For decades, science fiction fans have built models of their favorite TV and movie spaceships. Plastic model kits of classics like the U.S.S. Enterprise, Millennium Falcon, and Battlestar Galactica, have been around for years, and are regularly reissued for new generations of hobbyists.

However, it sometimes takes skill and experience to assemble model kits with a professional result. Here are a few guidelines for building the best-looking fictional alien model kits.

Most alien model kits are a box of parts attached on molded racks, which need to be detached and then glued together with plastic cement. When assembling your kit, keep the following in mind:

• Trim all pieces. Though they usually snap off from their molding cleanly, there can be a small, uneven edge left over. Use a hobby knife to trim each piece smooth.
• Pre-fit as much as possible. Before gluing the pieces, make sure you understand how they fit together, and that they do so snugly. A dry run before gluing will ensure a better result, and help prevent mistakes.
• Follow directions. It may seem obvious, but review the instructions carefully. With sci-fi alien models, it is more difficult to know how the result is supposed to look.
• Pre-paint, if necessary. There may be clear plastic pieces that must be painted on the inside, before the model is glued together. Alternatively, you may find it easier to paint hard-to-reach pieces in advance. Make sure in either case not to paint any edges that will be glued later – they will not stick.
• Use contour putty. Sometimes, there will be noticeable seams or gaps in an assembled model. Dab in some putty, available at hobby shops, to fill unwanted holes. Sand it smooth once the putty has dried.
Though alien model kits are often molded in plastic the same color as the ships they represent, they still need to be painted, and have other details added.
• Use a spray paint for the base coat. A small spray can of paint will give your model an even, professional color, especially if your model is large. Remember to mask any spots that may have been pre-painted a different color.
• Do not use shades that clash. Many spaceship models call for a light gray base, with details in medium and dark gray. Be sure that the shades of gray are subtle – otherwise, the surface of your ship will look too busy and over-detailed.

Officially the Chinese government holds that there is no such thing as UFO's from another planet. Their stance is that the reports of such unearthly craft are the products of the fevered insane minds of Americans and other occidental sensationalism. That stance has yet to keep unidentified flying objects from showing up there, it merely means that there are fewer reports that are allowed to be made. Sometimes their problem makes itself so apparent there is little way to completely hide the issue.

On July 7, 2010, at approximately 9:00 p.m. local time, something unknown appeared on the tracking radar of the Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport. Handling nearly fifteen million passengers a year, Hangzhou Xiaoshan is the ninth busiest airport in all of China, serving the city of Hangzhou, the provincial capital of Zhejiang Province. When an unidentifiable craft began to hover above the airport it was necessary for the Airport's officials to act in the interest of air traveler safety. In all, eighteen incoming flights were waved off and directed to other locations as the airport suspended normal operations for four hours. With such activity occurring with an international cast of witnesses, a media storm began as this sighting could not be totally ignored.

A few days later the Xinhua News Agency, a state-run media outlet, reported that an air traffic control official stated that there were no conclusions as to the cause of the sighting. The China Daily, however, reported that "a source with knowledge of the matter" had reported that the object seen over Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport "had a military connection." The report was very ambiguous in that it was not stated anywhere what that connection was or whose military it might have belonged to. To further confuse the issue of this mysterious sighting, a number of photographs purported to be of the UFO in question quickly spread across the Internet. For the most part they were quickly debunked as tweaked airplane and helicopter photos and one old shot dug up from an archive. Even comparing them to actual photographs of the airport show that there is no resemblance to the airport and the buildings in the photographs.

Object photographed over Chongqing, China, July 21, 2010

To compound the problem of people reporting something that the government says does not exist, less than two weeks later, another mysterious object spent more than an hour hovering in the sky over the city of Chongqing's Shaping Park. Witnesses said it looked like four lantern-like objects that formed a diamond pattern. This was not the first time an unidentified flying object had buzzed the city of Chongqing.

Object seen August 23, 2009 over Chongqing, China

On August 23, 2009 what was described as a twinkling V-shaped object spent several minutes hovering in the same spot. The lights which the hundreds of witnesses said flashed red, blue, green, and yellow, was bright white on the ends and red at the V junction. An identifiable airplane that passed near the craft was much lower than the UFO being observed.

Also coming out of China is the excellent video of a large disk making a slow passage over an apartment building in the city of Nanjing on August 17, 2006.

