One of the most famous UFO incidents occurred at Roswell, NM in 1947. The little green men aboard that ship were really Quark, Rom, Nog, and Odo, but don't tell anybody...
Many sightings of these UFOs and other strange phenomena are contained in The X-Files.
Ten years into (their) future (1980), the military discovered that aliens were coming to Earth and kidnapping people. SHADO (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organisation) is created to put a stop to it. SHADO's main headquarters are hidden beneath a film studio in London. SHADO also has a Moon Base (called just "Moonbase"), a fleet of submarines called "Skydiver", orbiting satellites to detect the UFOs (called SID, or Space Intruder Detector), fighter like space interceptors, and a fighter plane ("Sky One") that is launched from Skydiver.
Some curious things about the show:
See http://www.ufojeans.com/ for a look at some of the styles available.
Although hard evidence is a little sketchy, another theory floats about in the conspiratorial ether. A 1994 book entitled "The Rainbow Conspiracy" by Brad Steiger quotes a man named Vladimir Terziski, author of another book, "Close Encounters of the Kugelblitz Kind". According to Steiger, Terziski "maintains that antigravity research began in the 1920s with the first hybrid antigravity circular craft, the RFZ-1, constructed by the secret Vrill society".
Also a man named W. A. Harbinson wrote a novel he claimed was based upon fact, "Genesis: Project Saucer, Part II" which featured an appendix containing results of his research linking the "foo fighters" spotted by US wartime pilots with German designers. Harbinson also linked SS founder Heinrich Himmler with the secret "saucer" projects, and on a similar vein, Max Amann, one of Hitler's oldest friends and controller of the Nazi Party's publishing system, was also known to have been affiliated with a secret group called the Society of the Vrill.
Whatever the source, stories abound which suggest that the Nazis did indeed endeavour to develop a highly maneouvrable antigravity based weapon. As we know, after the war ended, many German scientists were captured and taken back to America under Project Paperclip where they were put to work for the military. It is not inconceivable that they passed on their research to the US army who developed it further and who still work to perfect it. The popularity of the idea of alien spacecraft and abductions would obviously be encouraged because it merely draws the attention away from the truth, which is out there.
The UFO comes in a plastic bowl, with a detachable lid. Inside this package, you'll usually find a brick of ramen, a packet of sauce, a packet of seasoning, and a plastic fork. Remove the fork and sauce, and pour the seasoning over the ramen. Then add boiling water, replace the lid, and let it stew for a few minutes. When the ramen is ready, you drain the water, usually through perforations on the lid, and then mix the sauce in with the fork. The result is a tasty brothless noodle dish, in stark contrast to the soupy goodness that is top ramen.
Nowadays, I eat these when I need a quick lunch. In olden times, UFO was the best food obtainable in Osaka in the early hours of the morning. You could buy it at a convenience store, get boiling water and waribashi there, and then make the stuff out by the curb and wolf it down in the city night. Many clubbing trips were made happy by a 2 AM jaunt across the street to Lawson and a bowl of UFO eaten on top of a garbage can or police car.
The Japanese UFO's only came in one flavor, yakisoba. The Chinese and Koreans, on the other hand, have made all sorts of UFO flavors: spicy, meaty, fishy, etc. Unless you read Chinese characters, you'll need to squint at the fine English print to see what you're buying. It's all synthetic anyhow, so don't worry.
generic-man has pointed me to http://www.oriole.net/~rworne/yakisoban.shtml , which details the superhero exploits of Yakisoban, star of his own movie and video game made by Nissin. Good stuff.
UFOs were packaged in distinctive silvery wrapping, which made them look quite unique when they first hit the shelves in Australia in the late 1970s. At the time they complemented the zeitgeist of the period, asStar Wars, Battlestar Galactica and Close Encounters of the Third Kind fired up the imagination of many a child and teenager about the prospect of us getting in contact extraterrestial life, just as the first trials of the Space Shuttle suggested this could become a reality. Television advertisements for UFOs featured (as I recall) a beach party at night with people looking at bright unusual lights in the sky, which beam down back to earth craters full of UFO snacks.
UFOs have long since disappeared from the stores, however they are still produced and sold in the civil war torn country of the Solomon Islands (of all places) .
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