UFO History

Throughout history, people have been captivated by the abundance of curious flying objects and unknown light sources. Such fascinating phenomena of the unidentified figures build the foundation of our most brilliant legends of the skies. Although these aerial phenomena were given different names, such as strange prodigies, celestial chariots, golden globes, night suns, burning shields, luminous monsters, demons, gods, angels, flying shields, mystery airships, phantom planes, ghost, rockets, flying saucers, etc., they literally can all be classified as UFOs, Unidentified Flying Objects.

From ancient and medieval times, skies seemed to be filled with frequent aerial travelers. People were attracted and confused mainly because there was no known human air traffic during that period. The Assyrians saw flying bulls, the Greeks and Arabs saw flying horses, the Persians saw flying carpets, and the Romans sighted flying shields and spears. In ancient Egypt we have a record that describes huge fiery circles appearing in an evening sky. From the 5th century B.C., there were records describing sightings of weird figures flying in the sky. In an ancient Indian architectural text to city planning, the Samarangana-Sartradhara, reported the existence of vimanas some kind of machines that were flown by pilots. One can also find phenomenal flying war machines described in the Hindu epics, the Mahabbarata and Ramayana. The Chinese had always had records of luminous dragons. Furthermore, Roman Alexander the Great's army was attacked repeatedly by two unidentified flying "silver shields" at the sky.

The term "flying saucer" was orginated from Kenneth Arnold, a pilot who spotted a flying object with an estimated speed of 1700 miles per hour on June 24, 1947 above the Cascade Mountain Range in Washington. What he exactly saw was nine dazzling discs when he was riding his single engine plane. He discribed them as "similar to a saucer skipping across water". The media then picked up on this term and referred unidentified flying objects as "flying saucer.".

In America alone, there had been hundreds and thousands of reports concerning sightings of unidentified flying objects. Larry Hatch recently produced a map indicating the many unconventable figures in the sky.

I want to share with you some examples identified by reliable sources. In the summer of 1949 at Death Valley, California, two gold prospectors reported the landing of a unknown disk-shaped object. They decribed the alien creatures as dwarfs escaped into the dunes as the workers approached; they then vanished along with the disk. On May 11, 1950, in McMinnville, Oregon, a farmer called Paul Trent took and his wife took two distinct photographs of a spectacular metallic disk floated silently over there land.

This map used with the permission of Larry Hatch.

UFO Classification by Phil Cousineau

Daylight Discs
These objects usually travel in tremendous speed and have the ability to disappear briskly. They appear during daytime and are generally metallic-appearing with oval or disk shapes. They can choose to appear high in the sky or close to the ground.

Nocturnal Lights
This category composes the majority of UFO reports. They are sightings of unexplainable light sources in the night sky whose appearance and motion can not defined by human beings. These lights often revealed themselves as colors such as white, red, orange, or blue.

Radar-Visual
These cases are not as well-known as the other two. There would be unidentified "blips" found on radar screens that coincide with and usually confirm simultaneous visual sightings by the same or other witnesses.

Decide for yourself if the following photographs are true or false, they only composed a small portion of the many encounters from around the world.

People also claim to encounter extraterrestrial intelligence, commonly known as aliens. Most of them believe they were being operated physical examinations during their endurance by these beings.

Are they real? For your interest, see if these are hoax...

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