One of the most likely places to spot a UFO is in Colorado. With its wide-open skies and the high altitude clarity of the air, Colorado is ideally suited for watching out for unusual aircraft activity. With the Rocky Mountains being a major part of the landscape, UFO's also seem to have plenty of room to hide in. It is no wonder Colorado ranks as the state with the highest number of UFO sightings and the most prolific spot of all is the San Luis Valley area in Southern Colorado.

Just North of the town of Hooper on Highway 17, Judy Messoline used to try running a cattle ranch. It did not take long to find that cattle didn't grow well on rocks so she sold them off. With so many people in the area talking about the strange sights and UFO's they had seen, Ms. Messoline decided to indulge the UFO hunters and provide a place with wide open spaces and a huge panoramic view to set up their cameras and binoculars and observe the sky. So in 2000 she constructed a ten-foot high metal platform, called "The UFO Watchtower" as a central observation post. The Watchtower doesn't need to be very high because, as she says, "When you're already at 7,600 feet, you don't need to be much higher."

As the Watchtower became more popular she added a campground area and a souvenir shop to cater to the crowds that flocked to the viewing platform. The most ironic aspect of the establishment is that Ms. Messoline was originally a skeptic about UFO's when she first built the Watchtower. It was not until after she had personally witnessed over two dozen UFO sightings that she became a true believer.

While The Watchtower is primarily for the purpose of observing the vast expanse of space from the Great Sand Dune in the East to the Range of the Rocky Mountains in the West, it has become much more. To the casual adventurer the UFO Watchtower is a truly American roadside attraction, complete with souvenir gift shop. For those who need a sympathetic and understanding ear about strange things seen, Judy provides a sort of unofficial UFO counseling service to her patrons.

As one can imagine, most of the UFO observation goes on at night. For the brightly-lit daytime in between UFO spotting, a visitor to the Watchtower can also wander into the "Healing Garden," a twin circle of rocks and lovingly placed offerings from previous visitors. Ms. Messoline was surprised when psychics visiting the Watchtower informed her that the Garden had created a twin vortex of cosmic energy due to its proximity to a UFO hotspot.

One can only assume the aliens or whomever it is that pilot the strange unidentified craft so frequently spotted from the observation point of the Watchtower did not mean to provide such a fascinating boost to the local economy. Still, if you want to increase your chances of spotting an unusual light in the sky or possibly a close encounter, Colorado's San Luis Valley provides an excellent chance. About one in every four people living there have seen a UFO at one time or another. Hanging out at the Watchtower gives you not only a fine place to observe, but also plenty of company to share stories with and confirm your sighting when it comes.

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

• 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.

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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.”