Cases of UFO Sightings

1980 in Rendlesham Forest, England
Back in 1980 in a part of England called Rendlesham Forest, which was used by the US Air Force at the time, there were a series of sightings that have become one of the best known UFO sightings in history. As it turns out, a number of US servicemen reported seeing a series of strange lights in what has become known, over the years, as the UK’s version of Roswell. The sightings took place over three straight nights, and to this day no one is entirely sure of what caused the lights, and there’s no real evidence that anything took place at the site of the supposed extraterrestrial visits.





In July of 1991, people living in Mexico City reportedly spotted something strange in the sky at a time when they were expecting to see nothing more or less than a solar eclipse. However, they were met with something far more out of the ordinary, with numerous people saying they saw an unidentified flying object , with actual journalists reportedly having captured this bizarre flying object on video when trying to film the eclipse. Since this time, there have been numerous reports of UFO’s in the area, but none more peculiar than the UFO spotted that summer by multiple people looking from various positions in the huge city. A few months later, a similar UFO was spotted during an air show in the area, but no explanation has ever been offered.




1965 in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania
You know you’ve made it in the world of mysterious alien encounters when people refer to your UFO sighting as a bona fide “incident.” Such is the case of the 1965 Kecksburg, Pennsylvania encounter, in which multiple people claimed to have witnessed something crashing into the woods near the town not far from Pittsburgh. People who saw it claimed the object that fell from the sky was roughly the size of a Volkswagen Beetle, and say that almost immediately after it crashed to earth; the US army arrived and roped off the area. The official report is that it was a meteor crashing down into the woods, though obviously most of the folks who were present to see the object for themselves remained skeptical of this explanation.




1964 in Socorro, New Mexico
One of the most famous UFO sightings in modern United States history took place in the town of Socorro, New Mexico, back in 1964 with the chief witness being none other than a police officer named Lonnie Zamora. Zamora was in pursuit of a speeding car when he saw an object in the sky, shaped like an oval and bearing a bizarre red insignia on its side. He claims to have seen this object rise from the ground and take off into the distance, and his story drew tremendous media and government attention, including leading to the CIA filing a report on the incident. Zamora came to be known as something of a kook, however, and retired from the police force shortly after the incident.




1991 in Ontario, Canada
In the town of West Carleton, Ontario, a woman named Diane Labenek claimed to have seen an unidentified flying object above a field near her home after hearing her dogs barking. Shortly after the ship took off and vanished, she claimed that a government helicopter appeared at the scene, quickly investigating before heading off in the same direction as the UFO, though there are of course no records of this. However, a few months later, a UFO researcher named Bob Oeschler received a package that included supposed military documents and a videotape featuring the same exact UFO that Labenek had supposedly seen. All of this is unconfirmed, of course, but makes this one of the most peculiar unsolved UFO sightings in recent history. It is believed to have most likely been a hoax, but it’s still too difficult to determine just who could have perpetrated the hoax, or why.




1980 in Dayton, Texas
In the small town of Dayton, Texas, there was an incident that has come to be known as the Cash-Landrum Incident, and is thought to be one of the most peculiar and bizarre UFO sightings in history. A pair of women, along with the daughter of one of the women, were driving home in the small town near Houston when they witnessed strange lights in the sky and a giant object that was, you know, kind of like a space ship, hovered above the road and blasted the pavement with flames, and all three individuals soon after suffered from a mysterious illness resulting from what a radiologist described as ionizing radiation. The cause, if it wasn’t a UFO, has never been determined.




1967 in Manitoba, Canada
Another of the most bizarre supposed UFO sightings in modern history took place at Falcon Lake in Manitoba, Canada, and involved a man named Stephen Michalak. Michalak was a prospector who claims to have encountered not one, but two UFO’s, and after investigating the objects, he was blasted with some sort of hot gas from an exhaust vent that left him with bizarre markings on his midsection and led to his being hospitalized. This remains one of the most bizarre cases of a UFO sighting on record simply because it’s one of the few in which the person who claims to have made contact with alien life suffered a very real, very strange injury. He suffered from nausea, headaches, and the odd burn markings in a very distinct grid shape across his abdomen. He was probably just into something super kinky, but neither he nor we can come up with a reasonable explanation, so let’s stick with a close encounter for now.




1987 in Wytheville, Virginia
In 1987 in the town of Wytheville, Virginia, three police officers all reported to have seen strange UFO’s soaring overhead, and after word got out, even more people began to come forward having seen a similarly strange flying object in the vicinity. One witness, Danny Gordon, believed it may have simply been planes refueling at a low altitude and went so far as to contact the Pentagon, which reassured him that planes were not permitted to refuel so low in the sky. Gordon, a news reporter, had been a skeptic until he went to investigate with a friend, when they claim to have personally witnessed the same UFO before being contacted by someone claiming to be from the CIA, and over the next few years, he claims to have witnessed the same phenomenon multiple times. To date, there remains no evidence and nothing to back up his claims.

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