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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!In the past few days a story has come out about a new FBI site called "The Vault" that allows history buffs and Web surfers the chance to check out a variety of documents, including some about UFOs. One particular 1950 document seems to be taking on a viral life of its own. Written by FBI agent Guy Hottel and sent to the bureau's director, J. Edgar Hoover, it relates how "flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico. They were described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter. "Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only 3 feet ...
How do you stand out in a tiny desert town that boasts the World's Largest Thermometer? Easy. Open a UFO-themed beef jerky store. "The Gateway to Death Valley" -- as blistering Baker, Calif., is known -- is also where Argentina-born Luis Ramallo parked his now-famous Alien Fresh Jerky store several years. Ramallo, a deeply serious believer in extra-terrestrials, had first opened a jerky stand near infamous Area 51 (the Air Force base central to many UFO conspiracy theories), out along the Extraterrestrial Highway in Rachel, Nev. Chris Epting for AOL News One of the displays ...
When New Yorkers see something unusual on the street, they can call 911. When they see something unusual in the sky, they can call Joseph Capp. Capp, a 68-year-old retiree in Brooklyn, has launched what appears to be New York City's first UFO hotline, offering a sympathetic ear to those who have just witnessed an unexplained phenomenon. "When some people see UFOs, it changes them. It alters their belief system, it challenges a lot of what they believe," he told AOL News. "That can affect someone." But when witnesses try to explain the strange things they've seen, they face intense scrutiny ...
In recent years, there have been a lot of UFO sightings. We know that. But a question I've wondered about for a long time is this: What's up with all the triangle-shaped UFOs? From the U.S. to Belgium, France, Australia and even a reported flying "Dorito" in the U.K., these aerial triangles seem to enjoy our friendly skies. One of the most recent reports comes from the files of the Mutual UFO Network, where a witness described a huge triangular UFO that made a loud, hissing noise as it moved over his Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, neighborhood Tuesday morning. If there really are aliens ...
Here's a perfect example of not jumping to conclusions when you see mysterious lights in the night sky. Over the weekend, Chicago residents thought they witnessed UFOs slowly moving in the sky above the Windy City's South Side. Nicole Dragozetich was driving along 35th Street and Western Avenue around 8 p.m. on Saturday when she saw nearly a dozen people looking up at the sky. When she then spotted a line of orange-colored blinking lights moving in the sky, Dragozetich caught them on her cellphone camera, WLS-TV reports. One person on the video can be heard saying, "They came from ...
UFOs come in all shapes and sizes, but have you ever heard of a doughnut-shaped aerial phenomenon? Unusual weather-radar images have shown up on viewing screens in several countries, with one ring-like object appearing to be larger than Belgium. Though these formations may look out of this world -- leading some to speculate they are UFOs "cloaking" and "uncloaking" themselves over Earth -- the odd shapes have more to do with meteorology than mother ships, according to experts. In this first video, a very large, doughnut-shaped "thing" appears and disappears over Europe on a radar ...
Ever since three red lights in a triangular formation were seen and videotaped over Lafayette, Colo., there's been a flurry of online sparring between skeptics and ufologists over what was in the sky on the evening of March 20. First the background: A formation of three red lights was observed over Colorado. They were caught on video by Lafayette resident Leroy Vandervegt after his son Nick spotted them in the sky. The lights were described as continuous, unblinking, hovering silently in the air and moving together in the same triangular pattern until they faded away. Vandervegt never ...
The upcoming royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton is expected to be viewed by more than a billion people worldwide -- and possibly a few extraterrestrials, according to at least one former military officer. George Filer, a retired Air Force major, runs the National UFO Center and says it's common to see UFOs around important events. "The craft seem to have an interest in anything important," Filer told AOL News. "They've been sighted recently over Libya and near the Japanese tsunami." Getty Images Some UFO researchers hope that Prince William and Kate Middleton ...
Three red lights in a triangular formation that shot silently across the Colorado sky are making a lot of noise days later -- with some claiming that they're not of this world. Leroy Vandervegt, a 50-year-old resident of Lafayette, a town roughly 25 miles north of Denver, shot the video Sunday evening after his 17-year-old son saw the glowing orbs move from southwest to southeast along the horizon. "I don't know what they are," Vandervegt told the Boulder Daily Camera. "All I know is that I had no idea what it is. It wasn't a satellite, it wasn't an airplane and it wasn't a ...
It isn't often you hear about entire religious groups seriously interested in unidentified flying objects. But UFOs are what the Nation of Islam, led by the controversial Minister Louis Farrakhan, considers among its core beliefs. The Nation of Islam was founded in 1930 in Detroit by a former clothing salesman, Wallace Dodd Fard (Muhammad later added to his name), a minister whose followers believed was the personification of God on Earth. His student and successor, Elijah Poole (who later became Elijah Muhammad), referred to Fard as a spokesman of God or Allah. NOI followers believe they ...
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