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  Unidentified Flying Object Encyclopedia Articles @ AlienArtifacts.com (Alien Artifacts)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He reported seeing nine brilliantly bright objects flying across the face of Rainier towards nearby Mount Adams at "an incredible speed", which he calculated at at least 1200 miles an hour by timing their travel between Rainier and Adams.
Use of "UFO" instead of "flying saucer" was first suggested in 1952 by Capt., the first director of Project Blue Book, who felt that "flying saucer" did not reflect the diversity of the sightings.
An interesting feature that many of the early as well as the later UFO sects share is a tendency to incorporate ideas from both Christianity and various eastern religions, "hybridizing" these with ideas pertaining to extraterrestrials and their benevolent concern with the people of earth.
www.alienartifacts.com /encyclopedia/Unidentified_flying_object   (5111 words)

  
 unidentified flying objects (UFOs)
The notion that unidentified objects or lights in the sky might be craft from other worlds appears to have been first suggested following the earliest wave of such sightings – that of the "mystery airships" –; in 1896-97.
Explanations for the saucers, or "flying disks" as they were also known at the time, included natural phenomena, such as Venus or unusual clouds, illusions, hoaxes, balloons, prototype aircraft and secret weapons (friendly or hostile), and the extraterrestrial hypothesis.
Although military and CIA interest in UFOs declined steeply after the "Washington Invasion" of 1952, public interest was maintained by the increasingly sensational claims of amateur investigators such as Donald Keyhoe and "contactees" such as George Adamski.
www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/U/UFOs.html   (936 words)

  
 UFO Evidence : Men in Black (MIB)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1953, American UFO research pioneer Al Bender was visited by three strange men, dressed entirely in fl, who transported him to their craft but warned him against making any of their revelations public.
It has often been reported after making an unidentified flying object report that those, that have made the report have often been harassed and intimidated by the enigmatic, Men in Black or M. as they are more commonly known.
The most intriguing and controversial sideshow skirting the edges of UFO research today is the question of the "silencers," or the mysterious "Men in Black." There is a strong subliminal appeal in these accounts of visits by mysterious dark-suited figures (I have been visited myself, as have others I've known) attempting to silence UFO witnesses.
www.ufoevidence.org /topics/meninblack.htm   (1036 words)

  
 unidentified flying object on Encyclopedia.com
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT [unidentified flying object] or UFO, an object or light reportedly seen in the sky whose appearance, trajectory, and general dynamic and luminescent behavior do not readily suggest a logical, conventional explanation.
Because the objects are often shining and in that part of the sky opposite the sun, most investigators, official and unofficial alike, tend to interpret them as reflections of the sun's rays from airplanes.
Some UFOs, when pursued by planes, have proved to be weather balloons or other objects of unquestionably terrestrial origin.
www.encylopedia.com /html/u/unidenti.asp   (501 words)

  
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(Encyclopedia) unidentified flying object or UFO,an object or light reportedly seen in the sky whose appearance,...
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