Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
I think renowned astrophysist Carl Sagan said something like that. Even when he was alive there was plenty of evidence that there were unexplained aerial phenomena. Today there is substantially more. The evidence is all anecdotal but overwhelming. What the issue requires is valid study by reputable professionals using the scientific method. What has this not happened? Let’s face it there is still a considerable stigma associated with the topic. There is also considerable evidence that our government knows much more and is unwilling to share and even has used draconian methods to suppress information. The standard speculation is that we could not “handle” the truth. While that is ridiculous there likely is more valid reason having to do with national security. If we have advanced technology with potential military applications then safeguarding that knowledge from our advisories makes good sense. I can agree with that reason. The book “The Day After Roswell” by United States Army LT Colonel Philip J. Corso goes into considerable depth on this assertion. According to Corso he was tasked with distributing various parts from recovered UFOs to several private companies for research and development. Of particular interest is the chapter where he happens to be at Ft. Riley, KS on the day after the July 1947 Roswell incident where he sees an alleged deceased occupant from the incident. If you look at a map your will see that Ft Riley is on a viable route from Roswell to Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton Ohio.
Assume for a minute that this is true. How about the hundreds of billions that have and are being wasted by both SETI and NASA!
As far as impressive evidence the following are several very convincing incidents:
The Cape Girardeau Crash: In 1941, Reverend William Huffman of Cape Girardeau, Missouri was called by the local sheriff to come and assist in delivering some sort of last rights at a plane crash. When Huffman arrived at the scene, he realized that it was not a plane but rather a classic silver flying saucer. There were multiple dead bodies on the scene, which appeared to be extraterrestrial.
UFO researcher Leonard Stringfield, who heavily researched this case, says that near the scene of the saucer crash were laid ‘three bodies, not human’. It was hard to tell if these ET’s were wearing clothes, but they were covered head to foot in what looked like wrinkled aluminum foil. They were small framed, about 4 feet tall, but had larger heads and longer arms. They had no hair. Their faces had ‘large, oval-shaped eyes, no noses, no ears, just holes and no lips, just small slits for mouths’.
The Battle of Los Angeles was an incident in February 1942 when unidentified objects were reported over the city and fired upon by the US military. It is one of the earliest alleged UFO sightings that fueled conspiracy theories. The objects moved south from Santa Monica to Long Beach and were unaffected by the anti-aircraft shells. The event happened weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and raised fears of a possible invasion. It was witnessed by thousands, tens of thousands of rounds of antiaircraft rounds were fired without a hit and six people on the ground were killed.
Top 10 evidence, lack of scientific approach. There is plenty of evidence, but it is all anecdotal. The issue requires a more scientific approach, but who will stand up….still there is the stigma. Consider the idea that the government already knows, but why are they hiding? Not because we can’t handle the info, but for national security (protecting information we have from our advisories). Hard to argue that. However, if true what does that say about the missions of SETI & NASA and all that wasted money.
The Roswell Crash in July 1947: The cover up begins. Not a weather balloon.
The D.C. Incident It was just before midnight on July 19, 1952, at the Washington National Airport (now the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport) when an air traffic controller spotted seven unidentified flying objects in the sky southwest of the nation’s capital.
The controller, Edward Nugent, asked colleagues to double-check what he was seeing. They confirmed the equipment was working properly, and what they could see was not following a typical flight pattern. Not long after, the controllers could see other bright objects hovering over the White House (then occupied by President Harry S. Truman) and the Capital Building.
Fighter jets were scrambled from nearby New Castle Air Force Base in Delaware in the pre-dawn hours of July 20, 1952, but the UFOs disappeared from the radar and from sight when the fighter jets arrived over the city. When a lack of fuel forced the jets to return to Delaware, the radar detected UFOs again, leading the air traffic controllers to believe the mysterious crafts could intercept and understand radio traffic. By daybreak, the objects were no longer visible on radar or by eye.
