On August 10, something strange was flying over the South Pole. It was too early for it to have been Santa Claus, so many think that it was a UFO.

The sighting took place over the Antarctic research station, Neumayer-Station III. A video was even taken of it. The video shows a round, blurry object floating above the station. People who believe in conspiracy theories think that the US Government is aware of aliens there and are collaborating with them. There has even been talk about research of a new top-secret weapon.

Neumayer-Station III, a scientific research station, carries out tests and experiments so this flying object could actually have been a weather balloon. Balloons are used to test geophysics, meteorology, and atmospheric chemistry tests over Antarctica all the time.

Even true believers of alien visitors feel that this sighting is of a balloon but they wonder why it appears in just a few frames of the footage. The answer could be that the video is sped up and objects that do not stay still for long periods of time only appear in a few frames.

Fox News reports that this event is being discussed on various UFO boards and conspiracy theory websites. If it is a spacecraft and not a balloon others wonder why the government would release the video to the public?

When someone believes in conspiracy theories they will find proof of any alien visitation especially if something looks strange and suspicious. They are always looking for flying objects.

But are they always wrong? It's very possible that this balloon is an alien spacecraft. Just because the government hasn't released any real evidence of alien life visiting the planet doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. There have been many rumors of pilots and astronauts seeing flying objects in the skies quite often. There are also stories that the Army has had contact with alien life in Roswell, Mexico, and other areas.

 

According to this story in the Huffington Post, there were actually two UFOs shot down near Roswell NM in 1947.

Curiously, the technology used to fly the UFOs (as described in the article) was contemporary with the technology used to shoot them down.

It would certainly be specular if the craft were extraterrestrial in origin. And it would be just as spectacular if the US Air Force employed 1980s-era weapons to disrupt 1980s-era flight technology in the 1940s.

The legend, rehashed by conspiracy theorists in countless documentaries, revolves around allegations that an unusual object fell from the sky -- an object so bizarre that the U.S. Air Force issued a press release that a flying saucer had crashed.

That story was quickly recanted, creating what would become one of the greatest urban legends in American history.

Until now, most debunkers doubted that there was even one crash. Now, in an exclusive interview, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Richard French told The Huffington Post that there were actually two crashes.

This revelation is especially remarkable considering that French was known in the past to debunk UFO stories.

"There were actually two crashes at Roswell, which most people don't know," French told HuffPost. "The first one was shot down by an experimental U.S. airplane that was flying out of White Sands, N.M., and it shot what was effectively an electronic pulse-type weapon that disabled and took away all the controls of the UFO, and that's why it crashed."

French -- an Air Force pilot who was in Alamagordo, N.M., in 1947, being tested in an altitude chamber, an annual requirement for rated officers -- was very specific in how the military allegedly brought down what he believes was a spacecraft from another world.

"When they hit it with that electromagnetic pulse -- bingo! -- there goes all their electronics and, consequently, the UFO was uncontrollable," said French, who flew hundreds of combat missions in Korea and Southeast Asia, and who held several positions working for Military Intelligence.

Another retired officer doubts French's story.