Kripal says of UFO encounters, "These are not especially rare events, nor are they restricted to any culture, race, religion, or time period." Antiquity Date Rice University professor of religion Jeffrey J. Prior to the Scientific Revolution, they were often interpreted through the lenses of gods, ghosts, demons, and omens. Unexplained aerial phenomena have been recorded stretching back into antiquity. Mystery airships reported in the late 19th century are seen as predecessors to UFO sightings. In Sweden, early 20th-century UFOs were called Spökraketer or ghost rockets.
Allied pilots during World War II described them as foo fighters. What would later be called UFOs were reported before the 1947 flying saucer craze. Ruppelt explained that "the term 'flying saucer' is misleading when applied to objects of every conceivable shape and performance". Before Project Blue Book, UFOs were often referred to as " flying saucers" in reference to the widely publicized Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting. Ruppelt who investigated aerial phenomena for the United States Air Force in his role as leader of Project Blue Book during the 1950s. The term UFO was coined by officer Edward J. This list is not an endorsement of the extraterrestrial hypothesis, the psychosocial hypothesis, the interdimensional hypothesis, the cryptoterrestrial hypothesis, the field of ufology in general, or UFO religions. It includes reports of close encounters and abductions. This is a list of notable reported sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) arranged by date.
Most commonly reported shapes in UFO sightings gathered by the National UFO Reporting Center Online Database (NUFORC) You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
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