Top 10 Most Mysterious UFO Sightings
10) The crash of Shag Harbour
On October 4th 1967, the small town of Shag
Harbour spotted four bright orange lights
in the sky.
Over 30 witnesses saw a 60ft-long dome shaped
UFO plummet into the water, creating a bright
splash. As the coastguard sailed out towards
the vessel it started to submerge, leaving
a strange yellow foam in its wake - fishermen
claimed it was like nothing they’d ever
seen before.
No wreckage was ever found of the UFO, nor
were there any reports of planes going missing
from any official agencies. The Department
of National Defence concluded that there was
no “explainable conclusion” for this event.
9) Colares, Brazil
Across October, November and December of 1977
the Brazilian island of Colares [kol-larr-ehs]
]was plagued by various mysterious objects
appearing in the sky. Rays of light coming
from the UFOs would strike the islanders,
giving them headaches and paralysis.
Dr Wellaide Carvalho [vell-I-dee kar-VAL-oh],
a town doctor, treated over 40 patients who
had bizarre, small burns that turned black
just 10 minutes after being struck by the
light.
After the mass panic regarding the attacks,
a team of AIr Force officers was sent to the
island to investigate the strange events in
a plan named “Operation Saucer”.
The findings of the operation did not come
to light until 1997 when the captain of the
investigation, Uyrangê Hollanda [yer-ran-gay
holl-un-dah], gave an interview and said he
was visited by a humanoid alien while on the
island. He committed suicide just months later
and the records from Operation Saucer remain
a secret.
8) Rendlesham Forest, UK
On Boxing Day of 1980, US airman John Burroughs
and two colleagues went into Rendlesham Forest
in Suffolk, England to investigate a series
of lights. They claim they encountered an
extraterrestrial spacecraft that seemed to
be made of black glass. Two of the men later
suffered post traumatic stress disorder.
A couple of days later more military personnel
were sent out to the forest and found that
the radiation count was unusually high. One
soldier, Larry Warren, claims they engaged
with an alien being in a silent stand-off
in the clearing.
Mysterious hatches have since been found in
the forest and Ministry of Defence official
Nick Pope even publically stated that something
landed there, but the mystery of Rendlesham
Forest has never been explained.
7) Phoenix Lights
March 13th, 1997. Citizens of Phoenix, Arizona
all were shocked when they saw a mile-wide
V formation of around 7 strange lights silently
glide across the sky. It was reportedly seen
by 10,000 people.
The US Air Force denied receiving any information
about it despite the fact they sent several
F-16 fighter jets to engage with it, and later
claimed that the light formation were military
flares that took a while to burn out.
However, former Arizona governor Fife Symington
reversed his statement 10 years later saying
“[he] was a pilot and knew every machine
that can fly… but this was bigger than anything
[he] had ever seen”. He claimed he didn’t
release the information a decade earlier because
he didn’t want to cause a mass public panic.
6) Underwater Millennium Falcon
In Summer of 2011, a group of Swedish oceanic
explorers called the Ocean X Team came across
a mysterious shape on the seabed while looking
for a shipwreck. It was 60m long and bore
a resemblance to Han Solo’s Star Wars vehicle
in sonar footage.
It was mostly made of rock, leading scientists
to claim it was simply a rock formation on
the ocean floor. But the divers claimed that
it had strange drawings on it and unknown
black material in the cracks. They even report
that all electronics shut down when you get
within 200m of the UFO.
Some more skeptical explanations for the strange
object include seabed rock formations and
even a large mushroom, whereas some think
it’s an experimental Nazi submarine or an
alien spacecraft. Whatever it is, it’s been
dubbed the Roswell of the ocean.
5) NASA International Space Station
In June of 2015, the International Space Station
was broadcasting a live feed from its exterior
cameras when viewers spotted something odd
going on in the background.
Very small, bright shapes are seen leaving
the earth’s atmosphere and ascending towards
something else in the background of the stream.
Somewhat suspiciously NASA decided to cut
away from their broadcast at this point citing
“technical issues”.
Some believe it’s just dust coupled with
a coincidence but many people believe they
are UFOs or even aliens that NASA are trying
to keep hidden from us. Wake up, sheeple!
4) Zimbabwe Schoolchildren
On September 16th 1994, the school children
of the Ariel School in Ruwa Zimbabwe spotted
a UFO landing in their schoolyard.
The children saw three objects in the sky
disappearing and re-appearing in different
places. One of the objects was said to land
100m away from some of the kids and a small,
metre-high man with large “rugby ball sized”
eyes walked out of it. It noticed the children
and ran away, with the ship disappearing.
All 62 children present told pretty much the
same story, and in counselling some said there
were “thoughts coming from the man’s eyes”.
35 of the children were asked to draw pictures
of what they saw and they all depicted the
same event. While some skeptics think it’s
mass hysteria or mass hallucination, nobody
can thoroughly explain what they saw.
3) UFOs over Washington DC
In 1952, air traffic controllers at Washington
Airport detected a cluster of blips on his
radar where they knew there was nobody flying.
They tracked their movements but they moved
with massive bursts of speed, making it very
difficult for radars to lock onto them. Separate
control tower at Andrews and Bolling Air Force
Bases also detected similar movements.
Pilot Captain Pierman who was in flight at
the time claimed he saw six bright lights
in the sky and they were “like falling stars
without tails”. Jets were called to the
area but they found nothing.
Weirdly, exactly the same thing happened again
the next weekend, first spotted by staff on
a commercial airliner. This time, jet pilots
saw the lights and tried to engage but they
claimed the objects were moving faster than
their maximum speed. The official Air Force
position on these objects is that they are
simply “unknowns”.
2) The Valentich Disappearance
Frederick Valentich, an Australian pilot,
disappeared without a trace in 1978. He was
flying his plane between Melbourne and King
Island when he noticed that there was a strange
object hovering 30m above him. He said the
object was shiny and had a green light.
A few minutes after spotting it he said his
engine started the fail, and he radioed his
base where they heard mysterious metallic
screeching noises. The last contact they had
with him was “it’s not an aircraft…
it’s...” before the transmission ended
abruptly.
Air Transport officials claim that Valentich
could have become disorientated, but the wreckage
of his aircraft has never been found. Some
suggesting he had been abducted by the strange
object.
1) Belgian Wave
13,500 people, including police officers and
judges, reported seeing a triangular object
with strong lights silently floating in the
sky above Belgium on the night of November
29th 1989. A few months later in March 1990
the same thing happened again - reported on
two ground-based radars.
Jets were sent to investigate and the craft
sped off impossibly fast. They chased it for
an hour as it ducked out of view - apparently
dropping from 10,000ft to 500ft in just 5
seconds before escaping.
Sightings of the same thing was reported for
months and months afterwards, with thousands
of people trying to take photos but they never
developed properly. Confidential letters by
Belgium Defence Minister Leo Delcroix leaked
and revealed there was “no earthly explanation”
for 
the UFO’s appearance."
