Official and government agencies of UFO study have run the gambit from absolute denial to releasing sighting reports to finally disbanding their study groups. You would think that with such powerful militaries studying the phenomena of unidentified craft in our skies they would have actually found something out but according to their own conclusions they are still clueless. There is a movement growing to turn over the study, if not full investigations, to a new set of seekers.

College students are for the most part, young, bright, and able to see without the constraint society has put on people as they grow accustomed to the status quo. The Niagara County Community College of New York, a state run school, has suggested that since their area of the country averages over fifty sighting reports a month (that's nearly two per day) that the subject should be allowed as a serious elective study course at the college. Philip Haseley, an anthropology professor at the school, feels it is a "serious area of study" and should be included as a mainstream topic. "(A sighting) happens to millions of people (around the world)," he said. "It's about time we looked into this as a worthy area of study. It's important that the whole subject be brought out in the open and investigated."

Just because Professor Haseley is also the head of the Western New York Mutual UFO Network does not diminish the validity of his call for serious study of the phenomena of UFO's by college students. His group of investigators already use the best possible scientific manner in their field investigations, including radar, meteorology, and astronomy to gather their evidence of aerial anomalies. Who better than the intelligent, knowledge seeking students of the College to analyze this data and use their fresh new insights into attempting to piece this puzzle into a scholarly conclusion.

More colleges and universities might lend their support to gaining the extra resources and minds of their young people to examine their own area's sightings. There were over four hundred sighting reports taken by the British Ministry of Defense last year alone, before they decided to quit bothering themselves with unknown objects intruding into their airspace. If the world governments and military already know what these objects are, they should come clean with that knowledge rather than try to sweep it under the rug. If they are still stumped for an explanation, why not let the youth that will make up the next generation of leaders get involved in research that has the collegiate oversight to assure good, useable data in dealing with what has become a worldwide epidemic of UFO sightings and encounters.

With the topic becoming a serious collegiate course, the era of offhand ridicule of witnesses can come to an end. By allowing serious study and investigation at the university level, there should be less hesitation on the part of witnesses to share their experience. With luck, this more serious approach should improve the process of winnowing out hoaxes and give greater credence to those events that can be labeled as real even if they are as yet unexplained.

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This strange event happened recently, on 16th February 2009 in Nequen, Argentina. Three unidentified flying objects or UFO’s as they are commonly referred to as, entered the atmosphere creating a dazzling flash in the sky and emitting very bright colors. According to witnesses, these UFO kept hovering in the sky for few minutes and were mainly seen in the Alto Valle to the Cordilleran Lake region. The Nequen Astronomical Observatory and the Bariloche Naval Prefecture confirmed that this strange event happened on Saturday i.e. 16th February night between 2300 hours to 2330 hours.

Mr. Roberto Figueroa who is the directory of the NAO told media persons that “I was inside the observatory having a chat with my colleagues and when I looked outside of the window I saw that the entire part of the west Nequen is illuminated by bright lights. We all saw three UFO’s entering our atmosphere at tremendous speeds which soon exploded creating bright flash lights and emitted some sort of colored smoke.”

He clarified that the objects were indeed UFO’s, measuring some 5 to 8 meter in diameter. These may be few of many that cross Earth’s path as collision point. These UFO’s heat up upon entering Earth and expand in such an unstable way that they finally dismantles and burns emitting bright lights and smoke.

The event was also witnessed by residents of Bariloche. They claimed that they saw UFO crashing in Lake Nahuel Huapi. The news channels also claimed that the Bariloche Naval Prefecture received many calls from the residents and tourists present at the lake who told they saw flashing lights near the lake. The Prefecture thought that maybe that was a flare and sent a vessel to search for it, however after extensive search nothing was found at or near the lake. The Prefecture later rubbished the UFO claim and told that it was a shooting star; however they said that they don’t have any proof to prove it.

A group of fishermen witnessed this event from a very close distance. According to them the flying object was a greenish blue is color and it appeared that it was made up of some metal.

