The truth is so hard to find… Since Biblical times man has witnessed and recorded strange manifestations in the sky and speculated on the possibilities of visitors from another world. Today, from the skies of California, the fields of Kansas, the rice patties of the Orient, the airlines of the world, come persistent reports of UFO's-Unidentified Flying Objects, which we have come to know as flying saucers. UFOs are real. 12,000+ case files reported to the U.S. Air Force from 1947 to 1968 of these, 701 are still classified as true unknowns. An extraordinary 95 percent of all Americans have at least heard or read something about Unidentified Flying Objects, and 57 percent believe they are real. Former US Presidents Carter and Reagan claim to have seen a UFO. At present, the United States government does not officially investigate UFO sightings. UFOs are unidentified flying objects, but no one really knows what they are. Many researchers have theories about what UFOs might be, but because no one can examine a UFO in a scientific laboratory, all of these ideas are really only educated guesses. 95 to 98% of all sightings can be easily explained by experts. We can offer a definition of UFOs, however, that you may find useful when you study the subject: A UFO is the reported sighting of an object or light seen in the sky or on land, whose appearance, trajectory, actions, motions, lights, and colors do not have a logical, conventional, or natural explanation, and which cannot be explained, not only by the original witness, but by scientists or technical experts who try to make a common sense identification after examining the evidence. UFOlogists-and private UFO organizations are found throughout the United States. Many are convinced that the US Government, and particularly CIA, are engaged in a massive conspiracy and cover-up of the issue. The idea that CIA has secretly concealed its research into UFOs has been a major theme of UFO buffs since the modern UFO phenomena emerged in the late 1940s. All kinds of people see UFOs. It does not matter whether you are rich or poor, educated or uneducated, young or old. In fact, many people who report seeing UFOs were not even looking for them when they had their sighting. The chances for seeing a UFO are greater for those people who live in small towns or in the country and are outside late at night. Although most of us have never seen a UFO personally, some colleagues of ours say that their interest in UFOs was sparked by seeing a UFO when they were children or young adults. Many UFO researchers argue that UFOs have appeared throughout history. There are many myths, legends, and stories that tell of strange things seen in the sky or beings who came from the sky to help humans develop civilization. Because modern scholars cannot directly check the facts of these stories, it is impossible to determine if these are accurate reports of true events. Caution should be taken when evaluating many UFO news items -you are encouraged to investigate and research information pertaining to UFOs or stories so that you may draw your own conclusions. - http://hickmanreport.angelfire.com