Natural Explanations for a friend's UFO sighting?

I took one of my friends to the airport this morning, and he shared with me a UFO sighting that he had several years ago. I'm not 100% convinced of the phenomena myself, but I love the topic, and I'm always willing to change my mind, because frankly I want to believe, I just want the strongest evidence possible when making these kind of claims. My friend is currently a medical student, and observed this while flying a Cessna with his flight instructor several years ago. I know of no reason for him to make any of this up, and he ha . . . [More]

Natural Explanations for a friend's UFO sighting?

I took one of my friends to the airport this morning, and he shared with me a UFO sighting that he had several years ago. I'm not 100% convinced of the phenomena myself, but I love the topic, and I'm always willing to change my mind, because frankly I want to believe, I just want the strongest evidence possible when making these kind of claims. My friend is currently a medical student, and observed this while flying a Cessna with his flight instructor several years ago. I know of no reason for him to make any of this up, and he ha . . . [More]

Man has lamest Big Foot sighting and is asked to leave cryptid community

I have had sightings and interactions with 2 separate cryptids and no one I tell in person cares or believes me. I live in east Texas and I have had multiple sightings and one close encounter with the black panther which I won't bother with the details here. But everyone I tell is either uninterested, doesn't believe or believes me and just doesn't see it as a big deal. It baffles and frustrates me that we have our own local cryptid and it's either believed as a real animal and shouldn't be given the time of day, or . . . [More]

Man has lamest Big Foot sighting and is asked to leave cryptid community

I have had sightings and interactions with 2 separate cryptids and no one I tell in person cares or believes me. I live in east Texas and I have had multiple sightings and one close encounter with the black panther which I won't bother with the details here. But everyone I tell is either uninterested, doesn't believe or believes me and just doesn't see it as a big deal. It baffles and frustrates me that we have our own local cryptid and it's either believed as a real animal and shouldn't be given the time of day, or . . . [More]

Some Theories on Why Sasquatch Are Hard to Catch on Trail Cameras

So earlier in the week, my wife and I were discussing on why our cats particularly like to chew on my instrument cables, display cables, and power cords. We've narrowed it down to live chords and cables. To clarify, cables that are hooked into the wall and are receiving power and has an active current. They seem to leave all of my other chords alone but the ones that have an active current, they're chewing on them almost immediately. They love them. Now I don't want to turn this into a cat post, but this is very very important . . . [More]

Some Theories on Why Sasquatch Are Hard to Catch on Trail Cameras

So earlier in the week, my wife and I were discussing on why our cats particularly like to chew on my instrument cables, display cables, and power cords. We've narrowed it down to live chords and cables. To clarify, cables that are hooked into the wall and are receiving power and has an active current. They seem to leave all of my other chords alone but the ones that have an active current, they're chewing on them almost immediately. They love them. Now I don't want to turn this into a cat post, but this is very very important . . . [More]

Lieutenant Federico Machain and his Tic Tac UFO sighting in 1965

In a period of more than a month, the radars of the Punta Indio Naval Air Base detected sporadic unidentified contacts blips. These echoes sometimes appeared alone, other times in formation, and other times approaching or chasing aircraft in flight. On June 31, 1965, Lieutenant Federico Machain took off in pursuit of one of these echoes and was able to maintain visual contact. He described the object as ellipsoidal in shape, 12 meters in length and that it moved away at very high speed towards the Rio de la Plata. Letter sent by Lieutenan . . . [More]

Lieutenant Federico Machain and his Tic Tac UFO sighting in 1965

In a period of more than a month, the radars of the Punta Indio Naval Air Base detected sporadic unidentified contacts blips. These echoes sometimes appeared alone, other times in formation, and other times approaching or chasing aircraft in flight. On June 31, 1965, Lieutenant Federico Machain took off in pursuit of one of these echoes and was able to maintain visual contact. He described the object as ellipsoidal in shape, 12 meters in length and that it moved away at very high speed towards the Rio de la Plata. Letter sent by Lieutenan . . . [More]

How Do Airline Companies Prevent UFO Sighting Gossip From Leaking?

According to the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), there were 110,000 active pilots in 2019. With that many pilots in the air, one would think that there would be significantly more sightings than what one typically hears about. Now, let's just say a small handful of those pilots actually do see something. I would imagine some of those pilots would at least tell some friends and family members, right? . There's also a LOT of different types of people besides just the pilots in the air-line industry. We're talking vast numbers o . . . [More]

How Do Airline Companies Prevent UFO Sighting Gossip From Leaking?

