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Haiti, August 2007

Should we add this one?

VinTheMetalhed 19:45, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Uncited Material

Here is a list of uncited material (remained like that for a few week and months) ... add them back in when citation is found (:O) -Nima Baghaei ^{talk · cont · email} 15:36, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The one about Neil Armstrong lacks support. This is discussed on 426-32 of First Man: The life of Neil A. Armstrong, by James Hansen. The rumors appear to be exagurations of two events: (1) they could see flashes of light. These turned out to be cosmic rays hitting the retina, and (2) on the third day (the day before the landing) they spotted some fairly distant object, roughly going along with them. It was probably one of the panels from the S-IVB third stage of the Saturn V. Bubba73 (talk), 00:50, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PS, the same section says that the 1965 photo by Borman is not true either. Bubba73 (talk), 00:52, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I see nothing wrong with someone showing both sides of the story, no forcing a point of view through someones research, NPOV issue (:O) -Nima Baghaei ^{talk · cont · email} 00:55, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I've been following the space program since 1964 and UFOs since 1966, and I don't know of any reliable source for either of these (Borman 1965, Armstrong 1969). Bubba73 (talk), 01:00, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hudson Valley Sightings. I added, in the original article (see [1]), the book Night Siege (ISBN 0-345-34213-5) by J. Allen Hynek, as a reference. Someone redirected that article to this list, and copied the text without that reference. Google for it (Hudson Valley Sightings), and you'll see the event is quite "famous" and notable. I'm not sure what you mean by "reliable source" when it comes to UFO sightings: the event is depicted in popular culture, that's not hard to find a reliable source for. What the sighted object actually was, or if it was just made up, is another thing, just like any other UFO-sighting. Kricke 15:41, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I will put the Hudson sighting back into the list -Nima Baghaei ^{talk · cont · email} 17:11, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Close Encounters of the First Kind

593 BC - Disputed encounter of Ezekiel. Josef Blumrich, former chief of the systems layout branch of NASA, set out to disprove such suggestions, however, from a careful analysis of the data available, he concluded that the vehicle described in the Bible actually was a UFO. ^{[citation needed]}
1235 - Kyoto, Japan September 24 General Yoritsume and his army watched many unusual lights in the sky for several hours. ^{[citation needed]}
1271 - Kamakura, Japan September 12 - Buddhist priest Nichiren was to be beheaded, when an object appeared in the sky and the beheading was called off.^{[citation needed]}
1561 - Nuremberg, Germany April 4 UFO's "swarm" over the city of Nuremberg ^{[citation needed]}
1839 - October 2, Cupper saw transit of unidentified object in front of the sun.^{[citation needed]}
1849 - March 12, Sidebotham saw transit of tiny spot on the sun.^{[citation needed]}
1859 - March 26, Lescarbault saw transit of unknown body in front of the sun. Liais in Brasilia saw no such thing. ^{[citation needed]}
1862 - March 20, Lummis, ingenieur of Manchester, saw transit of unknown object in front of the sun.^{[citation needed]}
1919 - June 19, UFO sighting at Docking, Norfolk in England.^{[citation needed]}
1942 - 1945 - UFO's and other unexplained aerial phenomena were sighted during World War II.
1949 - Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh reported a strange sighting.
1954 - French flap, Hundreds of sightings.
1954 - Unknown orbiting satellites reported, astronomer Clyde Tombaugh involved.
1972 - Salt Lake City, Utah Daytime UFO appears on tourist photograph as he took pictures of the city skyline, when he find a bright round object travels over him in the sky.
1987 - January 30, Alaska. U.S. Air Force KC-135 inbound from Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, to Eielson Air Force Base in Fairbanks, reports a UFO incident similar to that reported by Japan Airlines 1628. The UFO was reported to have moved to within 40 feet of the aircraft.
1987 - January 31, Alaska. Alaska Airlines Flight 53 reported a bright, disc-like object following the plane. The UFO was reported to have followed the plane, then pulled ahead and disappeared at a high rate of speed.
1995 - May 25. America West Flight 564, en route from Tampa, Florida to Las Vegas, Nevada reported a UFO below the plane at 30,000 feet. A short time later, a U.S. Air Force F-117 Nighthawk, asked to investigate by Air Traffic Control, observed the UFO pass in close proximity to its left wing.
1997 - August 9, Boston, Massachusetts. Swiss Air Flight 127, flying at 23,000 feet, reports that a UFO moving at a high rate of speed in the opposite direction, barely misses colliding with the plane by 200 to 300 feet.
2000 - In the early morning several people including police officers saw a strange set of lights over Illinois. Many also recall seeing it as a triangle that changed shapes
2002 - China, mysterious light-emitting UFO was seen by many Chinese. It flew over Jiangsu, Henan, Xiaxi, and Sichuan. The object, as the Chinese media reported, appear in various shapes, such as like a flaming arrow and a spiral.
2005 - Rockaway Beach, Queens A UFO was sighted over the water near what looked like aircraft carriers. It disappeared as quickly as it came.^{[citation needed]}
2005 - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Boy sees oval of bright light flying at very high speed, then disappeared.
2006 - London, England on June 17, at around half 10 at night, 5 red orbs flew at a fast speed across a town near London, England named Baldock, the first one splitting into 3 white lights and vanishing, the second had lights spinning round it and it flew off into a distance. the third was slow and the light went, but you could still see a black figure. the fourth and fifth flew together, and they disappeared at the same time.^{[citation needed]}
2006 - Fremont, California, United States on December 29th, An orb floats for couple minutes, stationary for 5 minutes; approx. 200 yards above the ground, it abruptly explodes in the air, where many people stood in awe.
2007 - March 26, Gurgaon, India, An orange colored UFO was reported by few locals and a builder. The UFO moved in increasing circular path and vanished abruptly. ^{[citation needed]}

