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Myth: Very few people have really seen
a UFO...
Fact: According to a Roper poll conducted in 2002 for the
SciFi channel, one in seven Americans say they or someone
they know has had an experience involving a UFO...
A
total of 14 percent have had or know someone who has had at
least one Close Encounter of the "First," "Second,"
or "Third" kind. The largest proportion (12 percent)
say they or someone else they know has seen a UFO at close
quarters.
Source:
Poll from - Coalition for Freedom of Information
Myth: Airline pilots never see UFOs, so they must not be real...
Fact: There have been many cases of pilot sightings ever since
the 1940s...
The
most convincing UFO reports were produced in the 1940s, 1950s
and 1960s by airline pilots, military pilots and ex-military
pilots. These men had the training and the experience to be
able to distinguish between normal sky sights and highly abnormal
sights. They knew what airplanes looked like, and what meteors
looked like, having seen them many times. Their visual observations
were frequently supported by radar data which showed essentially
the same thing. They were therefore able, on many occasions,
to methodically eliminate conventional phenomena from consideration
when trying to identify UFOs.
In
those same decades, most UFO sightings were made in the daytime
and frequently at close range, when shapes and surface features
could be distinguished, thus making positive identification
of normal sights easier and the descriptions of unusual sights
more detailed. When all normal explanations had been eliminated,
the witnesses could concentrate on those aspects of the experience
which were most abnormal.
These
abnormal aspects included the shapes of UFOs and their behavior.
Most of the UFOs seen in the daytime were said to have had
simple geometric shapes--discs, ovals, spheres, cylinders--and
surfaces that looked like metal. Such shapes are not only
nonexistent among known aircraft, but contrary to all known
theories of flight, in most cases offering control and performance
disadvantages rather than advantages.
Source:
Don Berliner, The Fund for UFO Research, Inc.; 2002
Myth: UFOs are only reported by uneducated farmers in places
you've never heard of...
Fact: A study by the U.S. Air Force showed that the most puzzling
UFO reports came from people who had the best technical backgrounds.
They are reported from everyplace where there are people,
though fewer are seen from big cities because less of the
sky is visible.
UFOs
are reported by every type of person: uneducated yokels and
PhDs; laborers and corporation presidents; truck drivers and
airline captains; little kids, their parents and their grandparents.
People in every state, every province and every country. They
are reported by people who are convinced every light in the
sky is an alien craft, and by other people who are convinced
that no one as smart as them ever sees odd things in the sky.
People
in rural areas may see more UFOs because they can see more
of the sky and because they may look at the sky more often.
Big city people have a poor view of the sky, and they are
usually too busy to look up. Generally speaking, UFOs are
seen by people who happen to be in the right place at the
right time.
Source:
Don Berliner, The Fund for UFO Research, Inc.
Myth:The U. S. Air Force investigated UFOs and concluded there
was nothing to them...
Fact: The Air Force had an official UFO investigation from
1948 to 1969 (Projects Sign, Grudge and Blue Book), and collected
more than 12,500 reports. It claims to have explained all
but about 701 of them, but the facts of most of those reports
strongly suggest that something important was seen.
The
U.S. Air Force claims to have explained all but 701 of its
reports, though by actual count the number is 584. But as
so many of these were made by military and airline pilots,
and other unexplained sightings involved radar tracking, they
are the heart of the matter. Hundreds of other reports in
the official files are alleged to have been explained, but
are full of unscientific and illogical reasoning.
If
so many cases are admittedly unexplained, they cannot be used
to support any conclusions, as the nature and origins of unexplained
cases are, by definition, unknown. If you add those cases
that are only "possibly" explained, the total lacking
convincing explanations tops 50%, which strongly suggests
that the official investigation was a failure.
Source:
Don Berliner, The Fund for UFO Research, Inc.
Myth:UFOs are only seen by Americans...
Fact: UFOs have been seen wherever there are people. Every
continent has had its share, as has almost every country,
though local interest plays a role in the apparent level of
activity. Wherever there is someone interested in searching
out UFO reports, they will be found, but that doesn't mean
the investigator lives in a center of activity.
Some
of the first UFOs were seen in Europe and the Pacific. Since
then, they have been reported from all continents and probably
all countries. There have been major waves of sightings not
only in the USA, but in Great Britain, France, Belgium, Russia
and elsewhere. Official and private organizations have been
established in many countries to study their sightings, and
their results are similar to other countries'. The same kinds
and variety of UFOs are seen most places, and this has changed
little over the years.
In
late 1944, following a gradual build-up of activity, "foo-fighters"
were reported in large numbers. Pilots of American and British
bombers and night fighters over occupied France and over Germany
described glowing balls that flew in formation with them for
long periods and then just flew away. The first "explanation"
was that they must be experimental German anti-aircraft weapons
that were being tested prior to being put into action. But
the war ended without a single "foo-fighter" showing
unfriendliness. Explainers then tried to blame German jet
and rocket fighters in night operations. But it was later
determined that there may have been only a single night flight
by any German jet, and none by their rocket-powered fighters.
At
about the same time in the Pacific Theater of War, American
bombers were followed for hours by bright lights that eventually
turned away. Military officials said they were Japanese suicide
planes, and that is how they show up in official mission reports.
But suicide planes never flew at night, and they never followed
our bombers for long periods of time without doing anything.
The war ended with hundreds of reports still unexplained.
Source: Don Berliner, The Fund for UFO Research, Inc.
Myth:UFOs have only been seen since 1947...
Fact: There are UFO reports in newspapers and literature dating
back to 1865 and even earlier...
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