"The truth about UFOs is out there, and US students are trying to find it
Teachers across the US are taking advantage of the government’s report on UFOs to engage students with science"
"His students learn the Drake equation, a formula for the probability of finding intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. They read news reports of alleged sightings – like one by Travis Walton, a lumberjack whose 1975 account of being abducted by aliens was featured in the 1993 film Fire in the Sky. Then they present the skeptics’ side, offer their own opinions and lead their classmates in a discussion.
UFO conspiracy theories teach students to have an open mind, “but also to have a skeptical filter”, said Jeff Adkins, an astronomy teacher at Deer Valley high school in Antioch, California, near Oakland.
He has students consider the sheer size of the universe when deciding whether alien life forms would bother conducting experiments on humans or jamming the military’s radar systems.
“I still have a childhood fascination with aliens,” said Dennis Gavrilenko, a senior in Adkins’s astronomy and space exploration course this year. But Gavrilenko adds that he now awaits “solid evidence to support aliens before I truly believe they are real”.
Physics professor Kevin Knuth, at the University of Albany in New York, thinks there is something – or someone – observing us from above. He’s among the UFO researchers who have shared their expertise with high school students.
His suspicions began while he was in graduate school at Montana State University. In 1988, two cows from a nearby herd were mutilated with surgical precision, and a professor mentioned UFOs often interfered with nuclear missile systems at Malmstrom air force base three hours away."
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