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UFOs: A Brief History
The modern era of UFO activity began on June 24, 1947, when an Idaho businessman, Kenneth Arnold, sighted nine unusual aircraft, flying in formation over the Cascade Mountains in Washington state. ... Unexplained aircraft in the skies of a country that had just left behind it the biggest war in history, and that had seen the birth of a weapon that was more awesome than most people could imagine. ... During the 1950’s the subject of flying saucers, or UFOs, as serious researchers prefer to call them, received an undeserved reputation as a “crank” topic. ...
Helping this attitude along was a policy established by the Central Intelligence Agency to discredit UFOs in the public’s eye. On July 19, 1952, and again on July 26, radar at Washington’s National Airport, and at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, tracked flights of UFOs passing through the restricted air space above the White House. ...
Afraid that the inability of the authorities to explain UFOs would undermine public confidence in the military, and concerned about the potential of mistaking a Soviet missile attack for a mass UFO sighting, intelligence experts decided on a course of action. ...
Meeting over the course of three days, they addressed primarily the implications of UFO reports, not the existence of UFOs themselves. ... Since the mid-1950’s, there has been an unbroken chain of extraordinary events involving UFOs, including dog-fights with military aircraft; sightings by police officers; landings of strange craft witnessed by multiple observers, including military personnel; the apparent abduction of men, women, and children by the occupants of these craft; intrusions into secure military installations by these objects; and the discovery, since the passage of the Freedom of Information Act in 1976, that the U. ...
Documents released from various government agencies, including the CIA, FBI, NSA, DIA, ASA, NRO, and others, make it plain that the government considers UFOs to be a very serious matter. A great deal of physical evidence exists to prove that UFOs have interacted with the environment around them — they have scorched grass, broken tree branches, left depressions in the soil, and in one instance, even tampered with the guidance system of an ICBM at an Air Force installation near Great Falls, Montana.
The major issue now facing those who research UFOs, is the question of UFO abductions. ...
Are UFOs extraterrestrial craft, piloted by beings from another world? ... It is not a question of “Are UFOs real? ... ”
What are UFOs? ...
Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind (CEIV) — this category involves the alleged abduction of people by the occupants of UFOs. ...
The reality of UFOs is no myth. ... Based on the available information, do UFOs seem to behave like extraterrestrial visitors? ... The most popular theory in American Ufology concerning the origin of the phenomenon is the idea that UFOs are physical craft from another planet, piloted by intelligent beings. ... UFOs are a real phenomenon. ... Historical records show this intelligence has been with mankind for all of recorded history. ... I do not believe any more that UFOs are simply the spacecraft of some race of extraterrestrial visitors. This notion is too simplistic to explain their appearance, the frequency of their manifestations throughout recorded history, and the structure of the information exchanged with them during contact.
UFOs and Related Subjects: An Annotated Bibliography, published by the U. ...
John Keel, one of the most astute minds working in the field, has stated quite clearly what he feels is the driving force behind the phenomena, in his book UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse:
The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon. ...
John Keel, again from UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse, states that:
the endless messages from the space people would now fill a library, and while the communicators claim to represent some other world, the contents of those messages are identical to the messages long received by mediums and mystics. ...
UFO Abductions
In light of the material in the brief history concerning UFO abductions, read the following excerpt from Los Angeles Times writer Stuart Goldman:
But the real question remains. ...
The Bible and UFOs
While Scripture does not directly address the issue of UFOs or of the existence of extraterrestrial life, it offers principles by which these hypotheses can be evaluated.
Approximate Word count = 3503
Approximate Pages = 14
(250 words per page double spaced)
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