m Many people think that the UFO is an unidentified flying object. But we are not talking about plates with aliens! The abbreviation UFO refers to any object that flies in the air and has not yet been identified. At the same time, unidentified does not mean unidentifiable.Many UFOs are identified over time and receive the status of an OLO - an identified flying object.

Seriously speaking, UFO is not a flying saucer aliens . An unidentified object is only an object for which there is no explanation even after an investigation. At the moment, many ufologists claim that what some people see from the ground is not an intergalactic flying ship, and NAH is an unidentified atmospheric phenomenon.

Does this mean that aliens don't exist? Not at all! However, if you delve into history, you can see many references to UFOs. In Rome, shields were often seen floating across the sky, in the Middle Ages - ships hovering in the air, in the 19th century - something similar to airplanes. It turns out that aliens can actually exist, moreover, appearance their spaceships are being transformed and developed, just like our civilization. This phenomenon has even been called cultural conformity.

What can UFOs really be?

A UFO can be an atmospheric or optical phenomenon, a figment of fantasy, a mirage, a space device ... There are many versions, at the moment there are 5 main hypotheses that are closest to reality.

atmospheric phenomena.

The simplest explanation for UFOs is an atmospheric phenomenon. Indeed, nature is sometimes unpredictable. It turns out that undefined object could be a form of fog, ball lightning, or something like that.

The fruit of fantasy.

If a person is in an excited state, he may mistake a known object for a UFO, such as a balloon, an airplane, a star.

Alien ship.

A common belief in the presence of a UFO is a spaceshipaliens , or biorobots sent by them. The main confirmation of this hypothesis is the impossibility of explaining the appearance of UFOs at the moment and the lack of confirmation of other hypotheses. Against the version says what ifaliens more advanced than we are, they can observe people remotely, which means that they do not need to reveal themselves.

Mirages.

Flying saucers may actually be mirages. Many astrophysicists come to this opinion.

optical effect.

If we assume that the UFO is an optical effect, much becomes clear. For example, the fact that some people see how the object accompanies planes or trains. And, indeed, near each object moving at high speed, air turbulences that are invisible to the eye can occur. But if there is a certain humidity and temperature, they can become visible, get the ability to reflect light. The presented hypothesis also explains the appearance of several saucers at once.

There are many theories of the appearance of UFOs, but until its mystery is solved, everyone can choose the hypothesis that he likes.

A comprehensive study of the properties of the "behavior" and size of UFOs, regardless of their shape, allows us to conditionally divide them into four main types.

First: Very small objects, which are balls or discs with a diameter of 20-100 cm, which fly at low altitudes, sometimes fly out of and return to larger objects. There is a well-known case that took place in October 1948 in the Fargo airbase area (North Dakota), when the pilot Gormon unsuccessfully pursued a round luminous object with a diameter of 30 cm, which very skillfully maneuvered, evading the chase, and sometimes he himself rapidly moved towards the plane, forcing Hormone to dodge the collision.

Second: Small UFOs that are egg-shaped and disc-shaped and 2-3 m in diameter. They usually fly at low altitude and most often make landings. Small UFOs have also been repeatedly seen separating from and returning to the main objects.

Third: The main UFOs, most often disks with a diameter of 9-40 m, the height of which in the central part is 1/5-1/10 of their diameter. The main UFOs make independent flights in any layers of the atmosphere and sometimes land. Smaller objects can be separated from them.

Fourth: Large UFOs, usually in the form of cigars or cylinders 100-800 meters or more long. They appear.mainly.in upper layers atmosphere, do not perform complex maneuvers, and sometimes hang on high altitude. There were no cases of their landing on the ground, but it was repeatedly observed how small objects separated from them. There is an assumption that large UFOs can fly in space. There are also isolated cases of observation of giant disks with a diameter of 100-200 m.

Such an object was observed during a test flight of the French Concorde aircraft at an altitude of 17,000 m over the Republic of Chad during the period solar eclipse On June 30, 1973, the crew and a group of scientists on the plane filmed and took a series of color photographs of a luminous object in the shape of a mushroom cap, 200 m in diameter and 80 m high, which followed an intersecting course. At the same time, the contours of the object were fuzzy, since it was apparently surrounded by an ionized plasma cloud. On February 2, 1974, the film was shown on French television. The results of this study have not been published.

Common forms of UFOs have varieties. Thus, for example, discs with one or two convex sides, spheres with or without rings encircling them, as well as oblate and prolate spheres have been observed. Rectangular and triangular objects are much less common. According to the French group for the study of aerospace phenomena, approximately 80% of all observed UFOs were round discs, balls or spheres, and only 20% were elongated cigars or cylinders. UFOs in the form of discs, spheres and cigars have been observed in most countries on all continents. Examples of rare UFO sightings are given below. So, for example, UFOs with rings surrounding them, similar to the planet Saturn, were recorded in 1954 over Essex County (England) and over the city of Cincinnati (Ohio), in 1955 in Venezuela and in 1976 - over the Canary Islands .

A parallelepiped-shaped UFO was observed in July 1977 in the Tatar Strait by members of the crew of the Nikolai Ostrovsky ship. This object flew for 30 minutes next to the ship at an altitude of 300-400 m, and then disappeared.

