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A welcome boost for Roswell's tourist economy comes in the form of the Huffington Post's recent report that a second UFO may have crashed near Roswell just days after the initial, infamous crash in 1947. --- According to Richard French, a retired Lieutenant Colonel with the Air Force, the UFO was on a "rescue mission" of sorts to recover fellow extraterrestrials from the original ship after it too was shot down by the Air Force.
In the past, French has been critical of alien sightings, and is quick to debunk tales, which makes his admission especially thrilling.
The military published an initial report of a "flying saucer" that was swiftly retracted in favor of labeling it as a crashed weather balloon. Several decades later, however, officers, nurses and even an undertaker began speaking out about alien bodies, wreckage made of unrecognizable "metal-like" material, and disappearing humans, so the tale has lingered (Daily Mail). The event also served as the birth of UFO sightings as we know them, and acted as a catalyst to encourage reports from all sorts of crazies and confused observers of unexplained sky phenomena.
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"Sightings" have only grown in number since. This newest report on Roswell comes on the tail end of a study by Ufology Research (which is a legitimate company practicing pseudoscience at its best) that finds UFO sightings in Canada reached a record high of 986 in 2011. Even more alarming, the Winnipeg Free Press reports that one in 10 Canadians claim they’ve seen a UFO.
It sound ludicrous, but the numbers aren't too startling when you look at the facts. A UFO is an unidentified flying object—any phenomenon in the sky that can’t be seen clearly enough to identify it. By this definition, we’ve probably all seen UFOs, whether they be faraway planes or satellites on a clear night or something more mysterious. And indeed, research explained all but 11 percent of Canada's sightings away—by human-piloted aircraft; lights; ball lightning; natural mirages; and, curiously, Chinese Lanterns, as popularized by Disney’s Tangled (Winnipeg Free Press).
And that remaining 11 percent? Well, perhaps Invasion of the Body Snatchers has a purer ring of truth than we'd hoped.
