy conditions. Not only
that, Chinese lanterns are highly
regulated in the United Kingdom. Local authorities must be
notified and lanterns are not permitted
in wind speeds of 5 miles per hour or
higher. For Craig Megson, the footage is
compelling proof that we are not alone
in the universe, validating his belief
that UFOs of alien origin have been
spotted in the skies above his home
county of Lancashire for decades. Whilst
it is impossible to conclude that these
objects are extraterrestrial, they are
unidentified.
In July 2018, a multitude of
people came forward claiming to have
sighted UFOs after several strange
lights were seen flashing over the sky
of Chongqing China. Beginning at around
8 o'clock in the evening on the 18th of
July, Chongqing residents took to Chinese
social media platforms to share their
reports and videos of orange red lights
moving in a linear motion across the sky.
The balls of light appeared to have an
eerie yellow halo around them, visible
for a few seconds before disappearing. In
most of the videos, the orbs move
soundlessly across the sky. In one piece
of footage, a loud low droning noise can
be heard.
Panicked, some local
residents feared that aliens were
visiting China. Some web users even
claimed to have seen the same mysterious
pattern appearing above other cities,
including Shanghai. Various attempts have
been made to explain the sightings. Some
have speculated that the lights were
caused by a military training exercise,
and may have been the result of decoy
flares being released with the aircraft
itself concealed by nighttime cloud
cover. Others have suggested that the
orange red lights were a visual anomaly,
possibly a misidentification of Mars.
Nigel Watson, a leading British UFO
expert and author, suggested that the
footage could be a rocket zooming into
the atmosphere, with the pulses of light
being blasts from its engines. Certainly,
there has been a lot of speculation as
to the cause of the eerie lights. However,
with the Chinese authorities yet to
comment on the matter, they are yet to be
fully explained.
On the morning of the 1st of September
2016,
a Falcon 9 rocket designed and
manufactured by the aerospace company
SpaceX, exploded on its launch pad at the
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in
Florida. It was being test-fired in
preparation for the planned launch of a
communication satellite. Both the launch
vehicle and its payload, the 195 million
dollar satellite, were destroyed in the
blast. At the scene of the incident was
US Launch Report, a veteran-owned video
productions agency which produces video
reports of all things space. It was their
footage of the dramatic incident which
ignited a secondary explosion - an
explosion of reports that an
unidentified flying object had been
responsible for the rocket's destruction.
The cause of these claims was a
mysterious object, which enters from the
right side of the screen and passes
above the rocket at the same time as the
explosion. In no time at all footage of
the explosion and the object racked up
millions of views online. Conspiracy-minded observers whispered that someone
or something had intentionally destroyed
the rocket and the satellite it was
carrying. Some even hinted at
extraterrestrial interference.
In the hours that followed the explosion, SpaceX and its founder Elon Musk stated that
the explosion causing anomaly originated
around the upper stage oxygen tanks.
Their initial statement that the cause
of the explosion was unknown only added
fuel to UFO theories. In the months that
followed, skeptical analysts probed the
footage for an explanation. Their
suggestions that the object was a bug or
bird left many unconvinced. The
object had been moving too fast; the object
appeared shiny; and, unlike other
insect-like objects visible at the start
of the video, the object in question
seemed to move in a perfectly straight
line, traveling behind the rocket
relative to the camera and therefore
proving to be both larger and moving
much more quickly than any bugs or birds
in the foreground. Skeptics have pointed
out that whilst we cannot know for sure
what the object is, that the video was
captured using a telephoto lens adds to
the challenge of questioning the footage
scientifically. The further the zoom the
greater the risk for distortion of an
object's perceived speed and distance.
Add in video compression and increased
pixelation, and you are navigating in
minefield of uncertainty. In the months
after the explosion, SpaceX conducted
further investigations as to the cause
of the incident. In their press release
they claimed to have identified a
problem with the supercooled oxygen on
board. Yet, due to the difficulty of
positively identifying the object in the
footage, many remain convinced that it
was the cause of the explosion. Whatever
the case may be, without the ability to
scrutinize the footage further, the
object in question remains unidentified.
This video was filmed on the 15th of
August 1950, in Great Falls, Montana. It is
believed to be the first UFO sighting
captured on video. Almost 70 years later,
the footage still has experts divided.
Nick Mariana, the manager of a minor
league baseball club, was surveying an
empty ball park with his secretary when
the pair noticed two peculiar objects in
the sky. In a later documentary interview,
Mariana describes seeing two silvery
objects, made of a bright shiny metal,
moving swiftly out of the northwest. He
noticed that the objects, both of the
same size, were about 10,000 feet in the
air. After a few moments they suddenly
stopped. Struck by the bizarre nature of
what he and his secretary were
witnessing, Mariana decided to film the
incident using his 16 millimeter color
video camera, which he had in the glove
compartment of his car. When he started
filming, the two objects were moving once
again, flying directly against strong
wind speeds. Mariana continued filming the anomalies until
they disappeared into the blue sky,
behind a nearby water tank. He maintained
that he could not see any exhaust, wings,
or any kind of fuselage, and that the
objects made no sound, except for a
whooshing noise which he heard when he
first saw them. In the immediate
aftermath of the incident,
Mariana only shared the footage with
friends and family. In time, however, the
footage became one of the most heavily
investigated pieces of UFO evidence in
existence. When a local newspaper covered
the story, officials at an Air Force Base
in Ohio were notified. It was at this
point that Mariana's footage came to the
attention of Project Grudge, an official
USAF investigative body tasked with
explaining unidentified aerial phenomena.
Both Mariana and his secretary gave
testimonies, with the original footage
being sent away for analysis.
When the film was returned, Mariana was
given a straightforward response: the
film showed nothing of note. The objects
in question were simply reflections from
fighter jets active in the area. Mariana
was unconvinced. Not only that, he was
adamant that the most important frames
of the film were missing. These frames, he
stated, showed the objects rotating as
they flew across the sky. Over the next
20 years Mariana's footage was subject to
at least three more official
investigations. In 1952, when the footage
was studied for the purposes of Project
Blue Book, the previous conclusion of
fighter jet reflections was thrown out.
Instead, the film was described as "an
unknown". With each fresh analysis a
different conclusion was made. It soon
became clear that no one could
positively identify the objects in the
footage. Even today, after dozens of
experts from the US government, Air Force,
and documentary film projects have
studied Mariana's film, a conclusive
explanation is nowhere in sight. As such,
Mariana's film remains one of the most
compelling pieces of footage of
unidentified flying objects. Thank you
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