Internet-famous UFO stories so wild they may just be true
Alien and UFO sightings have been anomalies for decades. While the existence of extraterrestrials has become a laughingstock, with SNL making humorous alien sighting skits and Area 51 taking over meme culture, there are many in the world who believe extraterrestrials are real, some devoting their lives to ufology.
With the age of the internet, anything can become viral. Here are six cases that have turned age-old alien and UFO reports into internet sensations.
The Ariel School UFO Incident
On September 14, 1994, the students of the Ariel School in Zimbabwe were outside having recess when a silver object flew down from the sky and appeared near the 62 students. When the students approached the object, they saw two figures — four feet tall, big and black eyes on a narrow and pale face and wore skin-tight black body suits.
Though the figures never interacted with the children, some witnesses believed they had received a message in their minds from the aliens.
“It was like in the world, all the trees would just go down and there would be no air and people would be dying,” she said. “I think that in space there’s no love and down here there is,” a witness told Harvard psychiatrist John Mack, who died in 2004, not long after the incident occurred.
With consistent accounts from students, The Ariel School UFO Incident remains one of the most talked-about UFO sightings in recent years. The stunning event prompted a documentary, “Ariel Phenomenon,” to be released in 2022 and multiple retellings of the incident by UFO enthusiasts all over the internet.
Warm Beach UFO Sighting
14 years ago, a Reddit user recalled witnessing a 400-foot dark grey oval spacecraft slowly coming down from the sky. The user said the spacecraft was covered in 16 neon lights of all sizes, was moving at a very slow pace and looked like it was moving sideways. The user, who witnessed the spacecraft at Warm Beach, Washington, where several scenes from “The Ring” were filmed, saw the spacecraft for several minutes before it glided over the nearby trees and cow field, and soon off into the distance.
What makes this account so wild is the sheer size of the spacecraft. The Reddit user claimed the spacecraft was larger than a C-17 military aircraft and yet, there was no one around him who witnessed the spacecraft. It’s hard to forget seeing anything of that size, let alone a possible extraterrestrial spacecraft, making this story a possibly true account.
The Roswell Incident
In 1947, a rancher named W.W. “Mac” Brazel found unusual debris near Roswell, New Mexico, which included tin foil, rubber strips and sticks. When Brazel took the debris to the local sheriff, the debris was then handed over to the Roswell Army Air Field, where the RAAF stated they retrieved a “flying disk” before quickly claiming the “flying disk” was remnants of a weather balloon.
In 1980, authors Charles Berlitz and William L. Moore released a book that claimed the weather balloon was a “cover story” and was actually extraterrestrial. But, in 1994, the air force retracted its statement again and said the debris was from a U.S. spy balloon used to anticipate nuclear tests by the Soviet Union as part of Project Mogul.
The Roswell Incident has become a cornerstone of UFO folklore. Its ever-changing story and multiple witness accounts over the years have made the incident synonymous with alien conspiracy theories.
Area 51
Though the government only acknowledged its existence in 2013, Area 51 has been known to have been established in 1955. Since its alleged establishment in the 50s, multiple accounts of employees from Area 51 have made the U.S. Air Force facility a fixture in alien conspiracy theories.
In 1989, Bob Lazar, a physicist, claimed he was hired to reverse-engineer an alien propulsion system stored in Area 51. Lazar also claimed he read briefing documents that confirmed alien involvement on Earth for thousands of years. Lazar’s claim launched Area 51 into mainstream popularity, paving the way for other Area 51 stories to be told.
In 2019, Area 51 was the center of meme culture when over a million people signed up for a Facebook event to storm the military facility to see the alleged “aliens” stored in the facility.
The Varginha Incident
In January 1996, three women were walking across an empty lot in Varginha, Brazil, when they spotted a creature crouching in the weeds. Described as a four-foot-tall figure with bulging red eyes and oily, brown skin. When the women went home, one of the witnesses said they had “seen the devil.” Despite the three women witnessing the same unidentified creature, the Brazilian military concluded the figure was just a homeless man with a mental disorder.
However, this isn’t the only report of the red-eyed alien. About a month after the women’s witness, a 23-year-old police officer was allegedly killed by the same alien from an unidentified infection.
Similar to the Roswell Incident, the Varginha Incident struck a chord with alien fanatics online due to the constant military cover-ups and multiple eyewitness accounts. In 2022, a documentary, “Moment of Contact,” was released, diving deeper into the incident.
The Pascagoula Incident
Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker were fishing on the west bank of the Pascagoula River in Mississippi in 1973 when the pair were allegedly abducted by three unidentified large figures.
The pair first heard a whirring sound and saw flashes of blue light above them. They were then abducted by humanoid figures with grey wrinkled skin, fused limbs and no eyes. In the kidnapping, Hickson and Parker were paralyzed but conscious as they were given what seemed to be something similar to a medical examination before being released by the aliens.
The Pascagoula Incident became a massive alien phenomenon for the distinct description of the aliens; the physical description deviated from the usual description of other sightings — a grey, teardrop-shaped head with massive eyes. In 2019, a new eyewitness, Maria Blair, came forward to attest to the same blue light flashes Hickson and Parker saw in 1973, reigniting the strange case once again.
Wrap Up
Whether aliens are real or not, reports of these strange sightings have taken over the media. From the “X-Files” to the dedicated study of ufology, alien sightings still continue to be a part of mainstream media.
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