I saw a UFO. I swear it's real.

The full name of UFO is unidentified flying object, which means UFO in Chinese. In ancient China, UFOs were also called Xingcha. Unidentified aerial objects. Internationally known as UFO, commonly known as flying saucer.

There were more than 300 relatively complete sighting reports before the 20th century. According to eyewitness reports, UFOs are mostly disk-shaped (dish-shaped), spherical and cigar-shaped. Since the late 1940s, UFO sightings have increased dramatically, causing controversy in the scientific community. Scientists with a negative attitude believe that many sighting reports are not credible and that UFOs do not exist, but are just people's hallucinations or witnesses' misinterpretation of natural phenomena. Those who do believe that UFOs are a real phenomenon are being confirmed by more and more facts. As of the 1980s, there were approximately 100,000 sighting reports worldwide. UFO sightings and sighting reports can be divided into four categories: daytime sightings; night sightings; radar imaging; close encounters and related physical evidence. Some of the sightings were photographed. People have given various explanations for UFOs, including: ① Some natural phenomenon that has not been fully understood; ② Misrecognition of known objects or phenomena; ③ Psychological phenomena and fraud; ④ The product of a high degree of extraterrestrial civilization. Many countries around the world carry out research on UFOs. There are more than 350 monographs and nearly 100 journals on UFOs. A group of experts from various countries around the world participate in this work. China has also established a private academic research group mainly composed of scientific and technological workers - the China UFO Research Association. China's UFO popular science publication "UFO Exploration" was founded in 1981.

The explanation for the official inclusion of the entry "UFO" (i.e. UFO) in the "Aviation and Aerospace" volume of "Encyclopedia of China". The applicant writer is Sun, the third chairman of the China UFO Research Association. Mr. Shili. The full text of the explanation of UFOs in the "Chinese Encyclopedia" is as follows: UFOs are airborne objects whose origins have not been identified. Internationally known as UFO, commonly known as flying saucer. According to eyewitness reports, their shapes are mostly disk-shaped (dish-shaped), spherical and cigar-shaped, and they move at high speed or slowly in the air.

In 1947, while flying a private plane through the Cascade Mountains in Washington state, Idaho businessman Kenneth Arnold saw nine regularly arranged flying saucers. A few days later, mysterious metal fragments were discovered in Roswell, New Mexico.

Some people believe that historical records about UFOs first appeared in the Bible. The Bible and the Old Testament record that the prophet Ezekiel saw the earliest UFO. (The Bible, Old Testament, Book of Ezekiel records: "I (Ezekiel) looked, and saw a violent wind blowing from the north, followed by a great cloud containing flashing fire, and there was a light all around. From the fire in it came out something like The shining gold. And the images of four living creatures appeared from it.")

Flying posture

A common flying posture of UFO is to hover motionless. In the air or in mid-air at a low altitude, and there is no visible manifestation of any mechanical action that can ensure this volley hovering. Obviously, UFOs cannot fly using the aerodynamic buoyancy that ordinary airplanes rely on. It seems that UFOs do not hover by propellers like helicopters. There is neither airflow nor smoke when the UFO flies, thus ruling out the possibility of it using jet propulsion from ordinary jet engines. Almost every UFO researcher will have the impression that UFOs have some kind of mechanical device that can counteract gravity. Is this really true?

The first appearance of UFO fever

UFO fever first appeared in January 1878, when J. Martin, a farmer in Texas, USA, saw a round object in the sky . 150 newspapers in the United States published this news and called this object a "flying saucer." In June 1947, K. Arnold, an entrepreneur from Idaho, flew a private plane near Mount Rainier in Washington and discovered nine disks flying through the air at high speed and jumping forward. This incident was reported in all newspapers in the United States and once again triggered a worldwide UFO craze. Since then, reports of UFO sightings have come one after another, and governments and private organizations from various countries have also organized investigations and studies.

In fact, scientists have not yet found out the truth about UFOs, but most of them are man-made, so the truth has not been revealed!

Controversy about UFOs

Since the late 1940s, UFO sightings have increased dramatically, causing controversy in the scientific community. Because UFOs are not something that can be reproduced, or at least do not occur frequently, there are no standards for testing, and an absolutely authoritative view has not been formed in the world so far. Scientists with a negative attitude believe that many witness reports are not credible and that UFOs do not exist. They are just human hallucinations or witnesses’ misinterpretation of natural phenomena. They can use astronomy, meteorology, biology, psychology, Physics and other scientific knowledge to illustrate. They even regard flying butterfly science as pseudoscience. Those who believe that UFOs are real sightings are being confirmed by more and more facts, but many UFO experts say they are not sure that UFOs are alien ships.

