1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,240 Here are some of the stories that Sightings is following in the news. 2 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:11,440 After more than 45 years, the federal government's general accounting office has finally started 3 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:20,500 auditing government records to determine what really happened in Roswell, New Mexico. 4 00:00:20,500 --> 00:00:25,320 In Washington, D.C., America's auditor, the general accounting office, has finally released 5 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:28,720 the results of their full-scale Roswell investigation. 6 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:33,320 The investigation was prompted by citizen protest and by demands by New Mexico congressman 7 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:39,120 Stephen Schiff, who insisted that all documents relating to Roswell be released. 8 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:45,920 I have confidence the GAO will bring forward anything they find with respect to the Roswell incident. 9 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:51,200 The result is a terse report nearly as inconclusive as the famous saucer crash itself. 10 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:57,080 Fifteen government agencies complied, including the FBI, CIA, Army, Air Force and Navy. 11 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:59,280 However, few documents were turned over. 12 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:04,360 The GAO report states that nearly every relevant record from Roswell Army airfield has been 13 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:09,960 destroyed and that it is not known who destroyed the records or under what authority. 14 00:01:09,960 --> 00:01:14,320 While the U.S. Air Force has explained the Roswell incident as the crash of a classified 15 00:01:14,320 --> 00:01:19,880 balloon project aimed at the Soviet Union, the National Security Council, the CIA and 16 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:23,960 the Office of Science and Technology have no record of such an operation. 17 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:30,280 The report concludes that the GAO's findings are inconclusive, fueling rather than dispelling 18 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:31,880 the Roswell mystery. 19 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:41,480 In a related news story from Ohio, a statewide survey by Scripps Howard News Service and 20 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:47,320 Ohio University has found that a majority of Americans believe in UFOs. 21 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:50,800 We interviewed a thousand and six people. 22 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:56,000 We had people in every area code in terms of age, education, income. 23 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,880 So it does represent the entire country. 24 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:05,000 UFOs were a new topic for this my annual poll, which is designed to survey our attitudes 25 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:06,000 about government. 26 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:13,400 We put the question about flying saucers in as another kind of dimension of how people 27 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:16,040 feel about what government does and says. 28 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:18,000 The question posed was this. 29 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:22,720 Do you believe that UFOs are real and that the government is hiding what it knows? 30 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:28,520 Fifty percent of the people said it was very likely or likely that flying saucers are real 31 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:31,760 and the government was hiding the truth from us. 32 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:37,200 Forty-three percent said that it was not likely that saucers are real and the government 33 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:39,440 was hiding the truth. 34 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:44,560 That means that half of all Americans not only believe in UFOs, they also believe that 35 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:49,680 the government is covering up the truth of their existence and it's an opinion that crosses 36 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:54,840 all age, gender, ethnic and socioeconomic lines. 37 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:58,560 There is some evidence after all that the government hides things from us. 38 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:02,840 You can dismiss a lot of these but there are some of them you can't explain.