Are UFOs of extraterrestrial origin? According to highly respected scientists, there are more stars in our universe than grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth. These probabilities make it difficult to ignore the possibility of extraterrestrial life. UFOs, or Unidentified Flying Objects, are at the center of this controversial debate. For those who believe that UFOs are controlled by extraterrestrial life, it is these same probabilities that cannot be overlooked. On the other hand, skeptics are working to outline why the evidence supporting the existence of UFOs, mostly anecdotal in nature, is not sufficiently supportive. On one side of the debate, Leslie Kean, author of the New York Times bestseller UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on Record considers eyewitness testimony from high-level government officials and pilots as the basis for her argument according to that UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin. “They [the pilots] represent the world's best-trained observers of everything that flies,” writes Kean (qtd. in Speigel). His book is the inspiration for the History Channel special Secret ...