Finally, you have a chance to detect the presence of alien early before they can capture you and bring you to their planet! Well, maybe not, but that scenario is really cool anyway, and so does this cell phone charm that claimed to be able to detect the presence of UFO. If you’re really afraid of alien, you can set the charm to work in automatic mode, in which it will monitor the nearby area 24 x 7 and lets you know, with the blink, if it found any strange object in the sky. You can also have it run in the manual mode. Simply press the big button and the UFO detector will do its job.

The UFO Detector cell phone charm is currently available in Japan for 2,222 Yen or around $18.

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Back to the toy, I’ve already seen it last month in a toy store. The X-UFO remote controlled flying saucer is made of lightweight carbon fiver and EPP foam. Measures 490 x 490 x 70mm, it is comprised of a very complex system of contra rotating propellers and a high tech gyroscope that will keep it flying – up to around 330 feet.

The remote controllers requires 4 AA batteries. The flying saucer itself uses a rechargeable 12V NiMH battery (included). It takes about 100 minutes to fully recharge the battery. The retail price is $150USD or £119.95.

I think it would be really cool to fly this saucer outdoor in the middle of the night :p

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“A UFO is the reported perception of an object or light seen in the sky or upon the land the appearance, trajectory, and general dynamic and luminescent behaviour of which do not suggest a logical, conventional explanation and which is not only mystifying to the original percipients but remains unidentified after close scrutiny of all available evidence by persons who are technically capable of making a common sense identification, if one is possible.”

Until today, the existence of UFO is still a mystery. Whether it’s real or just a big hoax, nobody ever knew. It is said that the first mysterious flying object appeared across Nort maerica US in 1896-97 (source). According to the newspaper, the ships were usually said to be a type of dirigible, and were usually differentiated from gliders or hot air balloons. Eventhough many investigators think the airship reports were hoaxes, a few ufologists, however, are convinced these airship sightings represent the first reliable UFO reports in history.

The year 1909 probably the busiest years for the UFO. There were several mystery airship appearance during that years in Britain (1909-1910), New Zealand, and US (1909-1910). In 1912-1913, the airship were seen again in Britain.

The war also brought some mystery. During the First World War there were mystery aircraft scares in South Africa, Canada, Great Britain and the USA. And then during World War II, a luminous balls that followed airplanes, called “foo-fighters” – a term based on an expression (”where there’s foo, there’s fire”) from Smokey Stover, a popular comic strip at the time – were reported by both Allied and Axis pilots. The funniest thing is, the Allied command thought that the foo-fighters were secret Germany weapons or surveillance devices. And vice versa, the Axis command also thought that they were American or British secret devices!

Several good sources for UFO-related material:

• http://www.ufo.it/english/index2.htm
• http://www.nuforc.org/ (National UFO Reporting Center)
• http://www.cufos.org/ (Center for UFO Studies)
• http://www.oregonuforeview.com/photos.html (UFO Photo Gallery)