Regardless of any ultimate explanation, UFOs constitute an international cultural phenomenon of the last half-century. Since the mid-1900s, UFOs have been the subject of a very large number of books, motion pictures, songs, documentaries and other media. UFO topics were amongst the most popular on early computer Bulletin board systems, and millions of people have some degree of interest in the subject. There have also been notable hoaxes involving UFO reports, some of which have received substantial press attention (see the list below). UFOs have played a role in tourism, such as in Roswell, New M ...

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Some also contend regarding physical evidence that it exists abundantly but is swiftly and sometimes clumsily suppressed by governmental entities, not always in uniform, with a strong agenda to insulate a population they regard as psychologically not yet prepared for the social, theological, and security implications of such a reality. See the Brookings Report. There have been scattered reports of suppression of UFO related evidence for many decades: In 1950, Nicholas Mariana filmed some unusal aerial objects and eventually turned the ...

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The field of UFOs does not always necessarily overlap the paranormal, although in practice it often does. Some researchers, such as John Keel and Jacques Vallee, argue that there is a direct relationship between UFOs and paranormal phenomena. Also, some religious sects have made UFOs a part of their core beliefs. See Paranormal and Occult Hypotheses About UFOs. Many ancient religious paintings contain images that have been interpreted as UFOs and alien beings. Some also believe that over long periods of history, nonhum ...

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Jimmy Carter saw a UFO in 1969 and this led him to attempt to investigate the issue when he was elected President of the United States. Ronald Reagan reported seeing two UFOs, one from an airplane around 1974 when Governor of California. The pilot corroborated the sighting. As President, Reagan publicly spoke about the world uniting against a hypothetical alien threat on three different occasions. For example, in a speech before the United Nations General Assembly in 1987, Reagan said, "I occasionally think how quickly our differences ...

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UFOs are sometimes claimed to be part of an elaborate UFO conspiracy theory in which the government is said to be intentionally covering up the existence of aliens, or sometimes collaborating with them. There are many versions of this story; some are exclusive, while others overlap with various other conspiracy theories. There is also speculation that UFO phenomena are tests of experimental aircraft or advanced weapons. In this case UFOs are viewed as failures to retain secrecy, or deliberate attempts at disinformation: to deride the ...

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Unidentified flying object - Canada. In the early 1950s, Project Magnet was created to investigate the possibility of discs powered by magnetic propulsion. The equipment was designed to detect gamma rays, magnetic fluctuations, radio noises and gravity or mass changes in the atmosphere. One of these monitoring stations was located at Shirley Bay, Canada. Unidentified flying object - United States. In response to the June-July 1947 wave of UFO sightings and resulting publ ...

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Ufology is the study of UFO reports and associated evidence. While most academics prefer to ignore the subject, others, including mostly amateur and some professional scientific researchers, continue to investigate. Unfortunately, quality of investigations by amateur researchers can vary enormously. Probably the most favored theory among advocates is the more conventional extraterrestrial hypothesis, though the Interdimensional hypothesis and the Paranormal/Occult Hypothesis for UFOs ...

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Ufology is the study of UFO reports and associated evidence. While most academics prefer to ignore the subject, others, including mostly amateur and some professional scientific researchers, continue to investigate. Unfortunately, quality of investigations by amateur researchers can vary enormously. It is a common error to assume that the only question of interest provided by the subject is whether UFOs represent alien intelligence (Peter Sturrock has argued that this emphasis on the extraterrestrial hypothesis has narrowed the ...

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The opening montage showed flying saucer diagrams and schematics, while a minor-key version of "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel" played. A voice-over (narrated by Webb) then spoke: "Ezekiel saw the wheel. This [UFO diagrams] is the wheel he said he saw. These are Unidentified Flying Objects that people say they are seeing now. Are they proof that we are being visited by civilizations from other stars? Or just what are they? What you are about ...

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"If you want to know me, see 'Glen or Glenda', that's me, that's my story. No question. But 'Plan 9' is my pride and joy. We used Cadillac hubcaps for flying saucers in that." - Ed Wood. Wood's movies were notoriously low budget, and car hubcaps were indeed used as flying saucers in Plan 9 from Outer Space (actually, the first time one sees the saucers, they are model kit UFOs but the store from which they had been purchased had run out of kits by the time more had to be constructed so Wood improvised with the hubcaps only in t ...

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"If you want to know me, see 'Glen or Glenda'. That's me, that's my story, no question. But 'Plan 9' is my pride and joy. We used Cadillac hubcaps for flying saucers in that." - Ed Wood. Wood's movies were notoriously low budget, and car hubcaps were indeed used as flying saucers in Plan 9 from Outer Space (actually, the first time one sees the saucers, they are model kit UFOs but the store from which they had been purchased had run out of kits by the time more had to be constructed so Wood improvised with the hubcaps only in t ...

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In popular culture, such as movies and comics, "aliens" are often depicted as somewhat humanoid in their appearance (See Greys, Little green men). There are several reasons for this humanoid depiction in popular culture. It makes it easier for an alien in a movie scene to simply be a disguised human actor. Aliens in movies, in order to catch our attention, must trigger instantaneous emotional reaction; this requires a design based on recognizable human facial features and expressions. It is easier to relate to an alien with features w ...

