World UFO Day: June 24 and July 2 Commemorating the 1947 Arnold Sighting and the Roswell Milestone

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World UFO Day on June 24 and July 2 honors the 1947 Kenneth Arnold sighting and the Roswell incident, highlights the lasting UFO interest shaped by researchers like Josef Allen Hynek and popular culture such as Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds, and invites people to observe by looking up at the sky, reviewing videos, seeking explanations, watching alien-themed films, and visiting UFO museums like the one in Roswell.

WORLD UFO DAY
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WORLD UFO DAY

World UFO Day commemorates two separate dates, June 24 and July 2, on the National Day Calendar. The June 24 date recognizes the first widely reported UFO sighting in 1947 by aviator Kenneth Arnold. The July 2 date commemorates the incident that took place the same year in Roswell, New Mexico.