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UFO Fact Or Fiction

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<h3>Unidentified Flying Objects: Fact or Fiction?</h3>

<pre><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, as they're fondly called, are</pre><pre>one of the century's most intriguing and controversial mysteries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Since</pre><pre>ancient times, UFOs of all types have been accounted for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>More today than</pre><pre>ever, hundreds of thinkers, theologians, and scientists have tried to</pre><pre>answer why there are or whether there aren't UFOs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>According to some, the</pre><pre>speculation that UFOs are alien spacecrafts from another world is an</pre><pre>absurd and foolish proposal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Others vehemently disagree and assert that</pre><pre>extraterrestrial life is not only possible, but such life forms may be</pre><pre>superior, technologically advanced beings who visit our Earth regularly. </pre><pre><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Are these &quot;flying saucers&quot; a figment of our imagination?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Or, are they</pre><pre>a genuine reality we prefer to dismiss because we fear the scary truth</pre><pre>that we are not the only master race?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Are we hesitant because society</pre><pre>dubs such &quot;immature&quot; psycho tantamount to subscribing to belief in ghosts? </pre><pre>These are a few of the many pertinent UFO questions the mature individual</pre><pre>must address. </pre><pre><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>One of the most popular theories that support and explains the</pre><pre>existence of alien beings is the ancient astronaut theory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>This theory</pre><pre>contains three main schools of thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>The first states that aliens bred</pre><pre>with our primitive forebears thereby creating modern man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>The second is</pre><pre>quite similar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Aliens performed genetic engineering on apes thereby</pre><pre>creating the Homo Sapiens and man's intelligence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>The third, and least</pre><pre>accepted, is that colonists from another galaxy came to Earth, mated with</pre><pre>the primitives and established a high level of culture, before being</pre><pre>destroyed by some natural catastrophe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>And upon this catastrophe and</pre><pre>destruction, we build and grow (Fitzgerald 1).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Berossus, a Babylonian</pre><pre>scholar, may have been the first astronaut historian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>He said that &quot;</pre><pre>animals endowed with reason&quot; bestowed the Sumerian culture before 3000</pre><pre>BCE.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>The Sumerians, along with their cultural inheritors, the</pre><pre>Babylonians, never referred to such beings as gods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Rather they were</pre><pre>depicted as &quot;disgusting abominations,&quot; a description only deserved by</pre><pre>uninvited alien visitors (2). </pre><pre><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>One step further takes the astronaut theory and surmises that with</pre><pre>it, we can understand the later religious cultures, such as the Hebrews</pre><pre>who are thought to have borrowed much of Sumerian practice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Such</pre><pre>religions and secret societies, with their elaborate and complicated</pre><pre>rituals may actually be &quot;preserving from a previous epoch fragments of an</pre><pre>esoteric and little understood knowledge, just as the Egyptian, Hebrew,</pre><pre>and Mayan priests guarded in their temples the inspired word of their</pre><pre>self-possessed creators (3).&quot;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Alien originators may have set down certain</pre><pre>rites which became confused over the years, resulting in the various</pre><pre>ancient religions; aliens being the source of our notion of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>This</pre><pre>also may explain how miles long designs, only viewable from the air, were</pre><pre>created in ancient times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>The only rationalization for the possibility of</pre><pre>such designs is that the ancients had assistance from the sky, namely</pre><pre>extraterrestrial assistance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Many UFO theorists, astronomer Morris Jessup</pre><pre>being the forerunner, go even further: not only were pre-Biblical and</pre><pre>Biblical times full of Alien intervention, but he contends that the UFO</pre><pre>phenomenon is the missing link between Biblical supernatural accounts of</pre><pre>miracles and established, contradicting science.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Jessup explains that</pre><pre>&quot;nothing is supernatural and nothing is outside nature (12).&quot;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>He</pre><pre>continues that the Bible is full of UFO accounts, depicted by various</pre><pre>descriptions: angels, the revelation on Mt. Sinai, the burning bush, and</pre><pre>Elijah's levitation to heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Jessup says the Bible is a physical</pre><pre>record, not a collection of divine revelation &quot;although the miracles of</pre><pre>this and all religions invite rational and physical explanation, if we</pre><pre>grant the 'existence of spatial intelligence (13).'&quot;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Another thinker,</pre><pre>Brinsley Trent, follows the theme of extraterrestrial interpretations of</pre><pre>the Bible and claims that the Garden of Eden was, as many ancient texts</pre><pre>point out, not the underground, but in the Underworld - i.e. outside the</pre><pre>orbit of earth, meaning Mars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>When the Great Flood occurred, Noah built a</pre><pre>great &quot;boat,&quot; a spaceship, and landed on Earth (Life 16).