FREE ESSAY ON UFO'S

UFO'S

We once believed that Earth is the only planet in the Universe that supports life. Today
there is overwhelming evidence that not only suggests, but supports the very real
possibility that we may share the Universe with other intelligent beings. I. Things in
the Sky A. The First Documented Sighting B. The Fever Spreads 1. Pilot Encounters 2. The
Lights in the Sky II. Dents in the Earth III. Unexplained Phenomenon A. The Writing on
the Wall B. Geodes IV. What About Religion? A. The Christian Bible B. The Ancient Greeks
C. The American Indian V. Conclusion We are not Alone. On June 24th, 1947 while searching
for the remains of a downed Marine C-46 transport, lost somewhere in the Mount Ranier
area, a young Idahoan businessman named Kenneth Arnold spotted something that would
change his life forever. Just north of his position flying at an altitude of 9,500 feet
and an unprecedented airspeed of 1,700 mph he spotted nine circular aircraft flying in
formation. According to his estimate the aircraft 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 began to come forward that we that we
started looking at this issue a little more seriously. An article written 1957, entitled 
Strange lights over Grenada written by Aime' Michel describes just such an account: At
10:35 p.m. on September the 4th, 1957 Cpt Ferreira ordered his wing to abandon a planned
exercise and execute a 50 degree turn to port. Ferreira was attempting to get a closer
look at what he described as brilliant, pulsating light hanging low over the horizon.
When the turn was completed he noticed that the object had turned too. It was still
directly over his left. There was absolutely no doubt that the orange light was shadowing
the F-84s. For another 10 minutes, it followed the jets without changing direction or
appearance. The pilots watched as four small yellow discs broke away from the large red
object and took up a formation on either side of it. All at once the large luminous disc
shot vertically upward while the smaller discs shot straight towards the F-84s. In an
instant the flat disc sped overhead in a hazy blur and vanished. When Cpt Ferriera was
questioned by Portuguese Air Force Investigators he was quoted as sayingPlease don't come
out with the old explanation that we were being chased by the planet Venus, weather
balloons, or freak atmospheric 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 sn't a Soviet satellite because it was orbiting perpendicular to trajectory produced
by a Soviet launch. It also had a mass estimated at 15 metric tons, no evidence of
booster rockets and traveled at speed three times faster than any known satellite. The
satellite orbited for two weeks and disappeared without a trace. Before its
disappearance, the object which appeared to give off a red glow, was photographed over
New York several times (Jackson 19). Lights in the sky aren't the only evidence that
suggests we may have cosmic company. In the book A History of UFO Crashes, the author
Kevin D. Randal gives detailed accounts of numerous UFO crashes in history. Perhaps the
most famous of these crashes occurred on July 4th, 1947 in Roswell New Mexico. The crash
at Roswell was witnessed from afar by over a hundred people. Until just recently, no one
who was involved in the recovery operation was talking, but thanks to continued pressure
from UFO enthusiast our government has begun to declassify much of its UFO related
material. Perhaps more startling are than the government documents are the accounts given
by local police and members of the recovery team. According to one unnamed witness, a
member of the Roswell recovery team: The crash site was littered with pieces of aircraft.
Something about the size of a fighter plane had crashed, the metal was unlike anything
I'd ever seen before. I picked up a piece the size of a car fender with one hand, it
couldn't have more than a quarter of a pound and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't
even get it to bend. (10) In my opinion the most fascinating piece of evidence to come
out of the Roswell crash is the alien autopsy film. Apparently there was more than bits
and pieces of spaceship recovered at Roswell. There is an Air Force video account of an
autopsy being performed on a life form that doesn't share the common characteristics of
organ development found in life forms on this planet. The film is silent and labeled
Autopsy, Roswell, July 1947 (Randal 17). As difficult as the Roswell evidence is to
explain or discount it pales in comparison to the physical evidence left by our
ancestors. An Illustration taken from a Nuremburg Broadsheet Tells how men and women saw
a very frightful spectacle. At sunrise April 14th, 1561 globes, crosses and tubes began
to fight one another, the event continued for about an hour. Afterward they fell to
ground in flames, minutes later a black, spear like object appeared. In a Basal
Broadsheet dated August 7th, 1566 large black and white globes are seen over Dasel,
Switzerland. Both events occurred in a time period when there should have nothing more
than birds and bees filling our skies. They each considered to be Divine warnings at the
time (Gould 95-96). Ancient physical evidence isn't limited to newspaper illustration and
sketches on cave wall. Perhaps the most stounding and unexplainable pieces of physical
evidence are a pair of geodes. Both are believed to be approximately 1,800 years old and
when carefully examined were identified as electrical cells. One of the cells which was
discovered in Iraq was tested and produced 2 volts of electricity. The other, which was
discovered by a pair of Arizona rock hounds, was damaged when the sedimentary
encrustation was being removed and therefore couldn't be tested Montgomery 221). Since
the dawn of time man has told stories of heavenly and demonic beings coming to rule,
teach, torment, seduce and provide salvation. Every culture has myths of ancient gods who
strode through the heavens. The American Indians had the cachinas who taught them to farm
and saved them from numerous cataclysms. Greece had Zeus who threw lightning bolts from
his finger tips and Apollo crossed the sky in his golden chariot. The Christians have
Ecclesiastes who encountered the ant people and rode through the skies with them from
Babylon to Israel. Across the entire globe we find drawings on cave walls that resemble
men in space suits and objects that greatly resemble flying saucers. The sacred artwork
of the Hopi Indian when is without a doubt a representation of the waves produced by
modern day oscilloscopes (Montgomery 225-237). The Hopis are also native to the area
where one of the electrical cells were found. It could be that these things are no more
than mere coincidence, but I doubt it. Man in his arrogance is reluctant to believe that
we may share Gods vast, glorious universe with other beings of intelligence. We sometimes
fail to realize that if the Earth were a day old, the race of man would only have been
here for 13 minutes. If you couple that with the fact that there are Black Holes and
White Dwarfs millions of years older than our sun, it increases the improbability that we
are the only ones out here. In the preceding text I have produced a limited sampling of
the volumes of evidence available. I will close this paper on a quote from Ecclesiastes
I:9 there is no new thing under the sun, and that includes intelligent life. 
Bibliography
UFO's Works Cited
Montgomery, Ruth. Aliens Among Us. New York: G.P Putnum's Sons, 1985 Randle, Kevin. A
History of UFO Crashes. Avon Books,1995 
New Jersey: Chartwell Books, 1995 Michel, Aime'. Strange lights over Grenada. Fate
Magazine. Aug. 1957. 29-32 
Oddities. New York: Bell PC, 1965. Jackson, Robert. UFO's: Sightings of Strange Phenomena
in the Skies. 
Works Cited Ecclesiastes. Holy Bible. Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1976. Gould,
Robert.