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Mankind has always looked up at the sky, wondering whether we are truly alone in the universe. Every year on July 2, Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) and alien enthusiasts gather on World UFO Day to collectively look up at the sky and search for something unexplainable.
This quirky day has been celebrated since 2001 and the date was chosen to coincide with the infamous Roswell incident when a flying object crash-landed in a field. Conspiracy theories claim the object was actually that of a flying saucer, though the government claimed it was a weather balloon.
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However, many Americans remain sceptical of the government’s claim even decades later. A poll conducted in 1997 by CNN and Time magazine found that nearly two-thirds of respondents believed a UFO had crashed in Roswell. While some may think of World UFO Day as a joke, the annual celebration has a goal to raise awareness of “the undoubted existence of UFOs” and to encourage governments to declassify their files on UFO sightings.
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FASCINATION WITH THE UNKNOWN
We may think of man’s fascination with UFOs to be a fairly recent phenomenon, but people have been watching the skies for strange objects for centuries. Even as far back as 218 BCE during the era of the Roman Republic, there were records of “phantom ship” in the sky.