英語(yǔ)流行話題聽(tīng)力:Unit53 UFO之謎

[00:00.01] Unit 53 UFO Mystery The first mass sightings of UFOs in the United States came in 1896, when a number of people from California to the Midwest reported seeing mysterious aircraft. [00:16.58] According to reports, these flying machines were cigar shaped with intense colored lights. [00:23.53] Another wave of UFO sightings were reported in 1909 and 1910, and, during World War Two. [00:32.20] A poll taken in 1947, though, indicated that few Americans associated flying disks with extraterrestrial spaceships; most people thought of the reported sightings as optical illusions, [00:47.24] unknown natural phenomena, or top secret military vehicles not known to the public. [00:53.31] A series of sightings between 1947 and 1949 changed public views of UFOs. [01:01.58] And the UFO as an alien vehicle became the public interpretation of these phenomena. [01:10.35] The government quickly established committees to investigate the sightings. [01:15.37] The Air Force's project, Sign, which began its work in 1948, concluded that UFOs were real, but not extraordinary. [01:25.47] UFOs, the committee concluded, were not extraterrestrial spaceships, but rather astronomical objects and weather balloons. [01:35.34] A second project, Grudge, Published similar findings, but got little public belief. [01:43.12] Government officials thus started a series of programs to educate the public on matters related to UFO. [01:51.14] This policy has remained largely unchanged for the past forty years. [01:56.29] But in the eyes of many UFO fans, government officials were trying to hide information on extraterrestrial UFOs for fear of mass panic. [02:08.16] The UFO craze continued throughout the latter decades of the twentieth century. [02:13.51] Numbers of sightings increased steadily, and, as of the late 1990s, almost half of Americans believed that UFOs were in fact extraterrestrial spaceships. [02:26.33] The form of the UFO myth changed shape somewhat in the 1980s and 1990s, as individuals began to claim that, [02:35.46] not only had they seen UFOs, but that they had actually been on board the spacecraft, [02:41.49] as aliens had abducted them and performed experiments on them before returning them to Earth. [02:48.29] One" abducted" eighteen year-old claimed to have had sex with an E.T. Scholars believe that the UFO myth contains religious like elements that do much to explain its massive appeal, [03:03.49] In believing the existence of superhuman being, by expecting travel to a better planet, and by creating a fellow community, [03:13.16] the UFO myth embodies much of popular religious belief. [03:18.22] Meanwhile, the UFO myth, with its government conspiracy speculations, indicates public's distrust of the government. [03:27.43] Periods of high numbers of UFO sightings, have corresponded to a number of crises in government faith, [03:35.07] among them the Vietnam War and Watergate. [03:38.56] But, as scholar Curtis Peebles has noted," We watch the skies seeking meaning. In the end, what we find is ourselves. [??:??.??]"

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