UFOs

A UFO is an unidentified flying object. UFOs have been sighted throughout history and around the world (as well as in outer space by astronauts). While the vast majority of UFO sightings are explainable (identified flying objects, IFOs), a small number remain unidentified. UFOs are also a cultural phenomenon that has captured the imagination of many people, and visiting sites associated in history or the popular imagination with UFOs can make for a fun vacation.

UFO hotspots

A UFO hotspot is a location where an unusually high number of UFOs have been sighted.

Australia

Brazil

United States of America
  • Area 51, Nevada - An American military base formerly used for nuclear testing and believed by some to harbor the bodies of extraterrestrials.
  • Marfa, Texas - The famed Marfa lights are thought by some to be alien in origin.

Claimed UFO crash sites

United States of America

United Kingdom

Other places of ufological interest

Peru
  • Nazca - It is alleged that the Nazca lines may have been created for or by extraterrestrials.

United States of America
  • Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio - One of the locations where the Roswell UFO wreckage may have been sent.
  • Area 51, Nevada - One of the locations where the Roswell UFO wreckage may have been sent. The location of Lockheed-Martin's Skunkworks, where a number of secret experimental craft are tested, including the stealth bomber and fighter, which may have been responsible for a number of black triangle sightings.

United Kingdom
  • Rendlesham forest- A forested area near Woodbridge in East Anglia between two former US Air Force bases in England, which in the Early 1980s was the location of an alleged encounter with a UFO. Sceptics however have alleged that what was actually seen was the Orford Ness lighthouse some distance away!
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