UFOs

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Argument: UFO’s

The phenomenon UFO constitutes one of the topics more disputed of our times. Since in 1947 they were sighted for the first time by the civil pilot Kenneth Arnold near the mount Rainer, there are many persons of the entire world that assure to have seen UFO’s. There are people who declare to have seen them during the day, while others speak about the presence of strange lights in the midnight. Some they assure to have witnessed the landing of extraterrestrial ships and others, declare that they have been interviewed by extraterrestrials or that have been abdicated and carried on board of a ship in which they were submitted to rigorous scientific investigations.

The public interest that awoke the UFO phenomenon prompted to the Air Force of the United States to undertake an exhaustive investigation directed by a special committee of the Columbia University. The conclusion to which the investigators arrived was negative, since they attributed the majority of the sightings to mental disorders or to "erroneous interpretations" of easily understandable phenomenon, for example, meteorological globes, meteorites, bands of birds or unusual reflections. But this investigation did not satisfy the public neither the most rigorous investigators. The report of the government affirmed that its main objective was to prevent the panic before the possibility of an extraterrestrial visit. On the other hand, there are documents that show that the Air Force diffused the rumor of the UFO’s to conceal the accidents of their own secret experimental ships.

Though it is possible that many sightings are simple frauds, erroneous perceptions of natural phenomenon or screens that intend to hide you determined secret investigations, the certain thing nevertheless, is that numerous intelligent, mentally stable and even expert observers continue seeing them. Sufficient reports around this theme exist as to convince us that the deb...