What are U.F.O's?Do they really exist?

Answer 1

Unidentified Flying Objects

The UFO phenomenon consists of reports of unusual flying objects that remain unidentified after scientific inquiry. It first came to public attention in the United States in 1947, when a pilot reported seeing nine unusual objects flying in formation in the state of Washington. Since 1947, the U.S. federal government, private research institutions, and individual scientists have collected data about the phenomenon. Although UFOs are not a phenomenon unique to the United States, American organizations and private individuals have taken the lead in collecting, analyzing, and publishing sighting reports.

The most publicized collection agency was the U.S. Air Force through its Projects Sign (1948), Grudge (1948–1951), and Blue Book (1951–1969). The Air Force also sponsored research by the Battelle Memorial Institute in 1955 and the University of Colorado in the late 1960s. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency, and other U.S. government agencies also looked into the phenomenon. Congressional hearings were held on the subject in 1966 and 1968. The goal of the U.S. government was to determine whether the UFO phenomenon was a threat to national security. Unable to find the threat, the government stopped collecting reports from the public in 1969.

Private research institutions, including the Aerial Phenomenon Research Organization (APRO), the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), the Mutual UFO Network, the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, and the Fund for UFO Research, have collected and analyzed reports since 1952. Even the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) conducted a study in 1971.

Nearly all research efforts have determined that a small but significant number of sightings remain "unidentified" after scientific investigation. This is especially true with reports made by the most articulate witnesses and containing the most data. Although the primary objective of private UFO researchers was to collect and analyze reports, they also sought to convince the public and the scientific community of the legitimacy of the subject. Their task was made all the more difficult by ridicule, caused in part by the perceived unlikelihood of the phenomenon's extraterrestrial origin, and in part by publicity hungry charlatans and self-promoters ("contactees") who, beginning in the 1950s, made fictitious claims about meeting "space brothers" and traveling to distant planets, or hinted darkly about secret government conspiracies with aliens.

In addition to the problem of ridicule, serious researchers found it difficult, although not impossible, to gather "hard" evidence of the unconventional nature of the phenomenon. They amassed photos, films, videotapes, radar tracings, and great numbers of multiple witness reports of objects on or near the ground. They reported studies of UFO effects on electrical and mechanical devices, animals, and humans. They studied soil samples purportedly altered by landed UFOs. In spite of all this, they were unable to present artifacts of a UFO—the hard evidence that most scientists demanded.

Since the late 1940s, the UFO phenomenon has entered U.S. popular culture, and it has become a staple of motion pictures, television shows, advertising copy, and media images. As early as 1950 it proved to be one of the most recognized phenomena in Gallup Poll history, and it has continued to play an important role in popular culture.

In the early 1960s, people began to claim that they were abducted into UFOs. Although UFO researchers at first considered these reports to be an "exotic"—and probably psychological—sidelight of the main sighting phenomenon, abduction accounts grew steadily in number. Evidence for abductions was mainly derived from human memory, usually retrieved through hypnosis. But the people who reported being abducted were not "contactees" or self-promoters and appeared to be genuinely concerned about what had happened to them. In the 1980s, the numbers of people who came forward with abduction accounts had begun to rise dramatically, and a 1998 Roper Poll of 5,995 adults suggested that as many as a million Americans believed they had been abducted. By the end of the twentieth century, the abduction phenomenon had come to dominate UFO research.

In spite of extensive efforts in the second half of the twentieth century, attitudes toward the legitimacy of the UFO phenomenon and the research into it changed little. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, researchers had failed to convince the scientific community of the phenomenon's legitimacy, they had not developed a standardized methodology to retrieve alleged abduction accounts, and no UFO organization had gained the academic backing to professionalize both UFO and abduction research. Yet after half a century of study, UFO proponents had advanced knowledge of the subject greatly, and some even claimed that a solution to the mystery of UFO origins and motivations seemed possible.

In the twenty-first century, the UFO phenomenon persisted, apparently unaffected by societal events. It continued to maintain a ubiquitous presence in popular culture, researchers continued to study it, and, although scientists and academics still scorned it, ordinary people continued to report both sightings and abduction accounts.

So what do you think!? about UFOs :-)

Answer 2

A UFO or Unidentified Flying Object is any real or apparent flying object which cannot be identified by the observer and which remains unidentified after investigation.

Sightings of unusual aerial phenomena date back to ancient times, but reports of UFO sightings started becoming more common after the first widely publicized U.S. sighting in 1947. Many tens of thousands of such claimed observations have since been reported worldwide, and it is very likely many more go unreported due to fear of public ridicule because of the social stigma created around the UFO topic.

In popular culture throughout the world, UFO is commonly used to refer to any hypothetical alien spacecraft but the term flying saucer is also regularly used. Once a UFO is identified as a known object (for example an aircraft or weather balloon), it ceases to be a UFO and becomes an identified object. In such cases it is inaccurate to continue to use the acronym UFO to describe the object.

I believe they do exist.

Answer 3

UFOs are operated by the United Flittering Organisation, a division of the LGM Corporation. Their main base is inside the hollow Earth with exit points in the Bermuda Triangle and Atlantis. The craft provide very rapid transit using antigravity and perpetual motion based around the Philosopher’s Stone. Navigation is according to astrological principles, which is why they seem lost sometimes. Pilots are usually greys or little green men. Cabin crew are recruited from among the Bigfoot, Yeti and Yowie people who don’t smell too good but make great security personnel. First class seating is reserved for Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Sandman, the Tooth Fairy and a list of gods from Apollo to Zeus. Some of these former frequent flyers have not been seen for centuries.

Elves, fairies, pixies and their close relatives fly business class along with Kobold dwarves and gnomes on their way to engineering or environmental conventions. In coach class the passengers degenerate into a noisy rabble of goblins, gremlins, creationists, zombies, ghouls and vampires. Ghosts, having nothing to offer but their chains usually travel cheaply in the luggage compartments.

To alleviate the boredom of ultra-rapid travel in cramped quarters, the less responsible of UFO crew sometimes swoop unsuspecting humans and in extreme cases they may land nearby and make "beep-beep" noises or play with audio synthesizers and the UFO lighting system. This behaviour is usually confined to isolated areas and usually in front of people whom nobody is going to believe. So the next time you see a UFO give it a cheery wave and go on your way.

Answer 4

Since UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object, then, yes - they exist and are seen all the time. If you can't tell what it is - a balloon, a kite, a bird - it's a UFO.

If you're asking if alien spacecraft exist, then, yes - in space, WE are the alien spacecraft out there, and I'm sure that in a cosmos this huge with it's trillions of planets, that somewhere, there are other spacecraft...

Answer 5

Unidentified Flying Objects. Yes, they exist. Anything flying that is unidentified would qualify. I suppose I would, if a radar screen picked me up while I was soaring in my hang glider. Am I a space alien? You decide.

Answer 6

If we knew what U.F.O.'s were they wouldn't be U.F.O.'s anymore, would they?

Answer 7

The truth is out there.

Answer 8

no they do not exist