They believe that belief in the existence of UFOs should not be confused with the theory that they come from extraterrestrial space, because the hypothesis of coming from the universe is only an inductive inference based on its flight performance, electromagnetic properties and the impressions of eyewitnesses. Whether it is correct or not has yet to be verified. There are also some UFO experts who support the "alien theory". Some scholars also pointed out that the flying saucer phenomenon is inconsistent with known basic scientific laws in many aspects. The theoretical difficulties encountered in explaining this phenomenon are the main reason why it has not been recognized by modern scientists, but it cannot be dismissed for this reason. It is easy to deny the existence of this phenomenon.

Explanation of UFOs

① Natural phenomenon: some unknown astronomical or atmospheric phenomenon, seismic light, atmospheric saucer turbulence (some scientists believe that UFO observations are caused by the environment Pollution induced), earth discharge effect.

② Misrecognition of known phenomena or objects: Factors or objects that are mistaken for UFO phenomena include celestial bodies (planets, stars, meteors, comets, dead stars, etc.); atmospheric phenomena (ball lightning, auroras, etc.) , sun-phantom, moon-phantom, Elmo fire, mirage, flowing clouds, ground light); biology (birds and butterflies, etc.); biological factors (residual images in human eyes, eye defects, effects on aircraft reflections in oceans and lakes) Illusions, etc.); Optical factors (photo artifacts caused by internal reflections of the camera and development defects, overlapping images caused by reflections from windows and glasses, etc.); Radar false targets (radar side waves, abnormal refraction, scattering, multiple Secondary launches, such as reflections from electrically dense layers or clouds or reflections from high-temperature and high-humidity areas, etc.), man-made instruments (aircraft lights or reflected sunlight, artificial satellites re-entering the atmosphere, working rockets and balloons after ignition, etc.) Military test aircraft, searchlights reflected in clouds, flares, signal flares, beacon lights, parachutes, secret weapons, etc.).

③ Psychological phenomenon: Some people think that UFO may be a purely psychological phenomenon, which arises from the brain of an individual or a group of people. The UFO phenomenon is often intertwined with people's spiritual and psychological experiences. There may be some connection between the unexplored areas of the human brain and the UFO phenomenon.

④ Products of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations: Some people believe that some UFOs are navigation tools made by advanced civilizations on extraterrestrial planets.

Different voices from the mainstream scientific community regarding the UFO phenomenon

We sometimes hear the saying: If a certain phenomenon cannot be explained scientifically, then it must be caused by aliens . We should think carefully about such a statement:

First, is this phenomenon really unexplainable? The so-called "unexplainable" may be a lie made up by liars.

Second, we admit that there are still problems in the world that science cannot explain. However, being unexplainable does not mean that it can never be explained. For example, the so-called mysterious flash phenomenon on the moon. This kind of flash is not caused by aliens, but by meteorite impacts, volcanoes or other ordinary physical phenomena. The so-called "moon bridge" is nothing more than an optical illusion. In the early days of human exploration of the moon, the so-called "pyramids" and "obelisks" were photographed on the moon. However, high-resolution images taken later showed that those stones were ordinary and beyond ordinary. This is also an example.

The vast majority of UFO reports are provided by inexperienced, untrained, unprepared or extremely excited observers. The information is very vague and inaccurate, so it is usually impossible to make a decision. A definite judgment. Since most UFOs have been confirmed to be fabricated or natural phenomena, the possibility that a small number of UFOs that cannot be confirmed due to insufficient evidence are also fabricated or natural phenomena is obviously much higher than the possibility that they are aliens. The only reason we can't come up with a reasonable explanation is because there isn't enough necessary evidence, not because aliens are causing trouble. Strangely, reports of UFO sightings rarely or almost never come from astronomers, meteorologists or astronomy and meteorology enthusiasts. They spend much more time observing the sky than the average person, so they should be more likely to find abnormalities in the sky. , is this because aliens are deliberately avoiding them, or is it because they, as experts, cannot easily regard natural phenomena as UFOs?

