How to Celebrate World UFO Day June 24

By Margie Kay

World UFO Day is an awareness day for people to gather together and watch the skies for unidentified flying objects (UFOs).

Dates of Observance

The day is celebrated by some on June 24, since it is the anniversary of the famous sighting by Kenneth Arnold. This sighting is considered to be the first widely reported UFO in the United States. On June 24, 1947, Kenneth Arnold claimed that he saw a series of nine shiny unidentified flying objects flying past Mount Rainier at speeds that Arnold estimated at a minimum of 1,200 miles an hour (1,932 km/h). This was the first post-World War II sighting in the United States that garnered nationwide news coverage and is credited with being the first of the modern era of UFO sightings, including numerous reported sightings during the next two to three weeks. Arnold's description of the objects also resulted in the press soon inventing the terms flying saucer and flying disc as popular descriptive terms for UFOs.

July 2 is the date of the UFO crash in the 1947 Roswell incident. July 2 was declared as the official World UFO Day by the World UFO Day Organisation. It is believed that the first World UFO Day was celebrated in 2001 by UFO researcher Haktan Akdogan. World UFO Day is now celebrated by many UFO organizations around the world.

Purpose

The stated goal of the June 24 and July 2 celebrations is to raise awareness of "the undoubted existence of UFOs" and to encourage governments to declassify their files on UFO sightings. World UFO Day is celebrated by stirring conversations about how and why humans are not the only beings in the Universe.

Un-X Worldwide Skywatch

For UFO Day this year, the Un-X Network is planning a skywatch on June 24 worldwide. So gather your binoculars, cell phone, video camera, and night vision equipment and keep an eye to the skies. Report what you see at the Un-X Network Facebook Group www.facebook.com/groups/1485064881892753!