Oklahoma residents baffled as night sky is lit up by a UFO – or was it?
- Steve Aragona filmed the light moving through the sky from his lawn in Oklahoma City
- He, his children and neighbors couldn’t figure out what it was and posted it online
- Experts said it looked like a rocket, but launch times do not match
A father and his young children saw a bright light moving across the sky in Oklahoma and they think it could be a UFO.
Steve Aragona was on the front lawn of his Oklahoma City home at 7:29 PM CST on Monday when the object lit up the sky.
He posted a video of the incident online. One child said it looked like a shooting star, but was told it was moving too slowly. Another child thought it must be a UFO.
Suddenly, a blurry circle came from the object as it moved, as if it were blowing a smoke ring, and moved in the opposite direction.
“It looks like it’s breaking away from itself,” Aragona said, before one of the children said the ring looked more like a sound wave.
Some people who saw the video thought it could be a Space X rocket that took off from Florida at about the same time.
However, the launch took place at 6:56 PM EST, making it an hour and a half later than when the video was recorded.
The video was also shot out west, and Florida is east of Oklahoma, leading experts to believe it must be something else.
Oklahoma University aerospace professor Ken Carson told KFOR that it looked like a rocket taking off, even though it was not the Space X launch.
“It looked like a normal rocket ascent with a booster separating the staging. It’s a new explosion, if you will, of oxidized propellant coming from the separation of that first stage,” he said.
The Vandenberg Space Force base in Southern California said it was not one of its rockets.
Suddenly, a blurry circle came from the object as it moved, as if it were blowing a smoke ring, and moved in the opposite direction
More than 100,000 claimed alien sightings were submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center between 2000 and 2023
More than 100,000 claimed alien sightings were filed with the National UFO Reporting Center between 2000 and 2023, according to data from the Center and the U.S. Census Bureau.
The national average of alleged alien sightings between those years across the country is 34.3 per 100,000 residents.
Unsurprisingly, most are in Lincoln Country, Nevada, where Area 51 is located, with 820.9 sightings per 100,000 residents.
Area 51 is one of the most famous secret air bases that are full of them urban legends about aliens and UFOs.
Other areas where nearly 500 to 600 aliens have been sighted between 2003 and 2023 include Alpine County, California, Petroleum County, Montana and La Paz County, Arizona.