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Unidentified flying objects, commonly known as UFOs, were first identified in the 50s by the U.S. Air Force.
More often than not, when people talk about UFOs, they are referring to alien-related sightings.
There are plenty of examples of this, however, one popular incident took place in the summer of 1947 in Roswell, New Mexico.
According to history.com, the local Air Force base claimed it was debris from a crashed weather balloon, but many still hold on to the theory that it was a crashed alien aircraft.
These theories gained traction when the government used dummies to test ways for pilots to survive falls.
“Dummies with latex ‘skin’ and aluminum ‘bones’ that looked eerily like aliens fell from the sky across New Mexico and were hurriedly picked up by military vehicles,” history.com stated.
Many questioned if this was a government cover-up.
The next example is Homey Airport, commonly known as Area 51. Located near Groom Lake in Nevada and made up of over 38,000 acres, this location is tied to many reports of UFO sightings.
With the area being government-owned and supposedly used to test top-secret aircraft programs, it’s not a commonly explored location.
According to the same article, Project Blue Book, an investigation conducted by the U.S. government, took place from 1952 to 1969. It compiled more than 12,000 reports of sightings and the website describes how these reports were broken down.
“Each of which ultimately classified as [either] ‘identified’ with a known astronomical or artificial ‘human-caused’ phenomenon or ‘unidentified.’ The latter category, approximately 6% of the total, included cases for which there was insufficient information to make an identification with a known phenomenon,” the article stated.
The U.S. government refers to UFOs as unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs, to increase the scope of the term.
There are plenty of examples to discuss alien-related sightings in the U.S. Even though these instances seem a bit out of this world, the theories are still fun to think about.
