Famous UFO Sightings

Probably one of the most famous UFO sightings was the one that made Jimmy Carter become known as the “UFO President.” In Leary, Georgia, 1969, two years before he would become Governor, Carter was getting ready to give a speech for the Lion’s Club meeting. At about 7:15 PM EST a guest called his attention to the western sky. Visible at about 30 degrees above the horizon was a strange object. In his description, Carter said that the object was as bright as the Moon. The object appeared to move closer, but stop just beyond some pine trees where it changed colors before moving back into the distance. Carter felt that the object was not solid and contained a self-luminescent quality. The witness count with him that night was about ten or twelve people.

Later, in 1973, Carter was asked by the IUFOB (International Unidentified Flying Object Bureau) of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to file a report, which he did in 1973. The report is the topic of much heated debate and discussion, and has been discussed by mainstream media and Ufologists. Carter himself doubts that what he saw was an extraterrestrial craft.

Another famous incident is the Phoenix Lights, or lights over Phoenix. These lights also appeared over Nevada and Sonora, Mexico. The event began on March 13th, 1997 and there were repeated occurrences on February 6th, 2007 and April 21st, 2008. The April incident was a hoax; flares attached to helium balloons.

Between 7:30 PM and 11:30 PM MST, thousands of people reported seeing various lights in the sky in the space of about 300 miles. There were stationary lights seen in Phoenix as well as a triangular formation which passed over the state. The United States Air Force later identified the lights as testing flares dropped during training. The Governor at the time, Fife Symington, was a witness to the event.

On May 25th, 1995 a west-bound America West Boeing-757 passenger jet, identified as America West Flight 564, was flying over the panhandle of Texas when it encountered a UFO. This UFO had a row of white lights along its length which flashed from left to right. Their flying altitude was 39,000 feet and the lights seemed to be at about 30,000 feet. The pilot made contact with the Air Traffic Control Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico only to discover that there was supposedly nothing flying in that airspace.

As they moved past it, thunderclouds illuminated the object which seemed, by the pilots’ estimation, to be about 300-400 feet in length. It was not visible on the radar of the Air Traffic Control center but one of the controllers contacted NORAD and found that they had been investigating an incident which they determined to be a small plane with a faulty transponder. After checking the next day, they had discovered that NORAD had tracked another unknown target that was at first stationary and then made very quick movements which were clocked at about 1,000 and 1,400mph.

Here are just a few of the many documented incidents and reports of UFO sightings. Whether these reports are true or not, they are indeed mysterious.

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