The History of UFOs & Spaceships

The first documented UFO sighting occurred in 1561 in Nuremberg, Germany. It was described to be red, blue, and black shapes in the sky. In 1947 the phrase flying saucer was coined. The first person to describe it as looking like a saucer was a man named Kenneth Arnold. He was flying a private airplane in Washington and he described what he had seen by saying, " the objects were moving like a saucer skipping across the water." Since then it has become popular to use the term "flying saucer." Most sightings could be explained away but there are some that became classified information.

In 1948 the United States Air Force began the government's first official UFO panel, Project Sign, which studied 243 sightings. This panel changed over the years from Project Grudge, to Project Blue Book. There were scientists, engineers, meteorologists, and astronomers on the panel.

UFO sightings had people scared. People claimed in some cases to have been abducted by these extraterrestrial beings. Canadian records had totalled about 750 sightings in the 1960's. Exobiology is a branch of biology that deals with the search for extraterrestrial life outside our solar system. The entertainment world has given us their own view of UFO's and aliens by giving us movies like E.T. and Alien. They say there is truth to every legend and people who have declared to be witnesses to UFO sightings will tell you they will never forget the experience.