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Of all of the conspiracy theories
that are floating around out there,
perhaps none of them have the staying
power or the potential impact to change
the way every person on earth perceives
reality like UFO's. For those that
don't know, UFO stands for Unidentified
Flying Objects, and it is a title
that has been given to just about
anything seen floating, flying, hovering
or soaring through the air that we
can't readily identify as a bird or
a plane (or Superman, for that matter.)
All official government agencies have
sworn for decades that UFO's are nothing
but a product of an overactive imagination,
but for millions of people who have
seen unexplained things with their
own eyes, UFOs are incredibly real
and the fact that no one in government
will comment on them officially, is
frustrating to say the least.
The most famous, or infamous, UFO
sighting of all time within the United
States was the incident at Roswell,
New Mexico. A group of average citizens
claim that they witnessed a downed
UFO 'flying saucer' in the middle
of a farmer's field, only to have
the local military base which cleaned
up the crash site tell them that what
they saw was simply a downed weather
balloon. What made the Roswell incident
so remarkable was the sheer number
of regular people who saw the crash
site before it could be removed.
It is easy to discount a conspiracy
theory when you only have one or two
witnesses, but when you have 50, the
story tends to have much more in the
way of staying power. The Roswell
Incident has gone on to be one of
the most popular conspiracy theories
in history and has helped to spawn
countless television shows and movies.
Today, the city of Roswell makes its
money almost solely off of tourism
that has been generated by the crash
decades ago.
For many skeptics, however, the incredible
rise in flying saucer sightings can
be tied to Cold War tensions and the
launch of the first ever spacecraft,
Sputnik. As people grew more and more
paranoid about an attack from the
sky from our Russian adversaries,
it makes perfect sense that people
would attach meaning to objects that
they couldn't recognize.
Combine the rising paranoia with the
onset of the jet engine age and the
fact that the military was testing
and experimenting with many, many
new technologies at the time in an
attempt to keep up with the Joneses,
and the UFO conspiracy theory stops
making a lot of sense.
But for those that still believe,
and for those that claim to have been
abducted and brought aboard UFO's,
nothing will ever break the belief
that there are strange craft circling
our skies right at this very minute.
About the Author
Pat Jackson runs one of the most informational
UFO sites on the web. If you would
like to learn more about UFO's
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