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UFO Sightings
PART ONE: TOPIC QUESTION
Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) have always been a subject of intrigue among
people. Interest UFOs began in 1947 and were thought to be aliens or extraterrestrial forms of
life visiting. UFO believers argue that human beings are not the only life forms in the
universe. Skeptics do not believe in UFOs, treating them as people's imagination or
conspiracy theories. The sightings of UFOs increased, making the U.S. Airforce begin
investigation on reports of the sightings. At first, people thought that the sighting was
sophisticated Soviet aircraft. Other researchers suggested that the spacecrafts belonged to
extraterrestrials from other worlds. There have been numerous unexplained sightings that
have a similar trend that could prove that UFOs existed. However, there is no proof that they
belong to extraterrestrials from other planets.
PART TWO: REVIEW, SELECT AND DOCUMENT THE SOURCES
Ailleris, Phillipe UFOs and Exogenous Intelligence Encounters UAP Observations
Reporting Scheme (2011)
https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/126181/ESPI_Perspectives_43.pdf
The search for extraterrestrial life has fascinated human beings for nearly half a
century. The public and the scientists are all fascinated, with the scientists increasing their
efforts to find other life forms on other planets. In as much as the probability of making
contact with extraterrestrials is still a distant dream, the sightings of UFOs have continued to
fuel controversy about their existence on earth and not on other planets. UFO sightings are
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some of the things that help prime the public on the likelihood of the existence of
extraterrestrials and gain their support in space explorations, advance scientific knowledge in
space exploration and make the public psychologically prepared to meet extraterrestrials.
The article looks into the possibility of the existence of extraterrestrial life both inside
and outside planet earth. Aillerris argues that surveys conducted on the public indicated that
there is a widespread belief that intelligent extraterrestrial life exists. Even more surprisingly,
people believe that these intelligent aliens are already visiting earth in the form of UFOs.
56% percent of adults believe that UFOs are real and that there are not just a product of
people's imaginations. There has been a growing fascination among the public, who have
even come up with the name ufology to describe the study of UFOs. Governments such as
France have even developed websites to make documented evidence of UFOs available to the
public. Even as interest in the existence of alien life forms, there is no evidence linking UFOs
to them.
Han, Go. "Aliens" and UFOs."
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Go-Han2/publication/342347097_Aliens_and_UFOs/links/5ef1b46592851ce9e7fcd378/Alien
s-and-UFOs.pdf
In this article, Han compiled UFO sightings around the world. A former employee of
the United States of Defense asserted that it was his belief that there was compelling evidence
that UFOs existed. Elizondo orchestrated the release of video evidence to back his belief that
UFOs existed. In response to the videos, U.S. Navy commander David Fravor acknowledged
having seen a UFO back in 2004 while on a training mission. He described it as something he
had never seen before. According to Cooper, Bluthenthal, and Kean (2019), navy pilots had
been witnessing UFOs almost on a daily basis between 2014 and 2015. The former Assistant
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Secretary of Defense Christopher Mellon asserts that UFOs exist. According to him, the
question is not if they exist. It is why they there are on earth. The navy later admitted that the
videos that were recorded involving aliens were actually true.
The article provides an in-depth account of UFOs across the world. The author sought
to establish the narrative that UFOs actually exist. In the beginning, Han questions the
sighting, arguing that they could be a product of people's imaginations. It is disputed by the
fact that some of the sightings involved children who drew similar things when asked to draw
what they saw. According to him, children do not lie, and that explains the existence of
UFOs. However, the reason for existence is shrouded in mystery as that has not been
unraveled to date. There are people who believe that UFOs belong to extraterrestrial beings
who are way more intelligent than human beings. Their mission on earth has not been
established.
Shostak, Seth. "Unidentified flying object". Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Feb. 2020,
https://www.britannica.com/topic/unidentified-flying-object. Accessed 6 April 2021.
The article describes unidentified flying objects and gives a history of the sightings. It
states that the subjects of UFOs, defined as any aerial objects or phenomenon that cannot be
readily identified, began after the second world war. The initial thought by researchers on
UFOs was that they were intelligent extraterrestrial life visiting earth. It goes further and
gives the history of the sightings of UFOs.
In 1947, Kenneth Arnold claimed to have seen nine objects flying at high speed in
Washington. Arnold claimed that the objects were shaped like a crescent and were flying at
high speeds, appearing as if they were saucers skipping on water. Newspaper reports came up
with the term flying saucers to describe the saucer-shaped objects.
The increased interest in UFOs prompted the U.S. Air force to begin investigations in
a project, the christened Project Sign. The investigations might have been informed by the
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opinion that the UFOS were likely to be sophisticated Soviet Union aircraft. However, some
researchers offered a contrary opinion, stating that UFOs belonged to extraterrestrials from
other worlds. Project Sign was replaced by Project Grudge, followed by Project Blue Book.
Between 1952 and 1969, Project Blue Book recorded more than 12,000 sightings.
As the interest in UFOs grew among the American public, the Robertson Panel and
the Condon Report were formed to ascertain the phenomenon of UFOs. The Robertson report
established that UFOS posed a security threat, could be attributed to either astronomical or
meteorologic phenomena, and that they did not belong to extraterrestrial beings. The Condon
Report made the same conclusions as the Robertson report and that UFOs did not warrant any
further investigations. The reports did not deter people from speculating about the existence
of UFOs and their link to the aliens.
STEP THREE: DEVELOP A RESEARCH QUESTION
Is there a link between UFOs and the existence of extraterrestrial life?
STEP FOUR: DIRECTLY QUOTE A PASSAGE
INTEGRATED QUOTE
Han (7) argues that the existence of so many cases where young children around the
world have witnessed UFOs and aliens does not indicate that the findings are valid; they are
merely unexplainable.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Go-Han2/publication/342347097_Aliens_and_UFOs/links/5ef1b46592851ce9e7fcd378/Aliens-andUFOs.pdf
SEPARATE QUOTE
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The existence of verified UFO records and the accounts of individuals who claim to
have witnessed UFOs presents a gap that complicates the belief that there could be something
substantial behind the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena or if the claim of UFO existence is
merely a figment of people's imaginations (Han 3).
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Go-Han2/publication/342347097_Aliens_and_UFOs/links/5ef1b46592851ce9e7fcd378/Aliens-andUFOs.pdf
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Work cited
Ailleris, Phillipe UFOs and Exogenous Intelligence Encounters UAP Observations
Reporting Scheme (2011)
https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/126181/ESPI_Perspectives_43.pdfHan, Go. "Aliens" and
UFOs."
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Go-Han2/publication/342347097_Aliens_and_UFOs/links/5ef1b46592851ce9e7fcd378/Alien
s-and-UFOs.pdf
Shostak, Seth. "Unidentified flying object". Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Feb. 2020,
https://www.britannica.com/topic/unidentified-flying-object. Accessed 6 April 2021.