World UFO Day

July 02: World UFO Day

World UFO Day

World UFO Day is a day for the UFO community to celebrate their beliefs. UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object. July 2 was chosen to celebrate as it coincides with the 1947 Roswell UFO Incident.

In early July of 1947, William Brazel, a foreman at the J.B. Foster ranch, found clusters of debris, approximately 30 miles north of Roswell, New Mexico. Brazel told the Roswell Daily Record that he and his son had seen a “large area of bright wreckage made up of rubber strips, tinfoil, a rather tough paper and sticks.” The next day, Brazel heard the earlier reports of “flying discs.” So, he gathered the materials up and took them to the sheriff.

On July 8, 1947, Walter Haut, a public information officer for the 509th Bomb Group based in Roswell, issued a press release stating that personnel from the field’s 509th Operations Group had recovered a “flying disc.” Then military released a statement that it was a weather balloon. Rumors and speculation continued. Then in 1994, the U.S. Air Force released a report in which they conceded that the weather balloon story had been bogus. The wreckage was actually from a spy device created for an until-then classified project called Project Mogul.

However, this day is still to encourage people to consider life among the stars.

Some people celebrate this day on June 24 when Kenneth Arnold, an American aviator and businessman, reported seeing nine unusual objects flying in tandem near Mount Rainier, Washington on June 24, 1947. This is considered the first, widely reported UFO sighting in the United States.

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