Classic UFO photos

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Hundreds of people saw this object, illuminated by bright lights, flying at a low altitude over a residential part of Levittown, Puerto Rico, in 1980. Police Officer José Cordero took ten photos with his Polaroid camera.

Picture taken by Carlos Diaz on March 23, 1981 in the the Ajusco National Forest, Tepoztlan, Mexico. Diaz claimed to have been abducted by whatever entities were piloting the "craft".

Hannah McRoberts took this picture near Kelesy Bay, on the east coast of Vancouver Island, on October 8, 1981 after seeing a strange cloud over a nearby mountain. It was only when the picture was developed that the disc became apparent.

A picture taken by an East German NVA unit in 1982.

Taken by Felippe Orego showing three lights over the Manhattan skyline, New York, on May 9, 1984.

This display of coloured lights was photographed by a police officer over I-84 near Waterbury, Connecticut, on May 26, 1987 after several cars lost power and stalled.

An American strike aircraft appears to ''duel'' with an object on May 9, 1988 over Puerto Rico.

Photograph taken over Vidnoye, Russia, on May 4, 1989.

An unattributed picture taken on March 10, 1989 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Taken by an unknown photographer at Stonehenge, Wiltshire, in 1990.

One of several documented cases of triangular craft seen and recorded over Belgium during the 1990s during one of the most famous UFO "flaps" of the last 30 years.

Video shot from the Space Shuttle Atlantis in April 1991 appears to show a metallic object appearing and then swinging in front of the camera.

Photograph of a circular, multi-coloured object 200ft above the over the Kincardine Bridge. The photographer had to lie flat on his back to get this shot.

One of a series of pictures broadcast on Chilean television from footage taken by a satellite over the Pacific showing a huge disc-shaped object over the Earth.

One of a series of photographs taken by Eric Thomason in Maslin Beach, Australia, on March 10, 1993. Mr Thomason said that the object rose out of the sea.

picture taken by Semyon Teglyov in Bogadinski, Kazakhstan, on April 27, 1995.

Joe Clower was photographing some workmen painting the gold balls on a city monument in Denver, Colorado, in January 1996 when he saw a strange bell-shaped object in the sky.

Lajos Kosina took this picture of his girlfriend in the village of Erpatak in Szabolcs-Szatmar, Hungary, in October 1996. The object was not noticed until the photographs were developed.

A Nasa image taken by the Solar Heliospheric Observatory (Soho) spacecraft observing the Sun on January 15, 2003.

Photograph of a lit object taken in the morning in February 2003 in Weyauwega, Wisconsin.

Photograph taken early in the morning over Long Island, New York.

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UFO enthusiasts call on Obama to release X-Files
UFO enthusiasts are pressing Barack Obama to release classified documents about sightings of alien spacecraft, encouraged by support from within the President-Elect's own White House team.
By Tim Shipman in Washington
30 Nov 2008

Desperate to see the US emulate the British Government and disclose reported "contact" with UFOs, the enthusiasts have written to Mr Obama to ask that his administration comes clean about the contents of America's "X-Files". They believe they have good prospects of success after public statements of support from both John Podesta, who is running Mr Obama's White House transition team, and Bill Richardson, the Governor of New Mexico - a UFO sighting hotspot - who is expected to secure a cabinet post.

In the letter to Mr Obama, the Extraterrestrial Phenomenon Political Action Committee calls on the President-Elect to "end the six-decade truth embargo regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race". The group wants the incoming president to insist on a "full briefing from your military services and intelligence agencies regarding what they know" and to open congressional hearings "to take testimony from scores of government witnesses who have already come forward with extraordinary evidence and are prepared to testify under oath."

The campaigners, who resent their common portrayal as nuts and conspiracy theorists, have high hopes of success due to their inside track with Mr Obama. When he was the White House chief of staff under Bill Clinton, Mr Podesta led a project to declassify 800 million pages of intelligence documents. In a press conference, still available to watch on the YouTube website, Mr Podesta said: "It is time for the government to declassify records that are more than 25 years old and to provide scientists with data that will assist in determining the real nature of this phenomenon."

Gov Richardson, a former presidential candidate and fellow UFO aficionado, has written a forward to a book on the so-called Roswell Incident in New Mexico, where campaigners believe an alien spacecraft crash landed near the town of Roswell in 1947 and that the corpses of humanoid aliens have been kept hidden under lock and key by the government. He has called for full disclosure by the Pentagon of what really occurred and reiterated his belief that there had been a "cover-up" during a presidential debate last year.

The campaigners, who want the truth "out there", believe that the British Government's decision to declassify thousands of UFO sighting documents this year has made it untenable for the US to maintain its policy of non-disclosure. Only last week a US Air Force pilot, Milton Torres, whose testimony was released from the British archives, appeared on US television explaining how he was ordered to shoot down a large UFO over the UK in 1957 and then silenced by military officials, who told him never to speak of the incident.

Stephen Bassett, Executive Director of the Extraterrestrial Phenomenon Political Action Committee, expects to have gathered 40,000 signatures via email and fax by Mr Obama's inauguration day on Jan 20 in support of his calls for openness. He told The Sunday Telegraph: "The truth embargo is now at the end of the line. The release of documents in Britain and France has put huge pressure on the US. It makes the government here look pretty stupid. I think we are seeing the Democrats moving towards disclosure. John Podesta has outed himself as an enthusiast. He thinks the American public can handle the truth. Bill Richardson thinks there was a cover-up."

Mr Bassett also believes that military and intelligence officials have studied the technology of alien spacecraft, material that would help the US develop new energy resources, as Mr Obama wishes, that will lessen US dependency on Middle Eastern oil.