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matters, be they scientific, political, social, or religious—and that includes the study of unidentified flying objects, which I consider to be within the realm of science. I believe that not only Brazil, but also all socially and technologically developed countries, should set up governmental agencies to address this matter. The United States should certainly lead the way, since that country is and will remain the planet's greatest technological power, with a great ability to aggregate knowledge from other countries. And if it should be accepted that something is coming here from space, I think the United Nations should be responsible rather than leaving that task PART 3 A CALL TO ACTION CHAPTER 21 "The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." ARTHUR C. CLARKE Despite the astonishing yet rational deduction that the extraterrestrial hypothesis should be considered to explain some UFOs, as our experts have just pointed out, governments have an aversion to addressing that point or its implications. They are not motivated to pool resources and find out if this hypothesis can be proved, ignoring the popular interest in the subject - and its Potential for Tevolutionary discovery. In fact, the rel ca subject and its potential for revolutionary discovery. In fact, the discomfiting quality of the extraterrestrial hypothesis— again, we're only talking about a theory, not a fact-likely explains why many governments want to keep a safe distance from the whole messy business. The difficulty of researching something as evasive and unpredictable as UFOs is also a problem—though not an insurmountable one. The agencies that are attempting to face the challenge have accomplished a great deal, as was demonstrated in the previous section, but ultimately they lack the resources to fully resolve the UFO mystery on their own. Even after many decades of focused research in France, exploration of defense implications in the UK, and field investigations in the Brazilian Amazon (to take three significant examples), we still don't know what the objects actually are. In their respective countries, some government agencies continue to collect case reports and look into sightings, adding more data to the heap but not solving anything, as the rest of the world looks away. When asked, most military officers who have been personally involved with UFO incidents refrain from interpretation or speculation, yet the in the hands of individual countries. FIGHTING BACK: A NEW UFO AGENCY IN AMERICA The agencies that are