In 1973, Jeff Greenhaw, Falkville Chief of Police, received a call about a UFO in a field outside of town. He went to the scene and saw a figure standing there that was slightly taller than 6 feet and was wearing a reflective material that looked like "rubbing mercury on nickel".

In May of 1973 in the Isle of Wight, two children came across a strange creature. It called itself Sam and was described as being a cross between a clown, an alien and a robot.

On November 2nd 1957, near the small town of Levelland, Texas, fifteen reports of strange aircraft and lights in the sky were reported to police. This incident has become one of the best verified UFO incidents in history.

Nestled deep within the Ural Mountains in Russia lies a secret military base named Mezhgorye, believed by some to be Russia’s Area 51 and possible the home of captured alien technology.

One March evening in 1994 hundreds of people around Lake Michigan saw strange lights darting around the sky at impossible speeds.

The Patomskiy Crater is a large scar on the landscape of Siberia that has puzzled scientists since its discovery in 1949. Theories about its creation range from volcanic gas to meteorites to UFOs.

The Rendlesham Forest incident is one of the most famous UFO encounters in the UK. Several unexplained lights and objects were reported around Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk by multiple witnesses.

Around the same time as the Mothman sightings of West Virginia, before the collapse of the Silver Bridge, people also reported seeing a strange man named Indrid Cold. Indrid Cold had a large, unmoving grin and seemed to be able to speak telepathically.

The Dropa Stones were stone discs with hieroglyphics etched on to them found in China and estimated to be about 12,000 years old. The archeologist who found them claims they speak about an alien race that has been living in China for centuries. Were they just a hoax or is there something more to this story?

On Thursday 25th February 1999 a team of 14 forestry workers witnessed an elk being lifted off of the ground and carried off by a peculiar flying disc shaped object. A few days later the body of the elk was found a few miles away.

In Varginha in 1996 residents of the city reported seeing a number of unexplained creatures and UFO sightings. Some residents believe the government was involved in covering up evidence of alien contact.

Suddenly a bright light streaked across the sky overhead and seemed to crash into a hillside on a neighboring farm. Did these boys witness the crash of an extraterrestrial craft?

We tend to think of UFO sightings as being a fairly modern phenomena starting with Roswell in the 1940’s but people have spotted unexplainable objects in our skies since time began.

While on this mission he and his cohort witnessed a huge dome of light stretching from the ground to the sky and travelling faster than any aircraft. Did the pilots witness an advanced Russian weapon we still don’t understand or perhaps something even more sinister?

Is it possible that the large amount of energy produced by black holes could be harnessed by aliens or even future humans for space travel?

While piloting a solo flight from Morabbin Airport, Victoria, Australia to King Island pilot Frederick Valentich disappeared. He reported his aircraft being circled by strange lights to aircraft control before stating “that’s not an aircraft” and losing contact. Valentich or his plane were never seen or heard from again.

In 1999 during a cold winter in Krahulov, Czech Republic a man named Vladimir Bastl was walking to work when he disappeared without a trace. His footprints were found in they snow but they stopped suddenly with no other sign of the man left behind.

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Most of us tend to think of UFO sightings as a fairly modern phenomenon. Surprisingly accounts of UFO sightings flow all the way back through history. Here are a few of the more notable ones: