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Unidentified Flying Object (UFO), any object or light in the sky that cannot be immediately explained by the observer.
Sightings of unusual aerial phenomena date back to ancient imes, but UFOs (sometimes called flying saucers) became widely
discussed only after the first widely publicized American sighting in 1947. Many thousands of such observations have since
been reported worldwide. At least 90 per cent of UFO sightings can be identified as conventional objects, although time-consuming
investigations are often necessary for such identification. UFOs most often turn out to be bright planets or stars, aircraft, birds,
balloons, kites, aerial flares, peculiar clouds, meteors, and satellites. The remaining sightings can probably be attributed to
other mistaken sightings or to inaccurate reporting, hoaxes, or delusions, although to disprove all claims made about UFOs is impossible.
From 1947 to 1969 the United States Air Force (USAF) investigated UFOs as a possible threat to national security. A total of 12,618 reports
was received, of which 701 reports, or 5.6 per cent, were listed as unexplained. The USAF concluded that "no UFO reported, investigated,
and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security".
Some people nevertheless believe that UFOs are extraterrestrial spacecraft, eve scientifically valid evidence supports that belief.
The possibility of extraterrestrial civilizations is not the stumbling block; most scientists grant that intelligent life may well exist
elsewhere in the universe. A fully convincing UFO photograph of a craft-like object has yet to be taken, however, and the scientific method
requires that highly speculative explanations should not be adopted unless all of the more ordinary explanations can be ruled out.
UFO enthusiasts persist, however, and some people even claim to have been abducted and taken aboard UFOs. (A close encounter of the third kind is
UFO terminology for an alleged encounter between human beings and visitors from outer space.) No one has produced scientifically acceptable proof
of these claims.
THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE
THE TRUTH IS COMING TO GET YOU
IT IS ARMAGGADON TIME
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