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>However,</pre><pre>Cornell astronomer Carl Sagan warns that this ancient astronaut theory and</pre><pre>the &quot;saucer myths&quot; represent a compromise &quot;between the need to believe in</pre><pre>a traditional God and the contemporary pressures to accept the</pre><pre>pronouncement of science (Fitzgerald 5);&quot;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>therefore, according to Sagan,</pre><pre>the proposition that aliens exist and the astronaut theory should be</pre><pre>tossed. </pre><pre><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Many theorists assume the Bible is a totally separate entity and</pre><pre>don't associate or contradict the UFO phenomenon with the well established</pre><pre>theological belief system in the supernatural.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Wilhelm Reich, for one, a</pre><pre>noted Austrian psychoanalyst, claimed to have witnessed various UFO crafts</pre><pre>and believed that these aliens are hostile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Such aliens wish to rob Earth</pre><pre>of orgone, a &quot;cosmic life energy allegedly present in air, water, and all</pre><pre>organic matter (Life 52).&quot; </pre><pre><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;</span>He proceeds to say that saucers run on this orgone energy, hence exhuming</pre><pre>a bluish color due to &quot;orgone exhaust.&quot;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Moreover, orgone exhaust is</pre><pre>&quot;deadly orgone (Life),&quot; causing sickness in people and creating parched</pre><pre>desert where ever the crafts land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>The Swiss psychologist, Carl Jung,</pre><pre>totally differed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>He theorized that all &quot;people can tap into...(a )</pre><pre>collective unconciousness-an area of the unconscious that...contains</pre><pre>information derived from the experiences of the human race as a whole</pre><pre>rather than the individual...This storehouse contains universal symbols</pre><pre>called archtypes...that present themselves spontaneously in dreams or</pre><pre>visions...evoking strong imaginative response...One such image was the</pre><pre>mandala, a disk shaped symbol that represents completion...[hence UFOs are</pre><pre>not] real objects, but rather mandalas...visioned by people looking</pre><pre>for...equilibrium (53).&quot; </pre><pre><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Jung's approach is quite debatable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>However, as shaky an argument it</pre><pre>may sound, it's as viable as those who welcome the notion that aliens do</pre><pre>exist. </pre><pre><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Other more common and more understood theories explain that aliens</pre><pre>are well intentioned visitors who wish to observe their human</pre><pre>contemporaries for purely scientific purposes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>However, British</pre><pre>astronomers Sir Martin Ryle and Sir Bernard Lovell both warn that we must</pre><pre>regard all other life in the universe as potentially a fatal threat to</pre><pre>humankind and, in effect, discourage the effort to communicate with such</pre><pre>beings (Referring to the many attempts to communicate with aliens via</pre><pre>powerful satellite dishes.) (Fitzgerald 7). </pre><pre><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>With all the theories in mind, we come to the next issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>What are</pre><pre>people, in reality, seeing? </pre><pre><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Kenneth Arnold was a normal businessman in Idaho.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>As an upstanding</pre><pre>and reputable citizen and an expert on flying, Arnold was believed when he</pre><pre>said that he witnessed a ship zoom back and forth at an approximated 1,350</pre><pre>miles per hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>This incident provoked a considerable amount of national</pre><pre>debate and gave birth to what historians termed the &quot;modern flying saucer</pre><pre>era.&quot;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>There were sightings before the Arnold case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>However, following</pre><pre>it, there was a myriad of reports and calls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Although many were hoaxes,</pre><pre>not all were.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>And most of those who have claimed to have witnessed UFOs</pre><pre>swear that in no way could they be anything but an alien spaceship. </pre><pre>Simply due to the fact, as in the Arnold case, that these crafts maneuver</pre><pre>in such humanly impossible speeds and in gravity defying manners. </pre><pre><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;</span>At one moment the UFO is spotted hovering over a house and one second</pre><pre>later can be seen 25 miles away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>People also have described the crafts as</pre><pre>huge cigar shaped buzzing objects or the more popular silent, metallic</pre><pre>type saucers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>These reports include interference with television signals</pre><pre>and the halting of car ignitions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Such claims, as Bob Bletchman, in an</pre><pre>interview explained, are the best evidence due to their testimonial</pre><pre>consistency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>When you have hundreds of people on an individual basis,</pre><pre>from all backgrounds, depict the same scenario, time and time again, there</pre><pre>is little room to doubt their truthfulness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>People even assert that</pre><pre>they've seen the pilots: described anywhere between two inch bees to Nazis</pre><pre>(Fitzgerald 3) to little green men with six fingers. </pre><pre><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>An eerie complement of UFO sightings are these strange and exact</pre><pre>circular patches of parched, bent, but not cracked vegetation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Such</pre><pre>mysterious circles are believed to be the place of the saucers' landing. </pre><pre>Even more interesting, the circles can't bear any vegetable growth for</pre><pre>many years afterwards (Life 125). </pre><pre><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Many allege that not only have they been visited, but kidnapped too. </pre><pre><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;</span>One of my main research sources, a curious, but perhaps crafty David</pre><pre>Jacobs, Ph.D., took 60 men and women who claimed abduction and put them</pre><pre>under hypnosis in an effort to document and establish whether all this</pre><pre>mumbo jumbo is true. </pre><pre><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;</span>Although generally most abductees