Introduction

Unlike past recorded human history and especially more recent history, the beginning of the third millennium marked the beginning of an unprecedented increase in the reported amount of sightings of unidentified flying objects or as more commonly known, UFOs.  Very much like past history, however, some of the eyewitnesses to these UFO sightings were credible and of course, some were not, or were they?

Could this be real?  Could it be even the not so credible witnesses, indeed even the totally unreliable, were telling the truth now and should be considered credible?  Should it be that all eyewitnesses now be considered credible?

Before the arrival of the electronic mass media mediums of radio and especially television, no one was really sure whether any eyewitnesses of UFOs previous to this could be considered credible.  Pre-historic cave drawings depict UFOs, as well as Renaissance art, other ancient paintings and other more recent works of art.  Certain references to UFOs are even considered by scholars to be contained in the Holy Bible.

After television and radio, however, it became quite clear who was credible and who was not; indeed, some of the less than credible were, in fact, quite eccentric, putting it mildly.  In fact, those crackpots made it almost impossible for the credible eyewitnesses to come forward and tell their stories.

Concerned about their reputations, those credible witnesses did not want to be classed with, affiliated, associated, compared to or even thought of by the rest of society with those loonies.  Some of those lunatics even went so far as to submit false testimony and false witness and furthered their cause with phony still photography, film and video tapes using toys and homemade UFO shaped objects in an attempt to fool the general public into believing that what they were seeing were actual, real UFOs.  Many of those hoaxers and their hoaxes have now been duly revealed.

This, of course, furthered their reasons and made it even more extremely difficult for those credible eyewitnesses who have actually truly seen real UFOs and have recorded them with still photography or moving pictures, to come forward for the same reasons mentioned above and because of the fear their pictorial evidence would be ridiculed and negatively scrutinized.  Not to mention those who claim to have been abducted by extra-terrestrial aliens (ETAs) and taken aboard some of their UFOs.

Because of this, today’s society then remains divided into those who believe and those who do not believe.  Those who do not believe do not even give a care and generally think that every witness to sightings of UFOs are desperate, stupid, idiot, hemorrhoid holes, and that all other sightings from more serious, credible witnesses can be explained away as some kind of visual phenomenon.

Not to mention the fact that those who claim to have been abducted by ETAs can only remember and recall their experiences while under hypnosis.  Experts argue that under hypnosis, the power of suggestion and people wanting to remember what they want to, and not what actually happened, or recalling fantasies, or perhaps confusing abductions with dreams, nightmares or sleeping disorders, such as sleep paralysis, actually believe they have been abducted by ETAs. 

After considering the aforementioned macadamias, who can blame them?  After all, these nuts account for a large percentage of this so-called UFO phenomenon.  Nevertheless, they believe most of those sightings can be affixed to weather balloons, secret aircraft being tested by the military, meteors, asteroids, space debris, birds, planets, reflections from volcanic activity and other different sources or other unknown and unexplainable Earthly phenomenon, such as what might be occurring at the Marfa Lights just outside of Marfa, Texas.

Would they be proven wrong now?  Could they be proven wrong, beginning now in the third millennium?  Would every eyewitness be considered credible?  Would the need for fake still and moving pictures and inept hoaxes be eliminated?

Those who do believe in UFOs and the possibility that Earth has been and is being visited by ETAs are staunch supporters of the idea and wholeheartedly support all research into the phenomenon.  In recent years, more credible eyewitnesses have come forth to tell their stories.

There have been numerous television documentaries devoted to the issue exposing both the credible and otherwise.  Notwithstanding, there have been professional expert non-believers and skeptics allowed to voice their reasons and explanations of why this phenomenon is simply not true and allowed to give credence to the postulation of their own hypotheses on these same documentaries.

Countless books on the subject abound in publication on the issue, both in support and in opposition.  Also included are related subjects from crop circles to cattle mutilation.  In each case, opposition experts have an answer and an explanation for every mysterious phenomenon.

What will they say now though?  With the incredible increase and continuous steady rise of UFO sightings beginning in the early part of the third millennium, will they have an explanation now?

Will the world’s governments continue their denials of the existence of UFOs and ETAs, and explain away all of these sightings seen by the vast majority and eventually all of Earth’s inhabitants?  Society is plenty aware of the world’s governments’ positions and the possibility of a worldwide conspiratorial cover-up, but will they demand truthful answers to their questions now?

If so, will they even get the answers?  Will they get truthful answers?  How will they be able to tell the difference?  Will they trust the governments’ answers?  Can they trust the governments at all?  Is the world even ready for what is about to happen, or is this whole upcoming UFO phenomenon anachronistic and unready for anything in kind twice upon a time?