UFOs: 70 years of sightings

The 1947 Roswell UFO* incident took place 70 years ago this year. Initially reported as a crashed weather balloon, it was later confirmed as a military surveillance balloon, but conspiracy theories of alien spacecraft persist and reports of UFO sightings have soared


GLOBAL UFO SIGHTINGS, 1947-2017

10,000
8,000
6,000
4,000
2,000
0
1947 1957 1967 1977 1987 1997 2007 2017

1947: 49 sightings

2014: 8,621

2016: 5,530

2017: 792 (as of Mar 10)


July 8, 1947: Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) public information officer Walter Haut issues press release stating personnel from 509th Operations Group have recovered “flying disc”, which crashed on ranch near Roswell, New Mexico

Source: National UFO Reporting Center 

*Unidentified Flying Object 

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