UFOs

Real-Life Flying Saucers Prove That the Truth Is Right Here

We introduced you some of the weirdest aircraft of the 20th century before, but now it’s time to talk about Earth’s fleets of flying saucers. Check out these vehicles and concepts that show how we’ve been building UFOs all along. https://gizmodo.com/the-weirdest-aircraft-of-the-20th-century-456552834 VZ-9 Avrocar, a VTOL aircraft developed by the Canadian Avro Aircraft, introduced in 1958…

io9 Vincze Miklós Jun 19

These weird stories prove that extraterrestrials love Russia

Americans and Europeans like to imagine that aliens will land in London, New York, or Washington, DC, but Russian history is filled with mysterious events that many have claimed to be the work of extraterrestrials. Here are a few of the freaky tales that have left many Russians watching the skies. Tunguska Event, 1908 Russian…

io9 Vincze Miklós Jun 16

This new UFO snapshot will make a believer out of you

C’mon, people, how can you refuse to believe when the Platonic form of a flying saucer visits a busy Chicago neighborhood in the middle of the day? Only real aliens would do a thing like that. If you think this is Photoshopped, then you are just a heartless, faithless . . . skeptic! That’s what…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 11

Watch as a UFO loops its way into Popocatepetl volcano

Over the years, there have been countless sightings of UFOs diving into Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano, especially while it’s erupting. Here’s a video of the most recent sighting, on May 31. I think we all know what this means. There is a massive alien civilization beneath the Earth, and that’s why the NSA has to monitor…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 6

A lot of UFOs are visiting Vancouver lately

While all of Canada focuses on the Rob Ford scandal, Vancouver has more important issues to deal with. Like all the UFOs that are “throbbing” in the skies above it this week. In this video, you can see a UFO and its little friends bopping in the skies above Vancouver. Then, there’s another UFO that…

io9 Annalee Newitz May 31

UFO sightings in Canada rose alarmingly in 2012

Have aliens finally discovered the joys of poutine and the Arrogant Worms? UFO sightings in Canada doubled in 2012, which raises troubling questions about whether the U.S. is falling behind as a favored destination for extraterrestrials. According to the CBC: In 2012, there were 1,981 sightings, nearly doubling the previous annual record of 1,004 sightings…

io9 Annalee Newitz May 17

UFO Disclosure Hearings in Washington — Sort Of

This week, there will be a series of “citizen hearings” about UFO disclosure in Washington, DC. It sounds really official, until you read the fine print. This video is a marvel of misdirection, luring you in with the promise of UFO disclosure hearings for the first time since the 1960s — but then admitting, along…

io9 Annalee Newitz Apr 29

Check out this bizarre pyramid-shaped object in deep space

Weirdness-finder Planetkrejci has posted a new video of what he calls a “pyramid” or “structure” in space, which he found on WikiSky. What do you think it is? I’m a little confused because I’m seeing what appears to be a pretty gorgeous nebula, but I’m not sure why you’d think it looks like a pyramid.…

io9 Annalee Newitz Apr 16

New conspiracy documentary claims that oil companies are covering up UFOs

Sometimes you get a perfect storm of conspiracy theories. Witness this trailer for forthcoming documentary Sirius, where the energy crisis, global warming, and aliens are all wrapped together into one giant plot masterminded by corporations and government. I can’t decide what I like best about this movie, which comes out April 22. I love it…

Trailers Annalee Newitz Apr 10

Why Have We Stopped Seeing UFOs in the Skies?

One late evening in the early summer of 1981, lying sleepless in my student bedsit at the top of a house in Manchester, I became aware of a pattern of bright flashing lights on the wall. All I could see through the curtainless window on the opposite side of the room was a strip of…

Tech News Stuart Walton - Aeon Magazine Apr 8

FBI comes clean about infamous “UFO memo”

