Even though reports of strange flying objects have been made throughout history, no one really tried to make a concerted study of them until the second half of the 20th Century. It was around the advent of World War II that the number of UFO sightings really began to multiply around the world. Beginning with the "ghost" flyers in the1930's through the foo fighters of the 1940's sightings of unidentifiable aerial objects were becoming codified through the 1950's.

With the post-war "Cold War" heating up between the United States and the Soviet Union, this increase in sightings of unknown and technologically superior aircraft presented a unique problem for those responsible for national defense. It became necessary for them to make a special effort to analyze these reports and try to figure out whether they were advanced enemy craft or something else. Regrettably, whatever was discovered, the military efforts at ufology did not pass on their findings to the general population. They hid their findings under the guise of national security and officially stated there was no problem, this despite an increasing number of events and continued invasion of the airspace around military bases and nuclear facilities.

Ufology for the public was left to the civilians to figure out. With the urging of the military, the media and scientific community was encouraged to ridicule the entire field of UFO studies. With a lack of backing from the mainstream establishment, ufology quickly ran into trouble as a real science. Academia mostly abandoned the subject to amateurs. There was no scientific consensus or peer review systems set in place. Anyone could call themselves a ufologist without any organizational body to take them to task to prove their credentials. Even accepted and mainstream scientists like Jacques Vallee and J. Allen Hynek encountered ridicule of their work even though Hynek originally became involved in ufology through the military studies.

At best, ufology has been relegated to the status of a "pseudoscience." While ufologist protest this labeling, they still rarely maintain or sometimes even adhere to the simplest of scientific methodology in their research. They often make bold statements with no real supporting evidence. Many theories are not only implausible but impossible to quantify or qualify by any known scientific process. There is no single moderating and overseeing community to establish control guidelines or methodology to satisfy the necessary demands of scientific standards of research or peer review.

There are a few major difficulties with the UFO phenomena, which make a scientific approach more difficult. The observed events are neither predictable, convenient, nor replicable. This makes scientific experimentation very near impossible to formulate. Skeptics argue that, with no physical evidence, ufology cannot equate itself with science at all.

Until ufology can find ways to codify and compartmentalize these problems, it will never be taken as true science. Until a form of standardization and peer review is adapted, the skeptics, unbelievers, and hoaxers will continue to flood any discussion of the UFO phenomena with scurrilous, derogatory, and deceptive information without any great fear of being discovered or disavowed.

If you scan through the worldwide UFO reports that come in everyday to authorities during the UFO Sightings 2011, you’ll notice that states like California and Texas were the leaders of the pack for the intensity of UFO sightings, according to the Mutual UFO Network witness reporting database.

When it comes to the types of UFOs witnessed, there are of course several varieties, but it appears that there was a large percentage of UFOs of the triangle-shaped types that showed up all around the U.S. and the world. Many of these were low-flying visits that then mysteriously disappeared very quickly. Most had a series of different colored lights on them and were soundless as they streamed through the air.

These triangular sightings appeared on the west coast in the states of California and Nevada, in the Midwest in Iowa and Texas, in the east from Indiana and Pennsylvania and from the New England area in Massachusetts. The witnesses in nearly all of these sightings reported being caught by surprise and most say the ships flew fairly low to the ground as well.
The odd thing is that not many UFOs have been spotted in West Virginia so far in the UFO Sightings 2011season. It makes one wonder if ET is skipping this state for some purpose or another that we don’t know about.

However, a UFO did show up in West Virgina after all on April 6, when a couple in Nitro witnessed a metallic oval shaped flying object that appeared in the sky and began to fade in and out of being. Finally, the object disappeared and wasn’t seen again. No explanation was given for the appearance of the mysterious sphere.

Whatever else happens this year, it’s inevitable that UFOs will continue to appear in our skies overhead in the U.S. and world-wide. Who knows what kinds of UFOs will be sighted the rest of the UFO Sightings 2011season, but whatever they are, we’ll be watching to find out.

While the sighting of an unexplainable light pattern or aircraft in the sky can and seemingly does occur just about everywhere sooner or later, there are some places that seem to draw in UFO's like moths to a candle flame. There so-called "hotspots" tend to have a much higher percentage of UFO sightings than other, seemingly similar, places around the world. It is not just the secluded forests and deserts that draw UFO activity. Many of the most populous areas and cities also provide these high per capita sighting reports. It begs the question of just what is so interesting in these oft-visited places that bring such a large number of unidentified craft flying over.

