Showing posts with label San Francisco Bay Area. Show all posts
Showing posts with label San Francisco Bay Area. Show all posts
Thursday, August 06, 2015
Mapping UFO Sightings All Around the Bay Area
According to a new map that compiles more than 90,000 UFO sightings across the United States since 1905, there have been just two sightings within San Francisco's city limits during that time. Back in 2000, six people reported seeing a circular object with a turquoise hue, but it turns out that they may have just been witnessing a missile launch out of Vandenburg Air Force Base. Three more people reported a fireball out over the Pacific Ocean back in 2011. Although San Francisco itself has been fairly quiet on the UFO front, there have been plenty of UFO reports around the Bay Area over the past hundred or so years, especially in the East Bay. . . .
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Bay Area UFO Sightings Investigated By the Air Force
From 1947 to 1969, the Air Force recorded 12,618 UFO sightings and spent significant resources investigating each claim during an era rife with Cold War paranoia about enemies' secret weapons. Here's six doozies from the Bay Area:
San Mateo: Boy spots 'flying saucer'
On the morning on Dec. 6, 1962, a young San Mateo teen looked up in the sky and reported seeing a "flying saucer," about 100-feet in diameter, oval-shaped, soundless and red. In his handwritten letter to the Air Force
the 13-year-old boy recounted how he eyeballed the object traveling at between 100 mph to 2,000 mph. He included a drawing of the UFO, an oval with another concentric oval inside of it. The inner circle was labeled "elevated" while the large ring was "smooth." He compared the drawing to the 1951 movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still," where an alien lands and tells Earthlings they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.
He concluded his report: "A lot of people think I'm batty but I don't care because I really did see it. I think it came from Venus. I'm very interested in science too so I'm not a crackpot." . . .