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10 Flying Objects People

Have Mistaken For Alien

Spaceships

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The SR-71 Blackbird looks
otherworldly.

MMS), was launched to fly within the Earth's Paper lanterns have also caused quite
magnetosphere. They're designed to observe the stir in the UK.
magnetic reconnection, a phenomenon that
Like the F-117, the SR-71 Blackbird was born occurs when magnetic field lines break apart and
out of Lockheed Martin's famous yet secretive reconnect, sending energy and charged particles
"Skunk Works" division. toward Earth. (This is what creates colorful
The Blackbird is the fastest air-breathing auroras.)
jet aircraft to ever fly — it's capable of traveling
at 2,200 mph (Mach 3+) and can make it from Simple party balloons have been
New York to London in under two hours. The
reported as UFOs more than once.
aircraft is a testament to the extreme measures
the United States took during the Cold War.
Designed to outrun anything, the
Blackbird is a reconnaissance plane. Its mission:
fly to a target, take pictures, then leave. For 50 years, the UK Ministry of Defense ran a
The Blackbird has served as the UFO unit within the Royal Air Force that
inspiration for many sci-fi craft, including diligently recorded UFO sightings.
Queen Amidala's royal starship in "Star Wars: But the "UFO Desk" was shut down in
The Phantom Menace" and the "X-Men's" X-Jet. 2009 after it got inundated with reports of
So imagine you're a casual movie-fan on orange lights floating in the sky. These sightings
a starlit night in the Mojave Desert, and a large all turned out to be paper lanterns, which had
black mass streaks across the sky at grown in popularity in the UK, according to The
unbelievable speeds. You'd probably think it was Telegraph.
In 2010, students at the Milestone School in
otherworldly, too. In the briefing held before shutting the
Mount Vernon, New York threw an engagement
unit, officials from the RAF pointed out that
party for their teacher. But 12 of the balloons
Satellites that fly in formation can look dealing with the increased volume of UFO
broke free and floated into the sky, heading
like something from a sci-fi movie. south. sightings was keeping staff from more pressing
defense concerns.
Within the hour, spectators in
Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood began
Drones also get reported as UFOs.
reporting that a strange, silver cluster of
hovering objects above the streets. Though the
mystery was quickly solved, several people
called the NYPD, the NY Post reported.
This was not a one-off occurrence.
Residents of Sioux Falls, South Dakota have
also reported multiple UFO sightings over the
past few years, which turned out to be high-
altitude balloons created by Raven Industries,
which is located nearby. As reported to the Sioux
Satellite arrays are becoming increasingly Falls Argus Leader, the company specializes in
common. But viewed from the ground at night, balloons that are used to monitor weather or
these arrays can look like the outline of a provide experimental internet connectivity.
shadowy alien spacecraft. In October of this 2018, New Jersey residents
The first such array was the US Navy's called and tweeted at their local news station
Naval Ocean Surveillance System, which about strange, blinking lights hovering in the
initially launched in the 1970s to track Soviet sky above the Garden State Parkway. But as the
naval vessels from low-Earth orbit. Township of Wayne Police Department pointed
In 2016, four NASA satellites set a new out, these lights came from a drone that was
record for satellite formation flying — they orbit being used to pursue two suspects in a Home
our planet in a tetrahedron shape only 4.5 miles Depot robbery, according to ABC News.
away from each other. This group of satellites,
called the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission
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