e which suggests that UFOs are in fact out there. What, and who, are we to believe? I. On September 1, 1859, Richard Carrington, a renowned astronomer of his time, ƒ±saw two luminous bodies that he said were not meteors flying through the airƒ° (Lore 53). Nine years later at Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford, many astronomers witnessed a ƒ±luminous object that moved quickly across the sky, stopped, changed course to the west, then to the south, where it hovered for four minutes. Then it headed toward the north.ƒ° (Lore 53) UFOs. What are they, and where do they come from? Unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, are one of the worldƒ­s oldest and most intriguing mysteries. ƒ®UFOsƒ­ are commonly called ƒ®flying saucersƒ­, which the American Heritage Dictionary defines as ƒ±any of various unidentified flying objects typically reported and described as luminous discsƒ° (272). Esteemed Idaho businessman Kenneth Arnold coined the phrase ƒ®flying saucerƒ­ when in June of 1947 he saw saucer-shaped discs flying over the Cascade Mountains. It was in this year that these unidentified flying object sightings began to escalate. About one month after Arnold saw these objects in the sky the incident at Roswell occurred. July of 1947, Roswell, New Mexico. The spaceships of extraterrestrials flew over the site of a 1945 atomic bomb test site. During flight, one of these spacecrafts malfunctioned and crashed to the earth. Its entire crew was killed. As Charles Moore stated: various portions of this sequence of events were observed on Army Air Force radars and by eyewitnesses. Thus, alerted, the military acted swiftly; a cordon of troops was placed around the impact site; the wreckage and the small, humaniod alien bodies were removed; and all traces of the crash were expunged. (3) On the 8th of July, the public relations officer at Roswell Army Air Force issued a press release which stated that they had ƒ±recovered a flying disk that had been sent on to higher headquarters for examinationƒ° (Moore 3). Within hours though, this announcement was repudiated. The general in command of the regional Army Air Force declared that the wreckage was merely the remains of a weather balloon. This latter story was obviously invented to conceal the recovery of an alien spacecraft. Government officials continued this cover-up by threatening eyewitnesses and local reporters with ƒ±severe reprisals if they continued to reveal information about the flying diskƒ° (Moore 3). This was just the beginning of a massive cover-up, which attempts to keep the worldƒ­s citizens in the dark. It wasnƒ­t until 1979 when a former military intelligence officer from the Roswell Army Air Force defied the security regulations and spoke out. He told reporters and UFO investigators that the wreckage collected near Roswell in 1947 ƒ±was not that of a weather balloon and that the fragments he had seen and handled exhibited unusual properties, in terms of hardness and strength, that were not possessed by terrestrial materialsƒ° (Moore 4). In following years researchers interviewed many people who had firsthand or secondhand knowledge about the Roswell incident. Their testimonies confirmed the crash of an alien spaceship and the recovery of many alien bodies. Three years after the infamous Roswell incident, a Mrs. Trent was in her backyard in Oregon when she saw a huge metallic disk. She was able to snap two pictures of this alien craft, which silently hovered in the air. The U.S. Air Force and many independent investigators scrutinized these photos. In the 1969 government-run Condon Report (a skeptical view of UFO existence), it is stated that ƒ±the simplest, most direct interpretation of the photos confirms precisely what the witness said she saw.ƒ° Years afterward, William Spaulding used ƒ±super intense high-tech computer photograph analyzersƒ° to study the same two ƒ®Trentƒ­ photos. (Life 138) Spaulding also concluded that the pictures

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