Top Ten UFO Encounters That Were Debunked the Least Accurately

In 1980, there was another very strange encounter, this time in a forest called Rendlesham, somewhere in England. What hits me the most about this one is that there was actually a big government official who saw this phenomenon, and almost everyone in the area argues with the explanation. So, in late December, almost Christmas time (maybe Santa was the explanation?), there was a series of lots of reportings of strange lights around the forest. Most people said they were clearly UFOs or aliens. It sounds like a standard UFO sighting, but this actually took place around a government base of the United States Air Force. Many of the government officials there saw the lights too and even this really important guy, Lieutenant Colonel Charles I. Halt, saw the same things. The rest of the government refused to investigate, and even though they didn't investigate they said the lights were "a lighthouse, a fireball in the sky, and really bright stars", all on the same night. Seriously? Maybe it was just some natural phenomenon but that explanation is very bad.

This one is known as the first ever UFO sighting, and it actually gave birth to the phrase "Flying Saucer". A pilot named Kenneth Arnold was flying his aircraft, in Washington, when he apparently saw 9 glowing blue objects fly past, at an estimated extremely fast speed of 1700 mph. He also said they were going in V formation. He thought it was some crazy new military aircraft, because the Cold War had just started, a couple years after the Second World War, but the government said no tests were anywhere near where he was flying. The only theories people offered, which were not intelligent theories, was that he was either hallucinating or he had seen "clouds of snow" bloom from the sky. What really made this a big deal was that another famous unsolved UFO mystery happened just a couple weeks later with the same "saucers"

In 1981, this standard farmer living in the outskirts of a small town in France, said he heard a really weird, high-pitched sound, and right after that seeing a flying-saucer land in his fields, which was lead-coloured and took off almost immediately. It may sound like a standard make believe UFO sighting right now, but it wasn't. The farmer immediately contacted the police, who took soil and plant samples, which had chemical evidence that was consistent with the heating of the soil and pressure of a heavy object. There were also traces of Zinc, Phosphate, and evidence of strange characteristics of the plants nearby. The only explanation by sceptics was that the smooshed plants could have been caused by tires or that the french military was testing experimental craft. Not likely.

Alright, this is some creepy stuff. Like something straight out of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (I honestly thought that movie was a little boring). Anyways, in that movie there was a scene where the UFO makes the electronics in a car go crazy, and one day there was tons of citizens in this place in Texas, Levelland, who said the exact same thing, either seeing a rocket or strange lights that made their cars go haywire. Engines died and lights cut out. The police were informed and they thought it was all lies, but then they saw the same lights with their own eyes. The explanation (so the government says), was an electric storm and ball lighting. I think that's all garbage because there was not a single thunderstorm reported in the area that night.

On an otherwise normal day, in Washington, DC, 1952, there was another strange incident. It started off with an unusual and unexpected aircraft appearing on the base's radar. Air traffic controllers at the Ronald Reagan Airport detected movement on their radar that wasn't from any scheduled plane and was so quick it couldn't be detected by the radar screens. In the next week, citizens, government people, and airline crew members reported seeing flashes of light, and there was a whole big fiasco. Air force had the biggest press conference since world war 2 to say that it was just a sudden huge amount of meteors, but people definitely saw something not at all like a meteor, and it appeared as a different frequence on the screens, so something's not right.

Something highly unusual happened at a school in Melbourne, Australia, in the year 1966. Over 300 students and teachers from two schools flocked out of the building to look at five planes surrounding a silvery flying saucer shaped UFO, which spreaded the famous "flying saucer" thing even further, and they watched as the five planes attempted to "herd" the craft in the air to some destination for about 20 minutes, before the UFO disappeared. The only real explanation was by some Australian Skeptics who said it was some kind of military protocol, but that's really weak. Today there's a UFO themed park at the area and to this day witnesses gather there to discuss what happened.

In 1951, some really strange stuff started to happen. A few people outdoors looked up and saw a cemicircle of lights floating above them at a really fast speed. Over the next few days, dozens of other people saw the exact same thing all across town, and there were actually photos snapped of the strange phenomenon, so the explanation can't be "lies" or "Imagination of people", as are the usual explanations. Some people say that the lights were just birds reflecting the luminescence from the town where the sightings were, Lubbock's new street lamps. I personally think that's a garbage explanation, and people who saw it agree, saying that the lights were going way too fast for the explanation being birds. What do you think?

This has sometimes been referred to as The Battle of Culver City, since the Hughes Aircraft facility was located in that suburban coastal town. Once it became obvious it had not been a Japanese attack, the authorities quickly covered it up, they did not want the population distracted by what was almost certainly a UFO visitation during the middle of wartime.

An air raid over Los Angeles during WW2, with several civilians killed when anti-aircraft fire fell back to earth. No confirmed actual Japanese planes were ever hit or even seen, but "something" was hovering over the super-secret Hughes Aircraft "Skunk Works" weapons factory. Was later laughed off as war jitters, and even made into a comedy movie "1941", and the probable UFO truth covered up.