Research Writing Exercise:
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Research Writing Exercise:
Unidentified Flying Objects
Use the following simulated notes to create a short paper in which you use the researched information and document it properly. Assume that any material that is not in quotation marks is your paraphrase, which means you can change it further if you wish. All material that is in quotes must be used exactly as is. Remember to introduce the speaker (w/ credentials) of all direct quotes.
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Most investigators agree that perhaps as many as 80% of all reported UFOs can be explained as natural phenomena.
"Ufology: Uneasy Awareness of Something Gives a New Status to Investigations" Science Digest p. 28 July, l977
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"If life does exist, it must exist on a planet of some type. To have planets there surely must be stars; a planet may not exist without a star or sun because the planets are made up of the excess from the spinning star; this is how our solar system evolved. Take that into perspective and look at all the stars on a clear night. Clearly we see that planets and a greater possibility for life other than human exists."
The Cosmic Connection Carl Sagan Doubleday & Co, Inc., New York l974 p. 82
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Are there objects in the sky, inhabited by beings from another planet? "We have to admit that all in all we are not appreciably nearer a solution to this problem than we were 20 years ago."
--Charles Bowen, ed. Flying Saucer Review
UFOs and Extraterrestrials in History; Volume I Yves Naud Geneva Fermi Publishers l978 p. 13
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There are more than a half million reports of sightings currently on record. 585 of these have yet to be identified.
"What Were Those 585 Objects the USAF Failed to Identify and Why" Don Berliner Science Digest Aug l977 p. 24
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Since l947, UFOs have been variously identified as ball lightning, swamp gas, secret government spycraft, hoaxes, natural and human made phenomena, psychic projections, holograms, time travelers, visitors from another dimension, plasmic life in our atmosphere, and extraterrestrials from another planet.
The Complete Book of Extraterrestrial Encounters p. 3 Randall Fitzgerald New York Macmillan Pub Co l979
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Project Blue Book, the US Air Force's most prominent UFO investigation, was closed in 1969. Many scientists had declared that UFO's did not threaten national security. At that time, 700 sightings inn PBB logs remained unexplained.
Vicki Cooper, "UFO Update" Omni March 1989 p. 81
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In 1988 a new Project Blue Book was begun. It was privately funded by Arkansas Industrialist, Wm Pitts. Since that time, the new PBB has heard of more than 120 cases of sightings.
Vicki Cooper, "UFO Update" Omni March 1989 p. 81
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Hynek tried to debunk UFO stories but feels that some sightings--especially those made by pilots and meteorologists--defy explanation.
J. Allen Hynek, the nation's foremost authority on UFO's, is retired but was a resident scientist at Ohio State and at Harvard for many years. From 1960-74 he was chief of astronomy at Northwestern.
"Interview: J. Allen Hynek" Omni Feb. 1985 p. 70
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While his colleagues insisted UFO's were meteors, ball lightning, or cloud formations, Hynek began to say there was nothing in the accepted scientific paradigm to explain them all.
"Interview: J. Allen Hynek" Omni Feb. l985 p 71
Aerospace expert and UFO skeptic James E. Oberg says "We can account for all the types of UFO sightings without resorting to extraordinary explanations."
"Interview: J. Allen Hynek" Omni Feb. l985 p 72
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The word from the Pentagon: "Don't get the public excited; emphasize the things that are solvable; and put the kibosh on cases you can't explain." They feared public panic.
"Interview: J. Allen Hynek" Omni Feb. l985 p 72
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