Really UFO are extraterrestrial ships and aliens have been monitoring our civilization for a long time? Where do UFOs come from? These questions are of interest to many people on our planet.
However, the answers to them are so different and contradictory that it is very difficult to understand where the truth is hidden. Maybe the whole point is that the UFO phenomenon is too multifaceted for unambiguous answers?
Since June 1947, when businessman Kenneth Arnold's famous sighting of flying saucers in the sky over the Cascade Mountains in Washington State, various publications on the subject of UFOs have been in the pages of newspapers and magazines. To date, the number of skeptics who deny the reality of UFOs has declined sharply.
And this is not surprising, because flying saucers were observed not only by housewives who did not inspire much confidence, they were seen by civilian and military pilots, sailors, submariners, astronauts, even the American president was among the eyewitnesses. In addition, for recent decades many UFO videos have been made, the authenticity of which is not in doubt.
True, many scientists do not believe that UFOs have any connection with aliens from outer space. One of the arguments is vast distances to the nearest stars, overcoming which, even at the speed of light, will take an unrealistically long time.
At the same time, pundits do not take into account the fact that in the 19th century a trip from Moscow to Far East in just seven hours, too, would have been taken as science fiction. Perhaps now we simply do not know about other ways to overcome huge distances.
In my opinion, the fact of the absence of results in a long search for signals from brothers in mind is not a serious argument either. Maybe these "brothers" are simply smarter than us and do not "vote" to the entire Universe about their existence, you never know which guests can respond to this call.
It seems to me that it is time to abandon the idea that only humane highly developed civilizations that will bring us goodness and prosperity can go into deep space. In this regard, it is not necessary to send signals with information about our civilization into deep space.
Let's get back to the UFO. At the moment, the question is not about the reality of UFOs, but about their nature. In 2000, a British Department of Defense report described UFOs as follows: “A significant amount of evidence supports the thesis that (UFO) events are almost certainly caused by physical, electrical and magnetic phenomena in the atmosphere, mesosphere and ionosphere.
They appear under certain weather conditions and electric charge and are observed very infrequently, which allows observers to talk about their uniqueness.
But German scientists a few years ago puzzled ufologists with the statement that in reality there are simply no UFOs. It's just lightning charges having the shape of a sphere. They can soar in the sky, move chaotically, instantly changing their trajectory, and even hover in immobility.
If a military aircraft tries to catch up with such an energy ball, it naturally has problems with its instruments, and when approaching at close range, they completely fail.
It turns out that there are no "starships" in the Earth's sky?
Do not rush to conclusions. The conclusions of German scientists, for example, cannot explain the emergence of UFOs from the depths of the seas and oceans, UFO observations are strictly geometric shape with side lights and even portholes, contacts with humanoids, mass abductions of people by aliens. It remains to be recognized that in addition to lightning charges, something extraterrestrial also appears in our sky.
MOON-UFO MAIN BASE
So, UFO sightings are mainly explained by human technical activities (rocket launches, observations of satellites and aircraft, etc.) and various atmospheric phenomena. Here are just some observations cannot be explained by natural causes. It can be assumed that they just relate to the alien ships. Where do they fly from?
There is no doubt that the main base of the UFO is the moon. Once, astronomers managed to fix a whole string of UFOs heading from the Earth to its satellite. UFOs accompanied all American ships during their flight to the Moon, and on the satellite itself, the first person to step on its surface, Neil Armstrong, immediately saw alien spacecraft, which he very emotionally reported to Earth.
Extraterrestrial spacecraft were observed not only by American astronauts, but even by amateur astronomers. For example, Fred Steckling, together with his son, observed three cigar-shaped objects in the Archimedes Crater, each about 20 km long and 5 km wide ... The "cigars" remained in the crater for several hours, and then disappeared. In the 1990s, a Japanese amateur astronomer made a video recording of a huge UFO maneuvering over the surface of the moon.
Where did aliens come from on the moon? It is possible that they came from another star system and established a permanent base on our satellite. Or maybe millennia ago they arrived in our solar system on the moon itself, because there is a hypothesis that it is a huge spaceship.
