As Freud once said, “Sometimes a meteor is just a meteor.”
According to Fox 12 in Idaho, several residents mistook a meteor for a UFO.
Several residents all across the Northwest saw the meteor on Tuesday and flooded local police stations with reports of the sighting. But a surveillance video from the Idaho National Guard proved the sighting was just a space rock entering the Earth’s orbit.
It took the government more than a week to address the Stephenville UFO sightings, but the Air Force claims the lights people saw in the sky were nothing more than one of their aircraft.
According to the New York Times, the Air Force is now saying the spacecraft the people of Stephenville saw were 10 F-16 fighter jets doing routine training maneuvers over the city.
Of course, a lot of people aren’t buying the explanation. First of all, the Air Force changed their story more than a week later when they said there were no aircraft scheduled to fly over Stephenville that night. And secondly, many of the witnesses claimed the aircraft flew much closer to the ground.
It seems that a lot of the UFOs reported around the first and last day of the year might just be New Year’s celebrations.
According to the San Diego Union Tribune, the National UFO Reporting Center got a hot bed of reports around the recent New Year’s holiday.
The NURC said they got enough reports in one night to consider following them up with further investigations.
If you’re looking up in the sky and you see a spherical object hanging in the night, could it be a UFO?
According to WRAL.com, it’s actually Venus.
Apparently, at this time of year, Venus can be highly visible with the naked eye and it’s often mistaken and reported as a UFO in the skies. It’s not uncommon that so many people may see it as a UFO since it’s the third brightest object in the sky.
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