On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Despite extensive searches, the fate of the 239 people on board and the plane itself, a Boeing 777, is still unknown. This has led to the development of many different theories and ideas about what happened. Among the many theories, one in particular stands out for its quirkiness, the notion that extraterrestrial beings, or aliens, are responsible for the vanishing act of the plane.

One of the biggest components of this theory is the alleged eyewitness accounts of strange lights and unidentified flying objects in the same area of where the plane was last seen, the southern Indian Ocean. Many argue that “aliens” have advanced technology and could have teleported the aircraft and people to another dimension or planet, leaving behind no trace. Most people doubt these claims because they don’t have concrete proof and evidence, and the overall theory is a big reach. The search for Flight 370 has been one of the most extensive searches in history. Researchers and other officials have used some of the world’s best technology in the search, but the only conclusion they came to was that the plane could have possibly crashed into the ocean and everyone aboard passed away.