By the way, it is worth recalling once again about another hypothetical UFO space base - Earth's twin planet Gloria. According to the hypothesis of astrophysicist Kirill Pavlovich Butusov, it is in the orbit of the Earth, hidden from us by the Sun.
Since the conditions there are almost identical to those on Earth, many suggest that Gloria has intelligent life. Due to the fact that Gloria is in a very unstable position, any global cataclysm on Earth can be a disaster for her. That is why the inhabitants of this planet are constantly watching us closely.
THESE ARE TOURISTS FROM THE FUTURE!
Those who do not want to believe in the extraterrestrial origin of flying saucers put forward a different hypothesis, according to which UFOs are time machines and come to us from the future. From the standpoint of this hypothesis, UFO sightings in a variety of historical eras- our distant descendants visit the past for research purposes, and possibly as tourists ...
It becomes clear that there is no desire for contacts and non-interference in earthly affairs, because any change in the past entails unpredictable changes in the future.
In addition to hypotheses about alien spacecraft and time travelers, there is also an assumption that UFOs appear to us from parallel worlds. It is impossible to exclude the versatility of the phenomenon, perhaps, as a UFO, we observe extraterrestrial ships, time machines, and visitors from parallel worlds.
Andrey Sidorenko
Exactly forty years ago on September 20, 1977 at four o'clock in the morning a UFO appeared over Petrozavodsk. This was the first time in the history of the USSR when an unidentified flying object was observed by residents big city. This episode marked the beginning of the development of ufology in our country. Let's talk about the most high-profile cases of the appearance of UFOs in the sky of Russia.
"Medusa" over Karelia
In the first minutes of the appearance of a UFO over the city, one might have thought that a new bright star had lit up in the sky. Gradually, it began to gradually increase in size, slowly approaching the observers shocked by the incredible spectacle. A few minutes later, a huge "jellyfish" hung over Petrozavodsk purple. Hundreds of light jets hit the city from her body. From the side, one might think that it was raining, consisting of rays of light that came from a huge purple cloud hanging over the city. Having descended to a height of 300-500 meters, the UFO, according to the recollections of eyewitnesses, took the form of a clearly defined octahedron. Along its perimeter, luminous yellow spots were clearly visible, reminiscent of aircraft windows. The length of the unknown body was about 100 meters. According to numerous witnesses of the incredible phenomenon, people were seized by a feeling of panic and anxiety, as is usually the case when observing UFOs. At the same time, in the city itself and its environs, there were recorded interruptions in the operation of electrical equipment, which is also hallmark the presence of an unidentified flying object in the sky. Meanwhile, the show continued. A bright fiery semicircle appeared around the UFO, and the object itself swam towards Lake Onega. A hole appeared in the center of the object, framed by a bright red rim. A fireball separated from the UFO white color, which was rapidly declining, went towards the forest and landed. A bright glow was visible, but no explosion or fire followed. According to eyewitnesses, the UFO could be observed for forty minutes, after which it slowly began to move away until it completely disappeared into morning sky. This was the first time that the country's authorities were forced not only to admit, but also to comment on the incredible incident. The director of the Petrozavodsk Hydrometeorological Observatory, Yu. Gromov, then stated that nothing like this had ever been observed in the sky of Karelia. In his opinion, the nature of this phenomenon is a mystery and has nothing to do with atmospheric phenomena, which were normal on September 20, 1977, and no technical tests were carried out that day either. Both local and central newspapers reported on the observation of a UFO at Petrozavodsk, but no one could explain this phenomenon.