Flying saucer - August 17, 2006, Nanjing, China

The craft was filmed in broad daylight and is such a good capture of a flying disk it is no surprise that many debunkers and skeptics want to decry it as hoaxed. While the rest of the world doesn't get to hear too much about them, it is a sure bet that the Chinese are aware of the strange objects showing up in their skies even if the government doesn't want them to talk about it.

Television documentaries about UFO's have become popular attractions on cable TV. The quality varies, as some are generic, rehashing the same well-known photos, videos, interviews, and stories. Some are very professionally produced and offer new insights into the UFO phenomena. One in particular, while of itself was admittedly a poorly directed hodgepodge still provided a new and extremely compelling piece of evidence for the existence of "flying saucers." On September 13, 1998, TNT Network aired "The Secret KGB UFO Files."

Purportedly smuggled out of the former USSR and obtained on the black market for $10.000 was a segment that showed the recovery of a downed flying saucer by elements of the KGB and Soviet military personnel. According to a plethora of documentation that came with the film footage, the crash occurred in late 1968 with the recovery being made in March of 1969. The doomed craft was driven, on-edge, halfway into the ground at the edge of a forest tree-line.

Extensive study of both the film and the related documents has continued to withstand investigation. The vehicles and uniforms of the people in the video match what was in use in 1969. The unit patches of the military personnel are accurate and conform to the branch that would be most likely involved in such strange recovery operations. The civilian clothing of the KGB agents are consistent with that organization's operatives. The letterhead and other features of the documents prove consistent with the time period and the organizations that issued them.

The reports indicate that part of a body was also recovered from the wreckage. This was subsequently delivered to the Semashko Hospital in Moscow where it was autopsied. In the film footage of this procedure, three doctors, Kamyshov, Savitsky, and Gordeenko undertook the work with KGB stenographer O.A. Pshonkina taking notes.

During this period of Cold War history the Soviet Union took the official stance that UFO's were an American nonsense and considered belief in such as a mental disturbance worthy of institutionalizing. As a tragic footnote to this investigation of a seemingly extraterrestrial body, the Death Certificates of all three of the attending physicians showed they died in different locations around Moscow of cerebral hemorrhages on March 24, 1969, just one week after the autopsy was performed.

Despite the film becoming public through a movie studio's production, none of the debunkers have ever been able to come up with a single shred of proof that the film was anything but authentic. The cost of hoaxing the film and authenticating documents and film canister would be both prohibitive and possibly impossible. A number of film experts have verified the authenticity of the film and its terrestrial components and showed no sign of tampering of any sort.

Unlike the undocumented crash that supposedly took place in Roswell, New Mexico, the crash and recovery in the Sverdlovsk region of Russia was well documented, however secret the Soviet government kept it. The disbanding of the USSR allowed many secret things to come to light. Among them is this film which has continued to demonstrate the veracity of the event where they in fact recovered the craft and body of some alien visitor to our planet.

As they aged and their careers were less likely to be affected by revealing, even a bit, of their knowledge, a number of America's astronauts have let it be known that we are not alone in the universe. Several of these American heroes have stated that every space mission was observed either at a distance or close-up by alien craft. "Santa Claus" became the code word for the sighting of an unknown spacecraft so that the common citizens of Earth would not "panic" at the thought of superior technological entities being in our space. Even Neil Armstrong admitted that other huge vessels joined the first Earth vessel, Eagle One, while they were on the lunar surface.

Despite the sometimes obvious airbrushing of sections of the moon's surface in photographs taken by satellites and orbiting humans, it becomes a growing knowledge that our moon has been the home to an advanced alien race for a long time. Photographic evidence, especially taken from the far side of the moon has revealed geometric structures, artifacts, craft, and indications of a very long-term presence of some intelligence there. What appear to be circular transparent domes have been seen to glow with an internal light. People who have worked in and around NASA and the NSA have come forward with their stories of the insider knowledge of these bases.

There is even a series of popular video, taken during a Lunar Mission that was not supposed to have occurred, that shows we actually went back to take a close-up look at one of the ancient abandoned cities whose ruins are still standing. The skeptics say "there was no Apollo 20 flight" and it is true that NASA, the CIVILIAN SPACE PROGRAM, did not undertake this effort. However, at the end of NASA's moon missions at least two Saturn V rockets were already complete and others well into their construction. Florida is not the only place in the United States that rockets are launched. Among the many units assigned to the Vanderburg Air Force Base in California is the 30th Space Wing.