Triangular-shaped UFOs from the end of 1989 began to systematically appear over Belgium. According to the description of many eyewitnesses, their dimensions were approximately 30 by 40 m, and on their lower part there were three or four luminous circles. Objects moved completely silently, hovering and taking off at great speeds. On March 31, 1990, southeast of Brussels, three credible eyewitnesses observed how such a triangular object six times the size of the visible disk of the moon flew silently over their heads at an altitude of 300-400 m. Four luminous circles were clearly visible on the underside of the object.

On the same day, engineer Alferlan filmed such an object flying over Brussels for two minutes with a video camera. In front of Alferlan's eyes, the object made a turn and three luminous circles and a red light between them became visible on its lower part. On the top of the object, Alferlan noticed a luminous lattice dome. This video was shown on April 15, 1990 on central television.

Along with the main forms of UFOs, there are many more various varieties. In a table shown at a meeting of the US Congress Committee on Science and Astronautics in 1968, 52 UFOs of various shapes were depicted.

According to the international ufological organization "Contact international", the following forms of UFOs are observed:

1) round: disc-shaped (with and without domes); in the form of an inverted plate, bowl, saucer or rugby ball (with and without a dome); in the form of two plates folded together (with and without two bulges); hat-shaped (with and without domes); similar to a bell; in the form of a sphere or a ball (with and without a dome); similar to the planet Saturn; ovoid or pear-shaped; barrel-shaped; similar to an onion or top;

2) oblong: rocket-like (with and without stabilizers); torpedo-shaped; cigar-shaped (without domes, with one or two domes); cylindrical; rod-shaped; spindle-shaped;

3) pointed: pyramidal; in the form of a regular or truncated cone; funnel-like; swept; in the form of a flat triangle (with and without a dome); diamond-shaped;

4) rectangular: bar-like; in the form of a cube or parallelepiped; in the form of a flat square and rectangle;

5) unusual: mushroom-shaped, toroidal with a hole in the center, wheel-shaped (with and without spokes), cruciform, deltoid, in the shape of the letter V.

Generalized NIKAP data on UFO sightings of various shapes in the USA for 1942-1963. are shown in the following table:

Shape of objects, Number of cases / Percentage of general case

1. Disc-shaped 149 / 26
2. Spheres, ovals, ellipses 173 / 30
3. Type of rockets or cigars 46 / 8
4. Triangular 11/2
5. Luminous dots 140 / 25
6. Others 33 / 6
7. Radar (non-visual) observations 19 / 3

Total 571 / 100

Notes:

1. Objects classified by their nature as spheres, ovals, and ellipses in this list may actually be disks inclined at an angle to the horizon.

2. Luminous dots in this list include small brightly luminous objects, the shape of which could not be determined due to the large distance.

It should be borne in mind that in many cases the readings of observers may not reflect the true shape of objects, since a disc-shaped object may look like a ball from below, like an ellipse from below, and like a spindle or a mushroom cap from the side; an object shaped like a cigar or an elongated sphere may look like a ball from the front and back; a cylindrical object can look like a parallelepiped from below and from the side, and like a ball from the front and back. In turn, the object in the form of a box in front and behind can look like a cube.

Data on the linear dimensions of UFOs reported by eyewitnesses are in some cases very relative, since visual observation can be determined with sufficient accuracy, only angular dimensions object.

Linear dimensions can only be determined if the distance from the observer to the object is known. But determining the distance in itself presents great difficulties, because the human eye, due to stereoscopic vision, can correctly determine the distance only within the range of up to 100 m. Therefore, the linear dimensions of a UFO can only be determined very approximately.

Usually UFOs have the form of metallic bodies of silver-aluminum or light pearl color. Sometimes they are shrouded in a cloud, as a result of which their contours seem to be blurred.

The surface of the UFO is usually shiny, as if polished, and no seams or rivets are visible on it. The top side of an object is usually light, while the bottom side is dark. Some UFOs have domes that are sometimes transparent.

UFOs with domes were observed, in particular, in 1957 over New York, in 1963 in the state of Victoria (Australia), and in our country in 1975 near Borisoglebsk and in 1978 - in Beskudnikovo.

In the middle of the objects, in some cases, one or two rows of rectangular "windows" or round "portholes" were visible. An elongated object with such "portholes" was observed in 1965 by the crew members of the Norwegian ship "Javesta" over the Atlantic.

In our country, UFOs with "portholes" were observed in 1976 in the village of Sosenki near Moscow, in 1981 near Michurinsk, in 1985 near Geok-Tepe in the Ashgabat region. On some UFOs, rods similar to antennas or periscopes were clearly visible.

In February 1963, in the state of Victoria (Australia), at a height of 300 m above a tree, a disk 8 m in diameter hung with a rod resembling an antenna.

In July 1978, members of the crew of the ship "Yargora", following the Mediterranean Sea, observed flying over North Africa a spherical object with three antennae-like structures visible at the bottom.