remember nothing but the fact that they</pre><pre>were abducted, hypnosis proved to uncover many layers of lost memories. </pre><pre>Through these hypnotic sessions, Dr. Jacobs claimed to have found many</pre><pre>reasons the aliens &quot;gave&quot; for such abductions:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>scientific research,</pre><pre>crossbreeding and general observance of the human condition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>He also</pre><pre>&quot;discovered&quot; many underlying messages from the aliens:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>They mean no harm. </pre><pre>They care and respect humans and do only that which is necessary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>His</pre><pre>book sounded very convincing, but perhaps too convincing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Through careful</pre><pre>reading, I began to realize that this Dr. Jacobs is full of bologna. </pre><pre>Session after session, Dr. Jacobs fabricates his &quot;patients'&quot; conversations</pre><pre>with the aliens. However, the conversations sound too repetitive in</pre><pre>personality and too sensational in respect to the aliens' response.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>In an</pre><pre>effort to sound very natural, Dr. Jacobs picks up an almost artificial</pre><pre>grammatically incorrect tone of voice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>For example:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>&quot;Mm-hmm, but fast,</pre><pre>not slow...like whizzed by (Secret 69),&quot;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>and &quot;I just sink to the bottom</pre><pre>and start to breathe (189),&quot; and &quot;inside out, yeah (211).&quot;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>These are just</pre><pre>a few quotes of the literally hundreds of repetitive speech patterns in</pre><pre>his book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>I get the feeling this &quot;Dr.&quot; Jacobs is trying to make a</pre><pre>believable, sensational story by feeding the reader what we'd like to</pre><pre>hear:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Kind aliens, cross breeding, scientific experimentation, etc. </pre><pre>(Although I found fault with one of my primary sources, it by no means</pre><pre>typifies the value of other such publications.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Each book must be valued</pre><pre>on its own.)</pre><pre><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Using super high-tech computer photograph analyzers, scientists were</pre><pre>able to determine the validity of the widely known Trent photos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>In</pre><pre>Oregon, 1950, a Mrs. Trent was feeding rabbits in her backyard when she</pre><pre>saw a huge metallic disk, silently gliding through the air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>She called</pre><pre>her husband to fetch a camera and managed to get two shots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>These two</pre><pre>shots were scrutinized by the U.S. Air Force and a variety of other</pre><pre>investigators.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>The 1969's skeptical Condon Report stated: &quot;The simplest,</pre><pre>most direct interpretation of the photographs confirms</pre><pre> precisely what the witnesses said they saw (Life 138).&quot;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Later on, a</pre><pre>William Spaulding of the Ground Saucer Watch Inc., put these Trent photos</pre><pre>under intense computer scrutiny and came out with the same conclusion: It</pre><pre>was no hoax (Life). </pre><pre><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>In World War Two, Allied and Axis air pilots witnessed these eerie</pre><pre>luminous balls that would either chase planes or zip in and out of the</pre><pre>planes' courses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Such oddities were to be eventually called &quot;foo</pre><pre>fighters.&quot;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>World War Two was a time of secrecy and great inventions. </pre><pre>Instinctively, the allies thought they were some kind of high tech German</pre><pre>innovation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Naturally, too, the Germans thought vice versa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Therefore,</pre><pre>nothing of an extraterrestrial nature was ever reported (Life 26), at</pre><pre>least officially. </pre><pre><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>There are countless reports where U.S. air force personnel</pre><pre>witnessed a flying saucer and reported it; only to be told that it was</pre><pre>probably a jet or weather balloon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Despite the fact that Project Blue</pre><pre>Book (a government UFO investigation) yielded a 1,465 page scientific</pre><pre>report containing charts, photographs and analyses, worth about a half</pre><pre>million dollars in research, the government stated in a 1969 news release</pre><pre>that due to lack of any &quot;significant&quot; conclusions, UFO research would be</pre><pre>terminated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Most fans of the research only read the introduction and</pre><pre>conclusion sections of the report.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Unfortunately those sections were</pre><pre>written by an enthusiast of the U.S. Air Force:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>and hence embraced their</pre><pre>policy of denial and falsehood (Life 118).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Consequently, the government's</pre><pre>decision to halt research was accepted with little protest or suspicion. </pre><pre><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;</span>Yet, the question whether the government is holding back vital UFO</pre><pre>information is still very strong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Many contend that the U.S. government</pre><pre>is doing so in an effort to ensure national safety and prevent potential</pre><pre>mass hysteria by publicizing the existence of alien beings. </pre><pre><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>In 1947, in New Mexico, one of the most famous and potent pieces of</pre><pre>evidence literally befell the United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>&quot;Barney&quot; Barnett, and some</pre><pre>local archeological students found shriveled and broken up pieces of shiny</pre><pre>metal and scattered dead bodies all over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>A few days later, the army had</pre><pre>quarantined the area, shipped everything away, and told the witnesses that</pre><pre>it was their &quot;patriotic duty&quot; to keep the incident a secret.