Final excerpt from the US Air Force textbook, 'Introductory Space Science'
33.6 Conclusion
From available information, the UFO phenomenon appears to have been global in nature for almost 50,000 years. The majority of known witnesses have been reliable people who have seen easily explained natural phenomena, and there appears to be no overall positive correlation with populationdensity. The entire phenomenon could be psychological in nature but that is quite doubtful. However, psychological factors probably do enter the data picture as 'noise'. The phenomenon could also be entirely due to known and unknown phenomena (with some psychological 'noise' added in) but that too is questionable in view of some of the available data.
This leaves us with the unpleasant possibility of alien visitors to our planet, or at least of alien controlled UFOs. However, the data are not well correlated, and what questionable data there are suggest the existance of at least three and maybe four different groups of aliens (possibly at different states of development). This too is difficult to accept. It implies the existence of intelligent life on a majority of the planets in our solar system, or a surprisingly strong interest in Earth by members of other solar systems.
A solution to the UFO problem may be ontained by long and dilligent effort of a large group of well financed and competent scientists, unfortunately there is no evidence that such an effort is going to be made, there is no guarantee of success because of the isolated and sporatic nature of the sightings. Also, there may be nothing to find, and that would mean a long search with no profit at the end. The best thing to do is to keep an open and skeptical mind, and not take an extreme position on any side of the question. How it changed my life:Sounds as though, at the time of this textbook's printing, (pre-1970's) the government and the US Air Force were well aware of the UFO enigma and had studied it extensively. However, they appear to have not made much progress in finding the Who, Why, or How of it all. You can join Unsolved Mysteries and post your own mysteries or
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