8 MOST COMMON UFO SHAPES

weeklyworldnews ^ | April 13th, 2009 | Erik Van Datiken

[JoeProBono]

A mother ship resembling a giant football, a whirling coin-shaped disk that flashes across the sky, a diamond-shaped craft with a brilliant, mirror-like surface…

These are among the most common UFO shapes, according to veteran UFO researcher Brad Steiger, author of Mysteries of Time and Space.

Here are detailed descriptions based on Steiger’s analysis of several thousand sightings over the past 40 years:

[JoeProBono]

8. BLINDING LIGHT. Typically spotted at night, this UFO doesn’t have a definite shape - it’s simply a dazzling orange light. “But it moves methodically, as if guided by some form of alien intelligence.”

7. DIAMOND-SHAPED. This craft resembles the top half of a diamond mounted on a flat surface. Its exterior is polished and as dazzling as a mirror in bright sunlight. The UFO usually is about 18 feet across and 8 to 10 feet high. It has no portholes or windows.

6. EGG-SHAPED. This massive vehicle, thought to be a “mother ship” - has been reported to be up to 200 feet in length. It has an oval shape like an egg, with no visible portholes or windows, and glows slightly in the dark.

5. TOP-SHAPED. Reminiscent of a child’s toy top, this craft is fat in the middle and tapered above and below. It’s covered in multicolored lights. Powerful jets around its midsection move the UFO in any direction. “Round portholes often ring the vehicle. The body is often said to be grayish, like a shark’s skin.”

4. COIN-LIKE DISK. Shaped like a giant 50-cent piece, this UFO is the type most often reported by military and airline pilots flying at 20,000 to 40,000 feet. Eyewitnesses say the flat edger of the disk often is ringed with red or green lights. The spaceship is incredibly fast, zipping along at speeds of more than 2,500 MPH. “The craft has been estimated at 15 to 20 feet in diameter and 2 to 3 feet high.”

3. FOOTBALL-SHAPED. This craft has a thick black body that tapers off at either end. Smaller UFOs have reportedly been seen entering and leaving a bay on its lower surface - so it’s also often called a “mother ship.” Reports have placed the craft’s size at up to 80 feet long and 20 feet high.

2. CONICAL DISK. This UFO resembles a Chinese peasant’s large straw hat. It has a flat bottom. The craft is generally reported as being about 20 feet in diameter and 10 to 12 feet high at the peak, with no exterior lights.

1. THE CLASSIC FLYING SAUCER. This is the most common UFO of all; it’s been reported around the world for more than four decades, according to Steiger. “The craft has a metallic saucer-like body ranging in diameter from 10 to 15 feet. An exhaust port on the bottom emits a yellow light that dances like a flame upon takeoff. Bright lights rim the saucer and a clear circular dome is often seen on the saucer portion.”

[Dallas59]

[mancini]

[OneWingedShark]

...I suppose that’s true when the President is airborne...

[PetroniusMaximus]

[PetroniusMaximus]

[Star Traveler]

Here’s some Presidents about UFOs, some officials and a pilot or two...

“But I’ve often wondered, what if all of us in the world discovered that we were threatened by an outer - a power from outer space, from another planet.”
Ronald Reagan, US President, May 5, 1988.

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“Wouldn’t we all of a sudden find that we didn’t have any differences between us at all, we were all human beings, citizens of the world, and wouldn’t we come together to fight that particular threat?”
Ronald Reagan made this comment on December 4, 1985, in Chicago during a question-and-answer session after a speech about human rights and the Soviet Union.

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“I couldn’t but - one point in our discussions with General Secretary Gorbachev - when you stop to think that we’re all God’s children, wherever we may live in the world, I couldn’t help but say to him, just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from some other species from another planet outside in the universe. We’d forget all the little local differences that we have between our countries and we would find out once and for all that we really are all human beings on this earth together. “Well, I don’t suppose we can wait for some alien race to come down and threaten us...”
President Ronald Reagan, to the students of Fallston High School in Fallston, Maryland, on December 4, 1985.

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“In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think, how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask is not an alien force ALREADY among us?” “There are only a handful of people who know the truth about this.”
Ronald Reagan to a full session of the United Nations, September 21, 1987

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“I can assure you the flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on earth.”
-Former U.S. President Harry S. Truman - Press conference, Washington DC, April 4, 1950.

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“I feel that the Air Force has not been giving out all the available information on the Unidentified Flying Objects. You cannot disregard so many unimpeachable sources.”
-John W. McCormack, Former Speaker of the House, January 1965

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“I was the pilot of the plane when we saw the UFO. Also on board were Governor Reagan and a couple of his security people. We were flying a Cessna Citation. It was maybe 9 or 10 o’clock at night. We were near Bakersfield, California when Governor Reagan and the others called my attention to a big light flying a bit behind my plane. It appeared to be several hundred yards away. It was a fairly steady light until it began to accelerate, then it appeared to elongate. Then the light took off. It went up at a 45-degree angle-at a high rate of speed. Everyone on the plane was surprised. Governor Reagan expressed amazement. I told the others I didn’t know what it was...The UFO went from a normal cruise speed to a fantastic speed instantly...If you give an airplane power it will accelerate-but not like a hot rod, and that’s what this was like”
-Bull Paynter, a pilot with thousands of logged hours, in Sacremento California.

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Oh well..., there are a bunch more, but President Reagan really seemed like he wanted to get this information out about UFOs.... :-)

[PetroniusMaximus]

[Star Traveler]

Ummm..., don’t forget to include Truman in there, Carter and Reagan (along with a whole bunch of others...)

It’s UFO mania... LOL...

[TaraP]

Those are Pinheads..

Pinheads are earthlings.

[PetroniusMaximus]

[cripplecreek]

Klingon Recon missions.

[Future Snake Eater]

Wow...sounds like Reagan was a fan of “Watchmen.”

[Dallas59]

[PetroniusMaximus]

The planet Remulak is sometimes confused with Remulac, a small town in France.

[TaraP]

or Baby Formula.

[hnorris]

[americanophile]

[cynwoody]

This one was supposedly photographed in 1952 by the famous UFO crank George Adamski:

Adamski's pic strongly resembles the Hanebu, a top secret contraption the Krauts were supposedly working on during WW II:

[Always Right]

3. FOOTBALL-SHAPED. This craft has a thick black body that tapers off at either end. Smaller UFOs have reportedly been seen entering and leaving a bay on its lower surface - so it’s also often called a “mother ship.” Reports have placed the craft’s size at up to 80 feet long and 20 feet high.

Just looks like someone threw a football in the air. I would estimate the size about 12 inches.