Military space launches are routine from Vandenburg as are rocket tests. It is rumored that the unused Saturn V rockets were taken there and the two missions to explore the alien ruins on the moon were launched with no publicity. The locals are used to rockets heading out from there and know better than to inquire as to the purpose. Anomalous activity on the lunar surface is not confined to the far side. Even amateur astronomers with backyard telescopes have often seen moving lights and other indications of activity on the moon. While the video from Apollo 20 is of an ancient ruin, there is rumor and indications that there are also more recent bases and mining facilities in evidence. As long as it seems some of these objects seem to have been in existence, it is no wonder they consider the moon at least to be theirs and, as Neil Armstrong put it, "the fact is, we were warned off! There was never any question then of a space station or a moon city."

Beyond a few subsequent, quick, lunar visits, humanity's journeys into space have been pretty well kept to our own planet's orbit. While unmanned robotic probes have been launched to the other planets, many have mysteriously quit working and others have seemingly been well guided to make sure nothing has been made public to "disturb" the Earth folk. But, if we have stayed out of the greater depths to our own solar system does this mean that an alien presence considers it their property and us indigenous creatures merely, as yet undomesticated, property on the planet we call home?

The vast majority of UFO reports have been reasonably concluded as misidentification of naturally occurring phenomena. That still leaves thousands of sightings that have left only mystery and inconclusive results in their wake. Some have even presented enough evidence that former skeptics have come to reassess their beliefs. One such incident heavily affected J. Allen Hynek, scientific advisor for the United States Air Force's UFO investigations, and began his change of attitude about the potential reality of some non-terrestrial cause to the sightings that poured in to their investigators. Police Sergeant Lonnie Zamora near Socorro, New Mexico experienced the alien encounter on April 24, 1964.

Officer Zamora was chasing a speeding vehicle south of Socorro in the late afternoon of that day. He "heard a roar and saw a flame in the sky to southwest some distance away - possibly a 1/2 mile or a mile." Abandoning the speeder he went to investigate, as he knew a local dynamite shack was in that direction and was afraid it may have exploded. With the weather fine and only a few clouds scattered about the sky he recalled seeing a long, funnel shaped, bluish-orange flame that lasted about as long as the roaring sound he heard. He said it dropped from a high pitch to a lower one and then stopped as he approached the gravel road leading up to the shack.

Reaching the top of the rise, he saw what, at first, he mistook for an overturned white car about 150 to 200 yards away with two figures standing beside it. Turning his patrol car towards this sight, intending to offer assistance, he noted one of the figures give a start and they disappeared from his view. He said there was nothing extraordinary about them except that they were maybe the size of children or small adults.

Radioing in to his dispatcher he informed them he would be outside his vehicle checking on the "car" in the arroyo. As he exited his vehicle heard a a very loud roar begin, starting at low frequency and raising higher then a flame appeared under the object he could now see was NOT an automobile. He described the object as being white, not aluminum or chrome, and of an egg shaped oval, very smooth with no apparent windows or doors. He noted some sort of red lettering on the side and what seemed to be an "insignia" about 2x2-1/2 foot square. While the roar began while the object was on the ground, it began to slowly rise straight up into the air on the pillar of flame.

He began running, attempting to get away from the roar which he admits frightened him. When it ceased, he looked up and saw the object, now silent and flameless moving away from him, clearing the 8' shack by several feet. He regained his patrol car and radioed to the dispatcher to see if they could spot the object as it began to lift higher into the sky, soon passing over Six Mile Canyon Mountain, still silent and flameless.

He was soon joined by the dispatcher, Nep lopez, and Sergeant M.S. Chavez who helped him investigate the sight where the object had rested. There was brush burning in several places and they noted tracks left by what must have been "legs" on the object. The four indentations in the ground were deep, cutting into the subsoil to expose a deeper moisture level. The moist soil indicated that the marks were freshly made. There were also three other circular marks that only extended to about an eighth of an inch in depth. Some of the smoldering brush, while still smoking, was also cool to the touch.

As independent corroboration for Officer Zamora's story were several other sightings of the flying egg-shaped object reported round that time by others in various locations in the area, including two separate groups of tourists and an unidentified person who called the television station in Albuquerque. Other people reported hearing the roar of the object and one gas station attendant who reported in flying over his station at a very low altitude.

