While many people are busy over the festive period trying to spot Santa’s sleigh, others are scanning the sky looking for UFOs. According to extraterrestrial experts, the holidays coincide with an increase in reports of UFO sightings.
There have been supposed encounters reported all over the globe during the Yuletide period over the last 50 years. From the bizarre to the frightening, the Daily Star has compiled a comprehensive list of the most publicized Christmas UFO encounters.
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Landings on Boxing Day
A series of sightings were recorded near a US Air Force base in Suffolk, England on December 26, 1980. Noticing strange lights above a wooded area, servicemen went to investigate the source.
Sgt Jim Penniston, one of the servicemen, said that he encountered an extraterrestrial craft, 3M in height, that had “smooth, opaque, black glass”. However, Penniston said it suddenly disappeared.
His reports were corroborated the following night when Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt, a deputy commander at RAF Woodbridge, claimed to have seen a levitating object that had “a beam coming down to the ground”.
The area was later said to have abnormally high radiation level readings. Nick Pope, who is a UFO expert and Former Ministry of Defence member, calls it Britain’s “most convincing case”.
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Christmas Lights or UFOs
A Ministry of Defence file in the U.K. refers to an alleged sighting near Brighton in England on Christmas Eve, 2008. Similarly, the next day, there were further sightings in Britain, with two in Scotland: one in Perth and the other in Glasgow.
Other Christmas Day sightings were recorded in East Sussex in England in 1983, where strange orange lights were noticed in formation. Meanwhile, a pyramid-shaped craft, which had two bright lights, was spotted in Wales in 1985.
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A Vietnam Encounter
Cheryl Costa, a US Air Force veteran, believes she may have encountered a UFO while being deployed in Vietnam over Christmas 1971. The then 19-year-old observed a “bright star-like object zooming from the north” that levitated in the sky before stopping.
“It seemed to dance or dart around before it dashed toward the south at tremendous speed,» she said.
A German Christmas UFO?
Hundreds of German residents reported spotting strange lights in the sky on Christmas Eve 2011. The tail ends of objects, described by many as orbs, were in Christmas colour, green white and red.
There was debate as to where the lights emanated from. Some said Santa’s sleigh, others said their origin was extraterrestrial, while the official explanation is that the lights belonged to a Russian Soyuz rocket that was falling back into Earth’s atmosphere.
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Sightings on a bicycle
In 1957, two friends were cycling home from a Christmas party when they reported seeing a strange object in the sky near Norfolk in England. Olaf Davy, and his friend deduced that craft wasn’t an aeroplane and said they «hadn’t been drinking.»
“It was coming towards us. A long thing like an airship but not so big. There were various lights on it,» Davy said. “It was a dark night and it came so close to us that we dived off our bicycles into a ditch.”
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Unexplained WWII Craft
During World War II there were an abundance of reports of Allied servicemen encountering strange craft. These sightings were so common that the unidentified craft were given the name «foo fighters.»
Close to Christmas in 1944, two US airmen, David McFalls and Edward Bake, were flying over France when «intense orange lights» flew beside their aeroplane before suddenly disappearing.
The two Americans had a similar experience on Christmas Eve. This time, the bright lights turned into a plane which performed several complex movements before vanishing.
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Christmas in Canada
In the early hours of Christmas Day in 2017, in Quebec, Canada a person driving a car saw a bright light that was “like a photo flash”.
An object, which had three turbines, then hovered over the person’s car. To date, there has been no official explanation.
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