By: Cole Greenstreet
Many people believe that UFO’s are real and some do not. Could there be other people than just us on Earth?
Sightings
There have been thousands of UFO sightings throughout history. One of these strange and mysterious sightings happened on December 29, 1980. 51-year-old restaurant owner Betty Cash was driving down a deserted road towards Dayton, Texas with her 57-year-old employee Vickie Landrum and Vickie’s 7-year-old grandson Colby. Colby noticed a brightly lit up object in the night sky. When the object came closer to the car they saw fire coming out the bottom like a rocket would. Betty stopped the car and all of them watched the mysterious object. The object was made of metal and had blue lights all over it. Colby then got scared and went back in the car and Vickie followed. Betty stayed outside the car for another ten minutes and then got back in. The car was getting very hot inside and nobody could stand the heat any longer. They turned on the car’s air conditioner. Then the object flew away. On the car ride home nobody felt very good and Vickie and Colby were feeling nauseous and were badly sunburned. By the next morning all of them were vomiting and were terribly sick. Betty’s eyes were swollen shut. The doctors figured that the symptoms could have been caused by radiation sickness. I only believe part of this story. I don’t think there was a real UFO. There could have been a UFO because they did suffer from all these symptoms and it could have been caused by the UFO or something else.
Fact: According to a Roper poll conducted in 2002 for the Sci-Fi Channel, one in seven Americans say they or someone they know has had an experience involving a UFO.
The Roswell Incident
The Roswell Incident is probably is one of the most famous and most controversial UFO incidents ever. It took place in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 on July 2nd. There was a violent thunderstorm and the rancher Max Brazel heard a loud crash near his home that night. The next day in his fields Brazel discovered hundreds of small pieces of strange material that was extremely lightweight and yet could not be bent, cut, or burned. He thought it came from an experimental military aircraft since he lived near a military airfield. He called the sheriff and the sheriff had some military officers come and study it. A lot of people think it was not from Earth. I think it was something in the sky that crashed; otherwise I have no idea what it was.
True Mystery or Hoax?
Some say UFO’s are a real and a true mystery that can be solved. Some think UFO’s are just a hoax. Some people like to trick others by making fake UFO’s. They do this by taking a picture of a model spaceship that they made, so it looks like it is floating in the sky. People can also make fake rows of lights. They can also just keep the camera out of focus, or put a drop of developer on a negative. Some hoaxers are quite skilled at what they do. I think UFO’s are a hoax but they could be real, but I believe more strongly about them being a hoax. After all the facts I read in the book about how people can make a hoax, it made me believe that UFO’s are just a hoax.
After reading how easy it is to make a hoax it made me believe that UFO’s are not real. But, there are some parts to the UFO controversy like how people suffered all those symptoms that could have been from radiation sickness but who knows? But still some people believe that there are not just us on Earth.
