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We talk a lot about UFO sightings and such and we have good reason to. There are a lot of UFO sightings all over the world. I think that we are smart enough to realize that a good portion of these sightings are due not only to natural things, such as strangely shaped clouds, odd lights and oddly shaped aircraft, yet when it comes to the oddly shaped aircraft, they don't seem to get the attention that they should. There have been and still are a lot of these aircraft in our skies. Some could account for flying black triangles for example and these are the ones that we know about. I have no intention of speculating on unknown aircraft right now. There are even craft that look circular from the bottom. There are just a lot of these things in our skies. Even something as simple as a blimp with lights on the sides, or certain types of screens can look like cylindrical craft with portholes.

Let's start out with something simple, an aircraft that was flying all over our skies and that is the F-117 or Nighthawk. By the way the plane is now retired as of 22 April 2008. The plane is very odd shaped as we know. It sort of looks like a triangle with an oddly shaped top piece of many angles sitting on top of this triangle and has a split tail. It was covered with black anti-reflective paint. This was to assist in preventing radar signals from bouncing off of the plane. If we look at some of the reports of flying triangles we notice that the craft itself can barely be seen at night, it is the lights on the wings that are usually noticed. The F-117 has lights on its wings and if they were on at night and you were looking up you would see the lights and probably barely make out a triangle shape. This fits the description of many of the triangle sightings.

Years ago there was a plane known as the Besler steam powered plane. It flew for the first time in 1933. Can you imagine what people thought that saw it flying. It looked ordinary enough for the times, but if it had let out a large cloud of steam who knows what they would have thought that it was. You can see the actual video of its first flight by clicking HERE. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw6NFmcnW-8)

Another plane was designed in 1926 and it was known as the flying heel. It was such an odd shape that it could easily have been mistaken for some alien craft. Later it was called a flying wing, not to be confused with what flying wings look like today. The plane had a semicircular wing attached to traditional wings. I am sure that this craft had to have been mistaken at times for something other than an earthly plane. The video of the plane can be seen by clicking HERE. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxz1UF67EQI)

Another plane that may have confused some of the people seeing it fly was the Curtiss Model 24-B When the plane first flew in 1941 there was nothing like it in the sky. It had swept back wings, the motor and prop in the rear and canards in the front. Along with this it had a strange tail which was little more than just triangular piece of metal sticking up and also hanging down. The wings themselves seemed far longer than any that would be regularly used on a craft of this size. Seeing it from underneath must have been a strange sight indeed.

When the X-3 began to be tested what would a person have thought that they were seeing? This craft resembled a very long needle with stubby wings at the end by the engine outlets and a tail at a relatively long distance behind the wings, mounted on what looked like a boom. One has to remember that his plane began to fly in 1952 and people were not used to seeing something like this in the sky. The plane only made about 26 flights and was finished by 1955, but those that saw it fly might have thought that they were looking at something out worldly. At certain angles some of the planes look even stranger.

Who knows what people thought when they saw the stubby X-24A, M2-F3 and HL-10 in the air. Anyone who was a fan of Flash Gordon would have thought that they were seeing spaceships. They just didn't look like planes and had very strange shapes. The most plane like of the bunch was the X-24A and even this had a strange look to it. The M2-F3 looked more like a spaceship than a plane as did the HL-10. These planes were from the late 1960s when NASA was experimenting with lift bodies.

The M2-F1 was also a very strange craft and could easily have been mistaken for a UFO, not only that, but it had landing gear that was set up to have two wheels in the back and one in the front in a triangular pattern much like the triangular patterns that are talked about that are left on the ground after a suspected UFO landing. Since this craft didn't hover as far as I know, this wouldn't account for marks that are left when strange craft land and take off in dirt areas.

The X-24A was another rocket ship looking plane. The lack of front wings and a V tail accounted for this. It would have been easy to call this a cylindrical craft if sighted from the ground.

Another true triangular looking craft was the X-24B. From the bottom it was a complete triangle. It seems that it was not black however. The ones that NASA used were painted white, but this is not to say that there may have been other versions that were black.

The X-29 was just weird. It was an experimental plane from the 1990s. When you looked at it, it just didn't look like a plane. The wings seemed to be on backwards and it had wings at the mid line that were mounted on a rocket like body. This vehicle could easily have been mistaken for something from another planet.

The X-36 flew 33 times between 1997 and 1998. It was a rather strange looking plane that again could have been mistaken for something else. I don't know what the range of any of these planes were or how far they were flown. It could be that they flown over cities like Vegas and L. A. if the test areas were in the Midwest. This certainly would have prompted a lot of sightings. If would be interesting to see the results if anyone wanted to check out when they flew and how many UFO reports were filed on those days.

The X-38 looked more like the shuttle off of the Enterprise from Star trek than a plane. It didn't fly too many times, but hit the sky for about 15 flights. Two airframes were produced. It was flying from 1997 to 2001.

So far I have only talked about U.S. aircraft, but there were plenty of odd aircraft produced by foreign countries. The Soviet Union created the Kalinin K-12. It was a plane with the silhouette of a very deep flying wing and painted to look like it had feathers or clouds on it. This made it very hard to see when it was flying. France produced the Dorand G II Gyroplane. It looked like a torpedo with helicopter blades on top. If one didn't notice the blades when it was flying, who knows what they would have thought that they were seeing? Great Britain also had its share of strange craft and two of the strangest for their time were the Armstrong-Whitworth AW-52 and the Baynes Bat, both of which were flying wings.

Yes there is plenty in the sky that could have been mistaken for UFOs. I haven't even talked about light aircraft and that kit stuff. I am not saying that UFOs from elsewhere don't exist, what I am saying is that some of the sightings could easily have been odd aircraft.