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Are UFOs Extraterrestrial in Origin?
According to well-respected scientists, there are more stars in our universe than grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth. Those odds make the possibility of extraterrestrial life hard to ignore. UFOs, or Unidentified Flying Objects, are at the center of this controversial debate. For those who believe UFOs are controlled by extraterrestrial life, it is these same odds that cannot be overlooked. On the other hand, skeptics are hard at work outlining why the evidence that supports the existence of UFOs, mainly anecdotal in nature, is just not supportive enough.
On one side of the debate, Leslie Kean, author of the New York Times bestseller UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on Record takes into account eyewitness testimony from high level government officials and pilots, as the basis for her argument that UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin. “They [the pilots] represent the world's best trained observers of everything that flies,” (qtd. in Speigel) Kean writes. Her book is the inspiration for the History Channel special Secret ...

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