Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Sightings Prior to the 17th Century

The Possibility of Alien Life Forms and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Sightings Prior to the 17th Century Around 1450, Gutenberg introduced the movable metal type in Europe; subsequently, religious texts such as the rationale Divinorum Officiorum, Mainz Psalter, and the Bible, were the first to be published. The first newspapers (1605), magazines (1663), and academic journals … Read more

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Sightings Prior to the 19th Century

The Possibility of Alien Life Forms and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Sightings Prior to the 19th Century Vallee and Aubeck (2010) list as many as 127 anomalous sightings in the 19th century. They note that the number of recorded sightings may have significantly increased during this time period due to encouragement in natural philosophy and growth … Read more

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Sightings Prior to the 20th Century

The Possibility of Alien Life Forms and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Sightings Prior to the 20th Century Prior to the modern tales of UFOs and the Foo-Fighters reported during World War II, stories of mysterious lights and phantom airships existed between the late 19th and early 20th centuries (Guardian, 1913). These stories are attributable not only … Read more

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Before Modern Pilots

The Possibility of Alien Life Forms and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Before Modern Pilots Did the UFO phenomena exist before modern pilots? Allied aircraft pilots used the term “Foo-Fighter” in World War II to describe numerous UFOs or UAP seen in the skies over the European and Pacific theaters of operations (Krasney, 2016; Robertson, 2006). TIME … Read more

Modern History of UFOs

The Possibility of Alien Life Forms and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Modern History of UFOs If any one of the cases described above are accurate descriptions of real events, the implications would be overwhelming; however, these noteworthy cases alone cannot lead to the conclusion that humans have been visited by aliens. Undoubtedly, suspicion may surround these … Read more

Group Witnesses and Alien Encounters

The Possibility of Alien Life Forms and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Group Witnesses and Alien Encounters It is necessary to examine the following cases of adult groups around the world witnessing “alien aircrafts” because such accounts lead to the dichotomy of whether witnesses are lying about their “experience.” While psychological factors can account for an individual … Read more

Child Witnesses and Unidentified Flying Objects

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Child Witnesses and Unidentified Flying Objects The following section will focus on cases in which young children were witnesses in alleged alien spacecraft cases. This witness group is important because young children are statistically the worst of all age groups at lying (Debey et al, 2015). Children lack the ability to place … Read more

The Possibility of Alien Life Forms and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

Abstract: While the link between Unidentified Aerial Phenomena or Unidentified Flying Objects (UAP or UFOs) and the existence of alien life has long been discredited as pseudoscience, an increasing number of government disclosures and reports on UFOs and their witnesses have recently surfaced that challenge this assertion. However, it is often difficult to believe in … Read more