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UFO Mystery
UFO之謎
The first mass sightings of UFOs in the United States came in 1896, when a number of people from California to the Midwest reported seeing mysterious aircraft.
第一次大規模目擊UFO是在1896年的美國，據說當時有一群來自加利福利亞的人在去中西部地區的途中看到了神秘的航空器。
According to reports, these flying machines were cigar-shaped with intense colored lights.
據報道，這些飛行器都有雪茄形狀的強烈的彩色燈光。
Another wave of UFO sightings were reported in 1909 and 1910, and, during World War Two.
另一波的UFO目擊報告發生在1909年和1910年，都在第二次世界大戰期間。
A poll taken in 1947, though, indicated that few Americans associated flying disks with extraterrestrial spaceships; most people thought of the reported sightings as optical illusions, unknown natural phenomena, or top-secret military vehicles not known to the public.
1947年的一項民意調查顯示，盡管只有少部分美國人見過外星飛船的飛碟，但是大多數人認為看到的情景可能是光學錯覺，未知的自然現象或者是大眾不知道的絕密軍用的運載工具。
A series of sightings between 1947 and 1949 changed public views of UFOs.
一系列在1947年和1949年的目擊事件改變了公眾對不明飛行物的觀點。
And the UFO as an alien vehicle became the public interpretation of these phenomena.
公眾把UFO看作是外星人飛行器。
The government quickly established committees to investigate the sightings.
政府迅速建立委員會來調查這件事。
The Air Force's project, Sign, which began its work in 1948, concluded that UFOs were real, but not extraordinary.
美國空軍的項目Sign，1948年開始研究，結論是UFO是真實的，但是不是什么離奇的現象。
UFOs, the committee concluded, were not extraterrestrial spaceships, but rather astronomical objects and weather balloons.
委員會得出結論，UFO不是外星飛船，而是天文物體和探空氣球。
A second project, Grudge, Published similar findings, but got little public belief.
第二個項目，Grudge，發布了類似的結果，但是很少有人相信。
Government officials thus started a series of programs to educate the public on matters related to UFO.
政府官員開始了一系列的計劃，向公眾灌輸了與不明飛行物相關的知識。
This policy has remained largely unchanged for the past forty years.
在過去的四十年里，這個政策一直保持著。
