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2007-12-28 03:10:55 · 6 answers · asked by mvsingh 2 in Science & Mathematics Astronomy & Space

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There are many people who THINK they have seen aliens. Before that, it was fairies, succubi, incubi, trolls, angels, ghosts, dragons, mermaids, gremlins, the Bogeyman, vampires, werewolves, the Loch Ness monster, bigfoot, and God. There has never been any scientific evidence presented which would compel a reasonable person to believe in any of these things.

2007-12-28 03:17:08 · answer #1 · answered by Brant 7 · 4 0

Not by humans. Other aliens may have seen them though!

There have been plenty of hoaxes over the years and these have unfortunately tainted any sightings that may have otherwise been open to higher regard. For this reason it would be safest to assume that they all are hoaxes, or scams to get us to watch the latest soap-in-space series.

If people can "prove" that the Apollo moon landings were a hoax, then they can "prove" that aliens are alive and well and looking through your bedroom window!

2007-12-28 12:18:57 · answer #2 · answered by Quadrillian 7 · 0 0

Yes, but it's safe to say 3/4 of the so-called sightings are either fake or a mistake. The biggest incident was in Roswell, where allegedly the military kept dead alien bodies.

2007-12-28 06:09:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I have never seen one ! Dont know of any solid evidence they exist,,

Happy Holidays;

SG

2007-12-28 06:10:30 · answer #4 · answered by SPACEGUY 7 · 0 0

By border patrol perhaps, amigo...

2007-12-28 03:15:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Reports of unusual aerial phenomena date back to ancient times (see Ancient astronaut theories), but modern reports and first official investigations began during World War II with sightings of so-called foo fighters by Allied airplane crews and in 1946 with widespread sightings of European ghost rockets. UFO reports became even more common after the first widely publicized United States sighting in 1947. Many tens of thousands of UFO reports have since been made worldwide. Many sightings may remain unreported due to fear of public ridicule because of the social stigma surrounding the subject of UFOs and because most nations lack any officially sanctioned authority to receive and evaluate UFO reports.

On 5 August 1926, while traveling in the Humboldt Mountains of Tibet's Kokonor region, Nicholas Roerich reported that members of his expedition saw--high in the sky, above an eagle they had been watching--"something big and shiny reflecting sun, like a huge oval moving at great speed" (from his travel diary Altai-Himalaya, published 1929). While Roerich does not say what he thought the object might have been, surrounding passages discuss Theosophical accounts of ancient civilizations and their technology.[12]
In both the European and Japanese aerial theatres during World War II, “Foo-fighters” (balls of light and other shapes that followed aircraft) were reported by both Allied and Axis pilots.

On February 25, 1942, the U.S. Army detected unidentified aircraft both visually and on radar over the Los Angeles, California region. The craft stayed aloft despite taking at least 20 minutes worth of flak from ground batteries. The origins of the aircraft were never identified. The incident later became known as the Battle of Los Angeles, or the West coast air raid.

In 1946, there were over 2000 reports of unidentified aircraft in the Scandinavian nations, along with isolated reports from France, Portugal, Italy and Greece, then referred to as “Russian hail,” and later as “ghost rockets,” because it was thought that these mysterious objects were Russian tests of captured German V1 or V2 rockets. This was subsequently shown not to be the case, and the phenomenon remains unexplained. Over 200 were tracked on radar and deemed to be “real physical objects” by the Swedish military. A significant fraction of the remainder was thought to be misidentification of natural phenomena, such as meteors.

Before the terms “flying saucer” and “UFO” were coined in the late 1940s, there were a number of reports of strange, unidentified aerial phenomena. These reports date from the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century. They include:

In July, 1868, The investigators of this phenomenon define the first modern documented sighting as having happened in Copiapo city, Chile.

On January 25, 1878, The Denison Daily News wrote that local farmer John Martin had reported seeing a large, dark, circular flying object resembling a balloon flying “at wonderful speed.” He compared its size when overhead to that of a "large saucer".

Reports of "mystery airships" appeared in American newspapers in 1887 and 1896-7, and another wave of sightings occurred in 1909-12 in New England, Europe, and New Zealand.

On February 28, 1904, there was a sighting by three crew members on the USS Supply 300 miles west of San Francisco, reported by Lt. Frank Schofield, later to become Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Battle Fleet. Schofield wrote of three bright red egg-shaped and circular objects flying in echelon formation that approached beneath the cloud layer, then changed course and “soared” above the clouds, departing directly away from the earth after 2 to 3 minutes. The largest had an apparent size of about six suns.

An unusual phenomenon on November 17, 1882 was observed by astronomer Edward Walter Maunder of the Greenwich Royal Observatory and some other European astronomers. Numerous sighting reports were written up in Nature and other scientific journals. Maunder in The Observatory reported “a strange celestial visitor” that was "disc-shaped," "torpedo-shaped," "spindle-shaped," or "just like a Zeppelin" dirigible (as he described it in 1916). It was much brighter than the concurrent auroral displays, had well-defined edges and was opaque in the center, whitish or greenish-white, about 30 degrees long and 3 degrees wide, and moved steadily across the northern sky in less than 2 minutes from east to west. Maunder said it was very different in characteristics from a meteor fireball or any aurora he had ever seen. Nonetheless, Maunder (and some other astronomers) thought it was probably related to the huge auroral magnetic sunspot storm occurring at the same time; Maunder called it an "auroral beam."

The so-called Fátima incident or “The Miracle of the Sun,” witnessed by tens of thousands in Fátima, Portugal on October 13, 1917.

2007-12-28 03:20:51 · answer #6 · answered by Sparkle M 3 · 0 2

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