Since the 1950s, UFOs have invaded our late-night thoughts and our pop culture. Or if your this guy, your crops… and that’s a major problem because it’s harvest time and if a third of your corn is covered in saucer skid marks and you’re not able to bring the best bushels to the Kansas State Fair, then there’s no stopping the bank from taking the farm this time. UFOs or Unidentified Flying Objects orrrr UAPs, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena as they’re now classified, have been written and spoken about since ancient times. However, an increase in reported sightings has people wondering……what the is going on. I mean how are you supposed to enjoy a day off work, curled up on the couch drinking a hot cup of cocoa when you know that you might have to go to war with ET any second?
Side Note: If you ever find yourself in hand-to-hand combat with an ET…. got for the limpy neck. Toss some pocket sand in its big creepy eyes and then a swift karate chop to the throat should do the trick. Next thing you know it’s phone-homing on the floor and you’ve been crowned Hero of Earth. You’ll have a new global holiday designated in your honor and finally, your parents will love you more than your over-achieving older sibling.
They may have not been piloted by a bloated naked orangutan but in recent years two UFO sightings have brought the farmer phenomena into the global spotlight. The first didn’t take place on Earth…but it did take place in our Solar System, which is far too close for comfort. It would be like if Pluto started dabbling with Nuclear Volcanos….probably nothing to worry about, but we’d appreciate it if that stuff happened in the neighborhood next over. In 2017, the University of Hawaii’s Pan-STARRS1 telescope discovered a 400-meter rocky, cigar-shaped object with a reddish hue wandering our solar system unattached to any star system (NASA). Scientists named it ‘Oumuamua’ which is Hawaiian for “a messenger from afar arriving first.” Oumuamua is the first confirmed interstellar object to visit our solar system. It was first classified as an asteroid but after it was reported to be traveling past the sun at an astonishing speed of 196,000 miles per hour, over 3 times faster than the average speed of an asteroid, scientists have given up that theory and are now wondering what it was and how it got here. Some say it’s still moving around our galaxy this very day…and by some we mean NASA and by say, we mean confirmed that it’s currently cruising around Neptune and Uranus.