Interest in ufology around the world arose after the alleged fall in 1947 in Roswell in the USA of two UFOs. This case became widely known, while the UFO crashes on the territory of the USSR remained shrouded in a veil of secrecy. However, they also took place. The most famous of them is described in one of his books by Dr. technical sciences, test pilot Marina Popovich. In her opinion, at the disposal of the Soviet military there were at least five fragments that crashed over the territory of the USSR UFO. The loudest of them took place in 1986 in the city of Dalnogorsk, Primorsky Krai. On January 29, 1986, several dozen people were surprised to find a spherical object moving parallel to the Earth. After a few minutes of observation, the UFO abruptly changed its course and literally crashed at an angle of about 70 degrees onto Limestone Mountain, located within the city. Given the rather high speed of 15 m / s, the device exploded and caught fire. A strong flame was visible for an hour. When, a few days later, an expedition of the Far Eastern Branch of the Research Committee on Anomalous Air Phenomena at the Academy of Sciences, headed by Doctor of Science Valery Dvuzhilny, arrived in the city to study the incident, scientists discovered many fragments of an unknown artificial body. They were: debris aircraft, lead and iron balls, pieces of unusual steel alloys and glass. Most surprisingly, the alloy from which the metal balls were created could only be cut with a diamond saw. To obtain this alloy on Earth, according to scientists, it was not possible. Studies of the crash site showed that the crash site was exposed to prohibitively high temperatures from 4,000 to 25,000 degrees Celsius. The most surprising thing is that two years later, on November 28, 1987, the appearance of 33 UFOs of a cylindrical, cigar-shaped and spherical shape at once was witnessed over Dalnogorsk. The doomsday was observed by more than 100 people, among whom were many policemen and military men, who then compiled official reports. Many ufologists considered that it was a rescue action. It continued in January 1989 when a large UFO landed 200 meters from the UFO crash in the winter of 1986. Apparently, the aliens were also conducting their own investigation into the disaster.
This year marks seventy years since an alien spacecraft crashed in Roswell, sparking UFO research around the world. The USSR was no exception. In our country, any military and civilian organizations in the event of UFO sightings were required to report this to the relevant authorities. Here are the most interesting cases of UFO sightings in the sky of the Soviet Union.
Gorbachev ordered to meet the aliens
Speaking about cases of contact between aliens and representatives of humanity, it is curious to recall the case told by Lieutenant General of the General Staff of the RF Ministry of Defense, retired A.Yu. Savin. According to Alexei Yuryevich, in the spring of 1991 he personally had the opportunity to participate in the official meeting of the alien ship. The most incredible thing is that the operation was carried out by order of M.S. Gorbachev. In 1991, a group of ufologists turned to the country's leadership with a statement about receiving information from contactees about the imminent arrival spaceship aliens. Ufologists assured that aliens certainly want to establish contact with the military and political leadership of the USSR. The landing of the alien ship was to take place near the city of Zarafshan in Uzbekistan. True, the aliens asked to turn off the country's air defense so that their ship would not be mistakenly shot down by air defense systems. A letter from ufologists came to M.S. Gorbachev, who sent him to the work of the Minister of Defense of the USSR D. Yazov. He, in turn, put a resolution "I. Tretyak (Commander-in-Chief of the Air Defense Forces), A. Savin - accept!". On the appointed day, the military, together with ufologists, flew by helicopter to the meeting place. However, the aliens did not appear at the appointed time. The frustrated pilot of the helicopter tried to tease the ufologist who accompanied the military. In response, the researcher suggested that the pilot put him into hypnosis so that he could personally communicate with aliens. During the experiment, the pilot began to suddenly give out information that he simply could not know. Those present had no choice but to believe in the reality of mental contact with aliens.
Vedlozero: where the UFO drowned
One of the places in Russia where UFOs are most often observed is Karelia. Local ethnographer Alexei Popov, who has been collecting cases of UFO flights for several decades, has repeatedly told reporters about where, according to his information, an alien ship crashed. This story happened on November 15, 1928 over the village of Shchuknavolok, located on the banks of the Vedlozero. One late evening, the inhabitants of the village heard a strange growing rumble and poured out into the street. A strange cylindrical object appeared before their eyes, which, having appeared from behind the forest, headed towards the lake. His flight was surprisingly slow and silent. However, at the moment when the metal cylinder was crossing the lake, it suddenly began to fall, broke through the ice and sank. The most interesting thing is that top part a massive metal cylinder was left sticking out above the water. Subsequently, for several years, the surrounding boys fished from him, and a strange creature appeared in the vicinity of the village. It was a humanoid, meter tall, thin and big-headed. His torso and arms were disproportionately long, while his legs, on the contrary, were too short. The creature's clothing resembled a tight jumpsuit. Frightened boys, seeing him, threw stones at him and the creature soon disappeared. When this case became known to the NKVD, people in uniform arrived, lifted the metal cylinder out of the water, and then took it away in an unknown direction.
