UFO History is filled with sightings of strange lights, and even spacecraft, appearing in the sky. These days unidentified flying objects are becoming increasingly popular to the general public. This can be seen by the many movies in recent years that feature aliens and spacecraft.

However, it wasn’t always this way. Not that long ago people who spoke out about what they had witnessed were subjected to ridicule much more often than they were listened to.

We must keep open minds and consider all evidence objectively. One thing I consider is that, in this modern world of ours, it is easy for us to imagine UFOs and aliens. After all, we have seen them in movies many times.

I’d like you to consider a few questions: What prompted ancient man to draw saucers and rockets on cave walls? Why would someone living during the middle ages include flying craft in their paintings? The key question is where would these ideas come from?

Personally, I think there is one answer to these questions. They were drawing and painting objects and events they had either witnessed firsthand or they were recording what others of their time had witnessed and shared with them.

Skeptics around the world have said these UFOs can be explained in other ways. Their explanations range from weather balloons to light from Venus reflecting off swamp gas and illuminating a meteorite. Other people say that in fact these sightings are visitors from another world.

The first sightings in UFO history were recorded on rock faces in ancient Hunan, China. The carvings depict figures coming out of floating cylindrical objects. According to scientists, these drawings date back to the time of Neanderthals around 45,000 BC.

The earliest UFO sightings in what we would consider recorded history can be found in 4th century Chinese texts. These texts state that a “moon boat” hovers above China every 12 years.

Stories of these encounters have been told for thousands of years. For example, a Roman author by the name of Julius Obsequens, believed to have lived in the fourth century A.D., compiled a book Prodigorium liber stating that people had seen a fire in the sky.

Despite numerous people having seen unknown objects in the skies, the first real investigation did not occur until 1232. The investigation took place in Japan after members of the army reported seeing odd lights in the sky for several minutes.

Recent interest in UFOs started around 1947. A sighting of several unknown aircraft was reported and was thought to be German technology. Soon after, the popular Roswell Daily Record issued an announcement from the military stating they had captured a crashed alien ship and its passengers.

Soon after, the military contacted the newspaper again and a retraction was issued saying the object was a weather balloon. There are many people who believe it is simply not possible for the military personnel to have mistakenly identified a weather balloon as an alien ship. And it seems even more unlikely considering the original announcement also stated that the military had found the bodies of several alien beings.

In 2009 and 2010 there have been many sightings around the world and particularly in China. Indeed, today it seems that China is one of the hot spots to find UFO activity. There have been over a dozen sightings across the country in a very short period of time.

Another country that is experiencing increased UFO activity is the United Kingdom. Particularly around the Huddersfield area.

Regardless of your own personal belief of these UFOs, they are very much a part of our lives. Few subjects have such a rich background going back as far in time as UFO history. The amazing drawings that have been discovered provide some basis for the belief that life exists outside of our world and at least some of them have visited Earth.

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