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From: Stig_Agermose@online.pol.dk (Stig Agermose)
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 02:47:16 +0200
Fwd Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 05:36:40 -0500
Subject: UFO Researchers Meet In Brasilia (UPI)

>From United Press International. URL:

http://biz.yahoo.com/upi/97/12/08/international_news/brazilufo_1.html


Monday December 8 4:48 AM EST

UFO researchers meet in Brasilia


LONDON, Dec. 8 (UPI) _ Top UFO researchers from 27 countries
gather in the Brazilian capital this week to take a serious look
at Unidentified Flying Objects.

The 50 scholars believe their discipline merits U.N. recognition.

A BBC report cites a U.S. poll indicating popular belief in
intelligent life on other planets is at an all-time high.

Most mainstream scientists scoff at the grainy photographs and
stereotyped eyewitness accounts presented by so-called
"ufologists" as evidence of alien visitations to Earth.

But the popularity of film and television space fiction testifies
to the human willingness to believe.

Television's "The X-Files" series raised so many questions about
"the Roswell incident" that the CIA took pains earlier this year
to issue a final report on the mysterious sightings in the New
Mexico desert in 1947.

The CIA said weather balloons were mistaken for UFOs, and crash
test dummies for dead aliens.

The CIA's report may have fallen on deaf ears. A standard
ufologist argument is that governments do not tell the truth
about alien encounters.

Ufologists took heart from the discovery earlier this year of a
meteorite from Mars that appeared to contain evidence of organic
structures.

But not all scientists accepted NASA's conclusion that the "Mars
rock" contained a fossilized micro-organism.

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