Cases have also been recorded when these rods moved or rotated. Below are two such examples. In August 1976, Muscovite A.M. Troitsky and six other witnesses saw a silvery metal object over the Pirogov reservoir, eight times the size of the lunar disk, slowly moving at a height of several tens of meters. Two rotating stripes were visible on its side surface. When the object was above the witnesses, a black hatch opened in its lower part, from which a thin cylinder protruded. The lower part of this cylinder began to describe circles, while top part remained attached to the object. In July 1978, passengers on the Sevastopol-Leningrad train near Kharkov watched for several minutes how some kind of rod with three brightly luminous dots emerged from the upper part of a motionless elliptical UFO. This rod was deflected to the right three times and returned to its previous position. Then a rod with one luminous dot extended from the bottom of the UFO.

UFO info. Types of UFOs and their appearance

Inside the lower part of the UFO, there are sometimes three or four landing legs, which extend during landing and retract inward during takeoff. Here are three examples of such observations.

In November 1957, Senior Lieutenant N., returning from Stead Air Force Base (Las Vegas), saw four disk-shaped UFOs 15 m in diameter on the field, each of which stood on three landing legs. As they took off, those props retracted inward before his eyes.

In July 1970, a young Frenchman, Erien J., near the village of Jabrel-le-Bord, clearly saw how four metal supports, ending in rectangles, gradually retracted into a round UFO with a diameter of six meters that had taken off.

In the USSR in June 1979 in the city of Zolochev, Kharkov region, the witness Starchenko observed how a UFO landed 50 meters from him in the form of an overturned saucer with a number of portholes and a dome. When the object descended to a height of 5-6 m, three landing legs about 1 m long telescopically extended from its bottom, ending in a kind of blades. After standing on the ground for about 20 minutes, the object took off, and it was clear how the supports were drawn into its body. At night, UFOs usually glow, sometimes their color and glow intensity change with speed. When flying rapidly, they have a color similar to that arising in the process of arc welding; at slower - bluish color.

When falling or braking, they turn red or Orange color. But it happens that even objects hovering motionless glow with a bright light, although it is possible that it is not the objects themselves that glow, but the air around them under the influence of some kind of radiation emanating from these objects. Sometimes some kind of lights are visible on UFOs: on objects of an elongated shape - on the bow and stern, and on the disks - on the periphery and on the bottom. There are also reports of rotating objects with red, white or green lights.

In October 1989, in Cheboksary, six UFOs in the form of two saucers folded together hovered over the territory of the Industrial Tractor Plant production association. Then a seventh object joined them. Each of them showed yellow, green and red lights. Objects rotated and moved up and down. Half an hour later, six objects soared up with great speed and disappeared, and one remained for a while. Sometimes such lights are lit and go out in a certain sequence.

In September 1965, two police officers in Exeter, New York, observed a UFO flying about 27 m in diameter, on which there were five red lights that came on and went out in the sequence: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, 1st. The duration of each cycle was 2 seconds.

A similar incident occurred in July 1967 in Newton, New Hampshire, where two former radar operators observed through a telescope a luminous object with a series of lights flashing on and off in the same sequence as on the object in Exeter.

The most important characteristic feature of UFOs is their manifestation unusual properties, which are not found either in natural phenomena known to us, or in technical means created by man. Moreover, it seems that the individual properties of these objects clearly contradict the laws of physics known to us.

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Unidentified flying objects - UFOs - one of the most mysterious phenomena in the world. To deny the fact that from time to time something appears in the sky above our planet that modern science unable to classify, meaningless. There are too many witnesses, eyewitnesses to this phenomenon. And most of them are people who are quite trustworthy. So the classic “I don’t believe” is not appropriate here. And if so, UFOs need to be studied, and above all, classified.

Unidentified natural anomalies

Ufologists distinguish three main types of UFOs. The first is various natural and atmospheric anomalies observed by people. At a certain angle, and even from a great distance, such phenomena may well pass for incomprehensible material objects. The most common examples of Type 1 UFOs are fireballs and various kinds of air lenses that cause the refraction of the sun's rays.

Terrestrial UFOs

The second type includes artificial objects terrestrial origin, which, due to remoteness or poor lighting, cannot be identified at the time of observation. This is the most boring type of unidentified flying object.

Indeed, what is so interesting that can be seen in a meteorological probe that has expired or a light-engine aircraft that has fallen under a reflected sunbeam?

UFO - alien ships

The third type of UFO is the most mysterious. It is he who is considered to be anomalous, and it is this type that ufologists in all countries study. And for photographs of such objects, paranormal enthusiasts around the world are hunting like crazy. The third type of UFO includes objects that have a clear technogenic origin, but which, due to their technical perfection, simply cannot be creations of modern earthly civilization.

The townsfolk usually all, indiscriminately, UFOs of this kind are called "flying saucers", considering them spaceships alien aliens.

This is true, but only in part. Real UFOs, those whose origin defies simple explanation, are also divided into species or groups. anomalous groups.

The first anomalous group includes just alien ships. I must say that contrary to popular belief, these UFOs are the rarest. Alien starships can be recognized by one feature - their crews are always eager to make contact with us earthlings. The methods can be different - from the pursuit of our planes, ships and other equipment, to direct contact with representatives of the human race. There are also known cases of abductions by aliens. Explain the motives of the pilots space UFOs not difficult - they crossed the expanses of the Cosmos with a specific goal, mission, and strive to fulfill this mission.

