Inside America’s most believable UFO sightings from ‘flying house with windows’ to ’27-min fighter pilot co…

FOR decades sightings of strange lights, flying saucers, and alien abductions have been reported to the US government but it’s always been a wonder how many of them were taken seriously.

One of the most recent unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings was three «balloons» that were shot down over North America in February of this year.

It was later determined to belong to the Chinese government, which maintained that it was a civilian weather airship despite extreme speculation.

Years before that, in 2020, the Pentagon released three videos taken by Navy pilots who saw high-speed objects eerily disappear.

The videos were taken between 2004 and 2015 and were only released after the Department of Defense felt they didn’t reveal «any subsequent investigations of military airspace incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena.»

They remained unexplained to this day.

The U.S. Sun has compiled a list of the most believable UFO sightings in America.

FIGHTER PILOT V.S. WHITE ORB

In 1948, a twenty-five-year-old World War II fighter pilot George F. Gorman was involved in a 27-minute air confrontation with a mysterious white orb at high altitude above Fargo, North Dakota, History reported.

Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, the operator of Project Blue Book, which monitored and investigated UFO reports, said that this event remains one of the classics among UFO sightings.

“It was about six to eight inches in diameter, clear white, and completely without fuzz at the edges,” Gorman described the blob in his report.

“It was blinking on and off. As I approached, however, the light suddenly became steady and pulled into a sharp left bank. I thought it was making a pass at the tower,» he continued.

The orb bypassed his plane at speeds that exceeded 400 mph. Gorman stated that he thought there was «definitive thought behind its maneuvers.»

“I am further convinced that the object was governed by the laws of inertia because its acceleration was rapid but not immediate; and although it was able to turn fairly tight at considerable speed, it still followed a natural curve.” continued Gorman.

The Air Weather Service in Fargo later revealed they released a lighted weather balloon 10 minutes before Gorman saw the orb. They claimed this was the object Gorman must have seen.

AIRPLANE WITHOUT A BODY

On August 25 1951 in Lubbock, Texas, a group of scientists from Texas Technical College saw a V-shaped formation of 15 to 30 blueish-green lights passing overhead, History reported.

They used their scientific reasoning skills and assumed that the lights would return, and they did about an hour later, but in a much more disorganized formation.

Captain Ruppelt, the same man who investigated the Gorman Dogfight, also saw the Lubblock Lights from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

He stated that his wife rushed into their house saying «It looked like “an airplane without a body.” On the back edge of the wing were pairs of glowing bluish lights.»

Over a few days, many came forward saying they saw the lights, Ruppelt wrote.

UFO sightings are usually a one-off event, and hundreds of people saw these lights, which made this occurrence hard to claim as a UFO extraterrestrial sighting.

FLYING HOUSE WITH WINDOWS

In Southwestern Illinois in 2000, 66-year-old mini golf owner Melvern Noll was stopping by his business to check if he had frozen points.

When he exited his building he saw a brightly lit object in the sky that he described as «a flying house with windows on the top and bottom,» The Debrief reported.

Noll called the police, and Officer Ed Barton was initially skeptical.

However, as he was driving, he saw a bright light in the sky and pulled over to further observe.

He went on to describe it as a «huge» object in the sky that was longer than it was wide and had three white lights and one red light.

Moments after he saw it, it flew away at high speeds toward Shiloh, Illinois.

Officers all over Illinois witnessed this object in the sky, equally confused.

In 2014 an investigative reporter collected and released source material in a documentary.

With all of the information collected it became clear that not all of the sightings lined up.

The documentary mentioned that there was speculation that Scott Air Force Base was involved suggesting a government or military cover-up. There was nothing to discredit the witnesses.

TURNPIKE LIGHTS

In 2001, people stopped driving on the Arthur Kill Waterway between Staten Island, New York, and Carteret New Jersey to look up at the sky around 15 minutes after midnight, History reported.

When they looked at the sky they saw strange orange and yellow lights in a V formation.

Witnesses included Lt. Daniel Tarrant of Carteret Police Department and many others from the Throgs Neck Bridge on Long Island and Fort Lee, New Jersey near the George Washington Bridge.

It was initially denied that the lights could have been from an airplane, space flight, or military jet.

The New York Strange Phenomena Investigators (NY-SPI) group claimed to have received FAA radar data affirming the UFO sighting.

METALLIC CRAFT

In 2006, Flight 446 was about to leave Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and fly to North Carolina when an employee on the tarmac noticed a dark grey metallic craft hovering over gate C17, History reported.

On that day, 12 United employees and a few other witnesses outside the airport saw the metallic craft.

Witnesses claim that it hovered above the gate for about five minutes before shooting upward, where it broke a hole in the clouds.

The hole was large enough that pilots could see the blue sky.

This story made international news, but because the UFO was not seen on the radar, the FAA declared it a «weather phenomenon» and would not pursue any investigation.

STROBE LIGHT IN THE SKY

In 2008, the small town of Stephenville Texas, known for its dairy farms, had dozens of reports of white lights above Highway 67, History reported.

Reports stated lights first in a single horizontal arc and then in vertical parallel lines.

Steve Allen, a local pilot estimated that the strobe lights «spanned about a mile long and a half mile wide,” traveling about 3,000 miles per hour.

People compared this event to the Phoenix Lights sightings of 1977.

The U.S. Air Force later revealed that plans were flying around that area, but witnesses thought what they saw was too technologically advanced for humans and didn’t buy the explanation.

OBJECT FLYING OVER PILOTS

Two pilots on different aircraft reported something flying over them in 2018, ABC News reported.

One of the pilots asked the controller if anyone passed above them and they responded «Negative.»

Moments later, another plane reported an object flying at least two to three thousand feet above them.

«Couldn’t make it out whether it was a balloon or whatnot. But it was just really beaming light or could have had a big reflection and was several thousand feet above us going the opposite direction,» the pilot stated.

The pilot who saw the object first said the sighting was «rather uneventful,» but notified air traffic control in case of a collision with the object, reported ABC News.