When it comes to science, space is one of the most mysterious subjects. Even more of a mystery comes with the question, are we alone in the Universe? Do we live day to day unbeknownst of extraterrestrial life exploring each and every one of our moves? The thought of otherworldly beings living among us is terrifying and almost impossible to some, but certain events exist to make us dwell on our spot in the universe.

Roswell incident, New Mexico, 1947

After a severe thunderstorm, rancher W.W. Brazel and a son of the Proctor family rode out to a pasture to check up on how the ranch’s sheep were doing. On their way, they came across strange debris covering a large area. Upon investigating, they discovered a trench burrowed deeply across the ground that was over a hundred feet long. After Brazel brought home the debris he collected, the Proctor family suggested that he had found pieces of an otherworldly spacecraft. After consulting with military personnel, it was revealed that the military had been tracking an unidentified flying object, and that it had crashed over 40 miles northwest of Roswell. Major Jesse Marcel investigated the debris, describing them as “I” beam structures with strange, indecipherable characters on them. The strangest thing he discovered is that the material could not bend or break and that they were virtually weightless. After bodies had been found within the crashsite, an official press release was put out that the military had discovered wreckage of a UFO.

War of the Worlds radio panic

Back on Oct. 30, 1938, a radio broadcast known as “The Mercury Theatre on Air” had a Halloween special known as “The War of the Worlds,” an adaptation of H.G. Well’s classic book of the same name. The broadcast incited mass paranoia, panic and fear in the population as people thought that a legitimate Martian invasion was being reported. The cause of the confusion stemmed from the fact that many people tuned into the station during a musical intermission in another program and did not realize that the broadcast they were listening to was fiction and not actually happening as they sat comfortably in their homes.

Kenneth Arnold incident

Widely regarded as the first famous UFO incident and the beginning of the modern UFO era, the Kenneth Arnold incident occurred at Mount Rainier, Washington, in 1947 as the man himself, Kenneth Arnold, reported his sightings of UFOs while flying his plane. He described them as being high-speed and was actually falsely reported saying they moved like saucers across water, which is where the term flying saucer originated.

Aliens in the B.C.

Scribes of the pharaoh Thutmose III reported him saying he witnessed fiery disks hovering across the sky. This recording is known as the Tulli Papyrus and is often cited as the first recorded evidence of alien spacecraft.

Cape Girardeau UFO crash

In one of the most mysterious cases of potential UFO crashes, an entire town’s first responders and fire department were forced into silence about an unidentified vessel that crashed into the town. Military personnel removed all evidence from the incident, so the situation remains shrouded in mystery.