Close Encounters of the Second Kind

1948 - Petra, Jordan, ground trace, UFO left an obscure impression.
1965 - Northeast Blackout of 1965 UFOs were allegedly sighted and was theorized as the cause of the blackout.
1971 - Delphos ground trace, UFO left an obscure impression.
1982 - Baikonur Cosmodrome Raid, the launching site was temporarily shut down after having been supposedly raided and sabotaged by UFOs in June.
1993 - Carp, Ontario, Canada An anonymous video of a UFO landing in a wheat field, followed by black and white photographs of an alleged alien from the spacecraft. Had official Canadian investigation, claimed to be a hoax, but many believers not convinced.
2001 - Kirkby Liverpool, UK Several crowds of people across the small town of Kirkby spot a luminous yellow ring moving quickly across the daytime sky.
2003 - North America Blackout UFOs allegedly sighted before the blackout.^{[citation needed]}

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1915 - August 12 - Mutual vanishing of First-Fourth Norfolk at Gallipoli.

UFO Sightings

1957 - 1957 flap, multiple car stallings by large UFOs in Levelland Texas and New Mexico, sightings over New Mexico military areas ^{[citation needed]}
1965 - Frank Borman's photo, a UFO picture by an astronaut. The UFO followed the Gemini 7 flight.
1969 - Neil Armstrong's sighting, a UFO reported by an astronaut, he saw two UFOs after the Apollo 11 landed on the moon.^{[citation needed]}
1990 - Belgian flap, several mass sightings of triangular UFOs—Belgian Air Force intercepted a radar-visual contact and released footage see Black triangles.
1995 - November 18, Long Island, New York. Lufthansa Airlines Flight 405 and British Airways Flight 226 both observe a cylindrically-shaped UFO traveling at a high rate of speed within 3,000 feet of the Lufthansa plane. ^{[citation needed]}
1996 - February 28. Midwestern United States. Air Shuttle 5959 enroute to Cleveland, and Mesaba 3179 flying from Detroit, Michigan reported a UFO with a bright, pulsating light between cloud layers at 10,000 feet. Incident recorded on Air Traffic Control radio. ^{[citation needed]}

Combining Encounters

I combined third - fifth, gonna start second and first into the list, if anyone wants to join in please do so; changes were discussed here Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Paranormal#List_of_UFO_sightings (:O) -Nima Baghaei ^{talk · cont · email} 14:32, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
almost done (:O) -Nima Baghaei ^{talk · cont · email} 18:21, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
done (:O) -Nima Baghaei ^{talk · cont · email} 02:25, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nice job! This page looks great. Very functional. :-) --Careax 02:36, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Small List

There is a small list of nations. I notice that all are either predominantly Christian or Muslim. Why?