Research status

About one-third of the countries in the world are conducting research on UFOs, and more than 350 monographs on UFOs have been published. There are nearly a hundred journals. Many official and private research institutions are conducting research on UFOs. The world's largest research institutions have a group of experts involved in this work, including astronomers, botanists, biologists, doctors and psychiatrists, chemists and physicists, as well as aerospace, civil engineering, electrical , mechanical and metallurgical engineers, as well as linguists, historians, etc. In the United States, some polytechnic universities have even officially included the issue of UFOs as topics for their doctoral dissertations, and some universities and air force academies have also opened courses on UFOs. China has also established the China UFO Research Association, a private academic research group with scientific and technological workers as the main body. Similar UFO research organizations have been established in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao. China's popular science publication about UFOs "UFO Exploration" was founded in 1981.

There were more than 300 relatively complete sighting reports before the 20th century. According to eyewitness reports, UFOs are mostly disk-shaped (dish-shaped), spherical and cigar-shaped. Since the late 1940s, UFO sightings have increased dramatically, causing controversy in the scientific community.

Scientists with a negative attitude believe that many sighting reports are not credible and that UFOs do not exist, but are just people's hallucinations or witnesses' misinterpretation of natural phenomena. Those who do believe that UFOs are a real phenomenon are being confirmed by more and more facts. As of the 1980s, there were approximately 100,000 sighting reports worldwide. UFO sightings and sighting reports can be divided into four categories: daytime sightings; night sightings; radar imaging; close encounters and related physical evidence. Some of the sightings were photographed. People have given various explanations for UFOs, including:

① Some natural phenomenon that has not been fully understood;

② Misrecognition of known objects or phenomena;

③Psychological phenomena and fraud;

④The products of highly advanced extraterrestrial civilizations.

Many countries around the world carry out research on UFOs. There are more than 350 monographs and nearly 100 journals on UFOs. A group of experts from various countries around the world participate in this work. China has also established a private academic research group mainly composed of scientific and technological workers - the China UFO Research Association. China's UFO popular science publication "UFO Exploration" was founded in 1981. Classification of sightings As of the early 1980s, there were about 100,000 sighting reports worldwide, with an average of more than 3,000 more reported every year.

Classification of types of contact between humans and aliens

People who specialize in this type of research call themselves ufologists; they describe the close contact between humans and aliens It is divided into five categories:

The first type of contact refers to witnessing a UFO at close range without leaving any specific physical evidence. A surprising encounter that occurred one afternoon over Mexico fell into this category.

The second type of contact is when, in addition to witnessing UFOs, there are tangible traces of alien visitations. Crop circles, which have caused much controversy, can be classified as this type of contact. A strange circular pattern that appeared on a meadow in Mexico not long ago was thought to be related to UFOs.

Of course, there is also the famous third kind of contact, which is contact in the true sense - often talking to aliens through telepathy.

The fourth category is close contact, that is, being abducted by aliens. According to scientists, this is a phenomenon of sleep hallucination.

The last one is the fifth kind of contact: it is to launch aircraft or electromagnetic waves from the earth to visit planets where life may exist.

Uncovering the truth about UFO incidents: Complete records of UFO investigations

Let’s start with the most basic question: When did humans become obsessed with UFOs? It is not surprising that modern people's attention to UFOs began to gradually increase in the first few years of the Cold War. People of that period were accustomed to looking up at the sky, guarding against reconnaissance planes and incoming missiles. The event that really set off a global craze occurred in June 1947.

At that time, Kenneth Arnold was flying a private plane over the Cascade Mountains of Washington State when he suddenly saw a blue-white light flashing in the distance. He looked carefully and clearly saw some UFOs flying back and forth among the mountains, very fast and very agile.

Arnold told the local newspaper about the incident, which started the flying saucer craze. That same year, another landmark event occurred, the impact of which continues to this day. Those who believe are filled with awe, and those who doubt are troubled. This is the Roswell incident.

On the outskirts of Roswell, New Mexico, on a farm near a U.S. Army airfield, some strange debris appeared. The next day, a local newspaper published an exclusive story boldly claiming that an alien spacecraft had been captured by the military.

The truth: The military quickly came out to explain, saying that the debris was actually the remains of a weather hot air balloon. But this explanation was not enough to save the situation; what's more, they really wanted to hide the truth: the so-called weather balloons were actually spy balloons undergoing secret testing. This is an epoch-making beginning.

