MANY OBJECTS HAVE BEEN MISTAKEN FOR UFOS, FROM NATURAL PHENOMENON SUCH AS LIGHTNING SPRITES AND METEORS, TO EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT AND WEATHER BALLOONS. THE FRENCH UFO RESEARCH GROUP, GEIPAN, FOUND THAT 3.5 PER CENT OF SIGHTINGS REMAINED UNIDENTIFIED. HERE ARE A FEW THAT, SO FAR, HAVE DEFIED EXPLANATION
UFOS STOP PLAY
In 1954, two local football clubs were playing in Florence, Italy, when the crowd stopped watching the game. Instead, around 10,000 fans were looking upwards at a strange craft. It was described by witnesses as either cigar- or egg-shaped along with silvery white threads falling from the sky. Samples mostly disintegrated on contact, but some were examined at the University of Florence and found to contain boron, silicon, calcium and magnesium. While migrating spiders, which use webs as sails, were…
