From mysterious aircrafts to strange lights in the sky, here are 9 UFO sighting from around
the world: Number 9 Pori, Finland
Around 20 pilots on a training camp at the Air Force of Finland observed seven yellow
spheres appear in the sky on December 4, 1969.
They were training in Pori, in southwest Finland, and hovering approximately 6600 feet above
the airfield when they saw the unidentified flying objects.
The seven yellow spheres were also seen on radar, but nobody could tell what they were.
Pilot Tarmo Tukeva was ordered to go check out the strange sighting but when he approached
the location with his jet the spheres started to move in formation, speeding away towards
the North.
They reportedly flew so fast his jet couldn’t keep up.
There were winds of 114 mph at the time but the objects still managed to reach incredible
speeds.
The Air Force of Finland was never able to provide an explanation for this strange encounter.
It’s the only UFO case officially acknowledged by the institution.
Number 8 Trans-en-Provence, France Retired farmer Renato Nicolai was working
in his garden outside the town of Trans-en-Provence in the evening of January 8, 1981.
It was around 5pm when he heard a strange whistling sound and looked up to see what
he thought was an experimental aircraft.
The object was shaped like two saucers sitting one on top of the other and was about eight
feet in diameter.
The unidentified object landed about 100 feet from him.
However, Nicolai claimed the UFO took off almost immediately, leaving burn marks on
the ground where it allegedly landed.
The following day, the farmer notified the gendarmerie of what he’d seen.
Officers interviewed Nicolai and took photos of the scene and collected soil samples.
The case was then sent to a study group for unidentified airspace phenomena called GEIPAN.
Renato Nicolai’s sighting ended up being the most carefully documented sighting of
all time.
Even though the French government found evidence of compacting and heating of the soil near
the scene, a black substance, metallic in nature and also depleted chlorophyll plants
around the site, there’s still no explanation for what happened.
Number 7 Tehran, Iran During the early hours of September 19, 1976,
two Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jet interceptors reported loss of instrumentation and communications.
They’d just spotted a very bright unidentified flying object over Tehran, and approached
it in order to investigate.
The Imperial Iranian Air Force command post at Tehran received four reports from civilians
of unusual activity in the night sky, so two pilots went to investigate.
One of the aircraft also reported a failure of the weapons system, as the crew was preparing
to open fire.
As they got further from the object, their instrumentation and communications were reportedly
restored.
The UFO also appeared on radar and its signature resembled that of a Boeing 707 aircraft.
Many skeptics have several potential explanations for the incident.
Nevertheless, it’s regarded by a number of UFO researchers to be one of the first
encounters ever recorded.
Number 6 Melbourne, Australia For approximately 20 minutes, more than 200
students and teachers at two state schools in Melbourne, Australia, witnessed a UFO descending
into a nearby open field around 11 AM on April 6, 1966.
Witnesses reported seeing a disc-shaped silver craft landing in a paddock near a high school,
and then taking off once again.
The unidentified craft was in full view of hundreds of people for over 20 minutes.
Some witnesses reported private aircrafts were approaching to investigate.
However, they were unable to get close enough to see what the UFO was all about, because
it soon rose from the trees and flew into the sky at high speeds.
There were investigations, but the Royal Australian Air Force reported no military activity in
that area.
Moorabbin Airport was also checked but reported no aircraft had entered the area at that time.
It remains one of Australia’s most debated unsolved UFO cases.
Number 5 Socorro, New Mexico, USA Several residents in different parts of Socorro,
New Mexico, reported seeing a low-flying object on the night of April 24, 1964.
Some described loud sounds resembling the takeoff and landing of a powerful craft.
A Socorro police officer on duty that night Lonnie Zamora was baffled by the blue light
rising in the air.
At first he thought he was seeing flames.
He was actually in a high-speed chase when he decided to investigate the flames.
Thinking he’d find a crash or a miners’ shack explosion, Zamora went in the direction
of the light.
He heard a roar that lasted for 10 seconds and then stopped.
