The Brazilian government has ordered its air force and civilian pilots to officially record any sighting of Unidentified Flying Objects. A government decree said all pilots as well as air traffic controllers should register any UFO sighting with the National Aerospace Defence command.

There have been several reports of UFO sightings in Brazil in recent times. But the air force said it would limit itself to collecting information, and would not be chasing UFOs.

The moves in Brazil come days after newly-released files revealed that past governments in the UK ordered UFO sightings be kept secret to prevent ‘mass panic’ and that British lawmakers took it so seriously in the 1950s that UK intelligence chiefs met to discuss the matter.

After all UFO simply means unidentified flying object and it does not mean flying saucers. It does not indicate the presence of alien life from other worlds. One would like to think that somewhere in this vast universe there is some kind of life, hopefully more advanced and of higher development than we are.

Maybe they could visit us and teach us how to live in peace with each other.

As for the possibility of the existence of flying saucers, one would be reminded of the late Dr. Donald Soper, who was famous for being able to answer any heckler with a witty quip, one of the most famous being when a heckler called out ‘what about flying saucers, then?’ and when he had repeated the question a few times, Dr. Soper looked at him and said ‘young man, I am not responsible for your domestic situation.’

I don’t think the question of UFOs will ever be answered until alien beings submit themselves to us for examination. Over half of the world population still think the Apollo lunar landings were a hoax.

How, or indeed why then, should one believe there are UFOs and aliens visiting our planet?

An interesting twist to this story though is that the Apollo 14 astronaut Ed Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, has publicly announced that he knows that we are being visited by aliens from another world and he is not a nut case, for sure.

I leave this question of UFOs to your own imagination and judgment!

S. H. Moulana

Riyadh