Ibiza visitors were surprised on Sunday when they saw something strange in the sky near Es Vedra. They believe it was a UFO.
The video went viral after a young girl shouted, “Look, look, look!” Her voice drew attention to a round, white object high in the sky. The camera captured the light hovering near the moon. Then, in a few seconds, the light moved quickly across the sky, causing tourists to gasp in amazement.
UFO in spotted in Ibiza
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The first famous UFO sighting was in 1947. Businessman Kenneth Arnold said he saw nine fast-moving objects near Mount Rainier in Washington while flying his small plane. He estimated their speed to be thousands of miles per hour.
Arnold described the objects as crescent-shaped and said they moved “like saucers skipping on water.” A newspaper mistakenly reported them as saucer-shaped, leading to the term “flying saucer,” as reported by Britannica.
Sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena increased over time. In 1948, the US Air Force began investigating these reports with a project called Project Sign. Initially, they thought the UFOs might be advanced Soviet aircraft. Some researchers, however, suggested they could be spacecraft from other worlds, known as the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH).
From 1952 to 1969, Project Blue Book collected reports of more than 12,000 sightings or events. Each report was classified as either “identified,” meaning it was linked to a known cause like an astronomical, atmospheric, or human-made phenomenon, or “unidentified,” according to Britannica.
Increased UFO sightings might be secret military tests
A Pentagon report from March 2024 concluded that the increase in UFO sightings during the 1950s and ’60s was due to tests of advanced US spy planes and space technology.
Officials stated there is “no evidence” that the US government has encountered alien life. Most UFO sightings were actually ordinary objects from Earth.
However, Pentagon officials acknowledged that their findings are unlikely to change popular beliefs about alien visitors, as reported by the BBC.
“The proliferation of television [programs], books, movies, and the vast amount of internet and social media content [centered] on UAP-related topics most likely has influenced the public conversation on this topic, and reinforced these beliefs within some sections of the population,” the report said.
The report is part of the US government’s effort to study UFOs, now called “unidentified anomalous phenomena” (UAP). This includes public meetings with NASA officials and hearings in Congress.
The report came from the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). It said that pop culture has influenced how people think about UFOs, wrote the BBC.
