1. Mistaken as UFOs The Truth Revealed Jesse Ferrell / AccuWeather.com August 15, 2014

2. Many Phenomena Are Not UFOs Clouds Reflection Phenomena Atmospheric Electricity Man-made Objects

3. Lenticular Clouds Often formed by air flowing over mountains. Because these clouds continually reform as air flows through them, they appear to "hover" and have a saucer shape. aerospaceweb.org

4. Lenticular Cloud Photos “Jellyfish” Lenticular by Ron in Altoona, 2008

5. Lenticular Cloud Photos Photo by Jesse in State College, 2010

6. More Lenticular Cloud Photos Google/Public Domain

7. More Lenticular Cloud Photos Google/PR NewsFoto

8. More Lenticular Cloud Photos Google/Getty Images

9. Mothership Clouds Facebook/WGAL/Matt Moore Mothership Clouds. Extremely severe thunderstorms take on a saucerlike shape before they drop high winds, hail and tornadoes. Photo in Harrisburg, PA by Matt Moore:

10. A Mothership Cloud in Tornado Alley Google/Valentina Abinanti

11. Hole-Punch Clouds Hole-punch clouds are formed when a jet (or jet vapor trail) goes through a deck of clouds, forcing them to “rain out.” Photo by Jesse in State College (2009)

12. More Hole-Punch Cloud Photos Google/Keptelensig.Hu

13. More Hole-Punch Cloud Photos YouTube/@thaitvnews

14. Lightning Sprites & Jets Google/NOAA Sprites and Jets occur miles above thunderstorms, but are rarely photographed.

15. Ball Lightning Google/US Air Force Academy Never photographed until recently in the lab. Orbs of light can slide down from power poles or out of electric outlets.

16. St. Elmos Fire Google/Fly For Fun Rarely photographed, electrical sparks on objects (shown here on a plane’s windshield).

17. Rocket & Missile Vapor Trails Google/vietgiaitri.com

18. Noctilucent Clouds AccuWeather.com/ Clauslr Clauslr Noctilucent clouds are rare, extremely high clouds that refract light at dusk when the Sun has already set, illuminating the sky with seemingly no light source.

19. Lens & Light Reflections Google Maps / Google Earth Every camera lens reflects the sun and indoor/outdoor lights. Here a reflection of the sun shows up on Google Maps “Street View”

20. Lens Reflections (2) Google / Mike Wu The orange lights below have been enlarged and proven mathematically to be lens reflections from lights on the ground:

21. Atmospheric Optics: Ice Halos YouTube/Ken Rotberg Iridescence on ice halo clouds can appear above thunderstorms; partial halos (circumhorizontal arcs) can appear as rainbows in the sky. USAToday

22. Atmospheric Optics: Ice Halos AccuWeather.com / JWWalter Bright spots or rainbows on either side of the sun are called “Sun Dogs” and are caused by ice crystals in the atmosphere reflecting the sun’s light.

23. Atmospheric Optics: Light Pillars AccuWeather.com / ervol57 Street lights reflecting off of ice crystals or ice fog can produce “Pillars” in the sky. This was taken in Pennsylvania in 2008:

24. Non-Rain Objects Falling from Sky AccuWeather.com Tornadoes can sometimes pick up objects and “rain” them down. Some examples are: FISH (Australia, 2010) FROGS (Missouri, 1873) COAL (England, 1983) Airplanes often shed ice from their wings which hit the ground and are called “cryometeors”

25. Man-Made Objects: Weather Balloons Google/Kay Brooks

26. Man-Made Objects: Quadcopters Flickr/Ars Electronica

27. Man-Made Objects: Chinese Lanterns strangersintaiwan.files.wordpress.com

28. 100,000,000,000 Earth-like planets in the Milky Way Galaxy 20,000,000,000,000,000 Earth-like planets in the Universe I think Life is likely out there, but there’s no concrete evidence YET. Is Life Out There? “NASA Earth-Like Planets Study”:

29. “A principle of economy, or succinctness used in problem-solving” “Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected. Other, more complicated solutions may ultimately prove correct, but—in the absence of certainty—the fewer assumptions that are made, the better.” Which is more likely: -One of these many known flying objects was mistaken for a UFO? OR - An extraterrestrial life-form has made a long journey to appear in our skies but leave no evidence? Occam’s Razor

30. Wild Estimate: 30,000 of them are probably atmospheric phenomena Let’s say another 30,000 are known aircraft Let’s assume another 9,999 are camera reflections What if there is JUST 1 THAT CAN’T BE EXPLAINED? So there are 70,000 UFO reports per year…

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