The next type of anomalous UFO is the most common. But at the same time, it is the most difficult to study. This combination of characteristics is due to the nature of such UFOs.

UFO like aliens from the future

The fact is that these objects are of terrestrial origin. That is, they are built by people. Only not in our time, but in the future. UFOs of this type are devices for moving in Time. In the future, the possibility of traveling through Time will undoubtedly be open. And, naturally, people will start using this technology to study the Earth's deep past. In all likelihood, travel to ultra-long time distances (of the order of several million years) will be carried out not in one time jump, but in several. The Time Machine will have to periodically appear in different eras, one of which will be our present. Naturally, Time travelers will avoid all contact with reality as much as possible, so as not to provoke any time paradox. That is why people see a UFO of the second anomalous type, but they are not able to make contact with it.

UFO from parallel worlds

The latest type of anomalous UFOs are guests from parallel worlds. The dimensions of the Continuum, as is known, do not end with the number "three" - in the four-dimensional Hyperworld coexists in parallel infinite set three-dimensional universes.

Periodically, connecting portals appear between them, and then material objects from one world penetrate into another. We also perceive such objects as UFOs. Unfortunately, due to the large differences in the structure of matter, guests from another world cannot exist with us for a long time. They are destroyed. This explains the difficulty in studying UFOs from parallel universes.

UFOs are unidentified flying objects that periodically appear in our sky in different parts of the world. Alien ships are constantly interested ordinary people and some scientists. Skeptical astronomers continue to argue that UFOs do not exist. Only one thing can be said for sure now: humanity has not yet been able to either confirm or refute the theory of the existence of aliens. This article contains the most Interesting Facts about UFOs, starting with information about the first sighted alien objects.

• The term "UFO" was first used in his book by D. E. Kehoe in 1953. By the way, the book is called "Flying Saucers from Space".
• Attention to alien flying vehicles was attracted by the pilot K. Arnold, who in 1947 during the flight noticed 9 unidentified objects hovering in the air. The news of this quickly spread around the world, after which ordinary people began to literally seek contact with aliens. Arnold, in turn, saw objects over Mount Raynel, which is located on the territory of Washington. It was Kenneth Arnold who called UFOs flying saucers, after which this term became popular and often used.
• Officially, the term "UFO" was introduced by the United States Air Force. It happened in 1953. Air Force employees called the above term not only unidentified objects in the form of plates, but also other devices of various shapes, the origin of which was difficult to determine.

• Most modern scientists believe that alien ships do not deserve such attention, because they cannot visit our planet so often. It is known that news about UFOs appear on the Internet with enviable regularity. If all of them were true, then we would already be able to establish direct contact with the aliens.
• In the late 1950s and early 1960s, UFO news was incredibly popular in the United States. Later it turned out that almost all such news was, in fact, about "U-2" - reconnaissance aircraft, which for several years were classified.
• All films about aliens and alien technology can be divided into two groups. The first group, which is the most popular, exhibits hostile alien behavior. In such films, aliens attack people, master our planet, turning our life into Hell. The second group of films shows us a completely different behavior of UFOs - friendly. In such a cinema, aliens are trying to teach us something high-tech, reveal their secrets and even save people. In addition, there is another category of UFO films in which we rescue aliens. Movies like this are rare. Based on the foregoing, we can assume what exactly we expect from aliens.

• In ufology there is a term "ufonaut" - ancient astronaut. Representatives of this science believe that "ufonauts" often visited our planet in the distant past. This theory is proved by various archaeological finds and architectural monuments of ancient cities.
• In 1967, over England, six unidentified vehicles lined up in a row in the sky. The government officially approved the plans of scientists and the military, who intended to study UFOs. This event attracted everyone's attention, but later it turned out that it was all a hoax.
• The Bermuda "triangle" is also credited with a connection with aliens. Researchers believe that an alien permanent base may exist underwater in that area, which is often visited by aliens. This explains mysterious disappearances ships and planes, which to this day have not been found.
• The famous astronomer Carl Sagal has always been skeptical. He doubted that highly developed alien civilization would like to contact us. Despite his beliefs, he still participated in the world-famous SETI project.

• In the late 1930s, Orson Welles, in his radio broadcast, quoted fantasy book"War of the Worlds". He so plausibly and realistically described what was happening in it that thousands of Americans believed that they were really attacked by aliens. Mass panic began about halfway through the book. People quickly packed their things and tried to leave. Fortunately, the shocked population was able to calm down in time.
• On July 8, 1947, wreckage was allegedly found in Roswell alien ship. A little later, the government announced that this ship was, in fact, an terrestrial experimental flying machine. For months, people refused to believe it, accusing the government of deliberately hiding the truth about UFOs.
• In the USSR, alien saucers often turned out to be new types of military equipment.
• A 1996 social survey showed that 71% of Americans believe that the authorities are hiding the truth about flying alien vehicles from them. Moreover, many were sure that the government had long established contact with the aliens and concluded certain agreements with them.
• The first photograph of an unidentified alien vehicle was taken in 1883 by a Mexican astronomer named J. Bonilla.
• The first people to report the alien abduction were Betty and Barney, surnamed Hill. The abduction, they said, took place in 1961 in New Hampshire. The testimonies of the spouses completely coincided, despite the fact that they were interviewed separately and under hypnosis.

