UFOs Becoming Legitimate Research Topic for Scientists

UFOs, or UAP as researchers now call them, are no longer viewed with complete derision by science. Find out why some in the scientific and intelligence communities now think unidentified aerial phenomena might be worthwhile research topics.

It was a beautiful, clear, late summer night. I was stargazing aimlessly when I saw a brilliant flash right above my head.

The object burst into flames in the blink of an eye. Based on its direction, I assumed it ended up in the nearby lake.

What I saw wasn’t a UFO crash. It was what astronomers call a sporadic meteor fireball. That’s a meteorite that bursts into flames as it enters Earth’s atmosphere.

I Knew What I’d Seen and Where to Report It

I knew what I’d seen because I’d read about them in the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada’s Observer’s Handbook. I even knew where to report what I’d seen to help the scientists who study meteors.

Otherwise, my sighting might have ended up as one of the many UFO stories that circulate about unfamiliar objects in the sky. There are a lot more of them these…