Believing in UFOs

I have no trouble believing that people see things in the sky that are seemingly inexplicable; therefore UFOs are a fact.

I also believe that, given the immensity of the universe, life and intelligent life elsewhere is almost a certainty.

However, the detail in personal accounts of sightings often reflect the most current notions of alien space flight as portrayed in film and TV. The 1959 Blenheim sighting is reminiscent of B-grade movies of the time - a saucer shaped craft with two men in silver suits.

Also, apparently, the account grew with the telling.

An important detail, like the missing hand and even the silver suits seem to have been added later. Before the post second World war movie craze for flying saucers did people see UFOs and how did they describe them?

In the years prior to the first World war there was a World wide spate of sightings; in 0the UK, North America and Australasia, including a country schoolmistress and her class in the south of New Zealand.

Every one of these accounts was described the same.

The scary thing of that time was Count Von Zeppelin’s airships; and so that is what everyone then saw in the air, according to their accounts. It illustrates that, when it comes to inexplicable phenomena, people often see what they expect to see.