| If you haven't heard yet, UFO sightings are at an | | | | witnessed a solid, other-worldly mile wide object in |
| all-time high these days. Confirmed sightings or | | | | their skies that's come to be known as the |
| not, we're seeing an elevation in unidentified aerial | | | | Phoenix Lights. Republican Arizona governor at the |
| phenomenon in our skies. Glowing orange orbs and | | | | time, Fife Symington, who also witnessed these |
| delta-shaped objects have been reported to have | | | | lights remarked, "It was enormous and |
| been seen in countries all over the world. Don't | | | | inexplicable. Who knows where it came from? A |
| take my word for it, go and see for yourself at | | | | lot of people saw it, and I saw it too. It was |
| the National UFO Reporting Center's website. Click | | | | dramatic. And it couldn't have been flares because |
| on the reports database to see a categorical | | | | it was too symmetrical. It had a geometric outline, |
| listing of reported UFO sightings around the world. | | | | a constant shape." |
| Is this newsworthy enough to challenge the | | | | Despite the mainstream media's ignorance of the |
| democratic presidential debates, ongoing political | | | | UFO phenomenon, we can indulge our taste for |
| chaos in Pakistan or the war in Iraq for front | | | | the otherworldly with the late-night syndicated |
| page status? We'll know the answer to that soon | | | | radio talk show, Coast to Coast AM. Art Bell's |
| because yesterday, November 12, 2007, an | | | | popular flagship radio program delves into a |
| international panel of respected former pilots and | | | | variety of topics relating to conspiracy theories, |
| various government officials called on the U.S. | | | | paranormal and of course, UFOs. It's on this show |
| government to reopen the long-closed Project | | | | that the conventional and unconventional alike |
| Bluebook -- the official government investigation | | | | overtly indulge in talk of the unknown. |
| into the unknown phenomenon known as | | | | Hollywood has always wetted our appetite for the |
| unidentified flying objects. | | | | UFO phenomenon. Beginning with Orson Welles' |
| Talk of UFOs has been creeping into the | | | | 1937 radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' The War of |
| mainstream news more and more lately. Dennis | | | | the Worlds, to Close Encounters, E.T., Men in Black |
| Kucinich incurred a small newsworthy ripple | | | | and of course, television's Emmy award winning |
| recently when he was questioned during a recent | | | | X-Files. Dan Aykroyd has long been lending his |
| democratic presidential debate if he had really | | | | ghost busting credibility to the Mutual UFO |
| seen a UFO. He admitted he did see something in | | | | Network (mufon.com). Whether you think this |
| the sky when he was a guest at his friend Shirley | | | | former blues brother is trustworthy or not, Dan |
| MacLaine's home in Washington State. An even | | | | Aykroyd adds a touch of mainstream media |
| more significantly reported UFO sighting occurred | | | | credibility to the ongoing quest for the little green |
| in Chicago on November 7, 2006. Twelve aviation | | | | man. Sort of a life following art come to life, |
| employees witnessed a metallic, saucer-shaped | | | | Special Agent Fox Mulder. |
| object hover over gate C-17 at Chicago's O'Hare | | | | Unidentified flying objects have never been given |
| Airport at approximately 4:30pm. They said it | | | | much respect in mainstream media; just mention |
| appeared to hover for a period of minutes, then | | | | UFOs to the person standing behind you in the |
| punched a hole in the clouds as it sped off into | | | | Starbucks line-up and you're likely to elicit a, "Huh? |
| the sky. Despite this being a UFO sighting | | | | UFO?" and a smirk or maybe a giggle if you're |
| witnessed by multiple people, it still took until | | | | lucky. It's true it's rarely discussed with the same |
| almost Christmas of that year before this news | | | | fervor as any other front page newsworthy |
| hit major media outlets. | | | | story. But is all that about to change? |
| March 13, 1997, hundreds of Arizona, Nevada and | | | | We'll have to wait and see if the men in black |
| the Mexican State of Sonora residents all | | | | revisit Project Bluebook. |