The Betty & Barney Hill Abduction in 1961 https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/features/60-years-later-the-alien-abduction-of-betty-and-barney-hill/97-ae2cf39f-f89c-4ba2-bde0-5cd69c9ae518
The Kecksburg Acorn: ON DECEMBER 9, 1965, THOUSANDS of people across six U.S. states and Ontario reported seeing a fireball streak across the afternoon sky. In Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, residents reported a crash in the nearby woods. U.S. military personnel arrived shortly thereafter, sealed off the area, and were allegedly seen later removing a large object in a flatbed truck.
Official statements the next day attributed the fireball and the crash to a mid-sized meteor and asserted that nothing had been recovered from the woods in Kecksburg. But over the years, witnesses who arrived on the scene before the military moved in have described seeing a bronze-colored, acorn-shaped object roughly the size of a VW Beetle bearing markings that resembled Egyptian hieroglyphics. Spectators claimed they’d been forcefully turned away by armed military personnel when they tried to approach the site for a better look, and stories circulated about Men in Black-style officials turning up at the homes of Kecksburg residents and warning them to keep quiet about what they saw.
The intrigue and conflicting accounts surrounding the Kecksburg incident have predictably spawned a number of theories, one of the most popular, of course, being that it was an alien spacecraft that landed in the woods that afternoon. Others posit that the object was a piece from a Russian satellite – in particular, the spacecraft Kosmos 96, which reentered earth’s atmosphere that same day following a failed attempt to reach Venus – a misfired missile, or a time-traveling Nazi aircraft.
A particularly sinister piece of the Kecksburg mystery is the plight of John Murphy, a reporter for local radio station WHJB, who was among the first to arrive on the scene and claimed to have taken photos of object. Barred from covering the military’s activities and noting the the investigation’s extreme security measures, Murphy became convinced a coverup was afoot. Determined to probe the matter further, he created a radio documentary titled “Object in the Woods,” in which he described what he saw that day and his subsequent attempts to investigate the crash. But before the piece was aired, government officials allegedly visited Murphy’s home and confiscated his photos. Sources familiar with the original documentary, including Murphy’s wife, stated that the subsequently aired version of “Object in the Woods” had been heavily edited and didn’t mention the mysterious object at all. Four years later Murphy was killed in an apparent hit-and-run accident while vacationing in California.
The Westall Encounter What makes Westall is special is that — at 11am on April 6, 1966 — over 200 students and teachers claim to have seen a UFO in broad daylight. Witnesses from Westall High School in the Melbourne suburb of Clayton South claim to have seen a silvery, purple-hued saucer around the size of two or three cars float overhead and land in a nearby paddock. According to those witnesses, it stayed there for roughly 20 minutes before it took off at speed, with accounts describing it being pursued by a number of light aircraft. Consultation of flight records reportedly showed that no commercial, private, or military aircraft had been registered in the area at the time. A small story run in The Age the following day suggested that the saucer could have been a Bureau of Meteorology weather balloon that was tracked into the area by the wind, although this has never stuck as the definitive answer:
The object descended into a field before taking off and passing over suburban neighborhoods.
The Travis Walton Abduction: In November 1975, seven loggers were working in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests near Snowflake, Ariz. As the sun went down, and the temperatures dropped, the men packed up their things and headed home. While driving, they saw a strange light in the distance. One man, Travis Walton, leaped out of the truck and walked toward it, almost as if he couldn’t help himself.
The other men desperately begged Travis to return to the vehicle, but before that could happen, he disappeared. Terrified, they began driving but quickly returned. Calling out Travis’s name, panicked and afraid, the men circled the area where they last saw him. Travis was gone. Five days later he suddenly reappeared with an incredible story about being taken by aliens.
While Travis was missing, his six co-workers were being investigated. His disappearance was being treated as a possible murder. They all passed polygraph tests and never deviated from the details of that night’s events. “That’s one reason that I put it up there as the most well-documented encounter, because the number of witnesses and the consistency,”
Five days after Travis was last seen, his brother-in-law Grant got a phone call late at night. It was Travis from a phone booth in Hebrew, Ariz. and he didn’t know how he got there. He was picked up by Grant and his brother Duane, 10 lbs. lighter. Eventually, Travis was taken to a hypnotherapist to unlock the memories of his abduction.
