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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4981720.stmA confidential Ministry of Defence report on Unidentified Flying Objects has concluded that there is no proof of alien life forms.
... "Considerable evidence exists to support the thesis that the events are almost certainly attributable to physical, electrical and magnetic phenomena in the atmosphere, mesosphere and ionosphere.
"They appear to originate due to more than one set of weather and electrically charged conditions, and are observed so infrequently as to make them unique to the majority of observers."
People who claim to have had a "close encounter" are often difficult to persuade that they did not really see what they thought they saw. The report offers a possible medical explanation.
"The close proximity of plasma related fields can adversely affect a vehicle or person," states the report.
"Local fields of this type have been medically proven to cause responses in the temporal lobes of the human brain. These result in the observer sustaining (and later describing and retaining) his or her own vivid, but mainly incorrect, description of what is experienced." [continued]
It has long been suspected that this sort of thing may account for some UFO reports - perhaps a good number of the more interesting cases. Of course it remains to be shown that such a phenomenon really does exist that can affect humans to the degree suggested.
Note also that the "UFO" photo chosen by the BBC was long ago relegated to our very own Ball Lightning [photos] section of the Credible Anomalies Napster.
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