UFOs

What do you say when someone asks "Do you believe in UFOs?" Do you say yes? No or perhaps? Do you patiently explain that they are asking the wrong question because "UFO" is simply the abbreviation of "Unidentified Flying Object", and there is no question that some flying objects are unidentified, even if only temporarily? People often mix up the meanings of the words UFO and extraterrestrial crafts, which means ‘crafts that don’t belong to earth’. Where does the word UFO come from then? What’s its history? The first time people used this word was in 1947 after one strange event. That year on 24th June, the weather was fine and blue; everything could be seen very clearly. An American pilot named Kenneth Arnold was on a difficult mission to search a crashed C-46 transport plane round Mount Rainer, Washington State. That afternoon, while he was searching the plane ruins, a ray of light suddenly came from behind him. To find out what that was, he turned the plane around. There they are, 9 blinking objects, in a straight line flew from the direction of Park Mountain. In a short time Kenneth calculated the speed of those flying objects: 1900 kilo meter per hour. In 1947, it was unbelievable fast. The pilot was shocked, just then, those objects were gone. Back home Kenneth told people his discover and described those blinking things were just like saucers, flying towards the see. The press published the news and for the first time, the words flying saucers were used for unknown flying objects. Later it was called UFO the scientific way. But in fact there appear to have been many reports over the years before Arnold's report, some of them may go back to ancient times. But since Arnold’s report, people really noticed that there have been reports about UFO’s continuously, all over the world. Some countries, however, have more reports than others. In particular, a large number of UFO reports come from the United States, Argentina, Brazil, England, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, and Russia. By contrast, few reports (considering their large populations) are received from Mexico, Germany, and India. No one is sure why the number of UFO reports varies from country to country, but cultural, religious, and political factors are probably involved. But at the beginning, no body connected those phenomena to aliens or something. Because
1947, the first time people registered UFO, was the second year after the world war two. Two powers USA and the Soviet Union were in an arms race. The western world was suspecting that those were Russian new secret weapons to spy on military secrets of the western countries. But reports about the flying saucers kept increasing and those stories were getting stranger and more mysterious. Thus the extraterrestrial hypothesis began to be the most popular UFO explanation. It basically says that the unexplained objects that we see in the sky are alien visitors from another world. But many scientists were against this idea right from the beginning. They claim those reports about flying saucers are just made up stories or hallucinations. US air force department organized 37 experts to investigate more than 12600 registered UFO cases. The result was, most of those reported UFO’s are no more than some astronomical or weather phenomena, like satellites, man-made air crafts, balloons and parachutes, which can cause the illusion. By example, in first July 1948, American pilot Manter went to follow a “flying saucer” and crashed. But that turned out to be a weather balloon after some investigation. In 15th December1963, in the pictures photographed by an American racket, there was a “space saucer”, but after some further research, that was just the planet Venus. Another example of misidentification was in January 1982, an UFO appeared on the screen of an American air force radar station. But there was nothing after long searching, because that was just atmosphere reflection caused by returning radar waves. Scientists also suspect, those “flying saucers” may be a sort of high sky electric phenomenon. As you know there is a form of lightening which has the shape of a ball. It can subsist long and has properties like moving zigzag and flying fast. Because of the high internal temperature, it can shine very blazing. And then it will explode or just disappear soundlessly. Those properties just resemble to the description of many “flying saucers”. Another explanation is when large groups of insects such like butterflies fly into electronic field in the atmosphere, they can possess electricity, which will radiate blue light. That can also give people misunderstanding. And others think some UFO cases have to do with meteors. But what about those UFO phenomena we can’t explain with scientific explanations? And stories about people being kidnapped and carried into flying saucers? Can those be the spacecrafts of aliens?! Do they really exist? If we can’t prove aliens have visited us with the evidence we have now and you don’t believe those stories neither, theories about there are no aliens, is still based on nothing. There are billions and billions planets in the universe and therefore the chance is incredible big that there may be some kind of alien species. So far we only know a few planets, imagine the possibility of other life forms if we could travel through the whole universe. Then do those other life forms have the intelligence and possibility to reach or communicate with us? This would explain lots of unexplained UFO sightings. Now our technology is still very low to prove it, but one day when the technology is so far that humans will be able to travel deep in the space, And one day we will be able to make trip through other milky ways, we may discover the truth.