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The following is the list of top ten famous UFO listings, which includes some cases of abductions and plausible alien sightings. While some cases have become folklore, others are popularly known mainly to enthusiasts and ufologists.
An UFO crashed on a ranch northwest of Roswell, New Mexico in July, 1947. W.W. “Mack” Brazel said that he later found debris from the crash as he and rode his horses out to check on sheep after a fierce thunderstorm hit the night before. He notice unusual pieces of what seemed to be metal debris scattered across a large area of land. Upon further inspection, he saw a shallow trench several hundred feet long had been entrenched into the ground.
9. The Hill Abduction
This is perhaps one of the most famous alien abduction stories of modern times. It involved a couple named Barney and Betty Hill. The Hills claimed to have been abducted by extraterrestrials in September, 1961. As they were driving on a rural road in New Hampshire, a strange disc-shaped light suddenly became seen in the sky. Barney saw several humanoid figures through the UFO, which happened to have windows. It was later adapted into a best-selling book, The Interrupted Journey and a television movie, The UFO Incident in 1977.
8. RB 47 Encounter
Arriving at number 3 is the RB-47 incident, another one of the famous UFO encounters in 20th century history. The U.S. Air Force’s RB-47 plane was conducting an electronic intelligence mission in July 1957. The team aboard saw that they were being followed by a UFO. The object soon began to come closer to them. The object was, at multiple times, seen visually by the cockpit crew as an intensely luminous light, followed by ground-radar and detected on ECM monitoring gear aboard the RB-47.
7. Rendlesham Forest Incident
A series of UFO sightings took place in Britain’s Rendlesham Forest, a woodland area situated located along England’s east coast. Air force patrolmen and eyewitnesses saw a UFO on Dec. 26, 1980 as it landed in the forest. On investigation, patrolmen saw a conical metallic object on three legs. The object hovered over the ground and soared toward the sky shining bright lights down on them.
6. The Alaskan Mothership
A set of lights were seen flashing before his plane when Kenju Terauchi, a Japanese Airlines (JAL) pilot, was flying a Boeing 747 over Alaska. The crew realized that the glowing objects were actually two spaceships hovering directly in front of them. The spaceships circled in formation a few times before disappearing from view. The mothership which they saw also disappeared as they began to descend.