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[*]A UFO sighting occurs somewhere on the planet every three minutes.
[*]Hundreds of thousands of unexplained sightings have been
reported all around the world, many of which were documented or
photographed.
[*]A Roper poll in 1991 said that 4 million Americans believe they have been abducted.
[*]A Gallup poll in 1996 said that 71 percent of Americans believe the government knows more than it is telling us about UFOs.
[*]Millions of people have seen UFOs, from biblical prophets to astronauts to housewives to astronomers.
[*]The first documented UFO sighting is in the Bible. The prophet
Ezekiel described a "great cloud with fire enfolding itself, a wheel in
the middle of a wheel that descended and fired lightning bolts into the
earth."
[*]An incident was reported in Basel, Switzerland, on Aug. 7, 1566.
[*]The first photograph of a UFO was taken in 1883 by astronomer Jose Bonilla in Zacatecas, Mexico.
[*]Alexander Hamilton reported a cow being kidnapped by an airship in Le Roy, Kan., in April 1897.
[*]Winston Churchill reported a strange airship in Kent, England,
Oct. 14, 1912. It was the first case of a UFO being "officially"
reported.
[*]On Feb. 25, 1942, a large, dark object over the Los Angeles
coastline was mistaken for a Japanese attack and drew a barrage of
anti-aircraft fire. Memos to President Roosevelt confirmed the
existence of unidentified aerial objects.
[*]UFOs were often seen and photographed during NASA's space missions in the 1960s.
[*]UFO sightings have been claimed by former President Jimmy
Carter, Clyde Tombaough (the astronomer who discovered Pluto) and
William Shatner (who claims to have been rescued by aliens who pointed
him in the right direction when he was lost in the Mojave Desert).
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