• In modern times, there are official organizations in the world engaged in the search and study of UFOs. The most famous are: MUFON, CUFOS and the Unidentified Flying Object Research Foundation.
• Aliens abducted not only ordinary people, but also the military, and in front of their leadership. So in 1953, junior lieutenant F. Yu. Monkla disappeared without a trace. He was sent to intercept a UFO hovering over Michigan. Monkla's plane approached the unidentified vehicle, after which a bright light enveloped it, and when everything stopped, it turned out that the plane was no longer on the radar. Nothing more was heard about the pilot and his plane.

UFO - an unidentified flying object whose identity has not been established by observers. There is an opinion that UFOs certainly have an alien nature. It is these eyewitness statements about UFOs that cause the greatest skepticism. Many of these unidentified objects, when seriously studied, turn out to be rationally explicable phenomena. However, there are those about which even military pilots and experts prefer to remain silent ...
Yes, during cold war, the US government took pleasure in inflating the UFO story by allowing casual bystanders to believe that what they saw in the sky was alien ship. In reality, these objects were secret aircraft being tested.
But not all UFOs can be attributed to stealth flights? What happens when an experienced pilot, a military pilot with years of flying training, claims to have seen something in the sky that he cannot identify? Is he really not able to determine the experimental new model of the next ultra-high-speed ship from the unknown? And what to do with the incredible anxiety that seizes even the most prepared eyewitnesses? Or messages transmitted to military controllers, which contain information that they are being pursued by these objects ...

Case in Dulce in 1979

Dulce, New Mexico, located on the Colorado border, is a small town and home to the Jicarilla Indians. It is also known as the location of the US military base where the alleged collision between aliens and the US military took place.
In 1979, rumors began to circulate about some kind of underground military base. Strange e-mails were intercepted by the military, who were stationed nearby. However, there was no evidence of the existence of another civilization until a man named Philip Schneider made a statement.
Philip Schneider was an engineer on a contract with the US State Department. He claimed that in 1979 he worked on the construction of a secret military base in Dulce. His story sounded plausible, but shocked many.
As he worked on the project, he noted the presence huge amount military, special forces and guys in civilian clothes who looked strange at an ordinary construction site. Then one day while working underground, Schneider encountered someone or something tall, gray in color and completely alien in appearance. This "someone" was not alone.
The military convoy opened fire and killed two of the aliens before the creatures fired their plasma beams directly at the Americans. Schneider lost several fingers but claims to have been saved " green beret", who himself was killed.
Schneider was forced to leave, as the situation began to develop as military operation. A total of sixty people, soldiers and engineers, were killed, only a small handful survived.
The unidentified creatures climbed back into the cave, where they very likely may remain to this day.
Schneider believed that the US government was aware of the alien presence. In 1997, he was found dead in his apartment, which was interpreted as a suicide.

Operation HIghJump

Operation Highjump was an American Antarctic expedition organized by the US Navy in 1946. Retired Rear Admiral Richard Byrd was the leader of the expedition, and Rear Admiral Richard Kruzen commanded the Task Force. A total of 4,000 military personnel were involved, representing Britain, the United States and Canada.
According to an official report from the US Navy, the purpose of the expedition was to train personnel and test equipment in the Antarctic cold. Although the main records from this "training" are still classified.
Second World War just ended, and German naval units met in the South Atlantic until the end of 1947. There were also traces of a secret British mission in Antarctica - both during and after the war. Moreover, in 1958, the Americans blew up a nuclear missile there as part of Operation Argus. But why such attention to this place?
Conspiracy theorists believe that there was some kind of secret Antarctic base where the military met with aliens. And even some experiments were carried out.
It is said that when a German expedition reached Antarctica in 1938, the participants discovered an arcade of underground caves heated by underground rivers. By the end of the war, Antarctica was seen as a "new home" for the Nazi regime. Led by Thule occultists, the Nazis made contact with the ancient aliens and began to learn the secrets of their technology. So, thanks to them, flying machines and other ships were built.
When the Allied forces invaded Antarctica in 1947, Admiral Byrd made the only public statement that no one expected from him: he asked the Americans to be vigilant against an air attack from South Pole, urging the government to take serious defensive measures.
Conspiracy theorists point to these claims as the reason why the US continued to "herd" the waters of Antarctica and ended it all with the operation in 1958.

Time travel in Chile, 1977

On Sunday, April 25, 1977, young Corporal Armando Valdez Garrido led a detachment of the Chilean army during a routine patrol of the site. The air temperature dropped sharply, and the patrol set up camp near the city of Putre in northern Chile. They lit a fire and left two soldiers on guard. Around 4:00 am, one of the guards reported a strange light that was descending from the sky. The soldiers watched as the light approached. When the military began to panic, the light source "came down" to a nearby hill. The corporal and several soldiers went to investigate. She saw a huge luminous object purple oval shape about 25 m in diameter, with two luminous points of dark red lights that flashed and went out.
The glowing object began to approach them. Some soldiers began to cry, others prayed. The corporal approached the subject and called out to him to "identify himself". As they moved forward, the corporal disappeared into the fog, and the soldiers lost sight of him. The object soon left the site. Fifteen minutes later, the corporal also appeared, walked a few steps and collapsed to the ground.
All the soldiers were clean-shaven, and the corporal suddenly had a beard, and the date on his watch was April 30, 1977. It seemed that Valdez traveled through time: he stayed five days in the future, and then returned to the starting point fifteen minutes after the disappearance. Valdes himself could not explain anything.

