In 1947, pilot Kenneth Arnold saw several “flying saucers” and since then the public has imagined a UFO as a saucer-shaped object.
In fact, the most common type of UFO looks different.
At least in the last few decades. A recent document published by the U.S. Department of Defense reveals the most commonly observed type of UFO: it is round in shape (spherical), white or silver in color (metallic), and often translucent.
Sizes typically range from 1 meter (3.2 feet) to 4 meters (13 feet) in diameter.
It often flies at high altitudes of up to several kilometers, but below the altitude of commercial passenger planes.
These characteristics from Pentagon experts are based on eyewitness accounts of UFOs between 1996 and 2023.
The document was published on a new website dedicated to UFOs recently opened by a team from AARO – the Office of All-Area Anomaly Resolution, created by the US Department of Defense. in 2022.According to this document, 28% of the UFOs seen flew at an altitude of about 6 km and 10% at an altitude of one and a half km.
The rest is even lower
47% of the UFOs seen were spherical and the famous Tic-Tac shaped UFOs (oval and white) were noticed by only 1% of eyewitnesses. The disc-shaped UFO was not observed as often as the spherical one and was seen by only 2% of eyewitnesses, as well as a triangular, cylindrical or square UFO.
In second place (19%) are UFOs of indeterminate shape and 16% have seen only a few flying lights. The Pentagon also recently released a global map of UFO hotspots, according to which from 1996 to 2023 UFOs were seen more frequently in the United States, the Middle East (especially Iraq and Syria), and Japan.
In Japan, in particular UFOs are mainly interested in sites associated with nuclear power and nuclear weapons, these are Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Iinomachi community in Fukushima Prefecture. UFO sightings are so common in Iinomachi that it has even been given the nicknames “UFO City” and “Alien City.”
“We’re seeing these metal balls all over the world and doing some very interesting maneuvers,” Sean Kirkpatrick, director of AARO, said in a statement.
