{"id":25432,"date":"2014-07-02T09:38:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T14:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=25432"},"modified":"2014-07-03T09:00:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T14:00:52","slug":"keeping-an-eye-on-the-sky-this-world-ufo-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/25432-keeping-an-eye-on-the-sky-this-world-ufo-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping an Eye Toward the Sky On World UFO Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12990\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Globeman-51.jpg\" alt=\"Globeman-51\" width=\"275\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Globeman-51.jpg 275w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Globeman-51-102x120.jpg 102w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Globeman-51-162x190.jpg 162w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Globeman-51-102x120@2x.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/>At Other World Computing, you might have noticed that we like to <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/22570-keeping-an-eye-on-other-worlds\">keep an eye on the sky<\/a>. But today, you might see a few more heads around your neighborhood pointed upward. That, of course, would be because today just happens to be July 2 \u2013 which just happens to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldufoday.com\">World UFO Day<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>As you can probably guess, World UFO Day is a day for people to gather and search the skies for unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and to generally \u201craise awareness about the undoubted existence of UFOs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, why does it fall on July 2? Legend has it that on the evening of July 2, 1947, (or roughly that date) witnesses in and near Roswell, New Mexico saw an airborne object crash to the ground. 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