Chinese military clash, 1988

On Monday, October 19, 1998, four Chinese military radar stations in Hebei Province reported that they had detected an unidentified object near a military flight training school in Changzhou.
Since the object did not identify itself, Colonel Li, the base commander, ordered that it be intercepted. The Jianjiao 6 fighter was launched to intercept. Numerous witnesses on the ground observed the object over the military base. It was described as a "little star" that kept getting bigger. The object had a mushroom-shaped dome at the top, a flat bottom on which glittering, spinning lights were placed.
The Jianjiao 6 flew 4,000 meters above the object before it fired sharply upwards, easily bypassing the jet fighter. As the fighter attempted to close the distance, the object quickly accelerated out of range. The pilot and his controller were amazed.
The pilot asked permission to open fire, but was refused. On the contrary, the command ordered to continue the pursuit and observe. When the object gained a height of 12,000 meters, the fighter was forced to return to base - the fuel ran out. Two additional fighters were sent to continue the pursuit, but the object disappeared from radar before it was spotted.

Tehran diamond, 1976

One of the most famous military UFO encounters is also one of the best documented.
The incident took place after midnight on September 19, 1976, when an unidentified object entered the airspace over Tehran, Iran. The Iranian Air Force ordered the Shahrokhi military base to take off a Phantom II fighter jet to see what was going on. Flying 282 km west of Tehran, Captain Mohammad Reza Azizhani noted that at a distance of 40 nautical miles he could easily see a bright light. Within 25 nautical miles of the property measuring instruments and electronics on board ceased to function. Azizhani interrupted the interception operation and was forced to return to base, restoring all the capabilities of the aircraft.
At that moment, a second fighter was launched, piloted by Lieutenant Parvis Jafari. The mysterious ship maintained its speed, but Jafari saw a second smaller object separate from the first and obstruct it, continuing to move at high speed. Believing that he might be the target of an attack, Jafari tried to launch an AIM-9 missile into an unknown side, but suddenly lost control of the weapons.
He made a diversion with the smaller object before it slowed down and returned to the larger object.
Jafari's equipment came to life, and at the same time, the UFOs rushed away. What Jafari described was a flying object that alternated blue, green, red, and orange light, with the lights flashing so fast that all were visible at once.
Jafari later retired, rising to the rank of Air Force General, and in 2007 at an American conference confirmed that in his opinion vehicle was not from Earth.

Case in Malmstrom

The military base in Malmstrom, Montana, during the Cold War was the test site for Minutemen ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles), part of America's strategic nuclear arsenal.
On March 16, 1967, Captain Robert Salas was on duty supervising missile readiness when, suddenly, one missile after another was disabled. At the same time, a message came from the base about mysterious red objects hovering in the sky above some of the bunkers. The staff and crew experienced fear when they saw the mysterious lights. As long as the objects remained in the sky, the repair crews were unable to return the missiles back to normal. Eventually the objects disappeared into the sky.
Even a serious study of this incident could not find a logical explanation for what happened. For some unknown reason, each missile had a failed guidance and control system (G&C). Boeing engineers studied the missiles and systems and could not find any technical explanation.
They were only able to reproduce a similar effect by exposing the missiles to a 10 volt pulse. The likelihood of such an impulse occurring on its own in a protected safe area is practically impossible, unless it was caused by electromagnetic impulse large size. So big that at the time of technological progress in 1967, there was simply nowhere to come from such equipment. The actual source of the pulse, as well as the nature of the light in the sky, still remains undiscovered.

Collision at sea

On October 24, 1989, the sailors of the U.S. Navy submarine Memphis experienced something that none of them will ever forget. Their mission was to patrol the perimeter at Cape Canaveral whenever the US Space Shuttle was on the launch pad.
That night they were heading south of Florida, 241 kilometers from the coast, 500 feet deep. Suddenly, the ship's crew began to notice electrical anomalies, control failures, and loss of navigational control. The command gave the order to completely stop, turn off the nuclear reactor and switch to diesel engines, as well as raise the submarine to the surface. When the boat rose, the sailors saw that the surface of the sea in the rain was bright red. And above the ocean hovered an inverted V-shaped object.
By order of the captain of the Memphis, it was determined that the object was more than half a mile in cross section. Incredible size. After the UFO moved over the boat, the electronic systems failed. And the sailors saw that under the red light from the object it was not even raining. When the object completed the "observation", it became brighter and moved forward at an incredible speed. The crew lost sight of it within seconds, and the submarine's systems returned to normal.
After a quick check of the system, the reactor was turned on at full power, and the Memphis moved further south. The next day, the US authorities and the Air Force tried to explain the anomaly by the explosion of a meteorological satellite. The entire crew of the ship was changed. No official explanation has ever been received.

