World UFO Day is celebrated by some on June 24, and others on July 2. It is celebrated to create awareness about Unidentified Flying Objects and alien life forms. The World UFO Day Organization (WUFODO) celebrates this day by encouraging people to think that humans are not the only beings in the Universe.
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The stated goal of the July 2 celebration is to raise awareness of “the undoubted existence of UFOs” and to encourage governments to declassify their files on UFO sightings.
In 2001, an organisation World UFO Day Organisation (WUFODO) decided to celebrate this day as all the UFO enthusiasts gather to show evidence they collected to support the theory of the existance of extra-terrestrial beings.
On June 24, it was reported that aviator Kenneth Arnold had seen a UFO in the US. Arnold described the UFO as a saucer-like object or a big flat disk design.
Whereas on July 2 1947, a UFO had supposedly crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. The incident reported was that on an unknown day in July of 1947, that there was a crash in the desert near Roswell, New Mexico as the US Army Air Force was carrying out a top-secret project.
Unidentified Flying Object (UFO)
The term “UFO” (or “UFOB”) was coined in 1953 by the United States Air Force (USAF) to serve as a catch-all for all such reports.
Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) are any aerial phenomenon that cannot immediately be identified or explained.
Most UFOs are identified on investigation as conventional objects or phenomena. The term is widely used for claimed observations of extra-terrestrial spacecraft.
Studies have established that the majority of UFO observations are misidentified conventional objects or natural phenomena – most commonly aircraft, balloons including sky lanterns, satellites, and astronomical objects such as meteors, bright stars and planets.