Questions tagged [ufo]

An unusual apparent anomaly in the sky that is not readily identifiable to the observer as any known object.

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Are these UFOs on the videos released by the Pentagon still unidentified?

The Pentagon recently released videos of UFOs taken by Navy pilots. According to this Guardian article, The Pentagon on Monday [27 April 2020] released three declassified videos that show US Navy pilots encountering what appear to be unidentified…
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Did Neil Armstrong find aliens on the moon?

There is a story told in Timothy Good's book Above Top Secret: The Worldwide U.F.O. Cover-Up and repeated by The Examiner and Global Paranormal in which Neil Armstrong saw aliens on the moon, and this was covered up. Here are the…
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Are crop circles man-made?

Every summer in England crop circles make the news for a few days. But journalists never really attempt to "solve" the question of who is responsible. source Are crop circles man-made? How?
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Have there been any credible reports of unidentified flying objects?

A unidentified flying object is just that—a flying object that has not been identified. There need not be evidence of alien hi-jinx. My criteria for a credible UFO report would include: Verified by authentic photographic evidence or several…
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Are there public laws dealing with extraterrestrial contact?

UFO theorists claim that there are US laws preventing people from investigating or contacting aliens. From "Alien Contact Laws- $5,000 Fine And Imprisonment" at http://www.unexplainable.net/artman/publish/article_223.shtml Already Passed by…
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Are alien visitors in Area 51?

Area 51-themed TV specials appear on US cable TV from time to time, often times even appearing on educational TV networks. These shows often feature interviews with people who claim to have seen strange lights or phenomenon around the US Area 51…
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What is the current state of the evidence of the existence of the so-called Nazi UFO's?

As a skeptic, I was present at a meeting during which the presenter stated his belief in Nazi UFOs. Many websites claim that the Nazis had developed flying saucer technology during WWII: In science fiction, conspiracy theory, and underground comic…
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Did NASA's STEREO spacecraft capture an image of a cloaked UFO near Mercury?

Apparently on Dec. 1st a video camera on board a NASA satelite captured a "UFO" during a solar flare, near Mercury (skip ahead to 33 seconds for the relevant footage). Is it an alien spaceship? The shape is kind of odd looking, similar to the…
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Did Winston Churchill say that proof of alien spacecraft would threaten the Church?

I heard that the historical basis for the ongoing denial of UFO's by most world governments is because Winston Churchill said it would threaten the legitimacy of the church. Did Winston Churchill really claim that?
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Did the USSR send a flying disk with mutant childlike aviators to Roswell in 1947?

I just read this article and the included Daily Show video which discusses a theory for the Roswell incident. To summarize the claims, what was recovered in Roswell was not an alien space craft. It wasn't a weather balloon or test plane. Instead it…
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Was an Alien body found in the Republic of Buryatia?

According to CNN iReport article "Alien Body Discovered in Russia After Reported UFO Crash": Around one month ago this publication reported on a major UFO event that occurred in the region of Irkutsk in Russia's Siberia. Hundreds of villagers saw a…
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The 2008 Istanbul UFO sighting: What does the video actually show?

This UFO sighting had some decent-quality video, compared to what's typical for most other sightings. Strangely though, for a UFO sighting event with such good "evidence", there's been surprisingly little publicity or notability relating to it. What…
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Does the STS103-734-73 NASA picture show another spacecraft?

UFO News reported in July 2014 that an older image taken of the Hubble Telescope is on a spacecraft (a "craft"). The image was taken in December 1999,, on STS-103, a repair mission on which Space Shuttle Discovery flew to the highest-ever orbit in…
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Was an unidentified spaceship recorded by the International Space Station, August 4, 2014?

This video, kinda went viral, the description says Date of sighting: August 4, 2014 Location of sighting: International Space Station (ISS) Hey everyone, I was watching the live cam and caught this glowing disk in the distance. I took a…
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Is this an authentic image of a UFO sighting in Canary Islands (1976)?

According to Wikipedia, a strange 40 minute unidentified flying object or an unexplainable phenomena occured on June 22, 1976 in the Canary islands. The phenomena (object) was observed in multiple locations including Tenerife, La Palma, La Gomera,…
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