Several years later a former University of Arizona radiation biology doctoral student stated to UFO researcher James McDonald, who was also an atmospheric physicist, that she had been sent to collect and analyze soil and plant samples from the site. While the finished report she turned in has never resurfaced, she stated that the sand was fused, the plants were unusually dried out and that there were two undetermined "organic substances" included in the samples.

The official Air Force conclusion was blatantly riddled with errors and easily exposed misinformation. The claims that there were no other witnesses than Officer Zamora and that there was no indication of soil disturbance were easily debunked by the numerous reports as well as photographic evidence of the depressions left by the craft. This obvious falsification of the data at hand proved the insincerity and lack of integrity provided by the "official" military investigators, leading them to be increasingly held in suspicion and paving the way for their own scientific advisor to begin looking more closely and seriously at the sightings he was given to debunk.

Anyone who watches the UFO documentaries on cable television are familiar with the bearded, smiling face of Stanton Friedman, the go-to voice of positive UFO research and information. Love him or hate him, Mr. Friedman has some impressive credentials and many years of experience not only in physics but on the front line of UFO research.

Studying nuclear physics at the University of Chicago he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1955 and his Master of Science degree in 1956. Mr. Friedman went on to spend the following fourteen years working for such prestigious companies as Aerojet General Nucleonics, TRW Systems, and McDonnall Douglas, among others. At McDonnall Douglas he was employed on a number of classified projects dealing with fusion and fission engines for rocket and weapon systems along with space applications involving nuclear power plants. By the classified nature of much of his work, some debunkers claim he is a front man for government misinformation. Others feel that his work in such secret areas brought him into contact with things that could well have been what sparked his interest in the UFO phenomena to begin with.

While Mr. Friedman still serves as a consultant for various companies, including the Radon detection industry, he has, since the 1960's, devoted his time and resources to the investigation into the truth about the UFO phenomena. His investigations have taken him into seventeen different government, military, and private document archives seeking evidence for the truth or falseness of the phenomena. Mr. Friedman holds the distinction of being the first civilian investigator into the 1947 Roswell, New Mexico event, a tale in its own right of lies, misinformation, conflicting stories, and still no clear proof of what actually occurred.

Avoiding the more tabloid speculations, Mr. Friedman has delved into many highly reputable scientific studies of UFO's and the possible technology behind them. His conclusions are that these sources, less well know than the more sensationalized reports, hold a wealth of evidence, already at hand, that shows the UFO/Extra-terrestrial phenomena is real and is being consciously and sometimes ruthlessly being kept from widespread public awareness.

For over ten years now Mr. Friedman has had an unanswered standing challenge to Colonel Richard Weaver, author of the huge, but misleading book, 'The Roswell Report: Fact Vs Fiction in the New Mexico Desert' and USAF Captain James McAndrew, the writer of 1997's 'The Roswell Report: Case Closed', to a formal debate to try and justify their works. Mr. Friedman has referred to both volumes as propagandist material that makes a mockery of serious investigation. The authors have spent thirteen years avoiding his desire for them to join him on live television and try to justify their selective data selection, false claims, false reasoning, and juvenile name calling.

As a scientist, Mr. Friedman attempts to utilize the scientific data he uncovers to prove his belief that at least some of the UFO's reported are indeed piloted by an intelligent extra-terrestrial presence. He is dedicated to the cause of getting people to dig into the overwhelming scientific evidence and avoid the more sensationalized tabloid views. He feels the truth is already out there if people will only dig through the ignorance and hyperbole to find it.

To say that Dr. J. Allen Hynek was a reluctant ufologist may be something of an understatement. For himself, he considered his profession as an astronomer and educator even though he is most popularly remembered for his study of unidentified flying objects. After taking his doctorate degree from Yerkes Observatory, Dr. Hynek joined with the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Ohio State University, studying stellar evolution and spectroscopic binaries. He spent World War II at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory as a civilian scientist developing the radio proximity fuse for the Navy.

While returning to Ohio State after the war, Dr. Hynek eventually moved on to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Being a man of science, Dr. Hynek was chosen by the United States Air Force as their scientific consultant when they began their first official investigation into the UFO phenomena with Project Sign. He continued in that position through the notorious debunking Project Grudge and into the occasionally more serious research of Project Blue Book. Being originally highly skeptical of any "flying saucer" reports he was perfect for Project Grudge. He admitted to sometimes stretching logic to the breaking point to "explain" sightings as ordinary objects that were misidentified.

