Since recorded history depicted cave drawings of helmeted beings along with cylindrical shapes billowing pillars of flame the mystery of UFO’s and the possibility this planet is routinely visited by advanced life forms has tantalized, frustrated and defied all efforts of definitive proof. This in itself is the ultimate unsolved UFO mystery however there are millions of people worldwide that have no doubt of UFO and alien existence and all have their own unique stories to tell.
One of the most infamous of all unsolved UFO mysteries occurred near the town of Roswell New Mexico on the evening of July 2 1947 when many people witnessed the crash of an unidentified craft during a severe thunderstorm. Debris recovered from a ranch not far from a military airfield was reported in the Roswell paper the next day as an alien spacecraft crash however less than 24hrs from this press release the military commenced a high level cover-up of the incident, removed, detained and debriefed numerous civilian witnesses, released an official version of a story explaining the craft was a weather balloon and the conspiracy took on a life of its own.
The foreman of the ranch, Mr. Mac Brazel accompanied by his 7-year-old daughter found pieces of the wreckage two days later in a remote pasture far from the crash site and after showing this debris to the local sheriff, friends and family his life became quite difficult after an interview on a local radio station in which he described in detail the colored symbols along sections of small metallic I’ beams found in the debris. It was not long before Brazel was detained by military intelligence and questioned at length, and then accompanied by military officials to the Roswell Daily Record (newspaper) where he is ordered to give a revised and sanitized version of his story. Brazel is further detained and questioned for several days and when released he was told to forget’ anything had happened.
More than 60 years from this event investigators and UFO enthusiasts are no closer to the truth behind the Roswell incident. Reports by witnesses coming forward years later describe alien bodies seen lying on the ground, military aircraft arriving and departing with cargo bays full of sealed containers, roads sealed off and civilians detained while clean up operations were in progress. Roswell is a sensation of 20th century UFO activity and the veil of secrecy still remains iron clad on this incident.
On October 4 in 1967 a group of orange lights were observed by residents living in a small fishing village near the southern tip of Nova Scotia. Witnesses reported these lights flashing in sequence for a number of minutes then suddenly accelerating in a rapid dive toward the waters surface. The lights appeared to float approximately half a mile from land and then began slowly moving across the surface away from shore leaving a yellow colored foam in it’s wake until eventually sinking beneath the surface. More than 50 people who witnessed this event later described the object as dome shaped and approximately 60 feet long by 10 feet high.
A methodical search over several hours failed to find anything moreover there had been no reports of any missing civilian or military aircraft. Another UFO mystery that remains unsolved to this day. No physical evidence has ever been recovered and there have been no additional leads to motivate further investigation into this unsolved mystery.
In Bass Straight between mainland Australia and Tasmania on October 21 1978 a Cessna 182 piloted by Frederick Valentich disappeared under very strange circumstances. It was a routine flight until 47 minutes into the 69-minute flight when Frederick began reporting via radio an unidentified aircraft’ approaching from the east at incredible speed. The radio transmissions continued with a commentary describing this craft orbiting above and below him, it was a long shape and shiny on the outside with a green light and seemed to be playing some kind of game with him. The mystery deepened with a final 17 seconds of open microphone transmission during which metallic clicks were heard and then silence.
It was a clear weather with excellent visibility and the Cessna failed to arrive at its destination. An intensive search and rescue immediately went into effect yet there was no trace ever found of the aircraft or its pilot.
No matter how much the official position maintains the persistent denial there are more questions than answers for these events and hundreds more that are documented and witnessed by millions. Crop circles are attributed to UFO activity and despite our 21st century technology we are yet to discover how this phenomena occurs. So much happens all around us yet witnesses and people reporting UFO encounters are still treated as unreliable and reports are dismissed. Perhaps one day.
