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They say the truth is out there-but we may simply be seeing the shapes we've created ourselves. What follows is a gallery of the most common UFO shapes reported by witnesses, along with some threading of the needle to see how those shapes have manifested in popular culture. Maybe it's no coincidence that Stitch escaping from space police officers or Deep Purple singing about space truckers ditching a fireball ship match what UFO enthusiasts report seeing in real life. But spaceships from art and movies fall into these shapes, as well. Our adjectives for spaceships could also describe flying animals and even sports equipment. Are any types derived from how we picture aliens in fiction? Can nature explain any of these phenomena? In looking at the overlap between these shapes and popular fiction, we found plenty of ways people reference culture and everyday phenomena to describe these alleged objects from space. Stacker went into NUFORC's data to try and find the stories behind these shapes. Why do we have these patterns? Is it because we're seeing real aliens, exploring our galaxy in their different spaceship models? Or is it because once the alien shapes are described, the terminology become known and used in subsequent "viewings"? There are “egg” UFOs, “cigar” UFOs, and lots of UFOs that people just can't find the words to describe. The National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) has identified the most common words used to describe UFOs. Unlike ghosts, UFOs are usually described in similar ways over time. That said, aliens are alive and well in American pop culture-and many people think the government may be covering up secrets about aliens. With so many countries possessing sophisticated aircraft, the potential for misidentifying UFOs as alien crafts is huge. In fact, so many people do that the United States Navy changed the standards for reporting UFOs in 2019 to quell the sheer volume of eyewitness accounts coming in. Do you believe in aliens? Many people do.