After Roswell, thousands of UFO sightings occurred, and "conspiracy theories" became even more popular. There are so many photos and images of flying saucers everywhere that you can't even count them; some are not very convincing, while others are very real.

Among the relevant records, the most outstanding incident occurred in Mexico City - at noon that day, darkness enveloped the entire city. Not just one person, but dozens of people simultaneously photographed a mysterious object from outer space. .

On July 11, 1991, with the occurrence of a total solar eclipse, Mexico City gradually fell into darkness. Thousands of people pointed their cameras at the sky to capture the spectacle. UFO researcher Guillermo Arreguin will never forget that scene. Guillermo Arreguin said: "I went up to the roof to photograph the total solar eclipse, and I saw a bright spot in the sky. So I focused the lens on it. I realized that what I was photographing was a sun that was swinging back and forth. UFOs are not planets or stars.”

In the following days, reports of UFO sightings appeared in various places, which really kept the media busy. Nationally renowned investigative reporter Jami Mosan hosted a 10-hour program discussing UFO sightings. He asked the audience to go back and look at the footage captured on a home camera.

Jami Mosan said: "After this program was broadcast, many people called and said they saw it. You can clearly see a luminous object that looks like metal, with black underneath. The shadow. It was a silvery saucer-shaped object. We believed it was not a star or a distortion problem in the camera. That day changed my life forever. Just want to hear me talk more about UFOs."

Some people think that this evidence is not that influential. Author Mario Mendez Acosta debated Mosan over the 1991 solar eclipse sightings. He believes that the public's enthusiasm for UFOs is mostly caused by Mosan himself, rather than the visit of aliens.

The truth: To uncover the truth about UFOs in Mexico, you may not have to look for clues on other planets. Swedish astronomer and photographer Tom Cullen believes that UFO witnesses in Mexico City did see strange sights that did not belong to the Earth; but they were not necessarily caused by aliens. In the Mexico City video, the sky is dark because of a solar eclipse; a few clouds can be seen floating in the sky, and then the camera zooms in on the object.

There is commercially available computer software that can depict the sky anywhere in the world on any day. With it, Tom can recreate what happened over Mexico City. The computer is simulating the moment when the moon passes in front of the sun, the sky becomes dark and several celestial bodies brighten. Just at the location where the UFO was photographed, an exceptionally bright object appeared.

Tom Cullen said: "We can see Venus very clearly here, and I can definitely say that this is the highlight that people photograph in Mexico City."

Looking outward from the sun, the second planet is Venus, whose brightness in the sky is second only to the sun and the moon. But why does it look like a fuzzy alien spacecraft? Tom believes that this is a problem with the camera itself - the lens creates a three-dimensional effect when focusing on distant bright spots. The black line on the screen is not the chassis of an object, but an illusion caused by the camera. In this way, a very ordinary celestial body becomes somewhat mysterious.

UFOs during the total solar eclipse in Mexico City on July 11, 1991

Daily movements of celestial bodies may not explain all UFO sightings in Mexico. This strange-looking object has been seen hovering near the active volcano Popocatepetl. It's clearly not a planet or star, and it definitely doesn't look like an airplane from the way it moves. This is an object photographed by architect Mario Ramirez, who lives at the foot of the volcano. Like many local residents, he also believes that volcanic activity attracts UFOs to Mexico. He said that in 1988, he saw a formation of spacecraft flying into the crater.

Mario Ramirez said: "I saw a very large spacecraft, about 300 meters in diameter, with many lights and windows on it. It was rotating around the center as its axis. , and then flew to the volcano. I once saw a group of about 30 of those spaceships flying out of the crater at a very fast speed, and then flying into space. ”

In 2000, Ramirez was studying a group of rocks near the volcano, thinking they might be some kind of ancient astronomical symbol. At this time, something caught his attention.

Mario Ramirez said: "I was on the rock, observing the Popocatepetl volcano. I set up the camera, and just then, I suddenly saw a flash of light. I was very puzzled. "Why is there a flash of light on the mountain?" Ramirez later discovered that what he photographed was an object hovering on the mountain in the distance. It hung in the air for nearly 2 minutes and then disappeared behind the mountain.

The Facts: What does spoiler expert Tom Cullen think of this mysterious object? Tom Cullen said: "The video about the volcano, I think it is very close-up, regardless of the intention, it may be just a big bird. Look carefully, you will find that this thing is It's like an extension of the body. I don't think this is an alien spacecraft."