The story that eventually tumbled out of Travis was terrifying, but later in life, he has a different take on what happened. Travis told us that it wasn’t fear that was driving him but a lack of understanding.
He went on to say it “wasn’t really an alien abduction,” but more like “an ambulance call.” In later years, Travis changed his mind entirely, sharing with us, “The absolute terror that I experienced at the time might not have been warranted.”
Phoenix Lights March 13, 1997
Lights of varying descriptions were seen by thousands of people between 7:30 pm and 10:30 pm MST, in a space of about 300 miles (480 km), from the Nevada line, through Phoenix, to the edge of Tucson. Some witnesses described seeing what appeared to be a huge carpenter’s square-shaped UFO containing five spherical lights. There were two distinct events involved in the incident: a triangular formation of lights seen to pass over the state, and a series of stationary lights seen in the Phoenix area. Fife Symington, governor of Arizona at the time, years later recounted witnessing the incident, describing it as “otherworldly.” Early assertions that the lights were aircraft and/or flares has been thoroughly debunked.
Reports of similar lights arose in 2007 and 2008, and were attributed to military flares dropped by fighter aircraft at Luke Air Force Base, and flares attached to helium balloons released by a civilian, respectively.
What really happened in Ariel School?
While the Ariel School teachers were in a meeting, about 250 students were playing at the schoolyard for a mid-morning break. Suddenly out of nowhere, three silver balls appeared hovering above the grounds. The flying orbs flickered red and disappeared three times, catching the attention of a group of children, who ranged in age from 5-12 years old.
The orbs began to descend into the schoolyard, according to the 62 eyewitnesses, one of the spheres landed or hovered just above the ground at around 10:15 am that morning. Based on the on all accounts, the UFO was about 300 feet away from the playground.
It was uncertain if the UFO landed or just hovered. The witnesses were young children of all different ages. Some were very aware of what was happening while others who were much younger were not as aware of what they saw. Regardless of age gaps and a general awareness disparity, the fact that 62 individuals have a consistent story of seeing a genuine UFO is a frightening thing of its own!
The frightened but curious kids approached the UFO, and saw two strange, small humanoid figures, about 3 feet in height, with a long neck, narrow face, long black hair and rugby size eyeballs, coming out from the top of the orb. According to the reports, one unidentified creature was wearing bright tight-fitting clothes, and both were moving back and forth on the bushy ground. “It looked like they were bouncing” said one student. Moreover, the children believe that the aliens were just looking at them almost mockingly. The students also explained that they were scared because they hadn’t seen any person similar to the creatures before this in their own lives.
Oddly the students believe the aliens communicated with them using a form of mental telepathy. Many of the children insist the message was “humans should take care of the earth and watch out for the developing technology”.
The incident lasted for about 15 minutes, followed by a stampeded of screaming kids running back to the school, which alerted the teachers. The boys and girls described the terrifying encounter for hours in utter astonishment to everyone at the Ariel School.
The Investigation of the Mass UFO Encounter
The following day, Cynthia Hind, Africa’s famous UFO researcher and her son a BBC reporter and electrical expert Gunter Hofer went to Ariel School to see what they could learn. Hind asked the headmaster of the school, Colin Mackie, to have the children draw images of what they saw.
Here are some of the drawings that the children created . Most of the illustrations show a saucer-shaped craft, some trees and small men with large black eyes and some with long black hair.
Hind interviewed the witnesses, and Harvard Professor and Psychiatrist Dr. John Mack spent two days speaking with the children who saw the events unfold that faithful day on the grounds of Ariel School.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJxViet8cy0
They concluded from the interviews – this may truely be a mass UFO encounter. Although no physical evidence from the site was gathered except for some scorched grass, the consistency of testimonies, along with the drawings has been deemed credible.
The students in Africa, are away from media influence and the overall possibility of UFO existence, so it is appears unlikely they were fabricating stories. Dr. Mack, a renowned biographer, and Pulitzer winner notes that the event was not a product of mass delusion and no psychiatric explanation could be determined.
The UFO encounter at the Ariel School is one of the few sightings that was never determined to be a hoax.