UFO Photos Draw National Attention
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Posted: 2008-03-29 23:08:58
Filed Under: Nation News, Science News, Weird News

(March 29) - The tiny beach town of Capitola, Calif., is buzzing about a mysterious object that appears to have been photographed on May 16 of last year. Someone using the name Raji posted images on the Web site Craigslist, answered a few questions from UFO hunters around the world, and then just disappeared into cyberspace.

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More than 50 residents of Stephenville, Texas, reported seeing a large, silent, fast-moving object hovering over their rural town in early January. Initially, the military said it didn't have any planes in the area, but later officials claimed that F-16 fighters were training around that time.

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Mexican Air Force pilots filmed strange brightly lit objects that moved quickly in the skies on March 5, 2004. Some scientists said the phenomenon could have been caused by gases in the atmosphere.

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An unidentified flying object was photographed by a government employee over the Holloman Air Development Center in New Mexico in 1964. Conspiracy theorists have claimed the photo is proof that the U.S. government has been in contact with aliens.

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America's most infamous UFO case centers in Roswell, N.M. Some people claimed an alien spacecraft crashed there in 1947; the military said it was a weather balloon.

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The Air Force issued the "The Roswell Report" in 1997. Countering claims that aliens were recovered at the site, the report said military officials picked up 200-pound dummies, pictured above, that were used in an experiment.

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While descending an Austrian mountain in 1954, photographer Erich Kaiser captured an image of what he called mysterious silvery-white flying objects.

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President Jimmy Carter, shown here in 1980, reported that he saw a UFO above Leary, Ga., in 1969. He filed a report about the sighting to the International UFO Bureau in 1973.

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Astronaut Gordon Cooper, who piloted several space missions in the 1960s, once said he saw a "typical saucer shape, double-cylindrical shape, metallic" UFO.

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An investigator in 1989 measures markings that some said were left behind by a UFO in Normandy, France. France began releasing its "X-Files" on UFO sightings last March.

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Meteors, like these darting through the sky in a time-elapsed photo in 2001, are sometimes misidentified as UFOs. Sources: latimes.com, abcnews.com, International UFO Bureau