Why UFO Sightings Are Frequent In Run Up To Earthquakes? It Is Them Aliens, Say Conspiracy Theorists

While most people are not probably aware of this, but apparently reports of alleged UFO sightings tend to increase by manifold in the period leading up to a massive earthquake or during a volcanic eruption -- or at least, that is what some conspiracy theorists would have one believe.

According to them, it is them aliens, again! While such seemingly crackpot theories are not usually unheard of -- courtesy the hundreds of conspiracy theory bulletin boards across the Internet -- this new one seems to have come after a UFO was allegedly seen near the erupting Colima volcano in Mexico last month.

Scott C. Waring, who runs UFO Sightings Daily, quickly reacted, saying, "The UFO is long, and cigar-shaped much like many of the past UFOs seen around Mexican volcanoes on live cams.

"The UFO could not leave from the mouth since there was an eruption, so they took a side path."

However, such theories are almost always dismissed by the scientific community citing more scientific and plausible explanations. For example, in Canada, Michael Persinger and Gyslaine Lafrenière conducted a study on the correlation between UFO sightings and seismic-related locations. Their critically acclaimed book Space-Time Transients and Unusual Events claim that there are ample evidence for one to conclude that the tectonic strains in the Earth's crust (strains that happen during or before earthquakes and volcano eruptions) generate large amounts of energy that produces columns of electrical energy and glowing balls of light in the atmosphere, reports The Express.

Worth noting, similar reports emerged last year shortly after the eruption of Mount Shindake on Japan's Kuchinoerabu Island.

The footage -- uploaded to YouTube and other social media sites -- showed what appears to be an "Unidentified Flying Object" (UFO) observing the eruption from the skies as it happened. This eventually led many to come up with their own theories with regard to what may have transpired on Kuchinoerabu on that fateful day.

To some, it was an extraterrestrial being who may have caused the eruption -- intentionally or otherwise. On the other hand, the skeptics are more inclined to the idea that it was probably a bird hovering in the sky directly above the eruption. As they point out, a closer look on the video even shows the bird 'flapping' its wings. However, many alien hunters vehemently dismissed this seemingly more plausible explanation saying they did not buy it.

UFO hunter Paul Seaburn wrote on the website Mysterious Universe: "One of the most predictable places to see a UFO is at the site of a volcanic eruption, so it's no surprise that one was spotted passing the eruption of Mount Shindake on Japan's Kuchinoerabu Island on Friday, May 29th, 2015."

He added, "What was this UFO and why was it there? Why do we see so many UFOs near volcanoes, earthquakes and nuclear power plants? Are we being watched? Controlled? Cared for? Warned?"

Skeptics, however, claimed that this might happen due to the simple fact that such events are usually filmed by many people, which essentially increases the possibility of someone capturing the footage of an out-of-focus bird or something else that may have a natural explanation.