Arizona, in the United States, has experienced more than its share of high-profile UFO cases. Leading the state in reports is the city of Phoenix. As well as the well-documented case of the "Phoenix Lights" in 1997, Arizona's Apache National Forest was the location of the famous Travis Walton abduction. Sedonia, Arizona also reports higher than normal UFO traffic. Metaphysicists say UFO's are drawn to Sedonia because it lies at the intersection of natural Earth energies or vortices (read lay lines) in the area.

Just north of Arizona is the state with the highest per capita percentage of UFO sightings and reports. Colorado is well known for its high elevation and the Rocky Mountains. It also contains Saguache County, which seems to be at the center of the greatest UFO activity. While Nevada reports a greater per capita sighting ratio, possibly because of the fame of the "secret" Area 51, Texas reports over five times as many sightings. Florida, Pennsylvania, New York, and Minnesota also see much more UFO activity than the well-traveled Highway 95 out of Rachel, Nevada.

Mexico City, Mexico, has also become a major UFO hotspot over the last twenty years. From the multiple sightings on July 11, 1991 when the fleet of unidentified craft stole the show from the solar eclipse that was taking place, to 2005 when the greatest recorded mass sighting was filmed over the city, Mexicans have often been presented with spectacular aerial displays.

While they rarely get groups of UFO's over their town, Bonnybridge, Scotland can claim a record for the most sightings from any town in the world. With an average of 300 separate reports a year, it is no wonder the local government petitioned the Prime Minister to order an official investigation into the matter. To date, those investigations have still been regrettably inconclusive. Warminster in Wiltshire, England may be most famous for crop circles but also manages one of the highest incident levels in the UK for UFO sightings. Some believe this is because UFO's are still using nearby Stonehenge as a navigational marker for their flights.

These possibly extraterrestrial visitors do not neglect the Southern Hemisphere. Barely 150 miles South of Santiago, Chili, a 19 mile long section of road near San Clement has been host to so many UFO sightings that the tourism department has attempted to cash in on the phenomena by renaming the road "The UFO Trail."

Down under in Australia, Wycliffe Well in the Northern Territory has some of the highest UFO activity in the world. Not only are UFO's repeatedly sighted, the number of abduction cases has garnered the town with a reputation as the alien abduction capitol of the continent. Even the nearby military air base cannot account for the recurring sightings and visitations that seem to so plague this otherwise peaceful town which the metaphysicists say also falls on natural Earth energy lines like Sedonia, Arizona and Stonehenge.

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.

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.

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.

Despite the popular media habit of ridiculing those who have witnessed UFO's and then spoken up about it, there are some witnesses to these events that are deemed above reproach. Since the very beginning of the American space program's journeys above our Earth, our astronauts have been routine witnesses to these unidentified flying craft. In the words of Scott Carpenter, "At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone: there was a constant surveillance by UFOs."

Major Gordon Cooper was making a 22-orbit trip around the planet on May 15, 1963 in a Mercury space capsule when he reported a glowing greenish object approaching him. It was also picked up on the Muchea (Australia) tracking radar. Despite Cooper's mention of the UFO being broadcast on the NBC television network, reporters were warned not to ask about the event when he got back to Earth.

A few years later, June 1965, and astronauts Ed White and James McDivitt were sailing far above Hawaii in their Gemini capsule when they spotted a strange looking metallic object in orbit with them. Rather than a saucer shape, this UFO had a number of long "arms" sticking out from it. Despite taking photographs and motion pictures of the object, none of these images have been released for the public to see. Later that year, in December, James Lovell and Frank Borman were aboard Gemini 7 when they reported a bogey at 10 o'clock. Gemini Control asked if they were just seeing the booster rocket. Lovell replied that, "We have several actual sightings. We also have the booster in sight."

Since first being used by Walter Schirra on his Mercury 8 flight, the code name "Santa Claus" has been used to indicate to ground control when a UFO has been spotted tracking an Earth space capsule. This was to minimize public knowledge of just what was going on in the space above our planet when we ventured outward. Knowing this code helps remove the jauntiness of James Lovell's comment when he first came out from behind the moon on his Apollo 8 fly-around and greeted the world with the words, "Please be informed that there is a Santa Claus."

