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Turkey is one of the top five UFO hotspots in the world,' says UFO specialist as 'flying saucer' term celebrates 68th anniversary.
"They were half-moon shaped, oval in front and convex in the rear."
"[...]They were silvery and shiny and seemed to be shaped like a pie
plate or saucer..."
These historic words date back 68 years to the day, when American
aviator Kenneth Arnold made the first widely reported unidentified
flying object (UFO) sighting and the phrase "flying saucer" gained
widespread public attention.
Since then, this phenomenon has attracted considerable attention and
has sparked numerous debates among experts who either believe in
extraterrestrial life or reject it.
"Though the Kenneth incident has been accepted as a milestone for
the creation of the popular term 'flying saucers', the disc-shaped
flying objects have been recorded since the Middle
Ages," Haktan Akdogan, chairman of Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research
Center, told Anadolu Agency.
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| Haktan Akdogan with Erich von Daniken |
A well-known Turkish ufologist and a vigorous advocate of
extraterrestrial intelligent life, Akdogan established the Sirius UFO
Space Sciences Research Center in 1998 to communicate with other UFO
research centers in the world and share the latest updates about these
mysterious flying objects.
The center's website claims to work with researchers,
anthropologists, physicists, pilots and psychologists from around the
world, its main objective being to prove that human beings are not alone
in the universe.
"UFOs have been in touch with human beings for
ages," Akdogan claims, stating that he had held many closed-door
meetings attended by high-ranking military officials who claimed to have
been in touch with aliens.
"There are hundreds of recorded photographs and video footage showing the existence of UFOs," he adds.
"Besides the photographs and videos, there have been many UFO
sightings in Turkish air space witnessed by Turkish pilots. I can say
that Turkey is one of the top five UFO hotspots in the
world," Akdogan says.
The UFO specialist claims that there is a UFO department in the Turkish air force and in the intelligence service, MIT.
"As Sirius, we have been in touch with nearly 20 retired air force
pilots who claim to have seen UFOs. There were UFOs that were involved
in dogfighting with F-4 [fighter jets]," Akdogan says.
Recalling the Roswell incident which occurred on July 2, 1947, just a
week after the Kenneth sighting, Akdogan claims that governments
hide facts about UFO from the public because they fear that "it would
change the current world order".
In the Roswell incident, a flying saucer allegedly wrecked a ranch
in the town of Roswell in New Mexico. Rumors throughout the years have
run rampant regarding the U.S. government finding aliens in the
wreckage and hiding them in Area 51, the U.S. Air Force facility in
Nevada.
"The governments should disclose the existence of aliens and UFOs, Akdogan says. We are not alone in the universe."
However, Kathryn Olmsted, a history professor at University of
California (UC) Davis, rebuffs any notion that a flying saucer or aliens
were actually in Roswell.
"The strange debris had a mundane origin: it was just the remains of
an ordinary weather balloon" she wrote in her book, Real Enemies:
Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to
9/11, published in 2008.
British weekly The Economist noted in 2014 that, according to the
U.S. National UFO Recording Center, most sightings between 2000 and 2014
in America occurred between 5.00 and 11.00 p.m., i.e. drinking hours.
Akdogan also claims that UFOs had kidnapped people, in Turkey and
around the world, to research them. A common allegation throughout the
years among UFO enthusiasts worldwide.
"They are not just flying in space," he warns. "Many people
were taken to the spaceships with light beams while they were sleeping
and they were exposed to certain tests."
Akdogan says that there have been nearly 470 UFO incidents
recorded in Turkey so far. "Nearly 120 people were kidnapped in Turkey;
some of them had implants or microchips inserted [in their bodies] by
the aliens."
"Those people want to remain anonymous now, but we will announce [their identities] very soon," Akdogan adds.
It was first American podiatric surgeon and ufologist Roger Leir who
claimed that he had ripped dozens of extraterrestrial origin implants
from alleged abductees.
Leir, who died in 2014, had claimed that the implants were designed "to emit radio signals".
According to Tansel Ak, a professor at the
Astronomy and Space Sciences department in
Istanbul University, to equate any unidentified
flying object to extraterrestrial intelligent life has constituted a
prejudice and a deception in people's minds for years.
Like many, Ak believes that the majority -- if not all -- of UFO sightings or incidents are a hoax.
"Most of the mentioned video footage or photographs have been proven
so far to be natural events, camera user errors, delusions or,
primarily, deceptive acts," Ak says.
Stating that scientists work based on data and repeatable
observation, he adds: "The proof must to be clear enough to leave no
room for doubt."
"What the science tells us that it is possible that there is life on
any other planet or satellite but there has not been any scientific
finding proving the existence of extraterrestrial beings or [such
beings] visiting Earth so far," Ak says.
"I think there are two possible comments to be made with regards to
unidentified flying objects," he says. "First, people lack enough
knowledge to define them and, second, certain people are fooling the
public with fraudulent images to earn income and reputation."
Ak admits though that the belief that there is extraterrestrial life
or that aliens visit Earth can sound attractive regardless of what the
science says.
Ak said that the number of incidents of fraudulent sightings is
relatively low in Turkey compared to the Western world. "This is because
the UFO sector has not become profitable in Turkey yet."
According to Ak, the probability that of UFO visit near Earth is
close to zero as the nearest star to the Earth is the Sun, which
is about 150 million kilometers away.
"Apart from the Sun, the closest star to our world is four light years away, i.e. 40 trillion kilometers," he adds.
"To travel from one star to another takes hundreds,
even thousands of years," he explains. "So I do not think any
intelligent creature can afford to make this journey!" - Ankara
Source:
http://en.haberler.com/ufos-continue-to-fascinate-in-turkey-and-around-754065/
