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pattern studied. In 80% of the descriptions, the landings
resulted in physical damage to the soil and the deep imprints
were made by a metallic craft that more than one witness saw
at distances of less than 250 feet for greater than one minute.
Phillips also found high levels of radioactive boron in the deep soil imprints
allegedly made by a craft’s landing gear. There may be a credible explanation
that this sort of visual and physical evidence is due to natural phenomena and
not necessarily attributable to anything alien. However, the lack of a credible
counterexplanation about evidence as described here, either from official
sources or from the ranks of critics of UFO-related events, does little to resolve
questions about the experiences of eyewitnesses or of the trace evidence found
by Ted Phillips. In other words, government agencies and critics of UFO-related
events want extraordinary evidence of any kind, but these same entities seem to
be uninterested in the evidence some researchers have already provided.
In light of the repeated occurrences of reportedly alien-related events,
perhaps it is time for a national reporting system to be reestablished as outlined
in The COMETA Report, which was cited on The History Channel (Haflher, The
History Channel/A&E VHS Home Video, and Lusitana, 1999). Such a
worldwide level of cooperation could give direction to civilian and military
efforts regarding UFO incidents. Additionally, qualified groups interested in
resolving the truth about existing or future cases could combine their efforts to
resolve only those cases that defy adequate or obvious explanations by natural
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