petrified soldiers
In the nineties, a number of publications appeared in the domestic press, which talked about the sale abroad of certain KGB archives describing incidents with UFOs in the sky of the USSR. Soon one of the cases described in this archive became public. This episode was first published by a Canadian edition, after which a reprint of the article appeared in Russia. In the material of the Western press, it was said that in Soviet time a UFO appeared over one of the military bases in Siberia. Following instructions, the military attacked him with a surface-to-air missile. Got it. The object tilted and began to fall. As it crashed into the ground, five small humanoid aliens with large black eyes emerged from the spacecraft. As soon as the five aliens left the UFO, they gathered in a kind of round dance, hugged their shoulders and merged into a single being. It began to rotate, turned into a sphere, buzzed and exploded. Those soldiers who watched the bright flash and explosion with their own eyes immediately turned to stone, turning into limestone statues. Only two servicemen survived, who guessed to hide behind an outbuilding. When scientists tried to study the "petrified" soldiers, they could only state that due to unknown radiation, the structure of their cells changed, turning the soldiers into stone idols.
UFO fight over Perm
As a rule, during the observation of a UFO, eyewitnesses see either the flight of an unidentified object in the sky, or its fall to the ground from a rocket hit. It is assumed that the aliens are generally friendly and not aggressive towards people. No matter how, it's not. In the late USSR, the case of air combat of several UFOs over the outskirts of Perm became widely known. The incident occurred on September 16, 1989 in the sky over the port of Zaostrovka on the banks of the Kama. The inhabitants of the city watched in amazement as six silver UFOs in the form of flying discs rushed at wild speed after the seventh, which tried to hide from them. Each of the UFOs was disc-shaped up to 20 meters in diameter. From the side, the spectacle was reminiscent of an episode of a Star Wars movie. Periodically, “fiery lightnings” resembling laser beams flew out of the disks towards the enemy. Fortunately, the pursuers failed to knock out the seventh UFO, after which he safely left for the forest. His pursuers went there at great speed, and electricity was cut off throughout the port. Later, this case, according to eyewitnesses of the event, was repeatedly described in the local press.
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UFO(unidentified flying object, UFO) is an object at any distance from the earth's surface, the nature of which cannot be explained in terms of common sense. Usually, a UFO is a phenomenon associated with a compact moving or stationary object that can be luminous or dark, make sounds or remain silent.
The name UFO appeared as a result of a direct translation from English into Russian of the term UFO(unidentified flying object), which came into use in the early fifties of the 20th century. The activity related to the study of UFOs was called "ufology", and people who collect and verify information about UFOs are called ufologists.
Ufology news includes numerous evidence of the appearance of UFOs. Their existence is not denied, and most of the controversy around UFOs is about their foreign origin. Most of the phenomena, initially assessed as UFOs after study, are explained by meteorological or astronomical phenomena, but from 5 to 10% of UFO phenomena remain without a clear explanation.
Versions of the origin of UFOs
At the moment, there are several hypotheses for the origin of UFOs, including hypotheses about the extraterrestrial, natural, psychosocial and supernatural nature of phenomena. Most ufologists adhere exclusively to the version that aliens from near and far worlds are visiting us. Some ufologists believe that UFOs are fireballs, meteorites, birds, marsh gases and other quite understandable modern science phenomena. Some experts are of the opinion that "flying saucers" are visits to us by earthlings from another time or the result of the activities of quite earthly, but parallel civilizations. There is an opinion that UFOs are living objects.
