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A college professor is urging Congress to take a serious look at UFO’s ‘unidentified flying objects’.

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In 1999, a special 13-member committee in France, made up of retired generals, scientists and space experts, created the COMETA Report, a study of 500 worldwide UFO sightings. The investigation narrowed down the reports to those that included radar and visual cases and previously undisclosed accounts from commercial and military pilots.

In a letter written in the Columbia Missourian, a news organization staffed by the Missouri School of Journalism, Wickersham cited the fact that the COMETA Report considered some UFO cases as possibly having an otherworldly source.

Even 12 years after that report, Wickersham, co-author of “Confronting Nuclear War: The Role of Education, Religion and the Community” (CreateSpace), feels it’s important enough to warrant Congress’ opening new, secrecy-free hearings into UFOs.

The name COMETA, in English, means Committee for In-Depth Studies, and the title of the 1999 French report was “UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?” The three-year study concluded that approximately 5 percent of the UFO cases examined “could be the work of craft of extraterrestrial origin.”

The first part of the report described the various sections of the study, including:

  • Radar detection in France
  • Astronomers’ sightings
  • Life in the universe
  • The long history of the UFO phenomenon
  • Reflections on various psychological, sociological and political aspects of the UFO phenomenon

Indeed. And remember, it’s been 12 years since this report came to light. There don’t seem to have been any hearings on Capitol Hill about UFOs since then — or at least any that we’re being told about.

“When I found the COMETA Report, I had a lot of friends in veterans’ organizations — I’m in Veterans for Peace,” Wickersham told AOL News. “All of these people hold military folks in very high regard, but most of them won’t pay any attention to UFOs, so I thought it would be a good idea to use the military angle [to call for hearings].”

This is actually not the first time that Congress has been called upon to consider a discussion of UFOs. In 1966, House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., instigated an official UFO investigation after UFO reports in his home state.

“I believe Congress should thoroughly investigate the rash of reported sightings of unidentified flying objects in Southern Michigan and other parts of the country,” Ford said in a radio broadcast.

“I feel a congressional inquiry would be most worthwhile because the American people are intensely interested in the UFO stories, and some people are alarmed by them.

“I think the American people would feel better if there was a full-blown investigation of these mysterious flying objects,” Ford added.

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