World UFO Day 2025

• World UFO Day was celebrated on 2 July in 2025. This day is celebrated every year on 2 July.

What is World UFO Day?

• This day is celebrated with the aim of spreading awareness about the existence of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), encouraging open-minded scientific thinking and demanding the governments of various countries to make the information related to them public.
• In common language, UFO is also called flying saucer.

History of World UFO Day:

• World UFO Day was started in 2001 by UFO researcher Haktan Akdogan.
• There is a special reason behind choosing the date of 2 July: on this day in 1947, a mysterious UFO crash occurred in Roswell, New Mexico, USA.
• This incident is considered one of the most talked about events in UFO history, which gave rise to a new wave of discussion around the world about aliens and UFOs.
• However, some people also celebrate UFO Day on June 24, because on this day in 1947, American pilot Kenneth Arnold claimed to have seen a UFO for the first time.