My exquisite shelf by Jaimee Burchett https://padlet.com/jaimeeburchett/m5jt08ukhnb7 Made with a dash of wit en-us 2018-11-15 23:42:22 UTC 2026-01-01 18:45:07 UTC hello@padlet.com jaimeeburchett https://padlet.com/jaimeeburchett/m5jt08ukhnb7/wish/306515855 UFO's are flying objects in the sky, people believe that they are spacecrafts and may contain alien life form in them.]]> 2018-11-20 19:55:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jaimeeburchett/m5jt08ukhnb7/wish/306515855 jaimeeburchett https://padlet.com/jaimeeburchett/m5jt08ukhnb7/wish/306523495 2018-11-20 20:19:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jaimeeburchett/m5jt08ukhnb7/wish/306523495 Kenneth Arnold paigewillcox https://padlet.com/jaimeeburchett/m5jt08ukhnb7/wish/306532750 While flying his small aircraft near Washington's mount Rainier on June 24, 1947 Kenneth Arnold claimed to have had a UFO sighting. He saw nine blue glowing objects flying fast at an estimated 1700 mph in a “V” formation. He first thought that the objects were some sort of new military aircraft, but the military confirmed that there was no testing being done at mount Rainier on that day. He described them like “a saucer if you skip it across the water”, the media came up with the phrase “flying saucer.” soon other reports came up about nine UFO’s flying across the region. Including sightings by a prospector on mount Adams and the crew of a commercial flight in Idaho. The government never had a true explanation for the sightings, they just said that Arnold had seen a mirage or was hallucinating.]]> 2018-11-20 20:50:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jaimeeburchett/m5jt08ukhnb7/wish/306532750 Lubbock Lights paigewillcox https://padlet.com/jaimeeburchett/m5jt08ukhnb7/wish/306533090 On the evening of August 25, 1951, three science professors from Texas Tech were enjoying an evening outdoors in Lubbock, when they looked up and saw a semicircle of lights flying above them at a high speed. Over the next few days, dozens of reports flooded in from across town—Texas Tech freshman Carl Hart Jr., even snapped photos of the phenomenon, which were published in newspapers across the country and Life magazine. Their official conclusion was that the lights were birds that reflected the luminescence from Lubbock’s new streetlamps. Many people who saw the lights, however, refuse to accept this explanation, arguing that the lights were flying too fast.]]> 2018-11-20 20:52:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jaimeeburchett/m5jt08ukhnb7/wish/306533090 Leveland paigewillcox https://padlet.com/jaimeeburchett/m5jt08ukhnb7/wish/306533443 In 1957, dozens of citizens of Levelland, Texas, individually reported seeing a rocket or strange lights that interfered with their vehicles: Engines died, lights cut out. Though the police initially thought the reports were a hoax, they, too, saw the mysterious lights, as they investigated the situation. Project blue book, a UFO research group created by the Air Force, was assigned to investigate the case. Their findings? It was an electrical storm and ball lightning that caused the lights and the mechanical malfunctions, despite the fact that there were no reported thunderstorms in the area that night.]]> 2018-11-20 20:53:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jaimeeburchett/m5jt08ukhnb7/wish/306533443 Tehran +explanation paigewillcox https://padlet.com/jaimeeburchett/m5jt08ukhnb7/wish/306533870 The September 19, 1976, incident in Tehran, Iran, started much like many others, with phone calls from concerned citizens reporting a bright light in the sky. An F-4 fighter jet was set out to investigate, but as it neared the object, its instruments blacked out, forcing the pilot to return to base. A second F-4 took its place, and as it neared the unusual light, it achieved radar lock. But then, according to the pilot, the UFO released a glowing object—the pilot assumed it to be some sort of missile headed straight for him. As he prepared to fight back, the pilot experienced malfunctions with his instruments, and he witnessed another bright object released from the UFO that headed straight toward the ground. He safely returned to base, despite the faulty equipment.After the incident, Iran contacted the United States to aid them in an investigation. An unclassified memo by U.S. Air Force section chief Lieutenant Colonel Olin Mooy detailed the events of the night: There are explanations for nearly all of them.

First, the bright light seen by civilians (and possibly the pilots) might have been Jupiter, which was visible in the sky that night. Second, as author Brian Dunning notes in a podcast, the second F-4 jet had a long history of electrical problems, meaning that the instrumentation might have failed regardless of a UFO situation. It also could explain the radar lock—it might simply have been a malfunction. The first F-4, reports Dunning, was never turned in for maintenance following the incident, so there’s no official indication that its instrumentation failed. And finally, as for the “alien missiles,” there was a meteor shower that night, which could easily account for the sightings.

]]> 2018-11-20 20:55:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jaimeeburchett/m5jt08ukhnb7/wish/306533870 The Belgium Wave paigewillcox https://padlet.com/jaimeeburchett/m5jt08ukhnb7/wish/306534685 At the end of November 1989, citizens of Belgium reported seeing a large, triangular UFO hovering in the sky. But other than these visual sightings, no evidence of the UFO’s existence was to be found—for now. A few months later, in March 1990, new sightings of multiple objects were reported, which were confirmed by two military ground radar stations. Two F-16 fighter jets were sent out to investigate the anomalies, and though the pilots could not see anything visually, they were able to lock onto their targets with radar. But the UFOs moved so fast that the pilots ended up losing them. Some 13,500 people are estimated to have witnessed the incident, making it one of the most widely experienced UFO sightings of the modern era.The Belgian Air Force had no logical explanation for the activity, but it acknowledged that an unknown activity had taken place in the air. The Belgians reached out to the UK’s Ministry of Defence to investigate further, but once they determined that the incident was not a hostile or aggressive one, they stopped the investigation.]]> 2018-11-20 20:59:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jaimeeburchett/m5jt08ukhnb7/wish/306534685