Chase in Brazil

Up to twenty UFOs were recorded on the night of May 19, 1986 over several states in southern Brazil. Control and dispatch personnel at the San Jose airport noticed eight unidentified objects on the radar. Their information was confirmed in Sao Paulo and Brasilia. Objects flew at speeds up to 1500 km/h. From the observation tower in San Jose one could see that one of the objects was red-orange in color. Shortly thereafter, the captain of one of the aircraft in the air reported that UFOs were also visible at an altitude of 3000 m above the ground. This plane belonged to retired Air Force colonel Osires Silva, president of the Petrobras oil company. Silva ordered his plane to track the objects.
The air defense command took to the skies two F-5E jet fighters that took off from the air base in Santa Cruz to intercept objects.
In addition, three Mirage F-103s with missiles were fired from the Anapolis airbase. The fighters had radar contact with the targets, but were unable to visually confirm their target.
When the planes tried to close the distance between them and the target at speed, the radar showed that the objects were moving in a zigzag pattern. At 2315 hours, the first F-5E finally made visual contact with one of the brightly lit objects and began to overtake it at a speed of 1320 km/h.
The rest of the planes were maneuvering nearby, continuing to spy, when the controller notified them of the approach of 10 more objects at a distance of 32 km. The fighters were never able to fix the objects and get to them. And they were forced to return to base.

Bomber and UFO

In the wee hours of July 17, 1957, an RB-47 jet bomber equipped with electronic countermeasures (ECM) was on a training mission in Mississippi. He was sent from Forbes Air Force Base (Kansas) for exercises on the Gulf Coast. The bomber crew consisted of 6 highly qualified officers. As they prepared to fly home, around 4:00 AM, the radar picked up an object 700 miles away from them.
Although the plane was flying at 500 miles per hour, the radar showed that an unidentified object was advancing directly on them. RB-47 traveled from Mississippi through Louisiana and Texas to Oklahoma within 1.5 hours. All this time the object was moving behind the bomber.
From time to time the crew was able to visually identify an object that appeared as a bright light and showed up as a solid object on ground radars. The bomber's ECM monitoring systems also recorded this object. The ECM equipment does not work like a radar - the monitoring system has detected the electromagnetic signals that the target emits.
Over Louisiana, the captain saw a rapidly approaching light to his left. He ordered the crew to be on alert, but the object flew past the cockpit at incredible speed and disappeared.
Light, and shadowing for an hour was observed from the ground. However, when the captain requested permission to intercept, the object instantly fell to a distance of 15,000 feet above sea level. RB-47 had to return to base due to lack of fuel, and the object flew towards Oklahoma.

Light in Stephenville

One of the well-known UFO reports in last decade is the story of "the light in Stephenville".
On January 8, 2008, forty people in the small Texas town of Stephenville, southwest of Dallas, witnessed a very bright flash in the sky. It all started around 6:15 pm - bright lights slowly moved across the sky, then made quick maneuvers, and then slowed down again. A group of F-16 fighters was released to follow the objects.
However, two days later, the military issued a statement that their aircraft were not operating in that airspace that evening. Civilian investigators contacted the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to verify the military's claim. The FAA said a group of eight F-16s from the 457th Fighter Squadron entered the area at approximately 18:17 and remained there for 30 minutes.
Since this information was publicized in the media, the military was forced to issue a press release confirming the presence of military pilots that night at the scene. However, Air Force officials claim they were just conducting training maneuvers and that the bright lights are flares.
However, the radar showed not the most ordinary missiles: one object was moving at a speed of 2100 miles per hour, the other faster than the supersonic aircraft that pursued it. Finally, another was tracked for an hour until it entered the restricted airspace over former US President George W. Bush's ranch in Crawford.
Numerous police officers observed strange lights and planes flying across the sky. One officer took amateur footage on his phone and was later detained by the military. The US Air Force has not given a normal explanation for what happened there.

Case in Usovo

On October 4, 1982, an unauthorized launch of a strategic missile nearly occurred in the 50th missile division of the Strategic Missile Forces of the Carpathian Military District. It all started with the fact that at 18:30 Moscow time, several incomprehensible aircraft moving along trajectories inaccessible to terrestrial technology.
Actually, it was at this moment that the third world war almost began - and the incident in Usovo went down in history as the famous "Usovo incident".
The UFO was first seen about a mile from Usovo. Army officers outside the base also reported seeing lights and strange lights over the forest. Moreover, one of the officers reported that when he was driving nearby, his military transmitter was not working.
But the worst thing happened at that time inside the bunker. In the middle phase of the observation of the phenomenon - it was at 21:30 Moscow time - at the command post of the missile forces unit, the automatic control system of the combat complex suddenly worked. For a moment, all indicators of the calling board lit up, as when checking, for example, an emergency situation. And most importantly, the "Start" sign lit up.
Major Kataman, in charge of launchpad security, has never seen the light of day - but he reported that several nuclear missiles are activated on their own, without any signal received from Moscow!
None of the employees could stop the launch process. All they could do was watch helplessly as the missiles prepared for launch. All of a sudden it was over and the panels were off.
As it was discovered later, this happened when the strange lights began to move on.
Subsequent tests of the system showed no defects in the rocket launch programs.
All precautions worked. But there was no explanation for what happened.

