If an alien ship is hovering over your home, it's only natural that you want to share this with someone. For the past 43 years, the National UFO Center (NUFORC) has served as a hotline where skeptics and people who sincerely believe in the existence of aliens can tell their experience of encountering something strange and inexplicable.
Peter Davenport, who has been the director of NUFORC since 1994, accepts and posts reports to the center's base and maintains a 24-hour hotline. "People who have seen UFOs just need to share with someone who will believe their words."
Peter says accepting tons of emails and listening to eyewitnesses is only half the work NUFORC does. These stories need to be made public, as humans should have access to information about extraterrestrial activity "instead of relying on the government to lie to all of us about the UFO phenomenon."
Davenport estimates that out of the hundreds of thousands of people who have witnessed a real UFO, only a few will take the time to report it. Every day, the center receives 10-20 written reports, but their number is constantly growing.
Most are "thoughtful attempts to describe the appearance of an object that the observer could not identify." In some of them, there are necessarily comparisons with familiar phenomena, such as rocket launches, meteorites, balloons, weather balloons.
According to Peter, the most credible reports come from several eyewitnesses who corroborate each other's observations and, in addition, provide photographic and video evidence, as well as from government officials, police officers, retired military personnel, pilots and former astronauts.
"The perfect example of solid evidence," Davenport said, "is the massive 1997 Phoenix Lights reports."
What, according to Peter Davenport, should be a report that meets the standard of sober thinking in the face of the inexplicable? He chose as examples some of the most notable UFO encounters of recent times.
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I cannot explain what we saw
Athens, Texas, USA
July 5, 2013 20:15
“My family and I were sitting in the yard. When I looked up at the sky, I saw a rather large orange ball of light moving rapidly to our right, gaining altitude. After about one or two minutes, we saw a group of three identical objects on the same flight path as the first UFO. I am a retired military fighter pilot and a former astronaut. I have no explanation for what we saw."
It didn't look like a star or a planet
Eastpoint, Michigan, USA
May 27, 2016 23:11
“When I first saw the object, it was blue and glowing brightly. The light was constant, not flickering like on regular airplanes. The UFO did not look like a star or a planet, it was a little more than the North Star. He made no sound and moved very smoothly until he stopped in the northeastern part of the sky."
How ships hide among the stars
Over the summit of Mount Shasta, California, USA
February 16, 2015 20:30
“I am an airline pilot … We decided to watch the night sky, shooting stars and satellites passing over us. Then we saw lights that were not stars or satellites. They did not move at all. Humanity does not have aircraft that could fly at this height and not move."
I can't believe what I saw today
Arlington, Oregon, USA
19 February 2015 11:55
“I looked out the passenger window of my car and saw that a small domed ship was moving parallel to me. It seemed that he was just floating in the air and moving with me at the same speed. He flew between next to the highway over the water of the Columbia River. It was quite obvious that this was not a boat on the water, but a flying object above the water. This lasted for about 12 seconds. I couldn't believe I saw it."
It worried me very much and still worries me
Gibson, Illinois, USA
November 16, 2014 15:30
“I was hunting a deer in central Illinois and saw a small object that came down right in front of me a meter and a half away. At first I looked at him and thought it was a spider or some kind of insect. I looked at him for several seconds and realized that it was not an insect. It was a small round marble-colored ball with a brownish iridescent tint. It hung in front of me at eye level. This worried me very much and still worries me, because I cannot think of a logical explanation for this."
I know what I saw
Glendale, Arizona, USA
September 28, 2013 19:15
“I am a former police officer from Arizona, retired after almost 35 years of service. I accidentally looked out my kitchen window, which faces north, and noticed several bright orange lights flying from west to east. I was delighted because they flew and flew. There were about 150 of them. I shot them with a mobile phone, but when I checked the recording, nothing was visible, only a black screen. I know what I have seen and feel that I was lucky to see what many of us dream of seeing."
Voronina Svetlana