We Are Not Alone

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were approximately the size
of a DC-4 airliner ( Jackson 4).

This account was the first sighting to ever receive a great deal of
media attention. This sighting gave birth to the phrase "flying Saucer" coined
by a reporter named Bill Begrette. Although not the first UFO sighting in
history, Kenneth Arnolds account is considered to be the first documented UFO
sighting.

The following day Mr. Arnold discovered that in addition to his
sighting there were several others in the Mount Ranier area that same day
(Jackson 6).

When most of think of UFO sightings we picture an unemployed, half-
crazed, alcoholic hick living in a trailer park in the middle small town USA.
Often times this description, although a little exaggerated, seems to fit fairly
well. In the past when the average person spotted a UFO they were quickly
discounted as a kook or con-artist in search of either attention or monetary
reward. It wasn't until more reputable figures in our society ...

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conditions. What we saw up there was
real and intelligently controlled. And it scared the hell out of us. (32)
This is only one of literally hundreds of pilot accounts that have been
documented and cross verified by other sources. To date the Portuguese
Government has taken no official position as to what the luminous discs were.

The United States has had more than it's fair share of unexplained
aerial objects. In February of 1960 the N.A.A.D.S. (North American Air Defense
System) spotted a satellite of unknown origin orbiting the Earth. They knew
that it wasn't a Soviet satellite because it was orbiting perpendicular to
trajectory produced by a Soviet launch. It ...

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