You never can tell what you're going to capture on camera, and a Denver man definitely captured something unique on his video camera. He had set up his camera in a Denver suburb and aimed it at the Denver skyline. When reviewing the footage, he saw a blip of something, and when he slowed it down, he saw an unidentified flying object. He shot more footage around the same time every day and captured more antics of this UFO, which can't be seen by the naked eye. Wanting to know more information, the man sent the footage to a local television station. The station enlisted the help of an aviation expert to examine the reported UFO footage. The expert was baffled. He had no idea what was

I have been remiss in my postings because I have been working hard on upcoming books. Oh, you all have so much spookiness in store for 2012! But I felt I should pass along a tidbit that was in Friday's Writer's Almanac. On this day in 1947, the first widely reported UFO sighting occurred. Experienced pilot Kenneth Arnold sighted "a formation of very bright objects" out the window of his plane while flying over the Cascade Mountains of southern Washington state. The Chicago Tribune printed his account on the front page two days later: "The first thing I noticed was a series of flashes in my eyes as if a mirror was reflecting sunlight at me. ... I saw the flashes were coming from a

In August, I wrote about a UFO that was captured on video in St. Paul, Minnesota. In today's St. Paul paper, it's revealed that the strange lights that were in the sky were LED lights attached to a kite. This wasn't the first time he had been flying a lighted kite at night, and had been warned not to do it again because people call in about mysterious lights, the officers check out the scene, and it's just a guy and a kite. An interesting twist to the story is that the kite-flying man had a warrant out for his arrest, unrelated to the kite-flying incident, and because the officers were familiar with the man's night kite hobby, they checked out the scene, found their man, and arrested