This strange sighting occurred within few days of the first collisions in space due to heavy cosmic traffic. The collision was believed to be between two satellites, one American and the other Russian, which impacted some 800 km over Siberia.

Today most of the UFO sightings in actual are the case of mistaken identity or misinterpretation of some natural phenomenon maybe planet, stars or meteors or man made object such as weather balloons, hot air balloons, satellites or airplanes. All these flying objects are referred to as identified flying objects, better known as IFO’s and not UFO’s. Many individual reports on such sightings cannot be studied properly due to lack of evidence or detail .In any given set of reports related to UFO’s there remains a small residue which is truly puzzling, not only to witnesses but also to the expert people who study these reports.

While the reports on such sightings differ in detail, there are many such similarities in shapes, maneuverability, color and sound.

The number of UFO sightings till date must be in millions, but it is not possible to study all of them. The UFOCAT or the unidentified flying object catalog which is specially created for this purpose has around 105000 entries.

The encounters with the UFO’s or aliens are classified into four categories namely, CE-1, CE-2, CE-3 and CE-4.

In close encounters of the first kind or CE-1, the person observes an UFO nearby but does not make any physical contact with the UFO.

In close encounter of second kind or CE-2, there is reported interaction between the environment and the UFO which may vary from interference to burns on the ground or any physical effect on any living being.

In close encounters of third kind or CE-3, the entities which look more or less humanlike appearance are reported in along with the UFO. There is no direct contact with the UFO or alien. These are however very rare occurrences.

In close encounters of fourth kind or CE-4, the witnesses have a very close contact physical contact with the UFO’s or aliens. Sometimes the alien takes place.

Scientists actually believe that if all these reporting and so called alien abductions are carefully studied and analyzed then one would conclude that of all the UFO sightings reported till date, only 10% were UFO’s and rest 90 IFO’s. Regarding the video and photo evidences , scientist confirm that these are the work of some highly skilled person who are masters in their field, according to them it is difficult to fake the videos and photos but it is not impossible to fake them or to manipulate them.

One of the best cases of physical trace evidence is the infamous Falcon Lake Encounter which took place on 19th May 1967. The lone participant in this infamous incident was Stephen Michalak, who worked as a mechanic, but his hobby included prospecting for silver. He was enjoying his hobby near Falcon Lake where he encountered two flying saucers and even touched one of them.

Stephen was a resident of Canada, but had gone for a short vacation in Whiteshell Provincial Park. He had prospected that area a number of times so he was quite familiar with the area. He was told by somebody that there are veins of quartz present near Falcon Lake. He went to Lake Falcon on 19th May 1967, and after couple of hours of digging, he found the precious metal, he then took his lunch and then resumed his work.

Shortly after noon, he heard the sound of geese, when he looked towards the sky he saw two elongated disc shape objects descending towards the ground. Brilliant red lights were coming out from these objects. While he was watching in amazement, one of the UFO hovered in mid air.

He saw that the other UFO landed on rocks just 150 feet away from him. The hovering UFO changed its lights and then finally disappeared. The UFO which was on the ground too seems to change its color in the same fashion. He hid in a bush and watched the space ship, he saw gate of the space ship opening and purple lights coming out of it, he was wearing protective glass and they helped him to shield his eyes. He also heard a hissing and loud sound from the spaceship.

He stood there for about half an hour but when nothing happened, he decided to have a close look of the UFO. He slowly moved forward, when he reached at the door of the craft, he peeped in and saw control panels having different colored lights he went inside but did not find any one.

He was frightened and decided to get out of it. He then examined the exterior of the craft, the moment he touched it his gloves melted due to excessive heat. As soon as he touched the craft, it moved and a vent opened, and gave out heat, the heat coming out from the vent caught Stephen’s cloths afire. The UFO then rose to the sky and disappeared, before leaving the area Stephen made certain landmarks like piling debris, making signs etc. He eventually made his way to hospital and was treated for severe burns.

Was he telling the truth? But there is no reason to believe that he is making a story. He was known as an honest and reliable man.