UFO Dangers Examined By U.S. News & World Report

Why are UFOs dangerous? U.S. News & World Report is tackling that question in a special Mysteries of Space magazine that recently hit newsstands.

Every year, thousands of UFO sightings from around the world are reported. And, as the magazine points out, about 95 percent of those reports are explained as ordinary things like military aircraft, balloons, misidentified astronomical objects -- such as planets or meteors -- and meteorological phenomena.

That leaves 5 percent of unexplained UFOs -- but with so many reported, even 5 percent is pretty large.

While the debate rages over whether some of the residual UFOs are interplanetary or interdimensional spacecraft, the magazine is exploring the potential danger of UFO encounters with commercial airline pilots.

"Our objectives are to make flying safer for the public, and we're convinced there's a potential threat posed by nearby unexplained aerial phenomena to commercial and private airplanes," former UFO skeptic and NASA research scientist Richard Haines told The Huffington Post.

Haines is currently the chief scientist of the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena, a private venue for pilots, crews and air traffic controllers who want to file UFO reports without fear of ridicule.

"One encounter is where the airplane is flying along, minding its own business, usually on autopilot, when the phenomenon or phenomena will come alongside, approach the airplane, pace it, sometimes do maneuvers around it and then fly away," Haines said.

"That's very important because it implies an intelligence behind the phenomena that is selecting the airplane as a focus of attention or interest," he added.

Haines said he is also concerned about another potential danger to airlines. "What I call cockpit confusion or distraction, where the presence of the phenomenon is seen by the flight crew up front and they're so taken by it that they aren't quite as responsible in flying their airplanes."

The Mysteries of Space edition of U.S. News & World Report exploring the danger of UFOs is on newsstands for the next three months.

Watch this video depicting commercial pilots reporting UFOs:

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Comments

[cals]

02:35 PM on 07/17/2012

first they don't exist and now they are a threat. If the number of planes that have been downed or damaged by ufos is 0 then the threat posed by them is 0,besides ur government wouldn't lie to you and they say ufos don't exist. They should make up our minds for us.

[Tim Timmons]

02:57 PM on 05/25/2012

I ANALLY RAPED AN ALIEN ONCE.

[menmykoko]

10:00 PM on 05/25/2012

Before or after they did you?

[jenniferkizzy]

04:40 PM on 05/21/2012

human's are more or less the threat here not aliens seeing as aliens only attack if we the human's attack first so yeah human's i don't think aliens will ever land ever

[itruth]

05:55 PM on 05/25/2012

i think we have three plausable outcomes to contact;

(i)it has been ongoing for a very long time;perhaps millions of years

(ii)it will never ever'ever happen;because we are a quarentine outpost to avoid

(iii)we will become food for something that could care less what we think or do;after all we consider ourselves smart and we eat just about anything on Earth we can get our hands on.

[jenniferkizzy]

11:31 PM on 05/19/2012

all i gotta say is this we don't have will smith too protect us see ya

[jenniferkizzy]

11:26 PM on 05/19/2012

aliens have no need too land in order too figure us out we beam enough too them as is if they are truly out there we would eradicate them easily we eradicate each other we have no need too fear them they have a reason too fear us bye

[jenniferkizzy]

11:22 PM on 05/19/2012

uh i think were more prone too violence not the other way around

[jenniferkizzy]

11:20 PM on 05/19/2012

hello world

[Christina Pope]

08:03 PM on 05/15/2012

ummm yea, commercial airlines are polluting our air & atmosphere with chemtrails & toxic spraying , so of course they're gonna check you out, if u aint doing nowt wrong, what u so worried about ?

[Randy Konigsberg]

12:02 AM on 05/13/2012

It seems their are Misdirected folks with Very Real Dreams out there. Then followers, needing something and finding to their needs. Then it seems that others, who Travel to distant points. Some of which may have our same Creators from a Same God. My memory tells me of unknown sightings as a child too. But I have a Problem with Folks Trying to Sell me all Things."Morningland" in Long Beach Ca.USA And I haven't been convinced. I'm am to involved with I know! Since I have seen, 'The Collector', and helper. Take my Brother, at his Death. Tonight but 2006. Then for 2&1/2 years he'd appeared to me 5 times in all. (each time a story, in it's self) The Last time when he left, he was in fine shape and with a Smile and was sucked threw My Bedroom ceiling, (in an up direction) and he hasn't appeared since. (As I knew he wouldn't) So I'm not asking if 'their' Nuts, Now it's GOD, You either know, or I'm NUTS. No one questions me. Now I want to tell and everyone, and I'm The NUT. They want to tell? Heck! I want to tell! God Bless Everyone.♥

[Aarrgg]

09:35 PM on 05/07/2012

Not sure why it's hard to believe other living beings or energies exit outside our world who come to visit this earth. It's much more believable to me than god or religion in general.

[wutrup]

05:41 PM on 05/12/2012

Your right, gods are self created and the God that is is pure consciousness and has no religion. What is cool is that we live in a multidimensional universe, so life comes here from all over accidentially or unpurpose, in many forms. I have only experienced the interdimensional telepathic ones.....

[Randy Konigsberg]

12:04 AM on 05/13/2012

your full of it.

[Arissasbel]

02:49 PM on 05/07/2012

The dangers perceived and reason for our governments “Non-Disclosure" on UFOs and advanced being aliens??? The answer may surprise you but does follow a path of logic...

Read article...

http://www.divineadvancedhumanbeings.com/is-the-president-of-the-united-states-aware-of-alienufo-activity/

[wutrup]

05:39 PM on 05/12/2012

Thats right it doesn't follow the path of logic. The war mongers want to reverse engineer anything and everything, but the problem is that our government doesn't have the knowledge to do so. This ships are alive, their metal, if that is what you want to call it is fully conscious, it is just not memory metal. The beings that come here are a part of the ship, and the ship is a part of them.... some need to chew on that one for awhile.

[Matt Kaminski]

10:56 AM on 06/14/2012

What do you base your claims on? it isn't out of the realm of possibility... Actually, it makes sense that there might exist a point where organic and inorganic blur. When that connection is bridged, technology can become an indistinguishable, symbiotic extension of our organic bodies. We are already progressing toward this in our own development. It could be possible that ships could be bio-engineered and "bred." The "metal" would probably just be an extension of the biotech organism. If that is the case, then interfacing with such technology would require some combo form of organic/inorganic code.

[vegas kid]

09:48 PM on 05/03/2012

Remember the twi light zone show when they deciphered the book how to serve man was a cookbook.

[jenniferkizzy]

11:30 PM on 05/19/2012

too serve man chilling if you ask me we can just say this if they are out there i'm heading too barrow alaska see ya

[cuoi]

07:14 PM on 05/03/2012

Cockpit cams?

[farmerlady]

03:57 PM on 05/03/2012

If there are aliens I want to meet one.

(strapped to the table with pointy objects approaching) No, no, I don't I take that back......

[CaroleK1970]

05:11 PM on 05/03/2012

are you talking about doctors following republican legislation about to perform a vaginal probe in their war on women? yikes I wouldn't want that either!

[CaroleK1970]

03:16 PM on 05/03/2012

Never was much interested in the subject until I saw 6 unidentified objects and found I had an hour of time go missing !