Congressman Spots UFO

This should be incl. here. The Congressman is Kusinich, who is a current presidential canidate. The UFO was one of those Flying triangles. 65.163.112.104 19:44, 7 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Battle of Los Angeles/Reptillians

The following in Quotes are from wikipedia articles:

"Unidentified aerial objects trigger the military to fire thousands of anti-aircraft rounds into the sky and raise the wartime alert status." "Within hours of the end of the air raid (February 25), Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox held a press conference and opined that the entire incident was a "false alarm" due to anxiety and "war nerves". Many in the press doubted this explanation, some suspecting a cover up. An editorial in the Long Beach Independent wrote, "There is a mysterious reticence about the whole affair and it appears that some form of censorship is trying to halt discussion on the matter.'" "Aside from unidentified airplanes, proposed explanations of the event then and now have included misidentification of weather balloons, sky lanterns, and Japanese fire balloons or blimps.However, in the case of Japanese fire balloons (a proposal from later decades), they did not even exist in 1942. Some witnesses said the object caught in the searchlights was moving too slowly to have been a plane and there was common speculation in the newspapers that it was some type of balloon, such as a weather balloon or a Japanese blimp [7] Various problems noted with such explanations included the fact that many witnesses reported sighting multiple objects, not a single weather balloon or blimp, some moving at much faster aircraft speed, and the extreme unlikelihood that any balloon-like object could have survived such a massive bombardment. American balloon experts also opined it unlikely that the Japanese would use blimps since they had no fireproof helium to fill them and a blimp filled with explosive hydrogen gas would be even more unlikely to survive. [8] In any case, no debris from the purported object or objects was ever reported on the ground following the bombardment. Since some high government officials such as Army Chief of Staff Gen. George C. Marshall and Secretary of War Henry Stimson (see below) declared real aircraft to be involved, yet no satisfactory explanation was ever forthcoming, some Ufologists in the present day feel the incident should be treated as an early and true UFO sighting, much like the so-called Foo fighters later reported during the war by Allied flight crews."

maybe the military launched the planes in the Battle of Los Angeles beacuse the ufo's were Reptillian aircraft--Sonicobbsessed (talk) 00:49, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Stephenville, Texas

Any article on this yet: http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/080115-ap-texas-ufo.html 206.17.98.11 (talk) 20:11, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I placed it in the table yesterday. I sourced it to the Wichita Eagle. -- Bellwether ^B _C 20:16, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Someone seems to be vandalising this article. As far as I can see the recent sighting in Texas has been removed many times.83.145.204.70 (talk) 13:34, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Shreveport, Louisiana UFO

See www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?s=7700063. This incl. a tape shot by a local woman that depicts a HUGE UFO. This is now a "Flap" that is now going on for 16 days straight. Other local media is also reporting this thing, as is some national media. 65.163.113.170 (talk) 08:36, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

FOX News UFO

Saw on this place today that two PIs are after the photog that took pixes of a really bizarre UFO. Google FOX News/ UFO for more. the photog took pixes of a really strange UFO, now he has disappeared, and as stated, two PIs are after this guy. 50% say it is a damn good hoax, 50% say the damn thing is real. 65.173.105.141 (talk) 03:25, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mexico City UFO

Wasn't there a FAMOUS UFO incident in Mexico City where millions of people saw it, and like 4 people have it on tape, but i can't seem to find it anywhere. What i remember: it was black and flew really low, it flew behind a church(i think), it was on some show i watched (on the history channel I believe)--I am a Wikipedian (talk) 00:05, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Daylight orb/ufo pictures New Zealand

These (low resolution) pictures are of hovering "lightballs" in New Zealand (2008, with Nikon D80+tele). They were absolutely invisible with the naked eye. In the blue picture, there are about 90 of them. By doing all kinds of test with the camera any kind of flaws in the photographic proces were ruled out. The hovering balls of light (sometimes as a translucent ball with a bright core, sometimes as a milky white/ silvery mat ball) are not a matter of believing, they are a matter of knowing. http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/8318/dsc3410kopiezv9.jpg http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/2100/dsc2117ckopie10spotskoplz6.jpg —Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.155.204.72 (talk) 07:04, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Romanian Military Jet Attacked by UFOs - Says UPI

See this link. It states that UFOs have attacked a Romanian jet fighter. 65.173.104.109 (talk) 03:02, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]