Varieties of UFO
There are "solid" UFOs, which look like objects consisting of matter, including metal. According to eyewitnesses who have been inside a UFO, flying saucers contain sophisticated equipment used for experiments on people. Contactees describe different types aliens, some of which look like people, but most often they are creatures with large eyes and a strange skull without ears.
"Solid" UFOs include:
disk-shaped different sizes and shapes;
triangular UFO, which can dramatically change the speed and direction of flight;
spindle-shaped in the form of two cones with one base;
egg-shaped UFOs;
as unmarked terrestrial flying objects, including airplanes and airships;
rod-shaped UFOs from a few centimeters to tens of meters in length.There are many reports of the arrival of "soft" UFOs that look like a strange fog, a mysterious glow or lights. Often, eyewitnesses like UFOs are compared with ghosts or angels.
Places of the most frequent encounters with UFOs
UFOs are found in different places on the Earth, but there are several areas - "windows" where their appearances are recorded most often. Usually "windows" are found in sparsely populated areas of the Earth, for example, in the desert regions of the USA and Australia, in the mountainous regions of France and Great Britain, in Brazil and Argentina.
Most mysterious UFO case in France. An inexplicable event occurred on January 8, 1981, two kilometers from the French village of Trans-en-Provence, not far from the estate of 55-year-old Renato Nicolai.
One of the most famous UFO sightings in France remains unexplained to this day, although police, military and scientists are involved in the investigation.
The eyewitness is the only eyewitness to the incident, but according to the French police, he is perfectly adequate and has no reason to lie.
On that day, Renato works in the yard near the house. Toward evening, at about 5 pm, he hears a whistling sound from the sky. He looks up and sees a silver disc-shaped apparatus, which, with a slight hiss, descends to the ground not far from his estate.
He goes there to see what it is. During this time, the device landed on the ground and after a certain period of time, again rose into the sky and flew to the northeast. A monotonous whistling sound was heard all the time.
The device was in the form of two plates turned upside down and about one and a half meters high, lead-gray in color. As it flies, Renato notices that it has four nozzle-like holes on its underside, but no flames or smoke come out of them.
The story would certainly have been completed and it would have remained an unprovable fiction of a French farmer, but Renato finds traces of the physical contact of the apparatus with the ground at the landing point. A round trace with a diameter of about 2.5 meters is clearly visible, and in several places there are small stripes that look like light furrows.
Renato tells his wife, and then the neighbors.
Everyone can clearly see the trail from the landing. Reported to the police in the neighboring town of Draginin. The case arouses the curiosity of the authorities, mainly because they suspect it may be related to covert Soviet spy equipment.
They carefully photographed the landing site, took samples and sent them for analysis to several university laboratories, including the National Agrarian Institute for a detailed study of the soil.
And at this stage, everything could end with the proof that these are just traces in the soil, made by a round object without identification. But it turns out that in soil samples, all traces of vegetation seem to have been artificially aged and a similar effect is not observed in nature, says biochemist Michel Bunias from the Agricultural Institute.
Nevertheless, the samples also have features that resemble soil exposed to radiation. In addition, a thin layer of molten soil is exposed, which may have formed after being heated at temperatures between 500 and 600 degrees Celsius.
Scientific teams exclude the possibility of such changes in the soil, so that they are the result of some earlier pollution, outside the planting zone, the soil has normal indicators.
At this stage, the team of the government group for the study of unknown aerospace phenomena, the director of which was then Jean-Jacques Velasco, is also participating in the investigation of the case.
The re-examination of the samples was carried out in 1988 in an independent American laboratory, which confirms the results of French specialists.
In the end, it does not become clear what Renato Nicolai saw, but we are completely sure that this cannot be invented and this is not a falsification.
Professor J.P. Petit, who is also involved in the analysis of the incident, states that this is probably the first official case for the investigation of a potential UFO of extraterrestrial origin, which has been recognized since scientific point vision.
In 2012, in an interview with the well-known newspaper Var-Matin, 84-year-old Renato admits that for him this case is still a mystery of what he saw in 1981. It remains a mystery to all others who are in search of an answer to this question.
