Articles tagged with "saucers"

Most unidentified flying object (UFO) reports have mundane explanations. Celestial objects such as Venus or Jupiter, aircraft lights, balloons, and a host of other misperceived things seen in the sky. These stimuli, seen through a society's cultural and psychological lenses, suggest the presence of an unusual emotional climate which distorts perceptions and the perceived significance of merely terrestrial phenomena. Through time we have observed many different explanations for lights in the sky. In the late 1890s, hot air balloons were often sighted, and in the early 1900s airships were the go-to explanations. Numerous sightings in Australia and New Zealand were explained away as airships in the article Crowded skies by New Zealand Geographic, including a famous one in the then small Otago town of Kelso, in 1909.

If you are like me, you would have thought that Men in Black (MIB) was a delightful fictional creation appearing in Marvel comic books, as well as several television series which have embedded Men in Black characters, e.g. Section 31 (in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Enterprise), and the Silence (in Doctor Who). And we must not forget the two comedic films starring Will Smith as Agent J, with Tommy Lee Jones as Agent K; Protecting the Earth from the Scum of the Universe.