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In popular culture, such as movies and comics, "aliens" are often depicted as somewhat humanoid in their appearance (See Greys, Little green men, Star Trek). There are several reasons for this humanoid depiction in popular culture. It makes it easier for an alien in a movie scene to simply be a disguised human actor. Aliens in movies, in order to catch our attention, must trigger instantaneous emotional reaction; this requires a design based on recognizable human facial features and expressions. It is easier to relate to an ali ...

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The existence of alien beings (intelligent extraterrestrial life) has been one of the enduring themes of science fiction. One of the first fiction writers to use alien beings from another planet was H. G. Wells. The War of the Worlds is the best known of his works; it also introduced the modern reader to the recurring concept of interplanetary invasion by malign aliens. The alien invasion was one of two themes which was to crop up again and again in the 'pulp science fiction' years, the 1930s to 1960s. The Cold War made ...

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Klaatu (Rennie) arrives in a flying saucer on The Mall in Washington, DC, wearing a silver spacesuit and accompanied by a large human-like robot called Gort (Martin). As Klaatu exits the saucer, he is welcomed not by politicians but by soldiers. When he offers a device as a gift to the humans, he is shot when the device opens with a snap and is mistaken for a weapon. In response to this, the robot Gort activates and makes all weapons evaporate, without obvious harm to the soldiers present. Klaatu is taken to Walter Reed Hospital, where he qu ...

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Black Arms - Black Hawks. The Black Hawks are small winged dragons can be used as vehicles to fly around in certain parts of the game, once. Black Hawks are unable to fire weapons of their own, but Shadow has control over them. Black Arms - Black Volts. The Black Volts are the most powerful flying Black Arm. They are the same as Black Hawks, but they wear gold armor and can fire minature worms. Black Arms - Air Saucers. The Air Saucers are floating discs that belong to the Black Arms which Shadow ...

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Lightning Comics was a short-lived comic book publisher in 1967. They published only 2 titles: Fatman, the Human Flying Saucer, which was created by C.C. Beck and Otto Binder and lasted only 3 issues. Tod Holton, Super Green Beret, which lasted only 2 issues. Lightning Comics - External links. Fatman entry at International Catalog of Superheroes Super Green ...

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Bill Schnoebelen also claims that because of the influence of the professors at his seminary, he studied Spiritualism, ESP and Witchcraft. By the time he received his Bachelor's Degree, Schnoebelen was a fully fledged Wiccan. He also claims that he became a second degree Satanist in the Church of Satan; that he was involved in Freemasonry, Thelema, Rosicrucianism and many other mystical organisations, and that these organisations are connected to Satanism; that reports of flying saucers and alien abduction events are linked to Satanism; and tha ...

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Following on from the end of Bad Wolf, the Daleks turn on Rose and demand that she predict the Doctor's actions, but she refuses. The Daleks detect the TARDIS flying in real space towards the saucer, and launch missiles against it. The missiles detonate, but thanks to the tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator taken from Margaret Blaine, Jack has rigged up a force field around the TARDIS that protects it. The TARDIS materialises on board the Dalek saucer, around Rose and a single Dalek guarding her, which Jack destroys with ...

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According to these myths, the flying saucer (Flugscheibe) and rocket craft models were produced by the SS Military Technical Branch E-IV of the Nazi "military science division". These "interplanetary" flying crafts are said to be the vehicles in which the Nazis managed to land and colonise the Moon along with Mars: The first of the crafts were designed by Viktor Schauberger who modelled the Repulsin A & B, a discoid craft that functioned on a vortex motor.[2][3] The Rud ...

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He is probably best known for his many books about UFOs, especially his arguments that various governments are suppressing UFO evidence. Since 1967 he has lectured on the topic Flying Saucers ARE Real! at more than 600 colleges and over 100 professional groups in 50 states, 9 provinces, 14 other countries. He has published more than 80 UFO papers, albeit not in refereed journals, and appeared on hundreds of radio and TV programs. He was perhaps the ...

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Alien

An intelligent extraterrestrial being; of extraterrestrial origin; non-human. A visitor from another planet, another world or dimension.

Eyewitnesses report a number of different types of alien creatures; in fact, they vary in almost every imaginable way. These reports have been around for centuries, but the number of sightings have increase dramatically since the first flying saucers were seen in the late 1940's. And the aliens come in a baffling variety of shapes and sizes. Surprisingly, however, the aliens themselves are not so very different from human beings - most have two arms, two legs, and one head. For this reason some ufologists doubt their existence: surely, they say, visitors from outer space would not look so much like ourselves.

The late Carl Sagan , astronomer and author of ' The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective ', believes that the aliens sighted were "stodgy in their unimaginativeness" and were hence the inhabitants of human minds, not extraterrestrial spaceships. But whatever the experts may say, close encounters of the third kind continue to be reported till this day. See alien abductions, alien autopsy, men in black, UFO, area 51, flying saucer, grays.

(See also: Alien, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)