I Spy Something Strange in the Sky
I Spy Something Strange in the Sky
Over the course of time there have been many reputed sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) that have significantly elevated public interests. Much investigation has been put into these sightings. Some turn out to be simple hoaxes skillfully played out. For others, there have been no valid explanations for these sightings, leaving no choice for them but to speculate. Thus, the term UFOs has become synonymous with aliens or space creatures. More valid explanations for these objects in the air would be military spacecraft. In this article, we enumerate just some of the UFO sightings in question.
UFO sightings have been categorized into three kinds at the initiative of J. Allen Hynek, where a close encounter would be an event or incident where a person witnesses and unidentified flying object. Close encounters of the first kind is limited to a sighting of these unusual objects. The second kind includes evidence of extraterrestial visitations such as footprints, crop circles, and the like. Close encounters of the third kind would include an actual extraterrestial creature. There have been no recent sightings or close encounters of the third kind. Despite many UFO sightings, no one has actually seen any extraterrestial creature on earth, but there have been ideas of it, like in Steven Spielberg's film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
This categorization of Hynek has been expanded into seven types, varying from abduction by aliens to actual established communication to death of an encounter to actual crossbreeding. No encounters of the fifth kind or higher have been reported.
Close encounters with UFOs aren't limited to the area of North and Central America. There are encounters to be told about in Germany and Switzerland, and even as far across as Japan and Australia. Most of these encounters fall upon the range between the first and second kind.
The earliest recorded sighting of a UFO was experienced by Alexander the Great, who saw "two silver shields" in the sky in 329 BC.
An incident that gave way to the term "flying saucers" was reported by Kenneth Arnold, when this private pilot from Idaho saw nine unusual objects flying erratically while he was searching for a missing military plane in 1947. This would be the first major and widely publicized UFO sighting in the United States.
These are just a few of the many reported sightings that have accumulated. While many have been disproved, a considerable 35% of incidents still remain unexplained. The truth is out there, it just hasn't been discovered yet.