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Is it a Bird . . . a Plane . . . or a Flying saucer?
Have you been abducted by aliens? Since humans first looked into the night sky, they have seen things that they couldn't understand. It still happens today with the sightings of flying saucers, also called Unidentified Flying Objects or UFO's. Sightings really became frequent from the 1940s onwards. All sorts of people have claimed to see them, from farmers to Air Force pilots. The authorities try to explain away what people have seen. They don't want a mass panic after all. Actor Orson Welles did cause a panic when he read from HG Wells' story, The War of the Worlds on the radio. Listeners thought it was real and ran screaming into the streets! Some people think that UFOs are more likely to be secret, military craft being tested by the superpowers. There's a flaw in this explanation. If witnesses are to be believed, alien space ships have flown across our air space with speeds that no one here on Earth has managed to attain yet. Others suggest a mass hallucination causes people to see these things. It's much more entertaining to believe that aliens are coming over in flying saucers. Science fiction books and movies have explored this territory well. The films from the 1950s showing saucers were very often on a shoestring budget. It's easy to laugh now at the metal dustbin lids skimming across the studio and the funny little flashing lights. This was the golden age of science fiction before sophisticated special effects and the audience were terrified. The 1960s brought us Star Trek and stories of traveling to other galaxies. The tradition of flying saucers was continued with the design of Captain Kirk's spaceship. The Enterprise incorporated a saucer shape, and moved faster than the speed of light. To believe in these alien space ships is to believe in alien life forms. Star Trek took it for granted that they are out there. Are they? The jury on flying saucers is still out. One of the most famous UFO stories is the Roswell Incident. It's alleged that an alien space craft crash landed in the New Mexico desert in 1947. Several strange bodies were found inside but the military authorities tried to hush it up, then issued a statement saying it was a weather balloon. Some army personnel claim to have seen the bodies from the crashed UFO. There was a film showing a supposed autopsy on one of the aliens. This was discredited and the people responsible for the film eventually admitted it was a hoax. This doesn't put people off believing it was a visit from aliens in flying saucers. Others say the bodies were monkeys and the military was experimenting with a secret craft, and the wreckage was not from outer space. In 1952, six Norwegian army jets on maneuvers spotted wreckage in a mountain area on some Arctic Ocean islands. A Soviet vehicle or missile was suspected. When investigators, including an expert on rocketry, reached the site they found no trace of any occupants and the object seemed to be made from an unknown metal. A high ranking officer declared that flying saucers of this sort could not have been built by any country on Earth. The materials used in its construction were completely unknown. It will probably take a flying saucer landing in the middle of a Super Bowl game to convince skeptics that aliens and UFO's are real. Until that happens, the conspiracy theorists will have a lot of rumors to entertain themselves with. Return to Want2KnowWhat.com |
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