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48 In a nineteen-year span of time more than 10,000 “UFO sightings” were recorded, analyzed and classified by the United States Air Force in “Project Blue Book.” The report concluded: “In our experience, the persons making reports seem in nearly all cases to be normal, responsible individuals. In most cases they are quite calm, at least by the time they make a report. They are simply puzzled about what they saw and hope they can be helped to a better understanding of it. Only a very few are obviously quite emotionally disturbed, their minds being filled with pseudo-scientific, pseudo-religious or other fantasies.” Around the world, hundreds of millions of people believe UFOs exist. No less than fifteen million Americans -- 11 percent of the adult population -- claim to have seen a UFO. Among them are a former President, Jimmy Carter, who filed two reports of UFO sightings while Governor of Georgia. Other notable men who were convinced UFOs needed serious investigation are General Douglas MacArthur, President Dwight Eisenhower, Senator Barry Goldwater, Lester Pearson, former Prime Minister of Canada, and many others. No less than Some 5 to 10 percent of all UFO sightings remain truly unidentified. A leading UFO researcher, and the scientist who headed “Project Blue Book,” is Dr. J. Allen Hynek. Dr. Hynek commented, “An expert has studied UFOs long enough to realize he is utterly ignorant. The UFO phenomena is the outstanding strange dilemma of our age. We don’t know what they are.” Dr. Hynek asserts that he possesses a computerized list of some 63,000 sightings. The Australian computer bank passed the 80,000 mark, as of 1977. Many of these sightings were seen by dozens, even hundreds and thousands, of people at the same time. In 1954 there were numerous reports of UFO landings in France, witnessed by multiple witnesses 85 percent of the time. Says Dr. Stanton Friedman, nuclear scientist and UFO researcher, a “close encounter of the Third Kind’ occurs somewhere on planet earth every day. Dr. Allen Hynek, who began studying UFOs as an acknowledged skeptic and who believed all such talk was “nonsense” and “nonscience,” twenty years after beginning his study was compelled by the evidence to adopt a totally different viewpoint. He declared: “Tt is no longer possible to sweep away the whole subject. It reminds me of the days of Galileo when he was trying to get people to look at the sun spots. They would say that the sun is a symbol of God; God is perfect, therefore the sun is perfect; therefore spots cannot exist: therefore there is no point in looking.” Today, Dr. Hynek says, “I can establish beyond reasonable doubt that they [UFOs] are not all misinterpretations or hoaxes.” another planet? A Strange and Baffling Phenomena But what are they? Could they be visitors from outer space, from another galaxy, or wet a