A couple of years ago, the FBI freaked out UFOlogists by making a ton of old documents public online — one of which was a memo sent to J. Edgar Hoover about a man who had seen flying saucers. It is the most popular document in the FBI Vault, accessed almost a million times. The…

io9 Annalee Newitz Apr 2

Footage shows UFO splashing down into an active volcano in Mexico

For some reason, UFO sightings seem to multiply around active volcanoes, and the eruption of Popocatépetl in Mexico is no exception. TaiwanSCW posted this footage on YouTube, noting: I was watching a live cam of the volcano Popocatepeti, which is close to Mexico city, Mexico when I noticed this UFO. It was probably only visible…

io9 Annalee Newitz Mar 14

Russell Crowe snaps pictures of a UFO in Australia

Earlier this week, actor Russell Crowe posted this tweet, describing UFOs he’d spotted outside his Woolloomooloo office: Above, you can see the video. The internet went wild, wondering WTF these weird UFO lights were, and what kind of intoxicants Crowe might be on. The best response to the video comes from ParaBreakdown, where the good…

io9 Annalee Newitz Mar 7

Are there UFOs in hidden hangars at Papoose Dry Lake?

Why is a dry lake bed in Nevada the source of continuous controversy in the UFO community? Robert Lazar, a self-proclaimed Area 51 employee, went public with tales of flying saucers and “greys” hidden in plain sight of the fabled military installation. These stories of reverse engineered UFOs and alien interaction created quite a buzz,…

io9 Keith Veronese Feb 26

Was Chelyabinsk meteor actually a meteor? Many Russians remain unconvinced.

Even in the land of dashcams, many still find videos of last week’s Chelyabinsk meteor to be insufficient evidence that the fireball tearing through the atmosphere was, in fact, a meteor. A recent poll conducted by Noviye Izvestia (a Moscow daily the Christian Science Monitor described as “fairly staid”) found barely half its readers believe…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Feb 22

Exciting footage of the Mexican volcano UFOs

The UFOlogy community is vibrating with excitement over two sightings of strange lights and a “cigar shaped UFO” over the Popocatépetl volcano in Mexico. I love these two videos so much — the music makes them so much more portentous and scary! They were taken this week and two weeks ago respectively. Why do volcanoes…

io9 Annalee Newitz Feb 22

At Last, an Amazing UFO Video Without Blurring!

This is about to be your favorite UFO video of all time. Just look at the detail on that ship! This footage has been floating all over YouTube for the past few months, and at last the guy who made the film has spoken out about what he saw that evening. What he saw was…

io9 Annalee Newitz Feb 7

Is this really a 300 million-year-old machine gear?

A man in Russia has discovered a piece of coal in the Chernogorodskiy mines that contains what appears to be the remains of a machine that is 300 million years old. Could it be an ancient space ship or evidence of an intelligent species that once shared the planet with Dimetrodon? According to The Voice…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 24

Did NASA delete evidence of UFOs from its photo archive?

UFOlogists are freaking out today over the removal of several photos from a NASA archive. These photos, which you can see here, have been used by various UFO groups to support their belief that aliens have been visiting Earth and governments are covering it up. According to The Examiner: The UFO photos first appeared on…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 18

The mysterious Area 51 graveyards where secret military technologies go to die

What do you do when you want to retire a top secret aircraft that is so cutting edge that civilians keep mistaking it for a UFO? Dismantling it might be a good idea, but it’s still possible that somebody could reverse-engineer your ultra-classified work by sifting through garbage dumps. Melt it down? Messy and toxic.…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 9

Real-Life Flying Saucers Prove That the Truth Is Right Here

These weird stories prove that extraterrestrials love Russia

This new UFO snapshot will make a believer out of you

Watch as a UFO loops its way into Popocatepetl volcano

A lot of UFOs are visiting Vancouver lately

UFO sightings in Canada rose alarmingly in 2012

UFO Disclosure Hearings in Washington — Sort Of

Check out this bizarre pyramid-shaped object in deep space

New conspiracy documentary claims that oil companies are covering up UFOs

Why Have We Stopped Seeing UFOs in the Skies?

FBI comes clean about infamous “UFO memo”

Footage shows UFO splashing down into an active volcano in Mexico

Russell Crowe snaps pictures of a UFO in Australia

Are there UFOs in hidden hangars at Papoose Dry Lake?

Was Chelyabinsk meteor actually a meteor? Many Russians remain unconvinced.

Exciting footage of the Mexican volcano UFOs

At Last, an Amazing UFO Video Without Blurring!

Is this really a 300 million-year-old machine gear?

Did NASA delete evidence of UFOs from its photo archive?

The mysterious Area 51 graveyards where secret military technologies go to die

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