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& B$312<371; -:8;; <2/ &$B /-:/+;/; Number of UFO Sightings Across the US Decreases Gather.com The National UFO Alert Rating System was updated on December 1 with California, Florida, Michigan, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Arizona moving to an Unidentified Flying Object Alert 3 level. These states reported the most unidentified flying object sightings during the month of November 2012. California leads the list with 53 sightings reported in November, down from 83 sightings in October, 69 sightings in September, and 75 in August. States in the Alert 4 level with 13 or flying objects floating around the space station, they have the mystery figured out. more sightings are Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, Mars, and another heading toward the sun. One guy says the object is an insect. North Carolina, Tennessee, Colorado, and New Maybe the people who are ridiculing Another says secret military drone being tested York. others are using that as a shield because they're by the government. Everybody has an answer The rest of the states moved to an Alert afraid that there just might be alien life studying for what it is. But are any of them correct? [] 5 level with lower numbers of flying craft the planet. activity. Watch states with ten or more sightings Keep those eyes to the skies because Chinese UFO linked to are Georgia, Washington, New Jersey, and something could be flying above. [] rocket Indiana. Even though there seems to be many THAT DENVER UFO Alan Boyle flying object sightings reported each day, Flying insects? Secret according to the Examiner, the entire country Chinese skywatchers marveled this month over was moved back to the lowest level, an Alert 5. military drone? mysterious rays of light in the night sky, and now California has the most reported sharp-eyed analysts are saying those UFO sightings with 53 cases; Florida, 37; Michigan, The Valley Chronicle sightings were sparked by a European Ariane 5 37; Texas, 36; Pennsylvania, 30; Arizona, 25 rocket that launched two telecommunication cases. (MONROE, WA) -- Okay so what’s the deal satellites from French Guiana. Alert 4 level states with 13 or more with this thing that supposedly is flying around Amateur astronomers in China's Sichuan sightings are Ohio, 22; Missouri, 21; Illinois, the skies in Denver so fast that you can’t see it and Yunnan provinces reported seeing the weird 20; North Carolina, 16; Tennessee, 16; with the naked eye but you can see it on a video phenomenon on Nov. 11. They watched as a Colorado, 15; and New York, 14. tape that has been slowed down to a frame-by- luminous object moved through the heavens, Watch states with ten sightings or more frame speed? shimmering with rays or rings of light. The reports are Georgia, 12; Washington, 12; New Jersey, An aviation expert says it’s not a plane made a splash on Chinese news websites such as 11; and Indiana with 10 cases. or a helicopter. Sina.com, as well as the Astronomy.com.cn But what do these flying crafts Denver TV station KDVR did a story on discussion forum. reportedly look like? The sphere remains the it not long back and the news staff found out "It is certainly a UFO," one forum poster most reported shape with 168 in November what all newsies learn eventually and that is that wrote in Chinese. Another wrote that the UFO down from 161 in October. There were 117 you can report all manner of serious, somber was a "blessing from another planet." (I couldn't sightings of flying objects that look like a circle; important stories with the best elbow grease determine how that comment was meant, because my machine-translation software doesn't have a 100 reported the craft looking like a triangle; 83 journalistic flourishes available, and not blow sarcasm filter.) sightings said it looked like a fireball; 82 reports the doors off in terns of viewer interest like one For a while, Chinese experts speculated were of a star shape; 71 as a disc, 67 reports simple UFO story. that the object might have been a comet — but couldn't explain what the object looked like; Fair disclosure: almost every news skywatchers soon figured out that the sightings oval shapes, 58; cylinder shaped, 33; operation including this one publishes one of occurred less than an hour after Arianespace sent boomerang, 32; flash, 29; square or a rectangle, these eye candy pieces every so often because the Eutelsat 21B and Star One C3 satellites into 22; cigar, 18; teardrop, 15; cone, 12; diamond, quite frankly it juices our readership numbers orbit (from the European Space Agency's South 12; bullet or a missile, 10; egg shaped, 9; blimp, like crazy. American spaceport, where it was still Nov. 10). 8; chevron, 8; Saturn like, 4; and 1 looked like a We could break a new Watergate quality "The detailed analysis of the height of the cross. political scandal after six months of grueling UFO and the timing of observation leads me to Additionally, there were 22 landings, work, sweat, tears and hours and hours of conclude that this was the ESC-A upper stage, 30 hovering, or takeoffs reported but no alien life reporters getting paid time and a half and paying minutes after all the fuel leaked out via forms were seen. for outside research help...and not get the passification," a Hong Kong observer known as Each day there are numerous reports of numbers jumps we get from one of these UFO Galactic Penguin SST reported last week on the flying objects skirting about the skies yet the US from outer space pieces. NASASpaceflight.com forum. was lowered to the lowest Alert level, a 5. Does People come out of the woodwork to Today, Want China Times said that the this mean that aliens are no longer as interested read this stuff. Don’t ask us why as we have not Beijing UFO Research Society has reached a in the planet as they once were or could it mean a clue but it happens all the time, every time and similar conclusion. "The 'rays' were most likely that less people are reporting their encounters we just have to thank the big guy above for the rocket jettisoning boosters or other parts and because they're afraid that they won't be small favors now and then. entering low Earth orbit after being launched 30 believed? Call us shallow if you will but we’re just minutes previously," the Taiwan-based online Popular television programs like like Sixty Minutes and the ABC Evening News publication reported. It's also possible that the "Chasing UFOs" that follow experts on – ain’t above juicing the old numbers now and swirls of light came from fuel or vapor emanating from the upper stage. Such explanations are unidentified flying objects have also been then. Squeeze-squeeze, Juice-juice. That’s us. consistent with a host of other rocket-related UFO ridiculed during the series. If experts are So the update on the Denver UFO piece sightings over the years, including Russian rocket laughed at who would believe the average is that the reporter who did the first story has stages that have been spotted over the Middle East person who might have spotted an actual alien been inundated by people calling and emailing and Scandinavia. [] craft? Yet, even NASA has spoken about odd them from all around the world telling them