World UFO day: 10 ‘UNEXPLAINED’ sightings from across the world

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Today, June 24, is the World UFO Day and is observed to mark the anniversary of first UFO sightings by pilot Kenneth Arnold. As you would you know – UFO is the acronym of Unidentified Flying Objects – however turnout to be anythings hardly scary as they would be often identified as a military aircraft, or a foreign aircraft straying to restricted airs-spaces.

However, it should be also noted that close to 5-10 percent of this kind of sightings go unexplained on an yearly basis!

There are some clinching photographic and video evidences which stem the ‘flying-saucer’ theories observed since the early 1950s. In some cases, forensic investigations have ruled such photographs and videotapes as authentic pieces.

Here are some unexplained UFO-phenomena starting from late 1940s.

1. Roswell Incident (1947): The most popular of UFO-sightings and is the first recorded ‘UFO crash’ outside a ranch in Roswell, New Mexico. Speculation spread like wildfire for a pre-Internet time. Alien invasion theories floated around until the US military stepped in and clarified that the debris came from a crashed experimental weather balloon.

2. McMinnville incident, Oregon, Canada (1950): Farmer couple Evelyn Trent and Paul Trent spotted a silvery metallic disc in the twilight sky. Paul managed to photograph the occurrence before it disappeared.

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The Trents shied away from all publicity and refused to sell the pictures to the media, preferring to keep the news private to avoid getting into trouble with the government. Only one local reporter got lucky. While attempts have been made to examine the photographs for any trickery, none has succeeded so far. Until their deaths in the 1990s, Evelyn and Paul Trent earnestly insisted that the photos were of an actual UFO.

3. Manbhum, Bihar, India (1957): Farmer population of Kadori, Borsa and Mangalda villages in Bihar stood dumbfounded witnessing a huge saucer life object hovering above them at a height of 500 ft. Apparently, the objected which whirred like a motor car, took-off to the skies with incredible speed.

4. Barney and Betty Hill (1961): Barney and Betty Hill reported ‘symptoms’ of alien abduction after sighting strange lights on a trip back from Canada. Investigation — which also involved hypnosis — came to the conclusion that they were subject to various lab tests by the aliens. Both of them recounted experiences of being examined by grey aliens.

5. The Canary Islands sightings, Spain (1976): Residents of Las Rosas, Gran Canaria, reported seeing a gigantic, translucent blue sphere hovering just above ground level. They saw two figures in the gigantic sphere, measuring 30m in diameter. The figures looked like humanoids. The sphere grew larger and larger before ultimately disappearing into the sky. At 9.27pm on the same night, the Navy personnel reported a strange light travelling along the horizon that later split into two distinct objects.

6. Iranian UFO chase: was one of the most intriguing ET encounters appeared to have made so far. On September 19, 1976 strange air activity was reported over the restricted airspace of Tehran, Iran. Two U.S.-made F-4 Phantom II jet fighters of the Imperial Iranian Air Force were scrambled, but as the pilots closed in on the target, their communications and weapons systems were suddenly jammed.

The pilots reported strange technical activity upon return. The first pilot’s aircraft system began to fail as he approached the UFO. Deciding to abort the mission, the aircraft regained full functioning capacity as soon as he returned.

Drawing based on a sketch and description by witness Pirouzi. “It was rectangular in shape at a height of about 6,000 ft.” The right end was blue, the left end was blue, and in the middle was a red light making a circular motion. He thought that the object was probably cylindrical.

It gets even bizarre with the second one. The UFO launched a defensive attack — a bright beam of light — on the aircraft, which missed due to an evasive manoeuvre executed by the pilot. Tehran was witness to the typical alien-invasion signs — knocked out communications systems, loss of power supply and widespread mayhem on the ground — as the UFO continued to chase the aircraft across Tehran’s skies.

The incident was confirmed by high ranking officers of the Iranian Air Force and later documented by several agencies of the U.S. military.

6. Rendlesham forest UFO landing (1980): The Rendlesham Forest incident remains Britain’s “most tantalising sighting”, says the Daily Telegraph, and has been dubbed ‘Britain’s Roswell’ after the 1947 “flying disk” crash in the town of Roswell, New Mexico.

The place in the forest where the so called 'saucer' was seen Image courtesy: BBC — The place in the forest where the so called ‘saucer’ was seen Image courtesy: BBC

On 27 December, a UFO seemed to have landed at Rendlesham forest as the locals started reporting strange lights in the area. The security personnel who were on duty found a saucer-shaped craft hovering a short distance off the ground.

A man structure in the forest that resemble the landed UFO

Moreover, they even claimed to have seen grey aliens who seemed to be working on it. reportedly, those of them who did approach closer to investigate, reported experiencing symptoms of altered reality — such as time displacement, “reality bending” phenomena and bizarre atmospheric anomalies.

8. Hudson Valley, New York sightings (1981): What makes this one stand apart are the sheer number of people who reported them, and the fact the flying saucers in this case weren’t circular discs, but triangular in shape. What made it eerie was that these UFOs didn’t make any sound as they hovered over the city. Some of them were reportedly so large that witnesses described them as a “floating city”.

9. Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 (1986): The crew of the Tokyo-bound flight from Paris was accompanied by more than one UFO for almost an hour as the Boeing 747 cargo carrier transited the skies over Alaska. The UFOs made motions that suggested gravity had no effect on them whatsoever. Air traffic controllers were not able to detect any UFO activity around the Boeing despite repeated assurances by the crew. The pilot, Captain Kenju Terauchi, is as credible a source one could find as he had served as a fighter pilot and logged more than 10,000 hours in flight.

10. Kolkata, India (2007): A straight-out-of-a-Sci-Fi-movie fireball terrorised the residents of Kolkata in 2007. At 3.30am on October 29, witnesses described the gigantic object as a shape-shifting, vanishing ball of fire streaking over the sky. Scientists tried to pin a natural-cosmic-phenomenon tag on it — including a meteor — but ultimately agreed the shape-shifting ability made it hard to identify its origins.