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Nonetheless,</pre><pre>Barnett and the students went public about it (Life 74).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>To this day,</pre><pre>hundreds of reports and books detail this famous &quot;Roswell incident&quot; and</pre><pre>claim that the government, again, is hiding undeniable proof of alien</pre><pre>life. </pre><pre><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>The Viking mission to Mars in 1976 is another prime example of the</pre><pre>government's policy of non cooperation and denial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>The Voyager had taken</pre><pre>two pictures of a rock form of a human face on Mars' surface.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Before a</pre><pre>1992 Observer voyage to Mars, many requested NASA to take high resolution</pre><pre>photos of this &quot;Face&quot; to determine whether it is really a three</pre><pre>dimensional rock formation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>NASA responded in the negative, although the</pre><pre>government gave NASA an extra $90 million for the exact purpose of seeking</pre><pre>out Martian life forms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>NASA gave a stupid explanation, claiming that the</pre><pre>1992 Observer was only photographing meter long objects, which the &quot;'Face'</pre><pre>could be a candidate target.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>However, there are no plans to tailor the</pre><pre>mission to assure that the 'Face' is imaged (Boyce).&quot; </pre><pre><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>In a letter, Bob Bletchman cynically responded: &quot;How can NASA not tilt</pre><pre>the camera to possibly answer the most profound question ever asked, 'Are</pre><pre>we alone?' (Bletchman)&quot; </pre><pre><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Nevertheless, many scientists maintain that the many UFO sightings</pre><pre>may simply be meteorites, some type of atmospheric phenomena, or high</pre><pre>tech, saucer-like airplanes used by the military.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>One factor that greatly</pre><pre>contributes to UFO skepticism is created by the thousands of UFO hoaxes</pre><pre>made each year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>A prime and famous example of such hoaxes occurred in New</pre><pre>Mexico, 1963.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Paul Villa claimed that UFO aliens had become so friendly</pre><pre>with him that they agreed to pose their ship for a camera shot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Using the</pre><pre>same high-tech computers as was used for the Trent photos, scientists</pre><pre>revealed a tiny wire that was used to suspend the &quot;UFO&quot; in the air (Life</pre><pre>140). </pre><pre><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Although it's very easy to scoff at the thought of Martians and</pre><pre>flying saucers due to the subject's emotional sensationalistic attributes</pre><pre>and attractabilty to the fantasizer, one can not simply dismiss the</pre><pre>possibility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>There is too much evidence and too many good and honest</pre><pre>people out there who can give testimony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Too often, we hear of the many</pre><pre>government cover-ups and attempts to keep things concealed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Although the</pre><pre>government tries hard, they can't keep it a secret forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Little by</pre><pre>little, as more incidents occur and as more is leaked out, the world will</pre><pre>know that we are not alone. </pre><pre><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>It should be noted that this report by no means begins to even</pre><pre>scratch the surface of the UFO mystery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Not only are thousands of books</pre><pre>written on each issue, but each individual case is worthy of whole books</pre><pre>on its own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>It therefore follows that this paper was a simple over of an</pre><pre>overview of the massive topics and subtopics that follow. </pre><pre><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Works Cited</pre><pre><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Bletchman, Bob.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>National Board,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>International Mutual UFO Network.</pre><pre><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Bletchman, Bob.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>National Board,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>International Mutual UFO Network.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Letters.</pre><pre><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></pre><pre><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Connecticut: 1988</pre><pre><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Boyce, Jacobs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Discipline Scientist, Planetary Geoscience, Solar System <span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></pre><pre><span style='mso-tab-count:
1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Exploration Division, NASA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Letter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Washington, D.C.: 1988</pre><pre><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Editors of Time-Life Books, eds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>The UFO Phenomenon. Virginia: Time-</pre><pre><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Life Books, 1987</pre><pre><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Fitzgerald, Randall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>The Complete Book of Extraterrestrial Encounters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>New </pre><pre><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>York: Collier Books, 1979 </pre><pre><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Jacobs, David M.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Secret life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>New York: Simon &amp; Schuster. 1992 </pre><pre><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Works Consulted</pre><pre><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Fact or Fiction:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>The Roswell Autopsy. TV Program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>N.p.: n.p., 1997.</pre></div>

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