Nothing gathers more attention online than the news of aliens visiting us from other galaxies. They remind us of the fact that humans might not be alone in this aloof looking universe and the quest for finding extra-terrestrial life is not going on in vain. UFO sightings have been a part of our cultural folklore for a long time. Here, we bring to you a carefully curated list of some of the most shocking UFO sightings.
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1.The Stephenville Sightings (2008)
On the evening of January 8, 2008, Citizens reported seeing white lights above Highway 67, first in a single horizontal arc and then in vertical parallel lines. Local pilot Steve Allen estimated that the strobe lights “spanned about a mile long and a half mile wide,” traveling about 3,000 miles per hour. No sound was reported. Witnesses believed the event was reminiscent of the Phoenix Lights sightings of 1997. While the U.S. Air Force revealed weeks later that F-16s were flying in the Brownwood Military Operating Areas (just southwest of Stephenville), many townspeople didn’t buy that explanation, believing that what they saw was too technologically advanced for current human abilities.
2. East Coast GO FAST Video (2015)
When news leaked in 2017 about the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, a video emerged that revealed an encounter between an F/A-18 Super Hornet and an unidentified aerial phenomenon. Seen along the East Coast on a Raytheon Advanced Targeting Forward-Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) Pod, the craft was similar to that spotted off San Diego in 2004: a fast-moving white oval about 45-feet-long without wings or exhaust plume. The pilots tracked the object at 25,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean as it flew away and simultaneously rotated on its axis. No explanation ever emerged.
3. Tehran incident, 1976
A UFO allegedly whizzed over Iran’s capital, disabling the electronic instrumentation of two F-4 Phantom II jets and jamming ground control equipment. One of the aircraft also reported a temporary weapons systems failure while the crew was preparing to open fire. These were restored upon withdrawal. Iranian generals said on record that they thought the object was extra-terrestrial.
4. Belgian wave, 1989-90
The Belgian UFO wave was a series of sightings of triangular UFOs in Belgium, which lasted from 29 November 1989 to April 1990. They were so bright you could read by them, so brilliant that a policeman described them as “like lights on a huge football field.” Only gradually did you notice the object they emitted from — a hulking triangular shape, with three enormous spotlights pointed toward the ground, and a red, flashing light at its centre.
5.Levelland case, 1957
The Levelland UFO case occurred on November 2–3, 1957, in and around the small town of Levelland, Texas. The case is considered by ufologists to be one of the most impressive in UFO history, mainly because of the large number of witnesses involved over a relatively short period of time. It was reported that a large bright object appeared to hover above several different roads outside of town, causing cars to lose power and shut off. The object was described as egg or oval shaped by some. Others said it was more like the shape of a torpedo or rocket. UFO buffs say it remains one of the best cases to show that extra-terrestrial life visited our planet.
6. Roswell UFO incident
In the annals of American UFO history, few incidents have inspired as much fascination—and speculation—as the one in Roswell, New Mexico. It began in the summer of 1947, at the dawn of the Cold War, when the U.S. Army Air Forces sent out a shocker of a press release, announcing they’d recovered a “flying disc” from a ranch near Roswell. More than 70 years later, the incident remains a defining aspect of the area’s identity: The town boasts a UFO museum and research centre, a flying saucer-inspired McDonald’s, alien-themed streetlights, even an extra-terrestrial “family” stranded in a broken-down UFO on the side of State Route 285, looking for a jump-start.
7. USS Nimitz UFO Incident
It began as a routine naval training exercise at the Pacific Ocean, about 100 miles southwest of San Diego, California involving The USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group and a nuclear-powered carrier and the missile cruiser USS Princeton. But it would soon become one of the best-documented—and most baffling—UFO sightings of the 21st century. Witnesses included highly trained military personnel—among them several deeply experienced radar operators and fighter pilots—who at the time of the sightings were at the controls of arguably the most advanced flight technology ever created. And yet none can explain what they saw.
8.2007 Alderney UFO sightings
On 23 April 2007, captain Ray Bowyer was flying a routine passenger flight for the civilian airliner Aurigny Air Services, when he and his passengers gained progressively clearer views of two UFOs during a 12- to 15-minute period. Bowyer had 18 years of flying experience, and the 45-minute flight was one that he had completed every working day for more than 8 years. Their particular flight path had them converging on two enormous, seemingly stationary and identical airborne craft, which emanated brilliant yellow light. A pilot of a plane near Sark, some 25 mi to the south, confirmed the presence, general position and altitude of the first object from the opposite direction. This is one of the most intriguing sightings the officials of that area heard about in recent years.
9. Stonehenge incident
The “Stonehenge Incident” or the “North Hudson Park UFO sightings” occurred on January 12, 1975. According to George O’Barski, while driving he heard static over his radio and saw in North Hudson Park a dark, round “spacecraft” with brightly lit windows hovering over the ground. Ten small, hooded, identically-dressed figures emerged from the UFO, dug up soil and collected it in bags before returning to the craft. O’Barski returned to the site the next day and found the holes. Months later, O’Barski told the story to ufologist Budd Hopkins, who with other ufologists allegedly found independent witnesses (doormen at the Stonehenge) who also reported sighting the UFO. The incident was reported by Hopkins in “The Village Voice” and his 1988 book “Missing Time”, and also in local newspapers.
10. Valentich Disappearance
Frederick Valentich was an Australian pilot who disappeared while on a 125-nautical-mile (232 km) training flight in a Cessna 182L light aircraft, registered VH-DSJ, over Bass Strait on the evening of Saturday 21 October 1978. Described as a “flying saucer enthusiast”, twenty-year-old Valentich informed Melbourne air traffic control that he was being accompanied by an aircraft about 1,000 feet (300 m) above him and that his engine had begun running roughly, before finally reporting, “It’s not an aircraft.” There were belated reports of a UFO sighting in Australia on the night of the disappearance; however, the Associated Press reported that the Department of Transport was skeptical a UFO was behind Valentich’s disappearance, and that some of their officials speculated that “Valentich became disoriented and saw his own lights reflected in the water, or lights from a nearby island, while flying upside down.” This disappearance has been termed as one of strangest phenomena ever witnessed in the sky.
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