Although UFO sightings have been reported for more than 60 years, the information gathered and analyzed by science reveals that there are no alien technologies or extraterrestrial visitation involved in these episodes. Here are three possible scientific explanations for the alleged “encounters” with UFOs:
Satellites, planes and weather balloons.A few decades ago, the US Air Force conducted a study (called Project Blue Book) of 12,000 alleged UFO sightings that occurred between 1948 and 1969. And they showed that at least 11,917 were either associated with a misinterpretation of satellites, conventional aircraft, balloons meteorological and various natural phenomena, or they were frauds.
Sprites.In 2009, Colin Price and his colleagues from the Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences at Tel Aviv University proposed that many of the UFO sightings would actually be the perception of a natural phenomenon, the “sprites”, which consists of flashes. fleeting and intense located above the storms, at a distance of between 50 and 120 kilometers from the ground. They are produced when lightning from a storm excites the electric field above, generating a flash that appears to dance in the sky and can be easily misinterpreted.
Holograms.In 1997, the German engineer Theo Diedrich of the Laboratory for High Temperature Techniques suggested that unidentified flying objects are nothing more than optical illusions similar to holograms created by the sun’s rays. A part of the light that falls on the earth’s surface is reflected towards the highest layer of the atmosphere, to bounce back towards the Earth, and the same fate runs other rays that are reflected before reaching the surface. If, in their zigzagging trajectory, both polarized rays meet at a point in the night sky, a three-dimensional image is created that, due to the Earth’s rotation, passes quickly before the eyes of an observer.
