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This category is for alien creatures reported in UFO conspiracy theories and urban legends, which are claimed by people who share these narratives to exist in real life. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
This is a list of extraterrestrial beings that have been reported in close encounters, claimed or speculated to be associated with unidentified flying objects (UFOs) (not to be confused with the meaning of the term "alien species" in the biological science of ecology). [1]
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Most commonly reported shapes in UFO sightings gathered by the National UFO Reporting Center Online Database (NUFORC) This is a list of notable reported sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and related claims of close encounters ...
The following are some major studies undertaken during the past 70+ years that reported on identification of UFOs: Project Sign; Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 (referred to further below as BBSR) was a massive statistical study the Battelle Memorial Institute did for the USAF of 3,200 UFO cases between 1952 and 1954.
The existence of the Calvine photographs was first reported by former Ministry of Defence desk officer Nick Pope in his 1996 book Open Skies, Closed Minds based on his experiences logging UFO sightings reported to the MOD while assigned to Sec(AS)2 on what was known as ‘the UFO desk’, from 1991 to 1994.
Hynek was the leading scientific consultant for Project Blue Book and claimed that UFOs studies had the potential to advance scientific knowledge. Pope oversaw Great Britain's UFO desk from 1991 to 1994 and maintained that "whatever the true nature of this phenomenon, it raises important defence, national security and air safety issues". [2]
An unidentified flying object (UFO), or unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP), [a] is any perceived airborne, submerged or transmedium phenomenon that cannot be immediately identified or explained. [2] Upon investigation, most UFOs are identified as known objects or atmospheric phenomena, while a small number remain unexplained.
UAPs are defined as phenomena or observations of events in the air, sea, space, and land that cannot be identified as aircraft or as known natural phenomena. The acronym UAP seeks to provide separation from the assumptions about extraterrestrial life and other associations in popular culture with the older acronym UFO ("unidentified flying ...