Do You Want to Report a UFO?
Do You Want to Report a UFO? Monday April 7, 2008 If you will recall in the movie, “Close Encounters,” pretty much at the beginning, there is a scene in an airport tower where air traffic controllers are talking to the pilot of a passenger jet who was seeing a UFO. Soon, the object and the plane had a near miss. The controllers asked the pilot, “Do you want to report a UFO?” The hesitant reply was, “No, we don’t want to report one of those.” Of course, the pilot had reported the UFO to the tower hoping that he could get some directions in avoiding the object, but to report one officially, that is a different story. Why did the pilot not want to report a very close encounter with a UFO? Did they not want to warn other pilots? Weren’t they concerned with passenger safety? Yes, I’m sure they were, but something much more powerful was controlling their reluctance to report. It can all be summed up pretty easily-stigma. The term is defined as “an identifying mark or characteristic.” A scarl
