The US Navy fired 300 shots at the plane, and then realized that it was Venus

Currently, the appearance of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) is being recorded everywhere. In addition to the four (at the moment) objects shot down over the United States and Canada, China says it is preparing to shoot down one in its airspace, and the Uruguayan Air Force is studying messages and photos of flashing lights over the Termas de Almiron area.

Prompted by this, the US Navy shared its story about a mysterious object that appeared in the path of the Navy in 1945.

According to the US Naval Institute, the captain aboard the USS New York noticed a sphere in the sky and ordered it to be shot down, believing that it was a "Japanese balloon weapon."

According to Lanson B. Ditto, who was serving on that ship at the time, the crew fired about 300 shots at the object before realizing that it was a planet reflecting sunlight.

"Around noon on December 9, 1941, we were heading south into the open sea when a plane was spotted," Ditto said of the incident. "We opened fire on what we thought was an airplane. We had to evaluate. We have installed a fuse to work at the calculated height. We started from a height of 1,524 meters and saw that he was falling short, so we climbed to about 2,286 meters and also saw that he was falling short. So, we raised it to a maximum of 3048 meters."

The team still could not hit the mysterious object, which is not surprising, since they were aiming at about 61 million kilometers below.

"Pretty soon a message came from the navigator," he added. "It has been established that this is the planet Venus. It turned out that we fired 300 shells at the planet Venus."