Demystifying the Unknown: A Critical Analysis of UFO Reports

An alleged UFO was seen from a farm near McMinnville, Oregon 1950. Figure 1. UFO f rom Encyclopædia Britannica. Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) have been influencing people's fantasies for the past years. Strange nighttime lights recorded on VHS tapes that sometimes go viral and ongoing government cover-up stories are the main reason for the popularity of conspiracy theories around the UFOs (MacDonald, 2020). This paper has investigated the UFO phenomenon and sought to understand its characteristics, causes, and the ongoing search for life outside our world (ETI).  Various reports have been made about unexplained phenomena (UFOs) that frequently involve flying objects with unconventional flight patterns and shapes. Several accounts are still open even though some can be explained by technical devices like drones or experimental military aircraft (Popular Mechanics, 2023) or natural occurrences like meteors or misinterpretations of celestial phenomena (Davenport, 2023). ETH prop...