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UFO is an acronym for Unidentified Flying Object. UFOs are anything unidentified that flies, including secret government projects, unexplained lights in the sky, and the possibility of extraterrestrial space craft. Some former UFOs have been explained, but several reports still remain mysteries. UFO sightings have occured for centuries and continue today in record numbers around the world.
Most sightings are brief and the UFO rarely returns to the same location, but certain places known as UFO "Hotspots" have recurrent sightings. These areas in North America include: The Niagra Falls Region, the North West Area, Western Texas and Albuquerque New Mexico, Puerto Rico, Mexico City, and the Gulf Strip from Pensacola, Florida to Biloxi, Mississippi through the coast of Alabama to the Gulf's navel base.
To spot UFOs in these places some UFOlogists (UFO experts) will visit the hotspots and interview locals about UFO sightings to determine general or exact locations of the recurrant sightings, and to determine a pattern of dates and times of the sightings if possible. After the information is collected UFOlogists set up a base camp for a few days, weeks, or sometimes months to watch the night skies.
Another way of finding UFOs is through associations. One of the best and largets UFO organizations is the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). MUFON has a central group with chapters across the United States. Membership is open to anyone for a small yearly fee and includes MUFON's UFO Journal. Members are also given the option of attending their chapter's regular meetings in which, of course, UFOs are discussed. When UFO sightings are reported MUFON sends out field investigators to look into the claims. Members can become field investigator trainees before achieving the title of field investigator. Investigators use MUFON's "Field Investigator's Manuel" as their handbook. For more information contact:
Mutual UFO Network, Inc. (MUFON)
103 Oldtowne Road
Seguin, Texas 78155-4099
Setting up a personal UFO network can bring in many reports of UFO sightings. Get a telephone number with an answering machine or service for UFO reports. Also get an e-mail account, and perhaps set up a website that includes information about UFOs and encourages reports of sightings. Have 500 to 1,000 business cards printed with your name, purpose, telephone number, e-mail and website addresses. For example:
Jane Doe
UFO Investigator
To Report A UFO Sighting Contact:
Telephone #:
E-Mail:
Website:
Send this card with a brief note of explanation to police and FBI agencies, newspapers, television and radio news offices, the FAA, planetariums, libraries, airports, UFO organizations, and to interested people that you meet. You might also consider placing ads in magazines requesting UFO information or sightings, and you could also attend UFO conferences and hand out your cards there.
Equipment will be needed for the UFO hunt. These include a camera with flash and a zoom lens, a videocamera, notepad and pens, investigator's manual, compass, maps, star finder, plastic bags, knife, tweezers, flashlight, tape recorder, and a tape measure.
With your equipment record everything possible to try and get answers to the questions Who? What? When? Where? Why? and How?
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