UFO’s turned 64 last month and flying saucers reporting are going strong.
Showing no signs of slowing down and enjoying the golden years, UFO sightings are at an all time historical high. Is alien activity ramping up for the big 2012 Mayan calendar countdown? Or are imaginations just running wild because we are flooded daily with the supernatural? Some believe hollywood and tv are responsible for us “seeing what we want to see”. The imagination will fill in the blanks with what’s around us and what we see all day.
There’s no denying supernatural is the hot theme right now: True blood, Harry Potter, Twilight and about a zillion alien and comic book super hero movies coming out daily. It’s not cool to make a movie any more unless someone has super powers or aliens are attacking us. Not to mention every year the aliens get bigger, their ships get scarier and their plots get more diabolical. The UFO has come a long way in 64 years from the first silver plain old ship to the more advanced shuttles that grace the silver screen. So who was the first to spot a UFO?
On June 24, 1947, an amateur pilot named Kenneth Arnold was flying a small plane near Mount Rainier in Washington state when he saw something extraordinarily strange. Directly to his left, about 20 to 25 miles north of him and at the same altitude, a chain of nine objects shot across the sky, glinting in the sun as they traveled.
Source: Natalie Wolchover Site: space.com
So why did they take so long to show up? Cave drawings show that UFO’s have visited man for centuries but why no reports until the 1940’s? Were they worried about mankind tinkering with nuclear weapons? It does seem like a strange coincidence that they show up as soon as we invent the bomb. Like a parent keeping an eye on a child, let’s just hope they have motherly intentions. But if not good thing we have those nukes…Happy Birthday UFO’s!
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