The ultimate close encounter with "Santa Claus" was to be experienced by Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin made their historic moon landing in Apollo 11 in July of 1969. After reporting a "light" in or on the crater wall, Mission Control asked for more details and then the public broadcast from the astronauts was cut. Several ham radio operators with their own VHF receivers did record the following conversation, which was cut from the "official" broadcast.

NASA: "What’s there? Mission Control calling Apollo 11..."

Apollo 11: "These "Babies" are huge, Sir! Enormous! OH MY GOD! You wouldn't believe it! I'm telling you there are other spacecraft out there, Lined up on the far side of the crater edge! They're on the Moon watching us!"

If we cannot believe the words of our own spacefaring heroes about the reality of extraterrestrial life and spacecraft, whom then can we believe?

In seeking craft that may be of extra-terrestrial origin it is a common thing to watch the skies. However, these same craft that could survive the vacuum of outer space should be capable of as easily surviving the pressures of the watery depths. The idea that aliens visiting our planet have bases of operation is not a farfetched concept. Nor is it an inconceivable idea that these bases are hidden from the sight of the surface dwelling inhabitants of this planet by being constructed where we have no adequate way to discover them. The depths of the ocean would make such a safe haven.

Reports of aerial craft that have dipped into the ocean and flown out again have been in our recorded history for at least a thousand years. One of the earliest reports of a craft rising from the ocean, flying, and then returning to the depths comes from Geoffrey Gaimer's "Lestoire des Englis" written in 1067 A.D. The report states, "In this year people saw a fire that flamed and burned fiercely in the sky. It came near the earth and for a little time brilliantly lit it up. Afterwards, it revolved, ascended on high, and then descended into the sea."

The year 1580 A.D. saw the report of the Spanish Captain Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa as he passed through the Straits of Magellan. Translated from the Spanish it reads, "We saw emerge from the sea a round thing, red like fire, like a shield, that rose up on the air or on the wind. It became longer as it went over a mountain and, in the form of a lance high above the mount, its shape became like a half-moon between red and white in colour."

In the late 1960's the ex Naval Intelligence Officer William Cooper wrote of a sighting of an unidentified submersible object he spotted as a young naval officer aboard the USS Tiru. "I turned, raising my binoculars to my eyes just in time to see a huge disk rise from beneath the ocean, water streaming from the air around it, tumble lazily on its axis, and disappear into the clouds."

As sightings of UFO's increase worldwide, so to are USO's being reported in greater numbers. It stands to reason that if some unknown presence is sharing the planet with us then living in such inaccessible places would keep them much safer than if they merely tried to locate in remote locations. With technologies that preclude the need for chemical fires to propel them and hulls already made to withstand extreme pressures, the water should present no greater difficulty than air or vacuum would present.

As our own technology increases and we learn more of the topography under our oceans, many strange and seemingly non-natural formations are being found. Will it be that as we develop craft capable of descending to such depths we will find them being shadowed by alien craft just as our astronauts have reported all our space missions being monitored and observed for whatever alien end?

The reports of strange objects in the skies of our planet have been coming in for centuries. Few people anymore really doubt there is something going on but finding open and honest answers has not been at all easy to discover. Despite the many reasons we have been given to question the actions and motives of our governing agencies, people still want to believe that ultimately their leaders have their best interests at heart. In the case of unidentified flying objects and the possibility of alien contact this trust has been woefully betrayed.

One of the first big attempts at official government investigation was undertaken in the middle of the 20th century by the United States Air Force. Beginning with "Project Sign", that ended in 1948, it was officially determined that these objects were neither US or Russian in manufacture but failed to give even a hypothetical guess as to where they were from. "Project Grudge" quickly followed but was initiated as a purely debunking effort to convince the masses that they were "crazy" or "delusional" if they insisted on seeing an alien connection. This extremely cavalier attitude even angered senior military officials to the point that "Project Blue Book" was formed in an attempt to regain some sense of factual understanding of the phenomena of UFO's.