According to the results of general surveys, more than half of the population believes in the existence of unidentified flying objects, and 5% of respondents consider themselves eyewitnesses of events that they interpret as the appearance of UFOs. And such witnesses do not dry out.
Without a doubt, it can be considered a proven fact that in most cases, phenomena of a completely explainable origin are mistaken for UFOs. As a rule, these are incomprehensible to the observer rare natural phenomena. Particularly bright stars or planets, meteors, fireballs and luminous swamp gas can be misleading.
In other cases, landing lights of planes, airships and Balloons, testing new aviation technology. This second part of the list can also include conscious hoaxes on the topic of contacts with aliens, that is, like those described above, these phenomena are generated by man. Pay attention to the 10 most incredible UFO theories.
However, there are a relatively small number of observations that do not fit into the principle of explaining everything with understandable reasons, or they were so shocking at the time. public consciousness that have even become part of UFO folklore. If so, then here is our top 10 list of the most widely publicized, best documented, most unexplained or just plain weird UFO sightings. If you like the unexplainable, check out 10 Unexplained Paranormal Phenomena That Changed History.
Few people know that sightings of unidentified lights in the sky have been recorded for over a hundred years. Then, at the end of the nineteenth century, in a certain area for several months there was a whole series of observations of something completely inexplicable.
It all started with the appearance in November 1896 of a mysterious luminous object that slowly moved over the city of Sacramento, California, which was observed by hundreds of people. Apparently, the object moved easily against the wind, at a speed of about 50 km per hour.
A week later, it was seen again, this time over San Francisco, by the end of the year, reports of the object seen in various places numbered in the hundreds and came from all over the Pacific coast. This led to a real hysteria in the then media. After a two-month absence in the winter of 1896-97. a strange object - some eyewitnesses say it was suspended from a dark cigar-shaped aircraft - reappeared over the midwest.
There, according to available information, he was seen everywhere - from Nebraska to Michigan and from Minnesota to Texas, until it suddenly and completely stopped in April 1897. Among today's scientific skeptics, it is customary to interpret the described events as an example of mass hysteria supported by journalists. However, just an incredible number of observations - according to some estimates, there are several thousand - suggest that what was happening was not just someone's fiction, which the press laughed at.
Even an intriguing assumption was put forward, which somewhat upset supporters of extraterrestrial origin strange object- it could be an early copy of the aircraft that took off into the air before the airplane of the Wright brothers. There is evidence that attempts were made to develop such a technology earlier than is commonly believed.
In any case, the great airship of 1897 - or whatever it was in reality - remains the same today. mysterious riddle just like in those distant times.
In 1952, all of Washington, D.C., was in a frenzy when ground services at Washington National Airport ( now international airport. Reagan) detected many targets on radar, observing them on the screens as clearly as the radiance of rings of light around an object that appeared on the horizon. What was happening provoked the Air Force command to deliberately doomed attempts to launch fighters to approach objects.
All of this took place on two consecutive weekends between July 13 and 29, 1952, even received the President's attention, and almost immediately there was a reaction.
Deciding that a quick attack is the best defense, the government urgently organized an emergency commission of eminent scientists ( that went down in history as the Robertson Commission), who for two days analyzed the most outstanding cases of UFO sightings collected as part of the so-called project " Blue Book". It was an impressive document of the US Air Force, in which for 18 years information about UFO sightings was entered ( and stopped filling it much later than the events described, in 1969, when there were more than 12,000 registered observations in it).
Scientists quickly reached a verdict - the air force and the project " Blue Book» It is worth spending less time analyzing and studying reports of unidentified flying objects, and more time exposing them publicly.
Perhaps one of the most famous cases of UFO sightings is the many testimonies of Arizona residents (including, by the way, the state governor). All these people watched as chains of luminous objects, along with a huge triangular flying saucer, hung silently in the local sky for a good three hours on the evening of March 13, 1997.
Some of the objects were later considered to be infrared distraction traps dropped from overflying military aircraft during training flights in the southwest of the city, but there was no satisfactory explanation for the large triangle in the sky (with skeptics tried to write off the celestial figure for a link of fighters).
