UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object and they have been seen since the beginning of recorded history. When most people hear the word they think of little green men or an object under intelligent control. Under that definition over 50% of Americans believe in them and 12% have reported to have seen a UFO!
It is said that 80-95% of all sightings can be debunked as airplanes, helicopters, birds, planets, meteors, weather balloons, distant lights or disintegrating satellites reentering earths atmosphere.
Modern day UFO history did not occur until June 1947 when Kenneth Arnold spotted several "flying saucers" flying by Mt. Rainer he estimated the speed to be in excess of 1000mph. Officially there was nothing that could fly that fast but it has been suggested that recovered wartime German technology was responsible or the often seen foo fighters buzzing allied aircraft.
Then a month later the famous Roswell Dailey Record announced the capture or a flying saucer on a ranch near Roswell with aliens. This story was soon changed to a weather balloon and 50 years later it was disclosed that what had occurred was the testing of manikins dropped by Para shoot. The Roswell New Mexico UFO is probably the most noted of all reports and people who were involved in the sighting and the recovery near their later years in life or upon death bed confessions have stated that what was recovered was not of this world or planet.
Even with many of the credible witnesses with the Bentwaters Case in England in 1980 and the hundreds of witnesses on the Phoenix lights in 1997 that were written off as military flares there still seems to be a lack of support from our own government to give full disclosure or any disclosure.
Even with the public at large witnessing these unidentified aircraft we seem to be no closer to full disclosure than we were 10 or 50 years ago.
Former President Jimmy Carter had admitted to seeing a UFO. Former President Ronald Reagan was said to have a fascination with extraterrestrial craft and in a 1987 speech to the United Nations asked what does it take for people to unite and stop fighting among them selves and other nations, a threat that is extra terrestrial and not from this earth! Was he pushing for a Star Wars missile defense system to defend from the Soviets or some other threat that was not from this world?
Many astronauts who flew on the Apollo missions in the late 60's early 70's have reported seeing unidentified flying objects. The O'Hare airport UFO was seen by pilots, passengers and ground observers.
With all these reports it can be easy to debunk the public at large but when you have public figures and professionals seeing the same type of phenomenon it gets hard to write off all these sighting a hallucinations or reports from crazy people especially if they are seeing them in different environments like, water, low earth in the sky and even space and the moon!
Were Project Blue Book and the Condon Report an attempt to debunk UFO's and witnesses? Things have not seemed to improve much in the last 40 years when it comes to full disclosure.
Many a skeptic can say that science can not prove that extraterrestrial craft exists. Well at one time current science thought the world was flat and the sun circled the earth. Maybe it is time we change at how we look at things.
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