A Spike I UFO Sightings

An image from US Navy pilot video. Credit: CNN 

A spike in UFO sightings by US Navy pilots has prompted Pentagon officials to brief the US president and other senior politicians about the encounters. President Donald Trump confirmed he had received the briefing earlier this week.

Wednesday three more US senators received the classified briefing, including Mark Warner who is vice chairman of the powerful Senate Intelligence Committee.

Following an increasing number of sightings by FA/18 pilots from Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia.

That spike prompted the US Navy to introduce new reporting procedures for its pilots in April, so it can more effectively track the sightings.

At the time, the Navy said in a statement that “a number of reports of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft entering various military-controlled ranges and designated air space in recent years”.

Pilots are seeing something out there – and their experiences are beginning to generate serious political concern. Credit: Getty

Where It began

Date	Name	City, State	Country	Description	Sources	Hynek Scale
ca. 1440 BC	Fiery disks	Lower Egypt	Ancient Egypt	According to the disputed Tulli Papyrus, the scribes of the pharaoh Thutmose III reported that “fiery disks” were encountered floating over the skies.	[1][2]	1

 

Classical antiquity

Date	Name	City, State	Country	Description	Sources	Hynek Scale
218 BC	ships in the sky	Rome, Italia	Roman Republic	Livy records a number of portents in the winter of this year, including vanadium speciem de caelo adfulsisse (“phantom ships had been seen gleaming in the sky”).	Livy‘s Ab Urbe Condita Libri[3][4]	1
76 BC	spark from a falling star	unknown	Roman Republic	According to Pliny the Elder, a spark fell from a star and grew as it descended until it appeared to be the size of the Moon. It then ascended back up to the heavens and was transformed into a light.	[5][6][4]