Are UFOs real?
There are Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). The problem is that it is a long stretch to infer that these are alien spacecraft. Before the popularity swing of UFOs, the Astronomical League did a revealing survey of members (the AL is a grouping of local amateur astronomy societies) to find out whether they had more or fewer sightings. You see, the logic was that amateurs spend a lot of time in out-of-the-way places at night. If UFOs were real alien artifacts, amateurs should see them a lot more than the average population. If they were figments of the viewers’ imagination, amateurs should see them at far lower than the average rate. Amateur astronomers tend to have a lot more experience looking up at the sky and can interpret what they see with more skill. At the time, about 2 percent of the population thought that they had a sighting. Amateur astronomers saw them at the same 2 percent rate. [With all the publicity, belief and sightings among the general population has increased drast
There are Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). The problem is that it is a long stretch to infer that these are alien spacecraft. Before the popularity swing of UFOs, the Astronomical League did a revealing survey of members (the AL is a grouping of local amateur astronomy societies) to find out whether they had more or fewer sightings. You see, the logic was that amateurs spend a lot of time in out-of-the-way places at night. If UFOs were real alien artifacts, amateurs should see them a lot more than the average population. If they were figments of the viewers’ imagination, amateurs should see them at far lower than the average rate. Amateur astronomers tend to have a lot more experience looking up at the sky and can interpret what they see with more skill. At the time, about 2 percent of the population thought that they had a sighting. Amateur astronomers saw them at the same 2 percent rate. [With all the publicity, belief and sightings among the general population has increased drast
