![]() Local newspaper the Acton Gazette reported how:Ī patrolling policeman could hardly believe his eyes when he saw a bright light hovering in the sky in the early hours of Wednesday morning. And believers in UFOs were given a boon in August 1972 when a UFO was spotted by a police officer over the skies of Acton, West London. ‘UFO Sighting By Police Over Acton’ – August 1972Ĭases of UFO sightings are generally considered to be more believable if they are witnessed by people in positions of authority, like, say, the police. So what do you think? Could these Coventry sightings be truly of a UFO, or are they explainable? 2. Officials were at a loss to explain the UFO sightings, with ‘Neither Coventry Civic Airport or Elmsdon Airport air traffic controls’ being able to ‘throw any light on the matter.’ Coventry Evening Telegraph | 8 December 1970Įric watched the ’round white glowing light’ alongside his friend Frank Newbold, who hailed from Coventry, whilst an employee at the Chrysler plant in Ryton reported seeing a similar sight on the Saturday morning. Suddenly it came back and did the same thing again, this time shooting off very fast and vanishing. It stayed in the same position and went down towards the earth very fast…Then it shot up again and disappeared from view. We saw this light in the sky when we were driving down the A45. One of the men, Eric Harrison, gave the following account of one of the UFO sightings, which had occurred on the Sunday: The sightings had both occurred at the same time, 6.15 am, over the preceding weekend. On 8 December 1970 the Coventry Evening Telegraph reported how ‘Three Coventry men’ had reported seeing ‘a ‘whitish, glowing round light’ in the sky over Coventry and Ryton-on-Dunsmore.’ ‘Three UFO Sighting Claims’ – December 1970 So without any further ado, let’s get started. ![]() Register with us today and see what stories you can discoverĪnd we thought we’d serve up ten incredible UFO sightings from The Archive for you to peruse, and to make your own minds up as to whether such sightings are indicative of alien life. Starting in the 1970s, and lasting throughout the following decades, the pages of our newspapers are littered with reports of UFO sightings, some more believable than others. Here at The Archive we thought we’d delve into our newspapers to find reports of UFOs, and we weren’t disappointed. A UFO captured on camera by Ralph Ditter of Ohio in 1967 | Illustrated London News | 1 September 1979 The appearance of UFOs is often linked to speculation around the existence of extraterrestrial life, and sightings of such unexplained objects began to emerge around the end of the Second World War. Standing for ‘ Unidentified Flying Objects,’ a term coined by the United States Air Force in 1953, the term ‘UFO’ can be applied to any aerial phenomenon that cannot immediately be explained or identified. The space agency is open to any and all interpretations of the data-though it is setting a high bar for at least one.As we continue to explore all things space and the stars this month at The Archive, we thought we’d delve into a more unexplained aspect of our night sky – UFOs. Budgeted at a bargain rate of just $100,000, the study will run for nine months, analyze all available video data and first-hand accounts amassed so far, and consult both military and civilian experts for their analysis of the evidence. ![]() The effort will be led by astrophysicist David Spergel, former chair of the astrophysics department at Princeton University. As the space agency announced this week, it’s launching its own investigation, beginning in the fall, to get to the bottom of the UAP mystery. Now, there’s a third government agency getting involved in the effort to explain UAPs: NASA itself. “UAPs are unexplained, it’s true,” Congressman and committee chairman Andre Carson (D., Ind.) said in his opening statement during the House hearings. The objects could be natural phenomena misinterpreted by the pilots and their equipment they could be new technology developed by Russia, China, or another high technology power and yes, they could, in theory at least, be extraterrestrial in origin. The Congressional hearing followed the release last year of a similar Department of Defense study of UAPs, and both Congress and the Pentagon came to the same conclusion, which was basically: beats me.
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