According to the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), there were 110,000 active pilots in 2019. With that many pilots in the air, one would think that there would be significantly more sightings than what one typically hears about. Now, let's just say a small handful of those pilots actually do see something. I would imagine some of those pilots would at least tell some friends and family members, right? . There's also a LOT of different types of people besides just the pilots in the air-line industry. We're talking vast numbers o . . . [More]

UAP Sighting Netherlands

I was driving on the Afsluitdijk in the middle of the night, coming off a job in Amsterdam, going back to my hometown. When I was almost at the end of the Afsluitdijk my radio started to stutter. I was surprised because my car is using DAB+ and it was the first time that my radio malfunctioned. So I decided to change the radio station into another channel but the same staggering sound could be heard. I drove around 135 km per hour when this happened. There was a light (emulsion) visible in my right eye. Since this Afsluitdijk is basically a . . . [More]

UAP Sighting Netherlands

I was driving on the Afsluitdijk in the middle of the night, coming off a job in Amsterdam, going back to my hometown. When I was almost at the end of the Afsluitdijk my radio started to stutter. I was surprised because my car is using DAB+ and it was the first time that my radio malfunctioned. So I decided to change the radio station into another channel but the same staggering sound could be heard. I drove around 135 km per hour when this happened. There was a light (emulsion) visible in my right eye. Since this Afsluitdijk is basically a . . . [More]

Join the Sky360 open source project to observe the skies for UAPs and contribute to citizen science!

Hello ufo community :). We are excited to announce our open source sky observation project, Sky360, and we're looking for developers who are passionate about space and citizen science to join our team. Our vision is to facilitate a global citizen science project to observe the skies and all their phenomena around the clock, while providing high-quality results and analysis available to everyone. We want to provide a community platform, tools, and support to all people interested in observing the skies for stars, meteors, satellites, p . . . [More]

Join the Sky360 open source project to observe the skies for UAPs and contribute to citizen science!

Hello ufo community :). We are excited to announce our open source sky observation project, Sky360, and we're looking for developers who are passionate about space and citizen science to join our team. Our vision is to facilitate a global citizen science project to observe the skies and all their phenomena around the clock, while providing high-quality results and analysis available to everyone. We want to provide a community platform, tools, and support to all people interested in observing the skies for stars, meteors, satellites, p . . . [More]

Shouldnt The Number of UFO Sightings Be Significantly Higher?

According to the FAA, “Every day, FAA's Air Traffic Organization (ATO) provides service to more than 45,000 flights and 2.9 million airline passengers across more than 29 million square miles of airspace.” In addition, that's 16,405,000 flights handled each year, and 45,000 flights per day. During peak operation times, there's 5,400 aircraft in the sky at peak operation times. Now, that's a LOT of flights, and a LOT of passengers on each flight. With all those flights and all those people up in the sky, wouldn' . . . [More]

Shouldnt The Number of UFO Sightings Be Significantly Higher?

According to the FAA, “Every day, FAA's Air Traffic Organization (ATO) provides service to more than 45,000 flights and 2.9 million airline passengers across more than 29 million square miles of airspace.” In addition, that's 16,405,000 flights handled each year, and 45,000 flights per day. During peak operation times, there's 5,400 aircraft in the sky at peak operation times. Now, that's a LOT of flights, and a LOT of passengers on each flight. With all those flights and all those people up in the sky, wouldn' . . . [More]

UFO Perception Bias

A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment - basically meaning, individuals create their own "subjective reality" from their perception of whatever input based on their own experiences and perceptual biases - i.e - pre-existant belief systems. An individual's construction of reality, not the objective input itself, may dictate their behavior and reaction to certain subjects in the world - thus, cognitive biases may sometimes lead to perceptual distortion, inaccurate judgment, illo . . . [More]

UFO Perception Bias

A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment - basically meaning, individuals create their own "subjective reality" from their perception of whatever input based on their own experiences and perceptual biases - i.e - pre-existant belief systems. An individual's construction of reality, not the objective input itself, may dictate their behavior and reaction to certain subjects in the world - thus, cognitive biases may sometimes lead to perceptual distortion, inaccurate judgment, illo . . . [More]

The Supernatural Abilities of Bigfoot

Header note: this started as a comment in a thread, but since it became its own thing and was almost off topic, I figured I would make a post of it for conversation purposes. Here's the thing… a pistol shrimp literally can snap it claws so fast that it creates a 4800 degree 288 decibel interaction with the water that is loud enough to be picked up by submarines miles away. It literally flash fries small prey while simultaneously rendering them unconscious from the power of the sound. We now know that certain species of octopi&n . . . [More]

The Supernatural Abilities of Bigfoot

Header note: this started as a comment in a thread, but since it became its own thing and was almost off topic, I figured I would make a post of it for conversation purposes. Here's the thing… a pistol shrimp literally can snap it claws so fast that it creates a 4800 degree 288 decibel interaction with the water that is loud enough to be picked up by submarines miles away. It literally flash fries small prey while simultaneously rendering them unconscious from the power of the sound. We now know that certain species of octopi&n . . . [More]