UFOs are in the news again, after the government recently acknowledged their investigations into the topic. This comes following a Spring 2020 verification of leaked videos of military personnel tracking UFOs which had been floating around since 2017.

In case you’ve somehow missed that, here is the leaked footage the government recently verified last Spring:

As some journalists have mentioned, the report released last week was a bit underwhelming, at least to those of us who are already intimately familiar with the UFO topic. It would appear they’re going for the slow drip (yawn). The only people whose minds will be blown by this are those who did not previously take the UFO phenomenon seriously, who really need the “powers that be” to say it’s real, first. 

Still, if you’re newly interested in the phenomenon because of these developments, I want you to know we UFO veterans aren’t holding any grudges. Welcome to our much, much larger world.

Now that you’re more open to the idea, you might be wondering where to begin. With so much UFO evidence to sort through, I’ve compiled a few of the best cases for your review, the evidential highlights of the history of UFOs, which you might find more interesting post-disclosure.

The Phoenix Lights

The Phoenix Lights are always at the top of my list, because they were seen by thousands of people across the state of Arizona and Mexico, and caused such a stir that they had to be publicly addressed by the governor. Unfortunately, his public address also involved a PR stunt bringing a clown in an alien costume up onto the stage with him to make a joke of it.

It was no joke to the many thousands of Arizona residents who witnessed it, however, and he caught a lot of flack from his constituency for trying to play it off. Serves him right.

Of course, every UFO case comes with its often bogus attempts by skeptics to explain it away, and in this case, the alleged culprit was military flares. The only problem is that military flares don’t fly horizontally across the state, nor do they block out the stars in an area the size of several football fields. If anyone says one word about swamp gas, I might have to throw something.

The Ariel School Incident (1994)

This case is also one of the most significant, not just because it involved numerous witnesses, but because it also involved an encounter with the ship’s pilots, and was investigated by a Harvard psychiatrist, Dr. John Mack. In Ruwa, Zimbabwe, dozens of school children saw a UFO land near the playground, humanoid lifeforms emerge from their ships, and give the children a telepathic message about humanity needing to take better care of the planet, and then return to the ship and leave.

The debunkery on this one says that it was either a “mass hallucination” or fanciful imagination of the kids. However, as previously mentioned, it was investigated by a respected psychiatrist, who found no indication of deceit or delusion. Besides, the idea of a “mass hallucination” is roughly as paranormal as a UFO, if not more-so. 

If anyone wants to explain to me how large numbers of people can hallucinate the same thing without telepathy, I’ll be interested to hear about it. 

Westfall UFO (1966)

In Melbourne, Australia, a UFO was witnessed by more than 200 people, consisting of students and teachers at another school. It was a disc-shaped object which was said to have lowered to the ground in a paddock (field) behind some trees, stayed there for 20 minutes, and then took off to the Northwest.

Although it was a long time ago, this one is noteworthy because of the numbers, with over 200 witnesses. Unofficial investigators even noted a circular area of swirled, flattened grass where it was supposed to have landed. As with the Ariel School incident, this one is also typically written off as “mass hysteria.” Cue eye-rolls.

The Belgian Wave (1989-90)

This was a long-term UFO sighting over a period of months, where triangular UFOs were witnessed by many people in Belgium, some estimates say over 13,000 witnesses in total. Some reports indicated that these triangles were large, and flying at a very low altitude. Fighter jets were dispatched to investigate, but were never able to spot the objects. 

Typically absurd explanations were offered, such as skeptics stating that the initial reports probably prompted people afterward to see otherwise normal sky objects as UFOs for a time. Perhaps the initial sightings were helicopters, some suggested, even though the sighting reports described them being silent, and helicopters are generally not triangular. As usual, there’s always a perfectly normal explanation, if you hack off enough of the pesky details. 

Malmstrom Airforce Base (1967)

Many researchers have made the correlation between the beginning of modern UFO and abduction encounters and the onset of the nuclear age, and the Malmstrom case lends some credence to the idea. A UFO was witnessed outside of the base, while simultaneously, active nuclear weapons inside the base were deactivated. 

This isn’t the only case of witnesses claiming that UFOs have tampered with weapons systems either, particular nuclear ones. There have been similar incidents at nuclear weapons facilities in both the USSR, and in Suffolk England in the UK, in 1980. 

Did we get someone’s attention when we started using nuclear weapons?

Tehran Sighting (1976)

Another military sighting, this time the object actually showed up on radar in Tehran, Iran. When fighter jets were dispatched to intercept it, all of their on-board equipment stopped working, including communications. One of the pilots later reported that a bright object emerged from the craft, at first thought to be a missile, but which went down to the ground. The weapons systems also failed, when they attempted to open fire on it. 

I really love the debunkery on this one, as skeptics tried to say that the object was probably just Jupiter, which was visible in the sky at that point, and that the bright object emerging from the craft was probably just a shooting star. How Jupiter and a shooting star appear on military radar and show up as “bogeys” to fighter jet pilots is an explanation I would love to hear. 

The Disclosure Project (2000s)

With the Disclosure Project, we have not just a case, but a conglomeration of over 800 witness testimonies from former military and government personnel, attesting to their first-hand experiences with UFOs, extra-terrestrials, and the government coverup of these phenomena. These witnesses have stated their willingness to testify before congress regarding their experiences, and the organization has attempted to do so.

The rub with this one usually comes with it’s association with Dr. Steven Greer, who may be too far-out a character for some people’s tastes, as well as a somewhat odd attempt at a press briefing in D.C., which they staged themselves, since congress wouldn’t hold one for them.

To me, the bottom line is the fact that many hundreds of professionals are willing to testify about their direct experiences from inside the government and military, and that’s fairly serious, all else aside.

Conclusion

Of course, there are many more that could be included here, as UFO sightings and encounters number in the thousands, and continue up to this very day.

The real question to me at this point is not “Are they real,” or “Does the government know they’re real,” or even “Will they admit that they’re real,” but rather, now that we the people know they’re real, what are we going to do about it? What does this change about how we see our own government, power structures, and our place in the universe?

I suppose the answer to those questions will depend on how far down the rabbit hole you want to go. Long-term UFO/contact researchers have many theories, ranging from simply secret government aircraft, to aloof alien scientists, to desperate time-traveling DNA harvesters, to inter-dimensional portal-hoppers. 

Whatever the case may be, our universe has to get significantly larger to accommodate this reality, once we finally accept it. I’m glad to see it happening on a wider scale, even if the process is a bit slow.