| According to recent polls, more than 50 percent | | | | the reporting on this subject by the mainstream |
| of Americans, and hundreds of millions of people | | | | media holds those who claim to have seen UFOs |
| elsewhere in the world believe that UFOs are | | | | up to embarrassing ridicule.Today if you report a |
| authentic. For many it is a deeply held belief.For | | | | UFO to the U.S. government you will be informed |
| decades there have been sightings of UFOs by | | | | that the United States Air Force conducted a |
| countless people. It is a mystery that only | | | | 22-year investigation that ended in 1969 and |
| scientific research can solve, and yet the | | | | concluded that UFOs are not a threat to national |
| phenomenon remains largely unexamined. Most of | | | | security and are of little or no scientific interest. |