Slowly Dr. Hynek's views changed. As he read more and more UFO reports he realized that the witnesses to many were not just "crackpots" but reliable observers. As well as pilots, police, and military personnel, his polling of fellow astronomers turned up 11% of them who admitted to having seen inexplicable objects in the sky and had kept quiet for fear of ridicule and loss of career. Ultimately Dr. Hynek realized that "Ridicule is not part of the scientific method, and people should not be taught that it is." He began serious work on studying the phenomena with an insistence on proper scientific methodology. One of these was the founding of the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) as a means for serious scientific analysis to be done concerning sightings.

It was during his work with Project Blue Book that Dr. Hynek began to occasionally disagree with his Air Force employers. He was particularly disappointed with the handling of the Portage County UFO chase that was undertaken by a number of very credible and reliable police officers. There, too, was the encounter of Lonnie Zamora, another police officer who reported encountering two humanoid beings in an egg-shaped craft. There was some physical evidence left by its departure including tracks, strangely burnt grasses, fused sand, and "two organic substances" that analysis failed to identify. Clearly a sighting by an impeccable witness but the Air Force downplayed the event publicly and Dr. Hynek made the statement that "The AF doesn't know what science is."

While never completely convinced of an extraterrestrial origin for UFO's he did leave it as one of three major possibilities. According to him the UFO phenomena is real. The evidence he states can as easily be applied to create bias for extraterrestrial origins as they could be extradimensional. He stated that there could also be a technology existing that encompasses both the physical and psychic realms. This material and mental hypothesis, he states could be an older civilizations everyday science that we just have not caught up with as yet.

Unknown objects continue to be seen in the skies over our planet. Their origin and purpose remain a mystery that begs to be solved. As is common among humans, they turn to their governments for answers. But, despite numerous official investigations, any answers that might have been found have not been disclosed. We are left with the ubiquitous statement that, "they are no threat to national security." This answer is both devoid of factual information and frightening in its vagueness and implication. When governments fail to provide, it is left up to the individuals to seek after the knowledge that has been denied them through official channels.

As the last United States Airforce investigation, Project Blue Book, was being wound down to its conclusion in December of 1969, a civilian group in Quincy, Illinois was being formed. Such investigators as Walter Andrus, John Schuessler, and Allen Utke began the Midwest UFO Network. With a membership comprised in large part from former associates of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, they began in May of 1969 to develop a means by which they as civilians might be best able to apply scientific research to the investigation of these increasing trespasses in our airspace by these unknown craft.

As the organization grew and extended its influence across the country, it soon became known as the Mutual UFO Network to indicate its cooperation with other civilian UFO research groups. Currently consisting of nearly three thousand members worldwide. Regional directors are responsible for the investigations of reported UFO sightings in their areas to coordinate field research and interviews, and share their findings with the rest of the network. MUFON holds an annual convention where researchers can gather and discuss the best ways to investigate and report on their findings.

MUFON, while the largest civilian UFO investigation network, is part of the UFO Research Coalition which includes J. Allen Hynek's Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) and the Fund for UFO Research (FUFOR). They seek to fulfil the MUFON mission statement of scientific UFO studies for the benefit of humanity through investigation, research, and education. They share funds and resources so that sighting can be as fully investigated as possible and the results known. They feel it is as important to identify and inform about misidentification of natural objects as they are to probe those sightings that cannot be fully and rationally explained.

MUFON maintains a vast quantity of information freely available online to help educate people on the UFO phenomena. It includes not only observed classifications and data on unknown objects but information on how best to identify the natural things and manmade objects that are easily misconstrued by the uninformed. They encourage the population of this planet to join in the hunt for answers and provide instruction on how best to gather all possible information on sightings and how to report them. Discussions on the possible origins and intentions of these objects are given an open-minded acceptance so that the government-influenced stigmata can be eliminated. They hope that by sharing this knowledge it may help determine just what it is that leaves us looking to the sky and wondering what it was we just saw go by.

There are reasons it takes a clear head and a tight control over one's emotions in order to accurately and successfully investigate unusual lights and objects in the sky. For the serious UFO hunter it is every bit as important to find proof of a sighting as having a normal, natural cause as it is to find proof of an extra terrestrial nature. Objectivity is the keyword to showing the skeptics that the research is sound and accurate so the investigator’s credibility becomes undeniable. A case for this is in the recent investigation of the lights over Lake Erie.

