UFO EXPLORER ARCHIVE - From 1890's to 2012

​Of all of the reported sightings, between 5 and 25% (depending on the sample) remain unidentifiable to expert examination. These are the real UFOs. If you think that reports of UFOs remain unidentified because there is insufficient information to perform an identification, you will find it hard to explain how the Battelle Institute, under contract to the Air Force, in an analysis of nearly 4,000 reports (Blue Book Special Report 14), found that a "good" (i.e. detailed) report was twice as likely as a "poor" (sketchy) report to be classed as unidentified (This was confirmed by a later study on a completely separate set of cases performed by the French organization GEPAN). You will also find it hard to explain why they also found that the "knowns" share almost nothing in common with the "unknowns".

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If you think that reports of UFOs remain unidentified because the witnesses are perpetrating hoaxes, you should know that no major study has ever found more than a few percent of initial UFO reports to be hoaxes. If you think that only unreliable individuals are reporters of UFOs, then you are unaware of the tens of thousands of reports generated by responsible police officers, pilots, military personnel, and ordinary people who were going about their normal business when they were confronted with something they had never imagined or desired, and which, in a matter of minutes, left them confused, amazed, or terrified.