UFO's

             Unidentified Flying Objects (Commonly called UFOs) have been around since biblical times, one such famous case is Ezekiel's Wheel, a sighting identified by a Christian prophet as a group of four angels joined at the feet descending from the heavens in a divine light. Sightings such as these are known today by UFOlogists as atmospheric phenomenon (AP for short) and account for the bulk of UFO sightings. Ezekiel's wheel can be seen every so often on a clear night, a solar flare of certain strength causes the Aurora Borealis to appear this way. Over 90% of the cases reviewed in the first study of UFOs by various U.S. government agencies and private interest groups have supported this fact. Ball lightning, meteorites, swarms of high altitude ice crystals and bright planets have all been misinterpreted as extraterrestrial aircraft silently pulsing through the sky. However, there has still been no explanation for the last 10%, and the argument still goes on today. Is it a new top secret military plane? Is it some sort of AP modern science cannot explain? Is it aliens from another planet? These questions cannot be answered as of yet. A veil of mystery surrounds UFOs, it was dropped 1969, when the U.S. "officially" declared its disinterest in the UFO phenomenon. However, the field of UFOlogy is persistent in its search for the truth, and the information it has yielded gives a good, objective view of the UFO phenomenon.
             The U.S. government has declassified a vast amount of documents pertaining to its three major studies of UFOs: PROJECT: SIGN, PROJECT GRUDGE, AND PROJECT: BLUEBOOK. These documents were classified due to various national security reasons, but were opened to the public following the Freedom of Information Act and have been the bread and butter of serious UFO research. As the study of UFOs continues into the 21st century, no solid, educated, credible, supported statement can yet be made about the ...

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