As he was struggling to get his car up a hill, he noticed a shiny object resembling a white
car with two people standing closeby.
Zamora drove towards them, but they left before he could approach them.
He got a closer look at the object and described it as being oval, made of aluminum, with no
windows or doors.
Soon, a bluish flame shot out of the bottom of the object, and it took off quickly and
silently, vanishing before Zamora could radio in what he’d just seen.
The case was investigated by the Army, Air Force and the FBI, however nobody could come
up with an explanation for what officer Lonnie Zamora saw that night.
The case is still listed as an ‘unknown’.
Number 4 Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 On November 7, 1968, Air Lines flight 1628,
a Japanese Boeing 747 cargo aircraft, was on route from Paris to Narita, Tokyo.
At 5:11 PM, while flying above Reykjavik, the crew noticed two unidentified objects
to the left of the aircraft.
The UFOs rose from below and both seemed to have rectangular arrays of what appeared to
be glowing thrusters or nozzles.
When they closed in, the cabin was reportedly lit up and Japanese captain Kenju Terauchi
could feel heat on his face.
After a couple of minutes, the two flying objects departed and a larger disk-shaped
object started trailing the aircraft.
The pilots quickly requested a change of course, so Anchorage Air Traffic Control requested
an oncoming United Airlines fight to confirm the unidentified traffic.
However, a military craft sighted Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 at about 5:51 PM and was
not able to distinguish any other craft.
The sighting lasted 50 minutes, according to the crew, and ended in the vicinity of
Mt. McKinley.
The plane changed course again for Anchorage.
In the aftermath of the incident, Captain Kenju Terauchi was grounded for talking to
the press.
Kyodo News contacted the FAA in Anchorage on December 24 and received confirmation of
the incident.
After a three-month investigation, FAA public information officer Paul Steucke stated they
didn’t have enough evidence to confirm the flying objects were there, after earlier suggesting
that their controllers confirmed a UFO.
Number 3 Pretoria, South Africa A heart-shaped UFO allegedly stunned residents
from Booysens, Pretoria, for two consecutive nights in July 2010.
The unidentified object consisted of three almost blinding lights which hovered in the
sky for approximately two hours without moving.
The lights reportedly appeared for the first time on the evening of August 21, shortly
after sunset.
At around 8:30pm, the UFO slowly began moving diagonally to the left and downwards until
disappearing beyond the horizon.
The next day, after sunset, the three lights once again appeared.
Residents using binoculars still couldn’t figure out what the object was due to its
strange shape.
the lights began moving again then disappeared.
The incident was reported to the Hercules police station, the Johannesburg Planetarium
and the South African Air Force.
Number 2 New Jersey Turnpike, USA Motorists travelling on the New Jersey turnpike
the night of July 14 2001 were dazzled by an unusual sight.
They stopped alongside a highway as they noticed mysterious orange and yellow lights in a V
formation above the Arthur Fill Waterway.
Witnesses later reported they saw approximately 16 lights in the sky around 15 minutes after
midnight.
The lights moved quietly and flickered as they started vanishing into the night, one
by one.
Air traffic controllers on duty that night denied any sightings.
However, the New York Strange Phenomena Investigators claimed to have obtained FAA radar data that
confirmed the UFO.
At least 15 people contacted the police department in order to report the sightings that night.
Officials were never able to explain the phenomenon.
Number 1 North Carolina, USA Thirty-five-year-old Javion Hill caused quite
a controversy on social media after posting a photo of a UFO in August 2018.
Hill, a self-proclaimed sceptic of such encounters, photographed a strange square lighted object
hovering in the sky.
He took the photo while driving along U.S. Highway 74 southwest of Charlotte, thinking
a tornado was coming.
However, he soon noticed the unusual object in the sky and tried to pull over to start
filming.
The object reportedly disappeared quickly and rain began to fall.
As of now, officials still have no explanations regarding Hill’s sighting.
According to the National UFO Reporting Center in Washington State, North Carolina is in
the top 10 American states when it comes to UFO sightings.