After years of investigation into nearly 13,000 UFO reports, 701 of which were never found to have even the most flimsy natural explanation, the Project was closed and the final statement issued was that "the phenomena poses no threat to national security." This was not an answer to the question but circumvention around the facts. A popular hypothesis for this is that they were quite aware of what these things were and the possibility that "deals" were in place that the common citizen was not privy to. It may not be a matter of "national security" but that still leaves the question of what it may mean to "personal security" if they are in fact alien in origin.

Other world governments have recently begun to be somewhat more forthcoming with the information they have compiled over the years about sighting made by their citizens. Beginning in 1989 the Belgian government and Air Force began an, at the time, unprecedented openness policy about the severe increase in UFO sightings happening in their country. Rather that trying to pacify the populous with pat stories of "misidentification" of mundane things, they admitted their ignorance of the cause and origins and welcomed input and information from their citizens. While a definitive conclusion was never made, the Belgian government acknowledged the phenomena and did not treat their citizens as if they were ignorant children incapable of dealing with the mystery.

May of 2008 also saw the British government and Ministry of Defense releasing thousands of pages of reports on UFO and alien sightings in their country. These reports are filled with observations from very reliable and trustworthy people including police, pilots, air traffic controllers, military personnel, and government officials themselves. It was their hope that with the release of this information, enough people could study and correlate the data to the point some idea of what is happening in our skies could be developed. We can but hope that with this new openness on the part of some of the world's governments a satisfactory answer can be gleaned before an alien craft makes a public landing and tells us what they are up to themselves.

On March 10, the Cleveland Fox affiliate aired a feature detailing Eugene Erlikh’s repeated UFO sightings: For six straight nights, Erlikh had seen the same cluster of lights over Lake Erie. On the last night, he had the presence of mind to videotape their appearance, capturing their pulsating beams and changing colours. Erlikh also had the good sense to enlist the support of a corroborating witness, his close friend Nick Hausen, who also saw the lights, confessing, “I have never seen anything like that.”

The Fox Cable Network picked-up the story, which spread to CNN and through the networks to hundreds of local stations. Erlikh told the Cleveland Fox-8 reporter who broke the story, “Once you see it with your own eyes, you’re gonna say ‘Wow, what’s going on here?’ And why do they keep coming back to the same spot?”

Not surprisingly, NASA, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the Canadian Coast Guard said they had received no other reports of sightings. At the Cleveland Ufology Project, self-styled UFO experts scrutinized Erlikh’s video, concluding inconclusively. Richard Lee, unofficial spokesperson for the Ufology Project, said the video was too rough, grainy, and unsteady to be of any use to scientists. As the story attracted national attention, however, other UFO sighters reported similar phenomena, and observers detected hints of a trend.

Distinctive lights frequently reported nationwide, worldwide.
Three words recur in recent UFO sightings from across North America and Europe—“pulsating,” “string,” and “orange.” Many reports closely resembling Erlikh’s describe brilliant strings of lights flying in precision formations and complex patterns, and a few other videographers have captured images like those on Erlikh’s footage.

On December 15, 2009, a husband and wife in O’Fallon, Missouri, observed and documented a string of bright, pulsating lights in the western sky. Two days later, in Springerville, Arizona, near the site of some history’s most famous UFO incidents, two US Air Force veterans reported seeing a string of lights and then an exceptionally bright flash in the eastern sky. They said the flash covered at least 10% of the sky, leaving “a pronounced after-image.” On February 14, 2010, nearly twenty different witnesses spread across six British cities reported “an orange fireball travelling in a perfect line north-northeast [in] complete silence.” Later that night, several witnesses reported the same phenomenon over Dublin, Ireland.

Scientists neither confirm nor deny.
Noting the consistency among the reports, and also noting that they could see no sign of collusion among the reporters, space scientists nevertheless offered their usual response. Experts acknowledged that they cannot definitively identify or explain the phenomenon, and they agreeing that the series of reports breaks from most historical observations of unidentified spacecraft. Yet astronomers showed restraint in their comments. “We remain neutral and disinterested as we examine these phenomena,” said one southern California researcher, “and we agree that all explanations fall into the realm of plausibility. We try, however, to look at the explanations most probable and then most possible. While decidedly intriguing, none of these observations defies explanation by the capabilities of man-made aircraft.”