Footage allegedly recorded at the time of the sighting has since managed to make its way on to YouTube.
Today marks 70 years since the recovery of a 'flying disc' at a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico.
A photograph pulled from the National Archives appears to show Earhart at a dock on the Marshall Islands.
An unexpectedly high amount of the organic molecule has been found coming from Saturn's icy moon.
It has been exactly two decades since NASA's Pathfinder mission touched down on the surface of Mars.
The remarkable longevity of Roman sea piers has proven something of a mystery to modern engineers.
Stephen Hawking is hoping to send a space probe to a potentially habitable world around Alpha Centauri.
A mass extinction event 200 million years ago made it possible for the dinosaurs to dominate the planet.
A major new study has revealed how cats went from wild animals to one of mankind's closest friends.
Today marks the 55th anniversary of the escape of three men from the 'inescapable' Alcatraz prison.
The incredibly well-preserved hatchling is believed to date back 99 million years to the Cretaceous Era.
Archaeologists have discovered the site of the Fugan Temple which was built around 1,000 years ago.
Data collected by the Curiosity rover has suggested that Mars could have supported life for a very long time.
Astronomers have picked up the gravitational waves produced by the merging of two distant black holes.
Palaeontologists in Russia have discovered a huge new sea creature that lived 130 million years ago.
They may be giants of the deep today, but blue whales only gained their huge size 2-3 million years ago.
80 years on from the disaster, the exact cause of the inferno that destroyed the airship remains unclear.
Derek McLennan earned almost $2.6 million after unearthing a horde of 10th-century Viking artefacts.
The mysterious star has been puzzling astronomers for years due to its erratic, inexplicable behavior.
A 'cold spot' that has puzzled scientists for years could be the point where two universes collided.