Let's take a look at some of the traces left by suspected UFOs to see what happened. What could be causing it.

In September 2004, on a small patch of remote land near Guadalajara, a series of circles appeared. The owner of the land asked architect and UFO researcher Daniel Dominguez and others to investigate the matter. They spent several nights conducting field investigations and saw with their own eyes that spherical lights appeared.

Daniel Dominguez said: "It passed directly above our heads, and the brightness became stronger and stronger, and then gradually weakened and continued to move along its original route. Dominguez said, The bright light changed the grass, which is something that cannot be done by man-made objects."

They mapped the circles and monitored their changes; at the same time, they collected soil samples to test the amount of radiation. Dominguez believed that the circles were caused by radiation.

Daniel Dominguez said: "Judging from the evidence we have, I am inclined to believe that these circles are the product of some kind of light energy, and that the person who created this light energy comes from extraterrestrial planets. object.

But the answer may lie in the soil, according to Dr. Laura Guzman, a mycologist at the University of Guadalajara and arguably Mexico’s leading female authority on fungi. But what does fungi have to do with UFOs?

Laura Guzman said: “It’s a very large piece of mycelium that usually grows around wood or plant roots. ”

The mycelium will grow outward from the center point of the circle, so it is often called a "fairy circle." Some fungi will cause the entire circle of grass to die, while other fungi will cause the grass to grow longer. Well, the grass inside the circle will grow greener and lusher than the surrounding grass - especially after absorbing decaying organic matter, such as dead tree roots.

Truth: Laura Guth. "The wood stimulates the growth of fungi, so sometimes you'll have fairy circles growing on the ground just because there's wood underneath the soil," Mann said. From a scientific point of view, I believe that fungi are responsible for the fairy circles. Other than that, there is no other explanation. ”

There are thousands of fungal species in the soil, and only 50 species are known to cause fairy circles. In order to confirm that fairy circles are caused by fungi, Dr. Guzman brought the collected samples back to the experiment room and put it under a microscope. She had to find evidence—tiny protrusions on individual fungal cells that confirmed her suspicions. One afternoon in March 2004, a routine military flight took place. The mission turned into a frantic search for an object that appeared to be flying alongside the plane. The flying object was not visible to radar or the naked eye; only infrared light could detect the flight. The infrared recording of the encounter with an unidentified object immediately caused an uproar in the media.

Captain Alejandro Franz of the Mexican UFO Research Team decided to investigate the matter personally. Although he also believes that UFOs have visited the earth, he always feels that investigators must rule out all possibilities before they can reach a conclusion.

Captain Franz himself is a pilot. To retake the flight path of the military aircraft, where the pilot encountered the unknown object, he turned the aircraft to face the location where the object appeared, because he believed that the unknown object might still be there. Arriving at the first place of contact with the UFO, Franz instructed the pilot to turn to the northwest, which was the direction the infrared camera was pointing at. He had seen bright lights in that direction before - this should be the military.

Captain Alejandro Franz said: "I have flown planes across the Gulf of Mexico hundreds of times. These bright lights can be seen in the Gulf of Mexico almost every night, year round. As long as weather conditions and visibility are good, any pilot can see them from 140 or 150 miles away.

The truth: Franz saw the target he was looking for - the huge offshore oil drilling facility - Cantare, about 60 miles from the coast and nearly 100 miles from the last contact point. you. Viewed from an altitude of 15,000 feet, the entire building still looks huge. Some drilling platforms are as high as 40 stories high, and the flames they emit can jump hundreds of feet into the air. This is produced by burning excess gas to reduce the pressure inside the oil well.

Franz is certain that this is the origin of UFOs. But will the flames here really affect the infrared surveillance systems on military aircraft 100 miles away? Why do they appear to be flying?

This question was asked by Jim Zephyrin to explain. His job is to train and certify infrared equipment technicians. He himself uses the technology to inspect refineries and oil rigs.

Jim Zephyrin said: "First of all, we are not sure that these objects can fly. Some people may think that these objects are moving. In fact, this is an optical illusion. It is because the clouds are moving relative to the objects. It is said to be moving, which creates an illusion. Other than that, there is no other explanation. It is very likely that what we are seeing is an abnormally high temperature heat source. In this case, because we are at sea, there is no other explanation. It could be the reflection of a heat source on the sea. It could be flames and smoke, or it could just be flames. I hope UFOs exist, but I can't find any evidence here.

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