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Viewer input is critical.

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It's through you that we learn about important new cases,

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intriguing opinions on paranormal phenomena.

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And of course, the skeptics point of view.

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Recently, sightings went online to give viewers instant access to our investigative team.

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And so sightings could give something back to you.

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If Alexander Graham Bell could see us now,

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phone lines being used to transfer messages, images, and thousands of pages of data

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from all over the world directly into your home computer.

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In the vast universe of cyberspace,

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sightings maintains an outpost of information on America Online.

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Through AOL's subscription service,

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sightings viewers can download information about UFOs and other paranormal phenomena.

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Sightings has also made it possible for AOL subscribers to exchange information

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with other paranormal enthusiasts and talk live with sightings' own experts.

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Why would the government cover up a balloon crash for so long?

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Recently, subscribers had a chance to query Stanton Freedman and Carl Flock,

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two prominent UFO researchers who are often at loggerheads about the mysterious crash at Roswell, New Mexico.

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They brought their expertise online.

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How can experts sort the genuine UFO reports from crackpots looking for publicity?

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You got first hand.

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Look at the potentials of the individuals they're dealing with.

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You can look at what they tell you to see if it's consistent with the other information that you have available.

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Cyberspace is a new medium, and in some ways I expect it will dwarf the power and the reach of other media.

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Michael Lindemann runs an online information center called the Institute for the Study of Contact with Non-Human Intelligence.

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I actually think there's a very good match, in fact, between people working on the UFO subject and people in cyberspace.

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In a room full of UFO enthusiasts, you find lots of people with advanced degrees and lots of people with computer skills.

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Nicknames can be used instead of real names online.

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This anonymity encourages hoaxing, but also allows reluctant witnesses to come forward.

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More and more people will tell stories or share experiences and insights that they have literally kept to themselves all their life.

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And the story set apart by itself may be only curious, but set in a constellation of other stories from equally solid people.

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It becomes a phenomenon. It becomes something important.

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Online, sightings periodically conduct opinion polls on a variety of paranormal topics.

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Recently, we asked the question, do you believe that the government is involved in covering up the truth about their involvement in UFOs?

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Over 90% of the respondents answered yes. The US government is covering up what they know.

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Through the online service, you can participate in the sightings opinion polls.

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We'll bring you the results on future programs.