Unidentified Flying Object

Unidentified flying object (commonly abbreviated as UFO or U.F.O.) 
is the popular term for any aerial phenomenon whose cause cannot be easily 
or immediately identified by the observer. The United States Air Force, which 
coined the term in 1952, initially defined UFOs as those objects that remain

unidentified after scrutiny by expert investigators, though the term UFO is often 
used more generally to describe any sighting unidentifiable to the reporting 
observer(s). Popular culture frequently takes the term UFO as a synonym for 
alien spacecraft. Cults have become associated with UFOs, and mythology 
and folklore have evolved around the phenomenon. Some investigators now 
prefer to use the broader term unidentified aerial phenomenon (or UAP), to

avoid the confusion and speculative associations that have become attached 
to UFO. Another widely known acronym for UFO in Spanish, French, Portuguese

and Italian is OVNI.

1) There are an average of 70,000 reported UFO sightings every year, worldwide. 
That's an average of 192 per day.

2) No UFO has ever been tracked on radar entering the Earth's atmosphere.

3) 1 in 5 Americans believe in alien abductions. Interestingly, males are more

likely to believe in abductions than females.

4) 1 in 7 Americans say that they, or someone they know, have had an "encounter" 
with a UFO.

5) According to some UFO aficionados, the Men in Black (MIBs) really do

exist, and have been hammering on the doors of alien witnesses ever since

the first appearance of flying saucers in 1947.

6) Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal regulations, implemented on

July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with 
extraterrestrials or their vehicles?