Hand to hand combat with a UFO

In the 1950s, US Air Force Captain Edward J. Ruppelt was the first head of Project Blue Book, a unit tasked with studying and analyzing reports of unidentified flying objects.
In fact, he is known to the world as the one who coined the term "unidentified flying object" because he believed that "flying saucer" was misleading.
In a report he gave many years later, he said that he was involved in an incident that occurred in the summer of 1952 and which his superiors asked not to be mentioned in official reports on the project. Rappelt received a message from an intelligence officer about an incident over the airbase. It was early in the morning when the radar picked up an unknown object that was moving very fast northeast of the airfield, but its height was unknown.
Two F-86 aircraft were raised to intercept - they were looking for an object at different heights. As one of them descended to a height of 5,000 feet, he noticed a flash just below him. The plane descended and headed towards the light.
When he finally approached the object, it was identified as a flat "donut without a hole." At a distance of 500 yards, the object suddenly accelerated and began to move off course. The pilot opened fire on the object, but it quickly disappeared within a few seconds.
The pilot returned to base. The fact that he had fired at the object could not be ignored. But that's exactly what the captain did: Rappelt read the report and then ordered it to be burned.

Incident at Kinross

It was a quiet evening on November 23, 1953, when US Air Force radar controllers detected movement over US airspace at Lake Superior, on the Canadian border near Michigan. The F-89C Scorpion interceptor, piloted by Lieutenant Felix Monkla and navigator Lieutenant Robert Wilson, took off from Kinross Air Force Base in Michigan. Ground radar operators reported that Monkla was flying high above the target at about 500 miles per hour. It then descended and hovered over the object while flying over the lake at 7,000 feet.
The controllers were amazed by what they saw on the radar: first, the interceptor connected with its target on the screen, the two "spots" became one. And then the pursued UFO quickly left the field of view of the radar, but the interceptor also disappeared with it. No trace of the F-89C or its crew has been found; no debris, no debris.
Canadian aviation authorities claim they had no aircraft in the area at the time. Monkle and Wilson were never seen again...

Incident in the English forest

Rendlesham Forest is located in Suffolk, England, next to NATO Air Bases Bentwaters and Woodbridge, then leased by the US Air Force.
On December 26, 1980, at around 3:00 am, two Air Force personnel witnessed bright light who descended into the forest a mile from the Woodbridge gate.
Believing that it was a downed plane, they went to investigate. They reported the discovery of a strange triangular metal object with strange markings, about three meters wide and two high. From above it burned reddish lights, from below - blue. They also saw that the UFO was hovering or standing on an invisible chassis. As they approached, the object moved away, keeping its distance.
They immediately reported the discovery to their superiors. The next day, the patrol investigated the site and found depressions in the ground where the object was, as well as burn marks on broken trees nearby.
Plaster casts of the footprints were made and the report handed over to the authorities.
The next night, another luminous object was seen in the forest: a UFO flying over the trees with a pulsating red light. The base's second-in-command, Colonel Charles Holt, decided to organize an expedition and investigate the incident.
Everything was recorded on tape: the movement of the object, the pulsing light, the alternation of lights. The Colonel filed an official report, but was unable to explain the nature of the mysterious lights.

Roswell Incident

The alleged crash of an unidentified flying object occurred near the city of Roswell in New Mexico, USA in July 1947. This is the only instance of a flying saucer appearing in front of ordinary people...
The owner of the Foster Place Ranch, farmer Mac Brazel, said that during the night during a thunderstorm he heard a strong rumble and saw a flash of light, the house trembled. On the morning of July 3, he rode out to the paddock and found the sheep missing. While searching for sheep, he allegedly stumbled upon a wasteland covered with something shiny. Having returned the cattle, he returned and saw: it was full of pieces of an incomprehensible substance similar to foil (crumpled and bent, it took its previous shape), bars of very light material (which did not burn and was not damaged by a knife), something similar to a cord, similar things with reddish and red patterns.
Breizel reported the find for the next military base. Base Lieutenant Jesse Marcel visited the crash site, and then the command ordered a complete cleanup of the area. On July 8, after examining the debris, the base commander, Colonel William Blanchard, ordered Lieutenant Walter Hoth to issue a press release stating that the Army had identified the debris as a crashed aircraft.
On the same day, General Roger Ramey alerted the press that the press release was a mistake and that the military had mistaken the downed weather balloon for a flying saucer. The incident was regarded as an insignificant event, and the facts have sunk into oblivion.
However, in the late 1970s, Jesse Marcel went public with all the facts, claiming that he "garbage" was definitely not from Earth. From that moment began the biggest conspiracy theory.
In 1995, the US Air Force tried to close the case by admitting that the debris found was actually the remains of balloons developed under the secret project Mogul, designed to detect the Soviet atomic bomb.
However, neither Marcel nor even Hoth admitted this " balloons". Since then, other military personnel have also begun to come forward with stories about the found foreign bodies and ships ... Unfortunately, we will never hear the truth about Roswell.