Montana Ufo Research Paper

For years, people have stated that they have had encounters with the paranormal, but their story usually goes untold nationally. With the Montana UFO story, it was covered up by the media/government and only came to public awareness years later. This is the case with nearly all related incidents (since they are seen as threats to national security). The text includes an exert on the Malmstrom Air Force Base in which records of UFOs were noted. The Air Force did not believe the UFOs were helicopters despite what the media suggested; whatever it was, it remained unidentified, which is why it considered a UFO. However, the UFO sightings ended up getting decent coverage publically as they were looking for explanations; however, as more evidence came out, it seemed as if the explanation that it was helicopters did not …show more content…
This is not the first time incidents such as this have happened. A similar incident happened in 1966-1967 involving what was thought to be a UFO but later came out that (as explained by the Air Force and media) nothing more than aircraft was detected upon investigation. Mainstream media essentially refused to include information on the UFO in its publications. The media actually presents two different perspectives for reality: official and folk. While UFOs are often excluded from media due to their believed lack of scientific evidence, there is actually a vast amount of evidence on UFOs and encounters (at the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies). It’s important to understand the relationship between UFOs and national security; the threats that UFOs make are either physical threats or social threats; the social threats are considered to be the most