Whatever the objects were, they didn't reappear, leaving the population of Phoenix Township and the rest of the world scratching their heads with it, and gave rise to a sensation hotly debated to this day.
On December 9, 1965, a large glowing fireball was observed by thousands of people in the United States, in at least 6 states of the country, as well as in the Canadian province of Ontario. The balloon flew through the night sky, eventually disappearing from view somewhere near the town of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania. By that point, it has been described as a particularly large fireball ( or an unusually bright meteor). Residents were worried when army units quickly converged on this territory and began to pull out some kind of bell-shaped structure from the forest. This gave rise to a rumor that the government was back to its old tricks.
Later it was claimed that it was a crashed Soviet satellite, however, ufologists are still hotly debating on this issue. However, it is worth noting that the satellite version still explains the presence of a heavily armed army and an atmosphere of secrecy, which, however, would be quite logical in the event of a saucer arriving from Venus. In short, the controversy continues.
The first UFO-related fatal case for a person was recorded on January 7, 1948 in the sky over Kentucky. Air National Guard pilot Captain Thomas Mantell crashed his P-51 fighter while trying to pursue an unusual object - " silver disc aircraft". Everything happened on high altitude, in the absence of oxygen. The pilot suddenly lost consciousness when he tried to approach the unidentified object. The consequences were tragic.
Investigators later suggested that Captain Mantell could have mistaken an experimental weather balloon for a UFO, which from below could be perceived as a disk and, in addition, had just such a shiny and silvery coating. In this case, Mantell was the victim of his own diligence, ignoring the Air Force's directive not to exceed a safe flight altitude. His story clearly demonstrates that human arrogance can be more dangerous than aliens.
The incident changed public performances about UFOs, forcing part of society to come to the conclusion about the potential danger of alien visitors, who were previously considered harmless little green men.
First ( and definitely not the last) a marked UFO abduction is the story of Barney and Betty Hill, which happened on September 19, 1961. These people suddenly noticed what they themselves thought were UFOs while driving on an empty road near Groveton, New Hampshire.
Although they could not clearly remember what happened after ( a few hours just fell out of their memory), a few weeks later, both simultaneously began to complain about frightening dreams in which they were subjected to some terrible and bizarre medical checks from the side " gray aliens". They injected the unfortunate with unknown drugs and subjected them to other unpleasant procedures before releasing them.
The nightmares reached such a pitch that eventually special assistance was needed. Dr. Benjamin Simon from Boston put Betty and Barney into a state of hypnosis and interviewed them. The specialist eventually concluded that people could be under the strong impression of a TV show about humanoid aliens that they saw a few weeks before their “ contact”, the event itself was innocently invented. True, he also admitted that not all the circumstances of the incident find an explanation.
And today, disputes do not cease about whether this couple became a victim of their own sick imagination ( according to the testimonies, she was distinguished by a certain eccentricity), or an actual kidnapping took place. Be that as it may, this story was able to lay the foundation for subsequent, more spectacular cases of abductions in the 1970s.
November 16, 1986 an unidentified flying object, according to the description of eyewitnesses " three times more than an aircraft carrier", flew parallel to a civilian Japanese airlines flight (Flight 1628) for 50 minutes over northeastern Alaska, accompanied by other objects; all of them intermittently were even spotted by military and civilian radars.
Impressive time during which the object was visible, the amount of credible evidence ( crew and all passengers) and the fact of additional observation on radar, which makes this event one of the most impressive stories associated with UFOs, and which still do not have an unambiguous explanation.
Remarkably, it was one of the few occasions when the crew of a civilian airliner readily discussed the event in public, which makes the encounter over Alaska even more outstanding.
Until 1976, the amazing ability of unidentified flying objects to evade radar detection caused general discontent ( although not always). She led skeptics to the idea that the appearance of objects is more a consequence of human imagination than real interest. extraterrestrial civilizations to our planet.
