PLACES WHERE UFO'S HAVE BEEN SIGHTED

SHAG HARBOUR, CANADA (1967)

In 1967, an unidentified object crashed into Shag Harbour in Nova Scotia.

After an investigation was conducted, the incident was classified as

‘unsolved’ by the Canadian Department of National Defence.

LEVELLAND CASE, TEXAS (1967)

In the Levelland Case of 1967, several car engines allegedly stalled

after encountering a glowing, egg-shaped object. They then

supposedly started up again after the object left. The police

concluded that it was just an electrical storm.

CLYDE W. TOMBAUGH SIGHTING, NEW MEXICO (1949)

In 1949, Respected American astronomer Clyde Tombough

(who was responsible for discovering the planet Pluto in 1930)

spotted eight rectangular lights in the sky above Las Cruces in New Mexico.

His credentials contributed to the popularity of his claims.

RENDLESHAM FOREST LIGHTS, ENGLAND (1980)

The Rendlesham Forest Lights incident is the name given to a series

of sightings and the alleged landing of a UFO in the Rendlesham Forest,

England. The UK ministry of defence saw no threat to national security

and as such, never investigated the incident.

THE HILL ABDUCTION, NEW HAMPSHIRE (1961)

A couple named Barney and Betty Hill who lived in Portsmouth,

New Hampshire, reported in 1961 that they had been kidnapped by aliens.

They recounted that inside the aircraft, they saw a 3D ‘star map’

which they believed the aliens used to identify their location.

WASHINGTON, D.C. SIGHTING, 1952

In 1952, several UFOs were spotted above the sky of Washington, D.C.

The U.S. Air Force maintained that it was mere temperature change

that had caused radar signals to bend and give false returns.

KENNETH ARNOLD CASE, WASHINGTON (1947)

In 1947, an American businessman named Kenneth Arnold claimed to

have seen several saucer-like objects flying in a chain above Mount Rainier

in Washington. He was the one that coined the term “flying saucer”

that same year.

ROSWELL, 1947

The Roswell incident remains to be the most famous UFO incident in history.

It involved UFO hunters who claimed in 1947 that they saw the US military

capture an alien aircraft, which the US military denied. The military

said it was simply a surveillance device from a classified operation

that they captured and not a flying saucer.