The first reports were of nightly sightings out over the Lake of lights that seemed to hover for awhile before slowly moving off. Being so close to major population centers, the media, beginning with Fox News out of Cleveland and quickly being picked up by the MSNBC Network, quickly popularized the story and spread it around the world. Despite there being no great amazing details, merely that the lights were appearing in the same places and performing the same maneuvers on a nightly basis, MUFON realized it needed to investigate since there was so much interest in the accounts. They had their suspicions from the start that what was being seen was a misidentification of normal aircraft behavior.

Ohio Mutual UFO Network investigator Tom Wertman went on the case. Beginning at the site of the initial reports he coordinated with the witness and began a mutual observation with timeframe checks and a comparison software program that kept up with commercial airplane flights into and out of the Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport in real-time updates. By the end of the night, three sets of lights, which the witness attested to were what he had been seeing nightly, had all matched up to incoming aircraft as they swung out over Lake Erie before coming in toward the landing field.

In conclusion, the report demonstrated that distance and angle of flight were responsible for the misidentification of possible UFO traffic. As the planes were moving away or toward the area they seemed to hover. As they were flying low and slow, the small variation in intensity was nearly impossible to detect. Only as the planes made their curve around to begin their landing approach would the lights seem to begin moving across the sky.

Such misidentification of ordinary aircraft is a common problem for UFO investigators, especially when the media hypes the story without investigating it first. To prevent such occurrences from diminishing the importance of real unknown sightings it is critical to educate the public to the types of behavior of lights in the sky that are explainable. However much a believer in UFO activity may want to witness a touch of the mysterious, it is necessary to be able to rule out all the mundane possibilities first. Only then can serious research be directed at the things in our sky that fail to be proven as a normal occurrence. Only then will the population at large begin to realize that ufologists are seeking the truth behind the phenomena rather than the sensationalism of the unknown.

It doesn't take much time or research into the UFO phenomena to realize that there are easily as many people trying to discredit the possibility of extraterrestrial visitors as there are those who try to prove its existence. Skeptics have always been with us and that is not entirely a bad thing. At their best, an educated and informed skeptic helps keep legitimate research from being overwhelmed by the more hysterical or emotional elements. It is necessary to look long and hard at what is being reported and shown to help determine the relative validity of any given report.

This is especially needed with what sometimes appears to be an army of hoaxers who attempt to misinform and ridicule those who have actual experiences with the unknown. The state of computer graphics has advanced to the point that a clever and talented craftsman can construct digital images that are virtually indistinguishable from an actual photograph. This makes it much harder to quickly accept a digital photograph as real without it having first been subjected to qualified scrutiny to search for any evidence of duplicity. It is almost ironic that in order to try and gain proof of a high technology, the low-tech Polaroid has less chance of being used in a successful hoax than any of a vast array of equipment that could give us greater detail and better imagery of these unknown things that fly through our skies.

Yet, for all the advantages a serious skeptic can bring to the UFO investigations, so many of them seem to become mere ridiculers of anything outside a narrow worldview. So many attack any seriously presented report or evidence presented regardless of the facts that can be gleaned from them. Even when serious scientists devote their time and skills to analyzing evidence presented as coming from a UFO, these non-scientists will so often shout down logic. It is as though the louder they ridicule, the more likely people will accept their unstudied opinion as facts, even when it is in direct conflict with discovered knowledge.

An example can be found in one of the major UFO research reports available. While the summarizing conclusion to the Condon Report was slanted to try and discredit the UFO phenomena, many of the facts revealed in the pages of the report itself were anything but discrediting. The skeptics, for the most part, seem to laud the "conclusion" while ignoring the many instances that were clearly not explainable by normally occurring causes and events.

It is necessary for the interested individual to become their own skeptic and research the UFO phenomena with as open a mind as they can. Check on both the sources of the reports and the sources of those "explaining" what the sighting was. No matter how much you wish to believe, it is necessary to develop the mindset that a sighting or report is plausibly explainable. It is also necessary for those who disbelieve to keep in mind that humans are not the possessors of all knowledge and that there could well be unknown, and even extraterrestrial, things in this universe. Only through an objective investigation can the truth of this phenomenon be uncovered and undeniable knowledge is found as to whether we are alone in the universe or not.