Everything changed when, in the wee hours of September 19, 1976, Iranian jet fighters ( Iran at that time was not an enemy of NATO) were launched in pursuit of a UFO, writing out sharp zigzags in the sky over Tehran, after the object was spotted by several location stations at once. Particularly impressive was the fact that the object did not allow the aircraft to approach, in an unknown way causing malfunctions in the electronics, and completely disabled the weapons system of one of the aircraft when it prepared to open fire.
The case is regarded as one of the most significant alien encounters on record, not only because of the quality of the evidence ( an extraterrestrial ship was possibly spotted even by a military satellite). Mainly due to the direct impact the object had on the instruments and radars of several different aircraft involved in the pursuit. Claims by skeptics that the pilots were simply trying to chase the planet Jupiter, which was particularly bright at the time, were met with laughter from the public.
An incident remarkably similar to the one in Tehran in 1976 also took place in the skies of Belgium. On March 30, 1990, NATO fighter jets took to the air again in the evening in pursuit of a group of dark triangular objects found over the countryside. The observed amazing speed and maneuverability of the ships are especially impressive. Objects laid such turns that would have killed the pilot, if he were a man.
Almost like in Tehran, the ship was seen not only by many observers from the ground and in the air, but also registered by ground-based location services and fighter radars, and there are even photographs of objects that made this case of observations the most reliably documented in the history of observations.
Now about the story that served as a real start for new era on the subject of UFOs. Seattle pilot and businessman C. Arnold observed several " undulating"forms that flew over Mount Rainer one evening in May 1947, at speeds many times faster than the best aircraft of the time.
After landing, the pilot managed to attract the attention of journalists, and in his description of what he saw, he noticed that the nature of the movement of objects in the air reminded him of saucers jumping over the surface of the pond, launched by a skillful hand. Thus a wonderful name was born - flying saucers ( in Russia, entrenched as flying saucers), which gave rise to a new chapter in the world of celestial phenomena.
Today's skeptics continue to argue with the assessment that Arnold gave the speed of objects and the distance to them, or to argue that he was chasing light glare from the glass of the cockpit of his own aircraft, the only fact is irrefutable - whatever Arnold observed that day, his curious meeting with unidentified object in the sky over the Pacific coast of the United States had a greater impact on the American and world culture than he could have imagined.
No other case has been able to instill in the mass consciousness the image of wrecked plates with little green men like this one. This is what happened in July 1947 in Roswell, about 50 miles north of New Mexico City.
A simple farmer named Matt Brazell found near his farm that the whole field was covered with fragments of small metal plates and wooden slats. Familiar with stories about " flying discs”according to the newspapers (just two months earlier, the district was disturbed by articles about the pilot Arnold), Matt immediately realized what was happening and immediately informed the local military authorities. They did not argue with his opinion, which was unusual, and urgently announced the crash of a flying disk. A few hours later, the military retracted the statement, claiming that all this time for the wreckage alien ship received a crashed weather balloon.
It would seem that the story is over and it's time for her to go to the common basket for tales about aliens. But in the late seventies, US Air Force intelligence officer Jez Marcel was sent to collect some materials that he needed to take away in the trunk of his car. Something prompted him to think that these materials were of extraterrestrial origin, and now - a conspiracy theory of gigantic proportions was born, which is still alive today.
Roswell " crash so firmly established in the end in popular culture that even when the Air Force in 1995 removed this case from the list of temporarily classified cases and admitted that they themselves had made an imitation of the crash of a flying saucer in order to divert attention from the true goals secret project « Mogul "(which were high-altitude balloons capable of detecting a launch Soviet missiles in upper layers atmosphere), most ufologists did not believe this.
Since that time, the story of the event has grown from the initial description of a single pile of debris to stories of many flying saucers full of dead aliens. It has been suggested that the technologies revealed to mankind amid the cosmic debris of this and half a dozen other similar crashes since then are behind much of the major technological breakthrough of the last fifty years.
Once a sleepy town, Roswell has become a real mecca for " shifted on plates”and is now being intensively built up, so - who knows, maybe he is destined to stand longer than the Roman Empire.
