15 Most Chilling UFO Sightings Ever Recorded

Steven Allen and the jumbo UFO

Stephenville, Texas, 2008

Years ago, an unfathomably large aircraft hovered above Stephenville, Texas. Many people in the community saw it, and according to NPR, a pilot named Steven Allen reported that the unusual aircraft was flying at an estimated 3,000 miles per hour and being chased by fighter jets. People also claimed the UFO was “bigger than a Walmart” and totally silent as it flew through the air.

Richard French and the drowned UFOs

Coast of St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, 1950s

In the 1950s, Lieutenant Colonel Richard French’s job was to explain away UFO phenomena to the government. There was only one problem: Lt. Col. French saw alien ships with his own eyes, reports the Daily Mail.

At a Citizen Hearing on Disclosure in 2013, the then-83-year-old French told the truth for the first time about what he saw as a young man in the waters of St. John’s, Newfoundland: two UFOs that had crashed and sunk … and aliens trying to fix them. They succeeded and took off. He didn’t mention UFOs in his report at the time.

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Sources:

• TMZ: “UFO Allegedly Filmed in Nevada … Shimmers, Dips & Disappears”
• CBC: “UFO sighting in P.E.I. backed by national group”
• CBS News: “UFO hearing key takeaways: What a whistleblower told Congress about UAP”
• History.com: “How Betty and Barney Hill’s Alien Abduction Story Defined the Genre”
• Vanity Fair: “Alien Nation: Have Humans Been Abducted by Extraterrestrials?”
• BBC: “Rendlesham Forest UFO: Are we any closer to the truth 40 years on?”
• Telegraph: “Historic British UFO mystery was ‘prank played on US air force by SAS’”
• NPR: “UFO Is Reported at O’Hare; Feds Are Silent”