One of the first considerations new investigators have is what equipment they will need. There are certain things that simply are understood you will need for all investigations. We will simply list them here first; the only qualification is to use good quality models where applicable. A cheap flashlight that falls apart the first time it is used does no one any good. Here is some of the most common UFO investigation equipment.

• A good, bright flashlight
• Notepad and sharpened pencils.
• Cell phone or two-way radio to keep in touch.
• Basic First Aid kit.
• Small folding knife.
• Tape measure.
• Spare Batteries
• Plaster of Paris – In order to take impressions of tracks or imprints.
• Clean/Sealable containers
• Latex surgical gloves
• Camera Audio Recorder
• Professional Contacts, who are experts in various fields you may consult as needed.

That will get you going on a basic UFO investigation. A little preparation ahead of time keeping all your equipment in one place will save a lot of time. Generally, alien and UFO sighting reports come in with no advance notice. Unlike ghost hunts, which people plan and go out looking, UFO reports come to you. It is helpful to be able to respond quickly should you receive one, since many times evidence may be lost or conditions change. If you can be on the scene promptly sometimes, you can obtain additional data that may be lost by the next day.

Related to that, there are the occasional UFO sky watches, but those are generally ineffective. Ghost hunters plan weekend investigations to see what they can capture, UFO investigators respond, generally after the fact. Consequently, any evidence obtained is often simply witness statements and related observations you may make of where the UFO was, but seldom does the UFO investigator ever see an object himself. This is the largest controlling factor in determining what specialized equipment you may need.

Cameras are one of the most important equipment in an UFO investigation. It should be noted that many of the same requirements also apply to video as well. By far the most common is to record the scene of a sighting after the fact. Generally, this is done in daylight with the witness present at the time of the initial interview. The witness simply takes you to the area where the object was seen and relates the sighting to you. The camera is used to take photos of the area. The purpose of these photos is to attempt to relate the sighting to fixed objects on the ground.

Now, instead of just reporting and collecting sighting reports, UFO research has possibly moved to another level-the ability to visit, analyze, and collect the evidence needed to prove that we are not alone.

Major Gordan Cooper is one of the original Mercury Astronauts and the last American to fly in space alone. On May 15, 1963, he shot into space in a Mercury capsule for an orbit journey around the world and reported one of the first Astronaut UFO Sightings.

During the final orbit, Major Gordon Cooper told the tracking
station located in Muchea, Australia that he could see a
glowing, greenish object ahead of him quickly approaching his
capsule. The UFO was solid and real, because it was picked up by
Muchea's tracking radar. The National Broadcasting Company, which was assigned the covering of the Gordan’s flight also reported the sighting; but when Gordan landed, reporters were told that they would not be allowed to question him about the UFO sighting. He experienced a similar incident some ten years earlier; in 1951 where he had sighted a UFO while piloting an F-86 over Western Germany. According to Gordan, he saw metallic, saucer-shaped discs at considerable altitude that could out-maneuver all American fighter planes.

Major Cooper even testified before the United Nations and told that he strongly believe that the UFO’s and aliens are visiting this planet from other planets. He concluded that there are quantity of documents and thousands of witness reports to prove this but the government does not want these reports to be public.

According to the NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong, aliens have a base on the Moon and they told us clearly to stay off from the Moon. According to un-confirmed reports, both Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin saw UFO’s shortly after that historic landing on the Moon in Apollo 11 on 21 July 1969. According to a former NASA employee Otto Binder, unnamed radio hams with their own VHF receiving facilities that bypassed NASA's broadcasting outlets picked up the following exchange:

NASA: What’s there?
Mission Control Apollo11: These are huge, Sir! Enormous! OH MY GOD! You would not believe it! I am telling you there are other spacecraft out there, Lined up on the far side of the crater edge! They are on the Moon watching us!

Neil Armstrong relayed the message to mission control that three large, mysterious objects were watching them after having landed near the moon module. However, the public never heard this message because it was alleged that NASA censored it. According to a NASA employee who was a part of mission control, Aldrin even took color movie film of the UFO’s from
inside the module, and continued filming them after he and
Armstrong went outside. Armstrong confirmed that the story was
true but he refused to go into further detail, beyond admitting that
the CIA was behind the cover-up.

This case which is commonly referred to as the Antonoi Urzi case is one of the most researched and popular cases of UFO sightings. Antonio lives in Milano, Italy. He along with his girlfriend Simona has documented and recorded a large number of UFO sightings and other anomalous phenomenon. The videos and photographs filmed by them are very clear and are of very high quality. These have been carefully analyzed by Mexico’s expert journalist and photographer Jaime Maussan and his expert studio crew. The fact threat Antonoi Urzi is in constant contact with these UFO’s and knows when exactly to film them is one of the most astounding parts of this famous case.

Some of the pictures of the UFO hovering in the sky were clicked by the couple on 5th April 2009. But it is very strange that the very next day Italy had one of its major natural disasters, an earthquake measuring 6.3 on Richter scale. With some 260 people dead and around 18000 rendered homeless due to the earthquake. The authority as well as the people wondered if this earthquake has something to do with the UFO sightings that occurred a day before the earthquake came.

Here is another UFO sighting event that occurred in Rathdrum, Idaho, United States. An anonymous person was sitting in the lawn near his house and looking towards the sky, he then saw a bright cigar shaped object in the sky do some extremely right and left movements in the air and slowly descending towards the ground. The object was changing color form glittering silver to gold. The UFO started getting brighter and brighter. The object then reached the ground and kept still for 2-3 minutes. The object then grew dimmer. Then it again ascended in sky and flew at a very high speed towards the north-west direction.

The witnessed was amazed and speechless after what he saw. He just went home and sat alone recalling the event that he had just experienced. He noted what he had experienced and then mailed it to a UFO research society, which carried out further analysis of the report.

According to him “I live in a small town where there are absolutely no planes, not even small ones. My father served navy for a good 30 years time period. I have seen a lot of different crafts, but nothing like this ever before. I can say with surety that, that flying object was indeed an UFO.”