5 Amazing UFO Sightings

Certain events have captured our imaginations, thrilled us, even frightened us, and made us really consider whether we are being visited by life from distant worlds. There have been reports of Unidentified Flying Object sightings throughout history. Carvings and artwork suggest that even ancient man may have had the same kind of encounters as are being reported to this day. But with modern technology, especially the ubiquitousness of video cameras, UFO sightings seem to be escalating and there is now more and more remarkable evidence. Some famous cases from the past 70 years really stand out, such as these 5 Amazing UFO Sightings.

In the early morning hours of February 25, 1942, less than 3 months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Los Angeles area was ordered into a full black-out as air raid sirens wailed. Residents expected an attack by Japanese fighter planes. Instead they witnessed a large hovering craft, which was described as a pale orange "surreal, hanging, magic lantern." There were other objects as well. "I could clearly see the V formation of about 25 silvery planes overhead moving slowly across the sky toward Long Beach," reported Editor Peter Jenkins of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner.
As searchlights converged on the one huge object, the 37th Coast Artillery Brigade began bombarding it with some 1,400 anti-aircraft shells. Many witnesses from the media claimed to have seen numerous direct hits scored on the slow-moving object, yet it was never brought down and no wreckage was found. Another eyewitness account: "They sent fighter planes up and I watched them in groups approach it and then turn away. They were shooting at it but it didn't seem to matter."
"It was like the Fourth of July but much louder. They were firing like crazy but they couldn't touch it."
Later that day, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox held a press conference and concluded that the whole incident was a "false alarm" and that it was a case of "war nerves". This notion that
the armed forces would fire heavy artillery shells at nothing for over an hour, resulting in the deaths of three civilians and widespread damage throughout the county would indicate that our military was either grossly incompetent or just flat-out lying to the American people about the event. So the Army insisted that there were enemy planes and that the battle was real. Then they decided it was a weather balloon. Despite heavy criticism, speculation and calls for a Congressional investigation (that never happened), it was never clearly established just what the objects in the sky were or from where they originated.

An event that occured in New Mexico has become one of the most highly publicized, scrutinized and controversial incidents in UFO lore. Spawning countless books, documentaries, TV series and even a festival, it has turned into a widely known pop culture phenomenon, making the name
Roswell synonymous with UFOs. Sometime in late June or early July, 1947, a man discovered a large field of metallic debris on the ranch he tended outside of Roswell. He had heard talk of a flying saucer being sighted and so he whispered to a sheriff, who then told an officer at Roswell Army Air Field.
The July 9th newspaper headlines proclaimed "Roswell Army Air Force Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region," largely because that is the information which the media had obtained from an official press release provided by the RAAF public information office.
However, it was announced later that day that the material was the remains of a downed experimental weather balloon.
The case was quickly forgotten and almost completely ignored for more than 30 years until UFO researchers interviewed that RAAF officer who was first notified of the crash and who had taken part in the recovery.
Major Jesse Marcel expressed his belief that the military had covered up the recovery of an alien spacecraft. Other people associated with the Roswell incident also came forward with alien reports, including a mortician named Glenn Dennis, who claimed to have performed secret alien autopsies.
In light of what many believe to be a wholly inadequate explanation, the incident is considered by some to be a vast cover-up by the government and believe those at the highest levels maintain secrets of what really happened in Roswell.

The Rendlesham Forest incident is considered by many to be Britain's Roswell.
After midnight on Dec. 26, 1980, in a woodland area situated between two U.S. Air Force bases along England's east coast, eyewitnesses and Air Force patrolmen followed a UFO as it passed through the sky and landed in the forest. Three servicemen were sent out to investigate and came upon a triangular and brightly lit object silently hovering in the woods several feet off the ground. It was a conical metallic object, suspended in a yellow mist, hovering over a clearing in the trees, with a pulsating blue and red circle of light above. One made detailed notes of its features, touched its "warm" surface, and copied the numerous symbols on its body. After a brief encounter, the object began to hover above the ground before sharply breaking toward the sky and shining bright lights down on them. Later that morning, patrolmen returned to the site of the landing and found three distinct impressions on the ground in a triangle pattern as well as broken tree branches. The following evening, two patrol groups were sent to investigate the Rendlesham UFO. During the search, one group reported seeing darting lights among the forest trees, while the other saw a glowing cone-shaped object with figures moving about inside of it.
Following the event, some claim that military personnel were threatened to remain silent, and apparently, the Ministry of Defense never deemed the event a threat to national security or worthy of any in-depth investigation.

On the evening of March 13th, 1997, thousands of people viewed a series of strange lights moving over the state of Arizona, in what has become one of the best examples of photographic proof of UFOs. Witnesses, including Fife Symington, who was Governor of Arizona at the time, reported seeing a group of lights in a triangular formation traveling slowly overhead. Among the most reliable witnesses of an unidentified craft that night were a retired airline pilot, and a U.S. Marshal who was a pilot in the Vietnam War. Even though they saw the object from different places and at different times,
both men described an object of "immense size," measuring up to a mile long. The Marshall could also see the city lights of Phoenix reflecting from the bottom of the massive object, while it "blocked out the stars."
Some skeptics have claimed that people first saw a high-flying formation of planes and then later in the evening, as the Air Force explained, flares dropped from an A-10 "Warthog". These explanations don't satify Symington: "As a pilot and a former Air Force Officer, I can definitively say that this craft did not resemble any manmade object I'd ever seen. And it was certainly not high-altitude flares, because flares don't fly in formation."

Mexico has become a hotbed of UFO activity in recent years, with sightings reported around the country. Some of the most stunning video to date comes from none other than the Mexican Air Force. On March 5th, 2004, while on a routine reconnaissance mission patrolling the skies for drug smuggling aircraft, crewmembers in a plane equipped with advanced radar and infrared video systems detected eleven "very hot spheres" which hadn't been seen by the naked eye nor detected on conventional radar. The pilots attempted to get closer, hoping for a visual inspection, but the objects, moving at a high rate of speed, made several surprise maneuvers and even ended up following and circling the Air Force plane. In an unusual collaborative policy between the military and the general public that had its beginnings during the Mexico UFO Wave of 1991, the Mexican Defense Ministry released the video and declared that they were open to discuss and evaluate the sighting of the UFOs without suppressing any information from the public. UFO debunkers have tried to explain the sighting as oil field burn-off fires bouncing off the clouds, but the video would suggest this explanation as totally inadequate. The video became news all over the world and thrilled UFO investigators with
long sought-after solid, high quality evidence.