According to recent polls, more than 50 percent of Americans, and hundreds of millions of people elsewhere in the world believe that UFOs are authentic. For many it is a deeply held belief.

For decades there have been sightings of UFOs by countless people. It is a mystery that only scientific research can solve, and yet the phenomenon remains largely unexamined. Most of the reporting on this subject by the mainstream media holds those who claim to have seen UFOs up to embarrassing ridicule.

Today if you report a UFO to the U.S. government you will be informed that the United States Air Force conducted a 22-year investigation that ended in 1969 and concluded that UFOs are not a threat to national security and are of little or no scientific interest. But as one of the world's leading theoretical physicists says in the program, "You simply cannot dismiss the possibility that some of these UFO sightings are actually sightings from some object created by