UFOs: What are they?
In the past fifty years, UFO sightings have shot up in numbers. Now that there are enough witnesses, we can try to find out what or who these UFOs really are. When asked about the incidents, the government would make something up for an explanation instead of telling the truth. Its up to people like you and me to find out what really happened.
The number of sightings of UFOs in the United States alone is phenomenal. Even though it has been determined that many photographs of flying objects, discs, and lights at night have been hoaxes, modern video footage taken by several different people is considered to be authentic. At a Texas airshow, many spectators got video of what was believed to be a UFO in broad daylight (Omni 54). The states where UFO sightings are most prominent are California, Texas, Washington, Oregon, the Gulf Coast States, and some New England States (Ritchie 220).
An interesting fact about these areas is that they are on or near the ocean or some other body of water. Although the area is not near a major body of water, the desert in the western states (mainly Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico) seems to be a leading area in sightings. In Nevadas desert, the government is supposedly housing a crashed UFO in a place called Area 51, which may explain some of the sightings. UFOs sighted have many different shapes and sizes according to witnesses.
The Adamski Saucer, referring to George Adamskis drawing from a personal experience, is described as a round disk with portholes around the circumference of a dome in the center and three-ball landing gear (Ritchie 3). Another type of spacecraft commonly described is the Saturn Shape. The Saturn Shape has a round circular body bisected by a disk in the middle (Ritchie 183). Hundreds of people around the world have also encountered UFOs. The countries where sightings are commonly reported are Australia, several Asian countries, Great Britain, Germany, and many other European countries (Ritchie 221). UFOs have even been sighted in space by astronauts.
NASAs code name for UFOs is Santa Claus. There are many different types of beings encountered in abductions and sightings. The majority of abductees claim to have seen a humanoid type alien with a large egg-shaped head, long, skinny arms and legs, large blackeyes, and slit-like mouths and nostrils. Characteristics of other aliens are insect-like features, clothed or unclothed, and hairless bodies.
There are a number of documented UFO incidents ranging from abductions to crashes. The following are three well-known incidents in the UFO community: In Roswell, New Mexico, on the evening of July 2, 1947, many witnessed a large lit object streak across the sky and disappear just outside of Roswell. The next day, a local man was driving near town and sighted a huge wreckage. When local authorities arrived, they contacted the federal government. Within days, the wreckage was cleaned up and those who saw it were told to keep quiet, or else. After the media questioned the government as to what it was, the government replied that it was a weather balloon that had crashed.
Many years later, eyewitnesses gave descriptions of the wreckage. They said that the material the craft was made of was like that they had never seen before. Some of it looked like tin-foil but would not tear or permanently crease. Other material had what resembled hieroglyphics written along the side. Along with the wreckage were three or four small alien bodies. They were completely hairless and were wearing tight-fitting, gray outfits.
The pieces of the craft and the bodies were supposedly transported to an army base in Michigan that has very high security. The governments clean up and cover up of the incident was done in a matter of two weeks (Ritchie 178). Albert Bender, a supervisor at an industrial firm in Bridgeport, Connecticut, has been abducted several times. He said that he can communicate with the aliens using telepathy. The aliens supposedly gave him a disk-shaped object that fit in his hand.
When holding the object, they told him to say the word Kazik while his radio was on. By doing this, he could contact the aliens at any time. Bender also said the alien beings have a huge cavern of ice in Antarctica. When he was taken there, he met a being called the exalted one who was neither male nor female.
Again Bender was able to communicate telepathically with the alien. He asked the exalted one many questions, some related to God and spirituality. When asked if God was real, the being replied that God is just something thought up by man, and Christ was just a man who was a follower of this idea. (Ritchie 27.
) The exalted ones hostility toward our God may suggest that the so-called aliens are really demonic creatures trying to deceive humankind. After Benders alleged abductions, he was returned home with the sensation of extreme cold and the smell of burning sulfur. Another incident took place near Levelland, Texas, on November 2, 1957. Several people saw what they described to be an egg-shaped craft illuminated by bright lights fly across the sky and land. Some witnesses encountered the craft while driving.
Their radios would cut out and the cars engines would shut off. Then the people would see the craft lift off the ground and take off across the sky. The car engines would then start up again and the radios worked just fine. The ship was estimated to be two hundred feet long (Omni 47). Hundreds of people have reported being abducted by aliens and experimented on or questioned.
One of those people is Betty Andreasson. She claims she has been abducted several times. One of the first times she was visited, she witnessed the alien beings pass through a wall uninhibited. They took her to another world where she saw a huge area filled with green vegetation and a palace made of crystal.
Andreasson also says she saw different types of stalks with no heads and small, pale bodies. She was also physically probed and examined. Andreasson would then find herself back in her home slightly dazed (Time Life 9). Travis Walton and about six other men were driving out of the woods one night after a day of cutting lumber. They all saw a light glowing behind the trees. When they reached it, it was a large craft hovering in the air.
Travis was drawn to it and he started walking toward it. When he stopped, the craft shot a beam of light at him, and he flew backward. The other men took off, but when they went back for him, he was gone. Eight days later, they found him naked and curled up outside a gas station.
Travis said they examined him and took him to a hangar-like room full of capsules with bodies in them. The aliens then left him naked and in the rain until someone found him (Time Life 23). In so many of the abduction cases, people say they were examined and probed by the aliens. What are they trying to learn about humans? To get detailed descriptions of alien abductions, UFO investigators are using hypnosis to recover the memories of the abductee (Time Life 27).
Centuries ago, magicians used hypnosis to amaze and amuse crowds. Now hypnosis is used in crime investigations, therapy, scientific experimentation, and recovering lost memories. Due to the fact that a person under hypnosis is susceptible to suggestion, that persons account of what happened may be a fanciful dillusion, which makes some people unsure of hypnosis credibility. (Ritchie 107). In 1969, the U.
S. Air Force ceased investigation of UFOs and related phenomena. Now it is up to individual people to search on their own without the governments help. When choosing a case to investigate, people usually look for one that has been witnessed by more than one person and has been reported in local media (Omni 48). If a good present-day case cant be found, look for one that took place in the past but has not been solved (Omni 52).
Although many books have been written on UFOs, and the phenomenon has been investigated, no one has answered the question Who or what are they? yet.
