But what we would need is some real, hard evidence, not just piles of of undocumented stuff off the internet, full of cranks, hoaxers and general shitehawks as it notoriously is.
It is this that gets everyone so exasperated, especially when the response to criticism of the information offered is, not to delve more deeply into well-researched cases, which would actually lower the temperature and be interesting and challenging to us all, but simply to flood the thread with even more unsubstantiated anecdotes - and then to claim that because of their number there must be something in it.
You can't simultaneously complain about me not posting compelling cases of ufo contact and then complain about me posting too many. That's a no win situation and you know it.
Oh lookie! Here's 10 well-documented multiple-witnessed ufo cases now!
"The
Lonnie Zamora incident was a
UFOclose encounter of the third kind which occurred on Friday, April 24, 1964, at about 5:50 p.m., on the southern
outskirts of
Socorro, New Mexico. Several primary witnesses emerged to report stages and aspects of the event, which included the craft's approach, din, conspicuous flame, and physical evidence left behind immediately afterward. It was however Lonnie Zamora, a New Mexico State police officer who was on duty at the time, who came closest to the object and provided the most prolonged and comprehensive account. Some physical
trace evidence left behind—burned vegetation and soil, ground landing impressions, and metal scrapings on a broken rock in one of the impressions—was subsequently observed and analyzed by investigators for the military, law enforcement, and civilian UFO groups.
The event and its body of evidence is sometimes deemed one of the best documented, yet most perplexing
UFO reports. It was immediately investigated by the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, and
FBI, and received considerable coverage in the
mass media. It was one of the cases that helped persuade astronomer
J. Allen Hynek, one of the primary investigators for the Air Force, that some UFO reports represented an intriguing mystery. After extensive investigation, the AF's
Project Blue Book was unable to come up with a conventional explanation and listed the case as an "unknown"...===
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonnie_Zamora_incident
Chicago O'Hare saucer sighting of 2008:
"At approximately 16:15
CST on Tuesday, November 7, 2006, federal authorities at
Chicago O'Hare International Airport received a report that a group of twelve airport employees were witnessing a metallic,
saucer-shaped craft hovering over Gate C-17.
The object was first spotted by a ramp employee who was
pushing backUnited Airlines Flight 446, which was departing Chicago for
Charlotte, North Carolina. The employee apprised Flight 446's crew of the object above their aircraft. It is believed that both the pilot and co-pilot also witnessed the object.
Several independent witnesses outside of the airport also saw the object. One described a "blatant" disc-shaped craft hovering over the airport which was "obviously not clouds." According to this witness, nearby observers gasped as the object shot through the clouds at high velocity, leaving a clear blue hole in the cloud layer.
[1] The hole reportedly seemed to close itself shortly afterward.
According to the
Chicago Tribune's Jon Hilkevitch, "The disc was visible for approximately five minutes and was seen by close to a dozen United Airlines employees, ranging from pilots to supervisors, who heard chatter on the radio and raced out to view it."
[2][3] So far, no photographic evidence of the UFO has surfaced, although it was reported to Hilkevitch that one of the United Airlines pilots was in possession of a digital camera at the time of the sighting and may have photographed the event."===
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_O'Hare_International_Airport_UFO_sighting
The Belgian UFO wave of 1989-1990:
"The Belgian UFO wave began in November 1989. The events of 29 November would be documented by no less than thirty different groups of witnesses, and three separate groups of police officers. All of the reports related a large object flying at low altitude. The craft was of a flat, triangular shape, with lights underneath. This giant craft did not make a sound as it slowly moved across the landscape of Belgium. There was free sharing of information as the Belgian populace tracked this craft as it moved from the town of Liege to the border of the Netherlands and Germany.
[1]
The Belgian UFO wave peaked with the events of the night of 30/31 March 1990. On that night, unknown objects were tracked on
radar, chased by two Belgian Air Force
F-16s, photographed, and were sighted by an estimated 13,500 people on the ground – 2,600 of whom filed written statements describing in detail what they had seen.
[2]Following the incident, the Belgian air force released a report detailing the events of that night..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_UFO_wave